Brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture. Beauty in Architecture brings...Daugiau...
Across eight cases studies of patrons spanning the 18th to the 21st century, this assesses the ways that Louis XIVs Palace of Versailles has continued to shape the aesthetics of cultural capital since his death. The book demonstrates how the extrav...Daugiau...
A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present....Daugiau...
The artistic potential modern, urban housing (Neubau) offered to writers and directors in East Germany from the 1960s to 1980s remains underexplored. Neubau Atmospheres seeks to bridge that gap by providing an incisive analysis of East...Daugiau...
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach that develops by tracing the avant-garde in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in...Daugiau...
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the...Daugiau...
Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern per...Daugiau...
Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a soci...Daugiau...
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist artin the context of contemporary architectural discourses. ...Daugiau...
