A new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere. Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relatio...More info...
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality (VR), examining how...More info...
This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication towards the establishment of meaningful architecture. It explores how these are effectively applied in architectural education for learners empowerment...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331231)
Following up on her co-edited volume, Womens Lives, Womens Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples, Brenda Longfellow examines womens public lives in Pompeii. Pulling together statues, inscriptions, graffiti, wall pa...More info...
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as being of an orderly and diligent position and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Du...More info...
Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic culture in Britain, America and Continental Europe in the nineteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes chapters o...More info...
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome in 410 AD, through seventeenth-century Gothic politics, and up to the end of the long eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focu...More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Jun-2025, Hardback, Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649031877)
This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, architecture, and material culture. The new Me...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-Jun-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9781665953337)
After being asked by the French president to redesign the entrance to the Louvre Museum, Chinese American architect I. M. Pei worked hard, sometimes in secret, fighting discrimination, to plant and grow a glass pyramid and make the museum a place for...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781682832356)
Rich and varied art stories about the Texas Panhandle, a region that should be known for more than just wide open spaces-- Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle underscores the striking richness of a...More info...
• Reader for World Design Capital 2026• With 10 entries on the most important spheres of activityWith the theme Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life, Frankfurt RheinMain holds the title of World Design...More info...
Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established sc...More info...
Comprehensive look at three thousand years of Jewish art and architecture This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of “Jewish art and architecture” by posing and responding to a series of questions.First is the unresolved conceptual de...More info...
Romanesque and the Year 1000 examines the art and architecture of the Latin West between c.970 and c.1030, a period which witnessed crucial developments in iconography and stylistic expression across a wide range of media....More info...
Romanesque and the Year 1000 examines the art and architecture of the Latin West between c.970 and c.1030, a period which witnessed crucial developments in iconography and stylistic expression across a wide range of media. Despite the complex politi...More info...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFrom the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western Europes least industrialized cou...More info...
This book addresses the work of architect John Dalton (1927-2007), an important voice in mid-century modernism in Australia whose work, despite his being exhibited and published internationally and also winning several awards for his designs, is w...More info...
The ‘green man’ or foliate head can be found in almost every pre-Reformation cathedral and in many churches. It often decorates arches, corbels, roof bosses, choir stalls and chancel screens. In this book, Imogen Corrigan takes the reader on a journe...More info...
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Off-Modern Profiles 2 Unpacking the Dynamics of Catholic Modernisation 3 “The Eclipse of God”: Transplanted Artists 4 “Background Metaphorics”: Exch...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Mar-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226837727)
Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, this book pinpoints a new environmental paradigm that the author calls Nature Remade. Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies shows how the tech industry...More info...
Series: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Pub. Date: 02-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438499215)
Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination. Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspec...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Feb-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009408653)
Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for schola...More info...
(Pub. Date: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300275704)
An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures...More info...
