Architecture: public and commercial Books
DOM Publishers WorldZoo andAquarium Architecture
Book SynopsisAn overview of current trends in planning zoos and aquariums.
£36.00
Tuttle Publishing Super Potato Design: The Complete Works of
Book Synopsis"We do not live only with clear-cut forms;rather, we exist in a world of forms that are often indistinct and vague." —Takashi Sugimoto, architect and James Beard Award-winning authorSuper Potato Design presents the work of internationally-renowned Japanese designer Takashi Sugimoto. After studying metal sculpture at Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Sugimoto began his career designing a series of bars and restaurants including the iconic Radio Bar that became a favorite hangout for designers like Issey Miyake, Ikko Tanaka, Yohji Yamamoto and Tadao Ando. He was soon recruited to design retail spaces including the original Muji "no-brand" shops along with hotels, tea ceremony spaces and wedding chapels.Super Potato's striking interiors have totally revolutionized Japanese design through the use of exposed concrete surfaces, rough-hewn timber and unevenly cut stone juxtaposed with salvaged metal and repurposed objects to create a sense of power and timelessness. The design vocabulary created by Sugimoto is universally imitated today (in Japan and throughout the world). It is what we now think of as "modern Japanese design"—although Sugimoto's own work has never been surpassed.Super Potato Design presents 40 of Sugimoto's most important projects in 320 full-color photographs by Yoshio Shiratori, who has worked with the designer since the beginning. Author and architect Mira Locher introduces Sugimoto's work and provides a thorough description for each project. A foreword by Tadao Ando and discussions with architect Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama and graphic designer Kenya Hara explore the direction of Japanese design today. A list of Super Potato's complete works rounds off this fascinating book.Trade Review**2008 Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame Inductee**"We do not live only with clear-cut forms; rather, we exist in a world of forms that are often indistinct and vague." --Takashi Sugimoto, architect and James Beard Award-winning author
£23.99
RIBA Publishing Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and
Book SynopsisCan good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? Happy by Design explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the opposite effect. Presented through a series of easy-to-understand design tips and accompanied by beautiful diagrams and illustrations, Happy by Design is a fantastic resource for architects, designers and students, or for anybody who would like to better understand the relationship between buildings and happiness. With the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, the importance of designing for mental wellbeing has never been higher on the agenda. Whether through low-energy design, designing in better ventilation to avoid passing on pathogens or the realisation of the importance of accessing nature within an environment, this revised edition has been updated to reflect a changed world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the Author Introduction Chapter 1 Light Orient buildings sensitively Consider shadows Be selective about window sizes Avoid deep plans Use rooflights shrewdly Don’t overlook artificial light Consider the temperature of artificial light Use artificial light to create pockets of calm Chapter 2 Comfort Use tactile materials Consider comfort as well as aesthetics Think about the temperature of buildings Ensure a good supply of fresh air Ventilation (new addition) Keep the noise out Chapter 3 Control Design adaptable spaces Give people better control over their environment Provide people with a range of environments Allow for personalisation Give people better control over their diets Give building users privacy Chapter 4 Nature Bring nature in Provide views of nature Put gardens on the roof Design gardens and parks as an escape from the urban Integrate or give views of water Improve ecology and biodiversity Use nature to educate, engage and involve Chapter 5 Aesthetics Use colour wisely Create moments of joy Avoid visual monotony Make buildings legible Celebrate the simple Get the proportions right Chapter 6 Activity Encourage activity Design-in spaces for exercise Design wider streets Design for the bicycle Connect to nearby facilities Don’t overlook spaces for inactivity Chapter 7 Psychology Storage Provide high ceilings wherever possible Celebrate the entrance Go open-plan Bigger isn’t always better Consider prospect and refuge theory Create an atmosphere Conclusions Notes + References Index
£23.75
Taschen GmbH domus 1940–1949
Book SynopsisFounded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design. This fresh reprint of domus’ coverage of the 1940s brings together the most important features from a decade of destruction and reconstruction. Even amid the bombing raids inflicted on Milan, domus continued to publish through much of the war, charting the design zeitgeist, while managing a successive turnover of editors and editors-in-chief during Ponti’s “interregnum” between 1941 and 1948. The pages from this period record reports and features on modern industrial design and furniture, new prefabricated houses, American academic architecture, the building projects of Carlo Mollino, Gian Luigi Banfi, Franco Albini, and Giuseppe Terragni, as well as the postwar flowering of Organic Design. domus distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names Trade Review“Filled with nostalgia-inducing color photos and reflections on the era as a whole, this lavish title is a must for both collectors of and newcomers to the world of architecture and design.” * Luxe Magazine *
£27.00
Taschen GmbH domus 1950–1959
Book SynopsisFounded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design. This fresh reprint of domus' 1950s coverage brings together the most important features from an era of post-war optimism. As memories of conflict receded, architecture and design sought new forms, materials, and applications, as well as increasing international dialogue. Highlights include Le Corbusier’s design of the United Nations Building in New York; the Case Study Houses of Charles and Ray Eames; Richard Neutra in California, office machines by Olivetti, furniture by Ray and Charles Eames, ceramics and tables by Ettore Sottsass, and the Herman Miller Showroom by Alexander Girard in San Francisco. domus distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names Trade Review“You will discover more ideas here about design and architecture than you could find with convenience anywhere else.” * World of Interiors Magazine *
£27.00
Taschen GmbH domus 1970–1979
Book SynopsisFounded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design. This fresh reprint of the 1970s domus coverage brings together the most important features from an era marking seismic changes in architecture and design. It was a time when individualism gained momentum as a novel style, and we began to notice the first postmodernist tendencies. Faced with the global energy crisis, architects and designers imbued their methods with a new ecological awareness. For work to be featured in the magazine it had to offer function, spatial clarity, intellectual persuasion, relevant originality, and/or grace. Those groundbreaking projects and practitioners that made the cut include Shiro Kuramata, Verner Panton, Joe Colombo, Richard Meier, the modernist structures by Foster Associates and the Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. domus distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names Trade Review“domus has a rich history of spotting trends and fashions. It elevates icons to classics.” * Bene *
£27.00
MACK Art Applied
Book SynopsisThis vast and dazzling book provides an authoritative retrospective of the oeuvre of Dutch designer and architect Petra Blaisse, encompassing landscapes, interiors, buildings, and exhibition designs across the globe.
£66.50
RIBA Publishing Community Schools: Designing for sustainability,
Book SynopsisSchools have the potential to empower communities by connecting people better with the places they live. But how can these benefits be baked into a design brief?As complex institutions, schools not only provide education and pastoral care for children, as they grow and develop, but also act as workplaces for staff and civic assets or hubs for the wider community. Yet they're not often perceived to be critical infrastructure.Community Schools reconsiders what is required from physical school environments, building on the learning gathered from the sector over the past two decades. To meet the new social, environmental and economic challenges it advocates designing differently, both in terms of the form that buildings take and the evaluation of their impact and performance.By calling for a reframing of the way that schools are regarded as community-wide amenities, this book explores the potential for architects to deliver design in a manner that supports healthy lifestyles and promotes wellbeing. Through encouraging social connections, new possibilities open up for educational facilities to become open, welcoming and inclusive.Featuring: Over 12 international case studies from practices including: Architype, Argyll + Bute, Bogle Architects, DRMM, Revaerk, Scott Brownrigg and XDGA Key themes of wellbeing, connectivity, inclusion, indicators and evaluation Practical guidance and learning points throughout A new design brief for community schools Table of ContentsAcknowledgements IntroductionChapter 1: A Different Approach to School Design Chapter 2: Community SchoolsChapter 3: WellbeingChapter 4: Connectivity & InclusionChapter 5: Indicators & EvaluationChapter 6: A New Brief for Community Schools EndnotesImage Credits
£40.50
Quart Publishers Rising Oceans & Spaces That Care: Complexities
Book SynopsisIn times of global crises, architecture must also seek new sustainable approaches to climatic and social challenges. Designed by Kashef Chowdhury / Urbana, the Friendship Hospital in southern Bangladesh can be regarded as pioneering in this respect. The hospital, which was awarded the 2022 RIBA International Prize, provides life-saving healthcare, as well as enhancing the identity of a coastal region that has been devastated by cyclones and soil salinisation as a result of rising sea levels. Constructed in local brickwork, the architecture collects the valuable rainwater and uses the wind for natural cooling, while subtly interacting with specific characteristics of the world’s largest river delta. It also applies universal architectural means such as space, light and proportions to ensure the well-being of patients and the people close to them. A profound architectural stance developed out of the geography and history of the local context makes this work globally relevant. This book, which includes a photo essay by Hélène Binet, presents plans, diagrams and model photos that offer insight into the design and construction process in one of the world’s most climate-affected regions.
£35.28
Roli Books Pvt Ltd Architectural Ornamentation in Shrines & Mosques
Book SynopsisRichly designed with beautiful images and illustrations, this edition, published in collaboration with INTACH Kashmir Chapter, is a celebration of architectural ornamentation in shrines and mosques of one of the most beautiful regions of India. The book is also a study to understand the Islamic architecture in the era of continuity and change.
£33.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges
Book SynopsisBridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology, leading to bigger spans and the use of new materials. Their failures, too, whether from an inadequate understanding of engineering principles or as a result of natural catastrophes or warfare, have often caused immense hardship as a result of lost lives or broken communications. In this book, a sister publication to his earlier An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Pen & Sword 2019), David McFetrich gives brief descriptions of some 1200 bridges from more than 170 countries around the world. They represent a wide range of different types of structure (such as beam, cantilever, stayed and suspension bridges). Although some of the pictures are of extremely well-known structures, many are not so widely recognisable and a separate section of the book includes more than seventy lists of bridges with distinctly unusual characteristics in their design, usage and history.
