Architecture category: 43274 books
Style and Seduction
Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews...
Transgender Architectonics
The Shape of Change in Modernist Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Combining transgender studies with the ’neomodernist’ architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit ’spatial...
Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization
Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The definitive introductory book on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization, this text addresses issues of identity, community, and sustainability along with a selection of the most outstanding examples of design from all over the world.
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by Jin Baek
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Based around an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando’s Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one of the world’s leading contemporary architects.
Specifically, this...
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity,...
by Iris Moon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms...
The Eyes of the Skin
Architecture and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive...
by Eran Neuman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical...
by Esther Yi, Victoria Dailey, Evan Selinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
As any historian or casual observer of urban transformation might tell you, walls are not everlasting. The following collection examines different ways monuments and notions of monumentality in art and architecture exist in relation to this reality. From Esther Yi's chronicle of the uncertain fate of...
Constructing a New Agenda
Architectural Theory 1993-2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects...
Henri Lefebvre on Space
Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s oeuvre, especially his direct involvement in the fields of urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Until recently the impact of the Lutheran Reformation has been largely regarded in political and socio-economic terms, yet for most people it was not the abstract theological debates that had the greatest impact upon their lives, but what they saw in their parish churches every Sunday. This collection...
Architecture and Revolution
Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A collection of pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history, with an introduction and critical headnotes.
This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia:
Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti...