This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), written by one of Aaltos Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934-1986). The book is di...Daugiau...
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....Daugiau...
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....Daugiau...
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Įlvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life. It combines philosophical hermeneutics, narrative textual descriptio...Daugiau...
Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings, this book fills a lacuna in current scholarly publications, questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. ...Daugiau...
This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehns approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban lif...Daugiau...
This book presents the first systematic overview and analysis of the deep connection between Scharoun and China, offering insights into East-West cultural exchange and enriching existing understandings of modernism. The German architect Hans Scharou...Daugiau...
Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britains built environment was imagined, and in drawing from the evidence provided by those models today, this book considers how archi...Daugiau...
Focused not on the making of architectural models but the visions they were made to communicate, this book examines the possible futures put forward by one hundred and twenty models. It will appeal to academics, historians, and anyone with an inte...Daugiau...
If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive If there is anything to be learned from...Daugiau...
This book is a manual to support and provide essential guidance to the architectural profession on key issues of EDI. Clearly written and accessible, with key points at the end of each chapter, it is essential reading for those in the profession s...Daugiau...
This book is a manual to support and provide essential guidance to the architectural profession on key issues of EDI. Clearly written and accessible, with key points at the end of each chapter, it is essential reading for those in the profession s...Daugiau...
Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architects landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of architecture as part of the wider environm...Daugiau...
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome 1906-1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as Editor-in-Chief in the magazi...Daugiau...
This book tracks development of Marcel Breuers aesthetic clash between uniformity & singularity through examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific building and puts into context Breuers work and contemporary movements...Daugiau...
This book describes the history of the school, the transformation of the city of Philadelphia, and the philosophy of the Philadelphia School in the context of other movements of the time, and looks at what the Philadelphia School has to offer to arch...Daugiau...
This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenmans work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transfor...Daugiau...
This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language of architecture. It investigates 18 case studies to define what makes these windows great and how each window is situated within bo...Daugiau...
This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language of architecture. It investigates 18 case studies to define what makes these windows great and how each window is situated within bo...Daugiau...
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Sempers classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural developm...Daugiau...
This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuńa....Daugiau...
Mies at Home is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohes career, from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of...Daugiau...
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy So±tans work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students. T...Daugiau...
Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A grad...Daugiau...
This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes impressive 50-year academic career. This book presents an expansive overview o...Daugiau...
This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature, and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism and provides an invaluable companion to understanding of complex issu...Daugiau...
This book provides a detailed overview of the origin and development of Islamic religious architecture while contextualizing it within the history of Islam in Kashmir between early fourteenth and mid-eighteenth century in a framework of syncretism....Daugiau...
Amid Japans political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzo Tanges Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to...Daugiau...
This new edition expands Zhongjie Lins pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey leads to a definition of three Metabolist urban paradigms which continue t...Daugiau...
Historians and critics of Adolf Loos have repeatedly noted the influence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had on the Austrian architect and, indeed, Loos himself made a direct reference to the importance of the German architect for the development...Daugiau...