£42.88
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London's Railway Stations
Book SynopsisAn illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London’s railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in the city. Famed for their bustling platforms and architectural innovation, they comprise a fascinating mixture of Neo-Gothic exuberance and purposeful modernity. Though each owes its existence to a long-extinct Victorian railway company, these stations continue to be central to London life, with millions of visitors passing through every year. This historical whistlestop tour takes you on a circuit of London’s thirteen great railway termini, from Paddington, through King’s Cross, to Victoria. Ranging from the earliest stations to the latest restorations and ongoing developments, this beautifully illustrated book examines both their legacy and their future.Trade ReviewThis is a delightful book. * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Stations - Paddington - Marylebone - Euston - St. Pancras - King's Cross - Liverpool Street - Fenchurch Street - London Bridge - Cannon Street - Blackfriars - Charing Cross - Waterloo - Victoria Glossary Index
£8.54
Phaidon Press Ltd Yves Saint Laurent: Museum Marrakech
Book Synopsis A fascinating account of the story of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech – and a gorgeous homage to creativity Conceived as a candid diary, this remarkable book documents the 1,423 days that it took to design, build, and inaugurate a beloved architecture and fashion destination. From the moment the up-and-coming French-Moroccan practice Studio KO received a call from YSL’s longtime partner Pierre Bergé to the opening of the museum’s doors in 2017, one month after Bergé died, the entire process of bringing the building to life – its commission, the creative process behind it, and its construction – is told and illustrated here as never before.Trade Review'Worth the splurge.' - Wall Street Journal Magazine 'A new insight into Saint Laurent's design principles and values.' - The Financial Times 'An illustrated hymn of praise from Karl and Olivier to Yves and Pierre.' - World of Interiors 'Gorgeous.' - Fast Company 'A rich, inspiring journey.' - Galerie Magazine 'Gorgeous ... [a] tribute to a spectacular space'- Vanity Fair 'A love letter to Morocco and two of the country's most ardent admirers' - Elle Decor 'A visual feast.' - Wallpaper* 'Demands your attention.' - StyleZeitgeist 'There's no minute decision left unshared … as any couture connoisseur can understand (and appreciate), every little detail is significant. - AD Pro
£31.96
DOM Publishers Stadium Buildings: Construction and Design Manual
Book SynopsisFrom ancient stadium construction to a design object of the twenty-first century, sports arenas have long been turned into places hosting a global media spectacle. For a few hours or days, colossuses made of steel and concrete transform into colourful festival locations. Since the first ancient stadium in Greek Olympia, the typology of stadium construction has undergone a profound transformation: due to changes in requirements and demand, an urban entertainment centre has emerged from the simple running track in the countryside. Through selected examples of projects, this volume from the Construction and Design Manual series illustrates the development of stadiums in relation to building typologies. It provides a basic manual of stadium design using basic planning parameters. Examined are, amongst others, Olympic stadiums, football stadiums, velodromes and ice arenas. Drawings, detailed plans and large- format photos facilitate an understanding of the carefully selected examples and are used to analyse stadium construction in terms of its history, planning and architecture.
£67.50
Batsford Ltd Mid-Century Britain: Modern Architecture
Book SynopsisLeading expert and passionate advocate of modern British architecture Elain Harwood gives the best overview of British architecture from 1938 to 1963 – mid-century buildings. Growing in popularity and with an increasing understanding of their importance as a background to our lives, the buildings range from the Royal Festival Hall, Newcastle City Hall and to Deal Pier and Douglas ferry terminal, from prefabs and ice cream parlours to Coventry Cathedral and the Golden Lane Estate. The author writes in non-technical, layman's language about the design, architecture and also the influence of these buildings on the lives of our towns and cities. The author has arranged the huge variety of buildings into: Houses and Flats: Churches and Public Buildings; Offices; Shops; Showrooms and Cafes; Hotels and Public Houses; Cinemas, Theatres and Concert Halls; Industrial Buildings and Transport. There is an insightful introduction that places these buildings in the context of 20th-century architecture generally and globally. All fantastically photographed to make this a must have for anyone interested in our built heritage. Postwar Britain architects often saw architecture as a powerful means to improve the quality of our lives after the shadow of war. This is the fascinating story of what they built to meet that challenge. Cover illustration by Paul CatherallTrade Review'Skilfully evokes the spirit of the two decades it covers’ Context
£23.75
Getty Trust Publications The Los Angeles Central Library
Book SynopsisIn the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library's early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organisation ensconced in two rooms on the second floor of a downtown LA commercial block into one of the largest public library systems in the United States-with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centrepiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building's sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library's murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. "A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon," wrote Alexander-a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue's architectural gem.Trade Review"With comprehensive notes and a wonderfully detailed and navigable index, this fine example of scholarship is comprehensive in its story of the growth of support for a public library in Los Angeles; of the evolution of early designs with a signature, central ribbed dome and tiled pyramid-topped tower; and of the sculpture and murals that make the building a true Gesamtkunstwerk, or synthesis of art forms. The study is essential for all architecture and urban history collections."--Choice
£38.00
HarperCollins Publishers Literary Landscapes Paris Embark on a captivating
Book SynopsisFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destination.Literary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home. It looks at places where books were written, discussed over dinner, and where ultimately the books are sold.There are the theatres of Molière, Dumas and Beaumarchais along with the incredible Palais Garnier opera house and the legend of Le Fantome by Gaston Leroux.There are the revered bookshops of the Latin Quarter including the idiosyncratic Shakespeare & Co.There are the classic grand structures referenced in Victor Hugo novels (and still there) or the mean streets of George Orwell's Down and Out in Pa
£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers Radicals Rebels and Royals
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated alternative history book, tracing the history of the British Isles through its landmark pubs with recreations of their pub signs in stunning colour.The perfect combination of Britain?s two favourite past-times ? talking about history and going to the pub! Be transported around the British Isles with this plotted history of the most interesting, and sometimes surprising facts about the history of Britain. Radicals, Rebels and Royals is packed with trivia, stories, and practical ?Out and About? segments for each location which will leave any pub-goer satiated. Learn how pub history has memorialised the Celts, World War II, football teams and much more as well as reading about their most famous patrons.With tales of pirates, highwaymen and secret affairs Radicals, Rebels and Royals features over 70 pubs from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Brush up on your local history, or discover your next watering hole all from the comfort of your own home.Pubs include: The Shakespeare?s Head in London, The Robert the Bruce in Scotland, The King?s Head in Galway, The Star and Garter in Manchester, the Blue Boar in Essex and many more!Come for the history and leave drunk on the fun, with Radicals, Rebels and Royals!
