Architecture - History - General

Where does architecture belong in the larger scheme of things? Is it a liberal art? Is it related to painting, music, medicine, or horse training? Is it timeless, or does it have a beginning? To pursue such questions, Stephen Parcell investigates four historical definitions...

Collins explains what Revivalism, Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Functionalism meant to those who practised them, examining the impact that social forces and the other arts and sciences had on architectural styles while recognizing the tectonic continuities that underlie the seeming ruptures between pre-modern, modern, and...

This anthology of writings by the architectural critic Kenneth Frampton brings together his most influential essays from the last 35 years. The essays focus on twentieth-century architecture, dealing with diverse themes and movements, built works and the architects responsible for these buildings.The writings are...

This is the second of five authoritative and stylish volumes on one of the world's greatest contemporary architects, written by one of today's most important critics. This tome on Renzo Piano (b.1937) provides an enlightening study of his underlying approach to architecture and how...

In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations. His hand forced by Edward's invasion earlier that year, Llywelyn's acceptance of the terms confirmed not...

We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the "supertall" megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history.Cities around the world are racing to build the first mile-high building, stretching the limits of...

A "thrilling" (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires' Row--from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal "Deeply informative, delightfully entertaining, and addictively...

Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems. However, as the current research shows, we also find a large variety of forms of cooperation between the East,...

The monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. These monuments, unique in the world, reflect a cultural legacy inherited from Byzantium and the Roman Empire. After the fall of...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

The intense relationship between philosopher Martin Heidegger and his cabin in the Black Forest: the first substantial account of "die H?te" and its influence on Heidegger's life and work."This is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down, the justification for...

A challenge to the hegemony of perspective: investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand years.For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of...

This book is meant to provide educational information for all of those who are interested in Yurts and Gers, their history, origin, evolution, functionality, design, performance, architectural and engineering structure, and how they fit into the Eurasian Nomadic lifestyle. Unlike other Yurt books that...

Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), Gonz疝ez explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in...

The bells rung all day, and almost all night... John Adams wrote this timeless observation when the Declaration of Independence was signed and publicly proclaimed in early July of 1776 to a jubilant crowd in Philadelphia. This is the story of those bells -...

Harold Donaldson Eberlein (1875-1964) was a historian and the author or coauthor of over fifty books on American and European history, architecture, and interior design.Author: Harold Donaldson EberleinISBN-10: 1438491034ISBN-13: 9781438491035Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2023Pages: 396Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are...

Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are...

My uncle Eddie Parker, though he worked in engineering for most of his life, was a talented amateur artist with a keen interest in Shropshire history. After his death, his daughter Eve and I agreed to publish a book featuring his drawings of old...

(Bilingual edition: English / German)Conceptual architecture from the 1970s This book offers an in-depth look at the work of one of the most important phenomena of Austria's avant-garde art and architecture scene of the 1970s, MISSING LINK. The group founded by Angela Hareiter, Otto...

First full-length survey of Reading Abbey, one of the most important ecclesiastical buildings of the Middle Ages. Reading Abbey was built by King Henry I to be a great architectural statement and his own mausoleum, as well as a place of resort and a...

This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer's aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific building and puts into context Breuer's other work and the contemporary movements/architects of the post-war era such...

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. Exploring the innovation of materials, habitats, landscapes, and infrastructures, it furthers novel...

R. Buckminster Fuller's U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67 has long been recognized as an icon of Montreal's urban landscape. Yet this high point was only a part of the story of Canada's contributions to developing the geodesic dome. Based on previously unpublished archival material,...

Built in 1976 by Solsearch Architects and the New Alchemy Institute as "an early exploration in weaving together the sun, wind, biology, and architecture for the benefit of humanity," the Ark bioshelter integrated ecological design features to provide a self-reliant life for a family....

The 1958 Toronto City Hall and Square competition was the largest competition of its era. It attracted over 500 entries from architects across the globe, even more than the 1956 Sydney Opera House competition. Finnish architect Viljo Revell's winning scheme became an icon for...

A survey document produced in conjunction with the exhibition Layered Landscapes which examines selected drawings of Arthur Erickson from the Canadian Architectural Archives collection, accompanied by photographs of the finished buildings. Contains drawings from 14 projects, with a series foreword, a foreword by Kenneth...

Catalogue for the juried exhibition of Atlantic Canadian buildings 1950-2000 at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University, May-June 2001.Author: Steven MannellISBN-10: 0929112474ISBN-13: 9780929112473Publisher: Dalhousie Architectural PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2004Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.40w x 0.50d

Fourteen prominent projects including Jerusalem City Hall and the award winning University of Toronto Earth Sciences Centre, from these masters of urban architecture.Author: A. J. Diamond, Donald SchmittISBN-10: 0929112318ISBN-13: 9780929112312Publisher: Dalhousie Architectural PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2023Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.43h x 8.43w x 0.39d

The goal of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. As monuments continue to be discovered, the CMHI series is ongoing and far from complete. It has...

The inimitable, haunting films of Alfred Hitchcock took place in settings, both exterior and interior, that deeply impacted our experiences of his most unforgettable works. From the enclosed spaces of Rope and Rear Window to the wide-open expanses of North by Northwest, the physical...

Author: Patrick Lee LucasISBN-10: 0813197120ISBN-13: 9780813197128Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2023Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.79d

Author: Patrick Lee LucasISBN-10: 0813196884ISBN-13: 9780813196886Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2023Pages: 250Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.94d

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) dedicated to conversations about design. Each annual issue is conceptualized by an editorial team that proposes guests and objects to be in dialogue with one another. Pairs is non-thematic, meant...

In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and...

This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a...

A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture's place in the contemporary moment "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our...

The first Pevsner volume to explore the Isle of Man's unique architectural inheritance The Isle of Man has had many incarnations - a land of Celtic monks, the realm of the Norse sea-kings, the petty kingdom of the Earls of Derby, a nest of...

A collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain. Architecture is fundamentally a practice of predicting the future. In designing spaces that will endure for decades, architects must reconcile their visions of future living with...

A collection of illuminating essays exploring what theory makes of architecture and what architecture makes of theory in philosophical and materialized contexts. From poststructuralism and deconstruction to current theories of technology and nature, critical theory has long been closely aligned with architecture. In turn,...

Zigzagging through six locations on the edges of the German-speaking world, exploring them through politics, architecture, literature, film, art, music, food, and history. "Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag" hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony...

Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe--letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard--clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition. Colin Rowe (1920-1999) was one of the great architectural historians of the twentieth century, publishing the influential works The Mathematics of the Ideal...

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism...

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You...

Joseph Julius Jackson was an African-American preacher who published The History of the Black Man (1921). The book discusses the influence of African civilization upon ancient history, and covers the black kingdoms of Ghana, Sudan, Melle, Hausa, Songhay, as well as the Moorish dynasty...

Author: Jerome IowaISBN-10: 163293342XISBN-13: 9781632933423Publisher: Sunstone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2005Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.44d

Frank Lloyd Wright is best known for his urban and suburban houses. Lesser known are the more than 40 summer "cottages" he designed in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Many of the early summer cottages have a rustic feel and are not as easily recognized...