Architecture category: 43274 books
Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad
New York Architects
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Boak & Paris may not be a household name in most households, but this architectural firm was key to the development of apartment buildings that are among the finest in New York City. Annice Alts book analyzes this firm and its exceptional buildings in detail and places them within the context...
Rochester's Downtown Architecture
1950-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Following World War II, many American cities underwent a large-scale modernization to keep up with the changing times in business technology and architecture. With help from federal funding and planning, expansive and low-density modern projects replaced the crowded blocks of century-old buildings. State-of-the-art...
The Nazi Perpetrator
Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question looms over German disputes about the past like few others. It also looms over the art and architecture of postwar Germany in ways that have been surprisingly...
The Emergence of the Interior
Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin’s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories.
Issues such as technology and history have been considered central to the very modernity of architecture, but Benjamin’s reflection...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a view of architecture which ranges from the minimal domesticity of Diogenes' barrel, to the exuberant...
Invisible City
The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2004
More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the...
by Julian Davison, Bruce Granquist
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Balinese Architecture is a step-by-step guide to the intricacies of Balinese architecture.
Traditional Balinese don't live in houses in the conventional sense of the word. Instead, they divide their daily activities between a number a different pavilions which are situated within a family compound...
Western Islamic Architecture
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Among the glories of world architecture, Islamic mosques and palaces — from Spain to Egypt and other parts of the Middle East — are universally studied and admired. This profusely illustrated introduction to that subject gives a lively account of the style of structures symbolized by domed mosques,...
The Territories of Identity
Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The expedited globalised process of exchange and new forms of cultural production have transformed old established notions of identity, calling into question their conceptual foundations. This book explores the spatial and representational dimension of this phenomenon, by addressing how the reshaping...
Writing the Modern City
Literature, Architecture, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focussed...
Asian Alterity
With Special Reference to Architecture and Urbanism through the Lens of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development...
Architecture and Agriculture
A Rural Design Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place. Following on from the author’s first book Rural Design, the book discusses...