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Literary Landscapes Dublin
Book SynopsisA bibliophile's journey through Dublin''s rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish natives, and tourists alike.There are few cities in the world that care so deeply about the written word as this historic capital. Stroll along canals, Georgian squares, and bridges, and you'll find plaques honouring writers, literary landmarks, and statues aplenty; like George Bernard Shaw at the National Gallery or Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square. Creative outpourings are well documented in museums and galleries here, like the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) which holds the first copy of James Joyce's Ulysses.No trip to Dublin would be complete without visiting its notable pubs and this book is no exception. Explore bars once frequented by WB Yeats after discovering stunning libraries like Trinity College''s Long Room, as featured in Sally Rooney's Normal People.Dublin holds its independent bookshops close to its heart, and there are some wonderful little literary spots dotted around the city, many of which are a treasure trove of rare books.When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart, James Joyce once said. And here it is written for you to explore, too.
£18.70
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Test Cricket
£24.00
Vintage Publishing These Silent Mansions
Book Synopsis''A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself'' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead.Jean Sprackland - the prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her life, revisiting her once local graveyards. In seeking out the stories of those who lived and died there, remembered and forgotten, she unearths what has been lost.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging, unpredictable and refreshingly original meditation on a huge but widely ignored subject: the relationship between the living and the dead… Exhilarating… This is a lovely book: beautifully written, never lapsing into self-conscious ‘poet’s prose’, always a joy to read. I wish I had written it myself. -- Nigel Andrew * Literary Review *Cemetery tales, filled with fascinating details and told with a poet’s skill… Delightfully morbid… Sprackland roves about history, language, biology, architecture, entomology, iconography and much else in her quest for meaning… [and] the astonishing twist…should justify your reading These Silent Mansions in its entirety. -- Anthony Quinn * Guardian *Shot through with delightful digressions… There is a spare beauty to Sprackland’s prose… These Silent Mansions is a strange and mercurial book; hard to pin down, but even harder to forget. -- Lucy Scholes * i *Sprackland has the poet’s knack for atmosphere and a magician’s ability to conjure up other worlds. She is like a ghostly time traveller… Sprackland is particularly agile, though, at exploring the ways in which a graveyard reflects its community and how, with modern life, we are losing this sense of connection. -- Ann Treneman * The Times *Part social history, part personal meditation and wholly enchanting - as attentive to local and moving details as it is to the fact of mortality itself. -- Andrew Motion
£9.49
Penguin Books Ltd TransEurope Express
Book SynopsisOver the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere.In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it.Trade ReviewA scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today -- Owen JonesThe best book I've read on Europe, blending history, architecture and contemporary politics and written in Owen Hatherley's trademark mixture of scepticism, erudition and humanity. He is a writer of lasting merit who will be read fifty years from now. -- Anna MintonThe latest heir to Ruskin. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
£10.44
Oxford University Press Modern Architecture
Book SynopsisSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it''s hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterised by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanised production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past.This Very Short Introduction explores the technical innovations that opened-up the cultural and intellectual opportunities for modern architecture to happen. Adam Sharr shows how the invention of steel and reinforced concrete radically altered possibilities for shaping buildings, transforming what architects were able to imagine, as did new systems for air conditioning and lighting. While architects weren''t responsible for these innovations, they were among the first to appreciate how they could make the world look and feel different, in connection with imagery from other spheres like modern art and industrial design. Focusing on a selection of modern buildings that also symbolize bigger cultural ideas, Sharr discusses what modern architecture was like, why it was like that, and how it was imagined. Considering the work of some of the historians and critics who helped to shape modern architecture, he demonstrates how the field owes as much to its storytellers as to its buildings.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewAdam Sharr has succeeded in making modern architecture modern again, with this refreshing and original account of the technological revolutions and individual designers that shaped our world from the 1850s to the 1970s. Rather than concentrate on questions and debates over style and ideology, or follow the self-promotional versions of the architects themselves, he has preferred to go to the root of the revolution: the technologies and their innovative utilization. This little book will have an effect far beyond its size, providing more than an introduction for students and the public, and for architects themselves a salutary set of careful worked case studies, from Miess IIT Campus to Rogers and Pianos Centre Pompidou. * Anthony Vidler, Professor of Architecture, The Cooper Union *The great strength of Adam Sharr's book is that it relates modern architecture to wider cultural, philosophical, and technological trends. It is also written in a very accessible style and, despite its brevity, covers a wide territory. * Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins, Pro Vice-Chancellor University of the Arts London *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Iron and steel 3: Reinforced concrete 4: Brick 5: Light and air 6: Conclusion Further reading Bibliography Index
£9.49
Oxford University Press Redbrick A Social And Architectural History Of Britains Civic Universities
Book SynopsisIn the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians. Drawing on a decade''s research, and based on work in dozens of archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, York, and Durham - for more than 50 years. Tracing their story from the 1780s until the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick revolution back into history. William Whyte argues that these institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of the university - something that was embodied in their architecture and expressed in the lives of their students and staff. It was this RedbrTrade ReviewWhyte has written a fascinating architectural and social history of the development of British universities * A.W. Purdue, Northern History *A magnificent review of the two-centuries-long evolution of the civics ... perceptive. * David Palfreyman, Times Higher Education *Authoritatively and perceptively as it makes a case for its subject, in prose that is often amusing as well as elegant ... it makes a refreshing change to wish that a book had been much longer * Michael Hall, The Victorian *This carefully researched and well-illustrated study is a remarkable achievement. * Dr Michael Wheeler, Church Times *William Whyte has succeeded admirably in depicting the evolution of Britain's extremely complex university sector in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ... This work of detailed scholarship has the virtue of being both very readable and exceptionally informative. Author and publisher alike are to be congratulated for producing such an attractive book that casts important light on a really complicated and previously overlooked topic. * Hugh Clout, Cercles *This superb book is the first history to cover the history of British civic universities in 50 years ... Whyte draws on a formidable array of archival research, discovering piquant quotes from a range of obscure sources ... the portrait of Britain's civic universities that emerges is, in the end, one that is almost 'beautiful' because it is a human portrait rather than an institutional one ... The book will obviously be of interest to those specializing in the history of education. However, the book's methodology, which is cogently set out in the introduction, should be read by all scholars thinking about how to write histories of the way societies interact with the physical environments that they occupy. * Otto Saumarez Smith, Urban History *Whyte's highly readable study of civic universities fills a significant gap in the history of higher education ... an outstanding book ... it brims with life by meaningfully weaving in the stories of the men and, by the late nineteenth century, the women who attended universities and inhabited their buildings. It transcends the history of education to reveal the central place of civic universities in the evolution of the modern state, the making of the middle class, and the mutual tempering of social radicalism and conservatism. * Christopher Bischof, Journal of British Studies *Rich, varied and amusing ... Whyte deserves congratulation for his thoughtful, perceptive and witty work. * Jeremy Black, History Today *Beautifully written (not to mention witty) and drawing on extensive archival research ... Whyte's book successfully asserts a centrality for the British civic universities within both the history of higher education and the life of the nation that is long overdue. Its central thesis -- that there is a common civic tradition within British higher education -- will spark much debate. Good. The volume lends much-needed vitality to the history of higher education in Britain and will provide an invaluable starting point for all future historians of Britain's universities. * Mike Finn, History of Education *William Whyte's excellent and provoking study of the evolution of the modern university in Britain ... deserves a wide readership, and provides valuable historical background to contemporary debates about the place of universities within society. * Alexander Hutton, English Historical Review *Anyone searching for a scholarly, well-written, extensively illustrated account of Britain's Redbrick universities ... may retire from the hunt with this book in hand. * Joseph A. Soares, American Historical Review *The book is comprehensive, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present; it perceptively attends to false starts and fictional accounts, alongside more familiar and lasting successes; and it is deeply researched, generously illustrated, and beautifully written throughout ... Redbrick belongs on the shelf of every historian of architecture, universities, and indeed modern Britain, and it should also inform wider discussions about the university in Britain past, present, and future. * Journal of Modern History *Whyte has breathed new life into the history of British universities. * Emily Rutherford, Twentieth Century British History *Table of ContentsPART ONE: 1783-1843; PART TWO: 1843-1880; PART THREE: 1880-1914; PART FOUR: 1914-1949; PART FIVE: 1949-1973; PART SIX: 1973-1997
£39.49
The University of Chicago Press Building Ideas
Book SynopsisA photographic guide that traces the evolution of University of Chicago's campus architecture from the university's founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. It features the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb, Holabird & Roche, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Netsch, and, Cesar Pelli.
