Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Redisplaying Museum Collections
Contemporary Display and Interpretation in British Museums
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-first century. Acknowledging the importance of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as project catalyst, Hannah Paddon explains and explores the complex process,...
by Megan E. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Initially dominated by simple renditions of East Coast architecture, Milwaukee developed from three pioneer settlements, those of Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George Walker�three hubs from which three villages radiated outward into one city. Following the Civil War, Milwaukee�s growth at the...
The Printed and the Built
Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century.
Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly field which has profoundly influenced architectural history in recent years. Yet, while groundbreaking...
Baroque Antiquity
Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher, this pioneering study uncovers an...
Studley Winter Trips
2001 - 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
A PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE ARTIST My initi al inspirati on to draw and sketch came from my father, an arti st and oil painter who taught me how to sketch at an early age. I learned to quick sketch while studying architecture abroad in Spain since I didnt have a camera. I discovered that sketching, rather...
Legal Architecture
Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Legal Architecture addresses how the environment of the trial can be seen as a physical expression of our relationship with ideals of justice. It provides an alternative account of the trial, which charts the troubled history of notions of due process and participation. In contrast to visions of judicial...
by Peter Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. Now in Bridge, Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of their role in the advancement of human culture.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Urban policy makers are increasingly striving to strengthen the economic competitiveness of their cities. Currently, they do that mainly in the field of the creative knowledge economy - arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architecture, publishing, design; and ICT, R&D, finance,...
Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects
Designing and Planning Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book considers two key educational tools for future generations of professionals with a space architecture background in the 21st century: (1) introducing the discipline of space architecture into the space system engineering curricula; and (2) developing space architecture as a distinct, complete...
by Silva Tony
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: At the beginning of 19th century (1800s) Jesse Hawley a miller who was imprisoned in Geneva town, in New York envisaged the notion of building...
A Cleveland Legacy
The Architecture of Walker and Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Published in cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society
“Walker and Weeks was the most influential architectural firm in Ohio during the first half of the twentieth century. It transformed the image of Cleveland from that of an overgrown Victorian village into one of a progressive...
by Brian Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Some of the most exciting architecture in the world can be found on university campuses. In Europe, America and the Far East, vice chancellors and their architects have, over several centuries, produced an extraordinary range of innovative buildings. This book has been written to highlight the importance...
Network Nature
The Place of Nature in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is easy to task nature as the cure, with technology as the ailment.
In Network Nature, Richard Coyne...
Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction
Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Through photographs, Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate. The architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing...