This book traces the evolution of the projects for completing the square court - Cour Carrée - of the Louvre in the 1660s and the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabriels project for rebuilding the town front of the palace at Versailles a century later....Lasīt vairāk
This investigation of Jewish spatial practices explores two groups of house symbols: ritual objects that are based on the iconology of the house, and metaphors that use the term in an ascriptive manner. The connections between architecture and gende...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the role of the architectural façade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Jun-2024, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003099031)
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...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dongs cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the arc...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines architectural representations that tie water with the sacred. It addresses aspects such as rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water...Lasīt vairāk
This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857 1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular....Lasīt vairāk
Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (150313) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the principal architect, Donato Bramante, and his ambition to create a...Lasīt vairāk
The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis....Lasīt vairāk
Medieval Church Symbolism explores the ways in which the Medieval church building and key features of it were used as symbols, particularly to represent different relationships within the Church and the virtues of living a Christian life....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how Percier and Fontaines desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France....Lasīt vairāk
Featuring essays from an international range of scholars such as Jonathan Hill and Adam Sharr, the book accepts that everything about the production of architecture has social significance....Lasīt vairāk
The aim of this book is to explore the significance of the concept of monument in the context of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), with particular reference to the royal Ensemble of Persepolis, founded by Darius I and built together with his son X...Lasīt vairāk
Analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the public in different political and social contexts...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Mar-2013, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118658321)
Over the last decade or so, the widespread adoption of digital techniques have greatly expanded the possibilities of applying ornament in design. As well as looking at the c topic of ornament, the book reflects on what is currently happening in the...Lasīt vairāk
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can get involved, hear the couples project description, see the drawin...Lasīt vairāk
Offers a perspective in the retrieval of meaning from architecture in the Greek East and the Latin West, and challenges the view that geometry was merely an outcome of practical procedures by masons. This book attributes meaning to it as understood...Lasīt vairāk