£30.70
The University of Chicago Press Building for the Arts The Strategic Design of
Book SynopsisOver the years, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom. Drawing on case studies and in-depth interviews, this book explores how artistic vision, funding partnerships, and institutional culture work together - or fail to - throughout the process of major cultural construction projects.Trade Review"Are large-scale building projects good for the arts? And why do so many go so horribly wrong? Frumkin and Kolendo bring to life the processes by which decisions get made with compelling interviews and a colorful cast of characters, revealing a tangled web of internal politics, personal ambitions, miscalculations, community conflict, and public relations flascos. Throughout, they provide thoughtful analysis to help planners and project directors think about how to approach decisions along the way. Their book should be essential for arts and public administration programs." (Steven J. Tepper, Vanderbilt University)"
£49.18
The University of Chicago Press Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America
Book SynopsisThousands of memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history.Trade Review"Memorial Mania is an important and much-needed book, one that complements the existing literature on memorials with richness and originality, and also forges new territory. Erika Doss's excellent and highly polemical critique of its resurgence furthers one of American studies' most noteworthy traditions." - Michelle Bogart, Stony Brook University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Memorial Mania
Book SynopsisIn the past few decades, thousands of memorials have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express - and claim - those issues in visibly public contexts.Trade Review"I believe Memorial Mania will appeal to a wide audience - both inside and outside academia - given the quality of the writing and the presentation of the material.... It is a sign of the quality of Erika Doss's work that I am left wanting more." (Anthropology Works) "What makes Erika Doss's book so valuable is that it reveals the range, complexity, and depth of emotion produced by memorial acts." (American Quarterly)"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Modernizing Main Street Architecture and
Book SynopsisAn important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America. This work uncovers the cultural history of the modernized storefronts that resulted from the little-known federal provision that made billions of dollars available to shop owners.Trade Review"This fascinating and insightful book coaxes us to see the familiar storefront in entirely new ways. Esperdy fluidly explores broad cultural meanings at the same time as she helps us interpret the details of the buildings. The implications for our understanding of New Deal policies and the 1930s are particularly surprising and novel." - Alison Isenberg, author of Downtown America"
£46.83
The University of Chicago Press Symbolic Space
Book SynopsisExploring the social and cultural hierarchies established in 18th-century France, this volume illustrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the 18th-century.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Improbable Libraries
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The University of Chicago Press Paris Primitive
Book SynopsisRecounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' museum world that resulted from Jacques Chirac's dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society.Trade Review"Sally Price has a gift for capturing the tone and spirit with which people choose to represent themselves. This is a well-told story that represents a major contribution to the field and offers an accessible introduction to some key issues in museum politics." - Christopher B. Steiner, author of African Art in Transit"
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Frank Lloyd Wrights Larkin Building Myth and
Book SynopsisFrank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. This work is a study of this building. Illustrated with over hundred photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, it provides a record of how the building was conceived, built, evaluated, and demolished in what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture.Trade Review"Thoughtful and readable." - Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book Review"
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press The Architecture of Aftermath
Book SynopsisThe September 11 terrorist attacks targeted America's icons of military and economic power. This book argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings. It focuses on the very culture of aftermath itself, exploring how global politics, clashing cultures, and warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture.Trade Review"This provocative, lively, and well-written book challengingly addresses the place of architecture in the contested aftermath of September 11 and indeed of modernism as such. It has range, bite, and insight, reinforced by a dazzling range of reference and vision." - Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University"
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press The Architecture of Aftermath
Book SynopsisThe September 11 terrorist attacks targeted America's icons of military and economic power. This book argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings. It focuses on the very culture of aftermath itself, exploring how global politics, clashing cultures, and warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture.Trade Review"This provocative, lively, and well-written book challengingly addresses the place of architecture in the contested aftermath of September 11 and indeed of modernism as such. It has range, bite, and insight, reinforced by a dazzling range of reference and vision." - Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University"
£42.87
The University of Chicago Press Free to All Carnegie Libraries American Culture
Book SynopsisFamiliar landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries today seem far from controversial. In this book, however, the author shows that the classical facades and symmetrical plans of these buildings often mask a complex and contentious history.
