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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected...
Primitive
Original Matters in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive.
The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of architecture's origins. Since the almost legendary...
Swahili Port Cities
The Architecture of Elsewhere
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing....
by Thomas Barrie, Julio Bermudez
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a diverse range of perspectives, grouped according...
Brazil
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil’s striking modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and with this volume, Richard Williams unearths the rich architectural...
SIMÓN VÉLEZ
architectural monograph
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Architect Simón Vélez (b.1949 in Manizales, Colombia) has pioneered the use of structural bamboo since he first started out on his own at the age of 23. An extraordinary draughtsman with an intuitive sense of structural engineering, he has built over 250 structures using structural bamboo or guadua....
When Church Became Theatre
The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2002
For nearly eighteen centuries, two fundamental spatial plans dominated Christian architecture: the basilica and the central plan. In the 1880s, however, profound socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of these traditions and the development of a...
Indigenous Modernities
Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism...
Colonial Modernities
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized.
Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between...
by David Nicholas Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also...
The Elements of Architecture
Principles of Environmental Performance in Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The Elements of Architecture is a clear and well structured introduction to sustainable architecture, which concentrates on general principles to make an accessible and comprehensive primer for undergraduate students. The author takes a fresh and logical approach, focusing on the way aspects of the...
Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur
Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia’s decolonisation projects, has marginalised the Chinese...
The Appearances of Memory
Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
In The Appearances of Memory, the Indonesian architectural and urban historian Abidin Kusno explores the connections between the built environment and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing primarily on Jakarta, he describes how perceptions of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
***Winner of the 2019 IDEC Book Award***
Interiors Beyond Architecture proposes an expanded impact for interior design that transcends the inside of buildings**, **analysing significant interiors that engage space outside of the disciplinary boundaries of architecture. It presents contemporary...