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Penguin Books Ltd Humanise
Book SynopsisFrom one of the world''s most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.''This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn''t put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that'' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, with buildings designed for business, not for us.So where do we find hope?Thomas Heatherwick has an alternative. By changing the world around us, we can improve our health, restore our happiness, and save our planet. The time has come to put human emotion back at the heart of the design process. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Heatherwick brings together vivid stories and hundreds of beautiful images into a visual masterpiece. Humanise will inspire us to do nothing less than remake our world.*****''Thomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives . . . I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines!'' SIMON SINEK''Humanise is a masterwork. It''s quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here'' ALAIN DE BOTTONTrade ReviewHumanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now -- Alain de BottonThomas Heatherwick echoes many things I find myself saying as I travel round the country. How the hell did that monstrosity get built? Why is this place so depressing? Why is so much of the built environment so boring? This book will wind up quite a few architects, planners and developers who labour under the delusion that they are the adults in the room. Good. These people need to develop some compassion for the people who have to live with their joyless, bland, unlovable creations. This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that -- Grayson PerryThomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives. In simple, elegant words, he demands that we put people first. Not developers, politicians or architects. I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines! Vive la revolution! -- Simon Sinek, Optimist and New York Times-bestselling author of Start with Why and The Infinite GameThis book will help frustrated ordinary people and communities see what is possible -- David ByrneA revelation. Humanise offers an accessible, compelling and entirely unique perspective on the world in which we live. Heatherwick’s storytelling ability shines through on each and every page - pushing boundaries and challenging perspectives. At a time where thoughtful and constructive ideas and solutions, that put the public at the centre of decision-making, are sought more than ever - this book provides a spark to ignite conversations across our city, country and the globe on how to build a better world for everyone -- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonHeatherwick makes the case for human buildings that nurture our health and happiness. Out with the 'blandemic' of boring buildings and let's get back to interestingness. He calls for us all to engage with our built environment and so we should -- Dame Sally DaviesArchitecture has the ability to uplift and inspire, support connection, and fuel invention - bringing life and vitality to our cities by making them better, more beautiful, more sustainable places to live and work. Thomas Heatherwick's new book offers us a powerful prescription for buildings that put the public first and help set the course for a brighter future for humanity -- Mike Bloomberg, entrepreneur, philanthropist, former Mayor of New York CityIn a social and economic tour de force, Thomas Heatherwick explodes the waste of bad design: the neighbourhoods destroyed, the wellbeing lost, the carbon burned. And then he pivots to the potential of bending the straight line into a curve, the building into the feeling, and the narrowly rational into the fully human -- Mark CarneyHumanise ignites the urgent public conversation I've been calling for for years -- Sir Terry Farrell CBE, architect and urban designerA book that will change how you see the world -- Simon JenkinsThe climate crisis, a post-pandemic era and war. All these issues that the world is facing require unprecedented approaches in art, architecture and design. Humanise transcends all borders, cultures and fields of expertise. This book maintains an exquisite balance between quantitative evidence, architectural history, ideals and reality. It urges all of us on this planet to celebrate life -- Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum, TokyoInspiring, enlightening and provocative, Humanise arms us with a new way of seeing our built environment, and makes explicit what's at stake if we blindly accept the status quo -- Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century: A Call to ReconnectThomas Heatherwick's humanity centred imagination is brought to life through his buildings and designs. He challenges us all to see the world differently, in harmony with nature, for the better. Humanise is a look behind the scenes and into the mind of his creative genius -- Tony Fadell, NYT bestselling author of Build, iPod inventor, Nest founderHeatherwick's fascinating book argues we must bring public value and delight back to the world of architecture which has been lost in boringness that is bad for people and planet -- Marianna Mazzucato, author of Author of Misson Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing CapitalismA world-renowned designer * Wall Street Journal *The Leonardo da Vinci of our times -- Terence ConranProbably the most creative person in the world -- Stephen Ross
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Penguin Books Ltd Britains 100 Best Railway Stations
Book SynopsisDiscover the architectural gems that are Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestseller'This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book' Chris EvansIt is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best railway stations. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before. 'However spectacular the book's photographs, it's the author's prowess as a phrase-maker that keeps you turning the pages' The Times'An uplifting exploration of our social history' GuardianTrade Review[Spreads] enthusiasm by inviting the reader to join in a game of admiration. -- Christopher Howse * Telegraph *However spectacular the book's photographs, it's the author's prowess as a phrase-maker that keeps you turning the pages -- Richard Morrison * The Times *A most beautiful book . . . full of information. I'd like to travel to every one of the stations. Simon Jenkins is a blessing to the nation, keeping an eye on our buildings and making sure they are not forgotten or neglected. -- Claire TomalinJenkins has unearthed a lot of gems. The photography is stunning -- Christian Wolmar * Spectator *This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book -- Chris EvansSimon Jenkins extols the virtues of 100 of them, as well as offering a brief history of the rise, fall and rise again of Britain's railways. And he is the perfect person to do so. Excellent, enticing. -- Gavin Stamp * Evening Standard *This glorious and utterly essential guide to Britain's best railway stations is also a history of some of the remarkable - but often undersung - landmarks to our social history * The Bookseller *Masterly, perhaps a masterpiece * Independent, Books of the Year on 'England's Thousand Best Churches' *Every house in England should have a copy of this book -- Auberon Waugh on 'England's Thousand Best Churches' * Literary Review, Book of the Century *Jenkins is, like all good guides, more than simply informative: he can be courteous and rude, nostalgic and funny, elegant, convincing and relaxed' -- Adam Nicolson on 'England's Thousand Best Houses' * Evening Standard *Any passably cultured inhabitant of the British Isles should ask for, say, three or four copies of this book -- Max Hastings on 'England's Thousand Best Houses' * Sunday Telegraph *Full of stand-out facts . . . absolutely fascinating -- Richard Bacon on 'A Short History of England' * BBC Radio 2 *Full of the good judgements one might hope for from such a sensible and readable commentator, and they alone are worth perusing for pleasure and food for thought -- Michael Wood on 'A Short History of England' * New Statesman *Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain's railways. Beautifully illustrated with colour photos, this is an uplifting exploration of our social history * The Guardian *
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University of Illinois Press An Illini Place
Book SynopsisWhy does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the university's evolution through its buildings. Oral histories, official reports, dedication programs, and developmental plans both practical and quixotic inform the story. The authors also provide special chapters on campus icons and on the buildings, arenas and other spaces made possible by donors and friends of the university. Adding to the experience is a web companion that includes profiles of the planners, architects, and presidents instrumental in the campus's growth, plus an illustrated inventory of current and former campus plans and buildings.Trade Review"Ours and every generation owes a debt to those who went before. An Illini Place enables us to grasp a sense of how it all began, the obstacles that were overcome, the opportunities that were seized, the people who made it happen, and the vision and values that sustained it."--from the Foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry, President Emeritus of the University of Illinois "The colorful history of the University of Illinois (U of I) campus explored in this lavishly illustrated and pithy history. By virtue of its expert research, its thoughtful organization and writing, and its beautiful illustrations, it takes its place alongside other treatments of important institutions and landmarks of Illinois. The authors have achieved an admirable synthesis of treating the old and new, of the venerable structures (razed and remaining) and the modern construction and more recent architecture. An affectionate guidebook to this prairie cathedral and its plucky evolution." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
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University of Illinois Press Chicago Skyscrapers 19341986
Book SynopsisWinner ofThe Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, by The Pattis Family Foundation and the Newberry Library From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skyscraper era views the skyscraper idea, and the buildings themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As construction emerged from the Great Depression, structural, mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to influence designs. But the truly radical changes concerned the motivations that drove construction. While profit remained key in the Loop, developers elsewhere in Chicago worked with a Daley political regime that saw tall buildings as tools for a wholesale recasting of the city’s apTrade Review"An ambitious history that’s less the usual roundup of Loop landmarks than an architecture junkie’s dense wandering intriguingly away from downtown." --Chicago Tribune"A magisterial account of our city's high-rise foundations." --Newcity"An impressive and important book that ranks with other works providing the deepest insights into what makes Chicago, Chicago. . . . Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 is one of those rare books about significant architectural structures that looks beyond design controversies, elegant descriptions, and engineering details and examines the forces behind their creation." --Third Coast Review“A worthy successor to the pathbreaking work of Carl Condit, this deeply researched volume explores the architectural design, structure and equipment of tall buildings in Chicago from the 1930s into the 1980s in their full and complex relationship to changing economic, social, and political realities in the city.”--Robert Bruegmann, author of Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern AmericaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972 Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art Chapter 9. After Sears Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School” Notes Bibliography Index
£33.25
MO - University of Illinois Press Lincoln Hall at the University of Illinois
Book SynopsisLincoln Hall at the University of Illinois, named to commemorate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, has long been a familiar landmark on the Urbana-Champaign campus and the home for undergraduate and graduate work in the liberal arts and communication. This title chronicles the history of Lincoln Hall from its conception to its expansion.Trade Review"A meticulously researched story of the planning, construction, dedication and evolution of the historic classroom building on the UI Quad. . . . Hoffmann's book makes clear that ... Lincoln Hall is a wondrous collection of art and architecture, as well as a unique tribute to Illinois' most favorite son."--The News-Gazette
£20.43
Indiana University Press African Art Interviews Narratives Bodies of
Book SynopsisA compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaningTrade ReviewAfrican Art, Interviews, Narratives . . . is a highly reflective collection of essays about the work of constructing art history out of interviews. Designed to unsettle and open up the relationship between interviews and scholarship, it speaks to the work of anthropology by aiming to better understand the nature of the interview process itself, how we produce and convey meanings from interviews and related documents. While it will be of particular interest to anthropologists working as museum curators, it will be equally useful to any professional whose craft largely depends upon interviews. * Leonardo Reviews *In these essays, one hears the narratives and learns the perspectives of a diverse group of people that greatly illuminate both meaning and intent. * African Studies Review *African Art, Interviews, Narratives provides scholars the chance to reexamine the role of the interviewer, interlocutor, and art historian when making printed text from recorded interviews. * Oral History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Work of Interviews Carol Magee and Joanna Grabski 1. Talking to People about Art Patrick McNaughton 2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence Joanna Grabski 3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of ResistanceJoseph Jordan 4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations Carol Magee 5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona Silvia Forni 6. Interview—Akinbode Akinbiyi Akinbode Akinbiyi 7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women Kim Miller 8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final MonumentAndrea E. Frohne 9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian MasqueradeMary Jo Arnoldi 10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-RepresentationChristine Mullen Kreamer11. Undisciplined KnowledgeAllan deSouza and Allyson PurpuraAppendix: InterlocutorsContributorsIndex
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MIT Press Ltd Cooling Towers
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MIT Press Ltd Grain Elevators
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Italian Piazza Transformed Parma in the
Book SynopsisExplores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300.Trade Review“There is no doubt that this is a significant contribution to the field . . . an exemplary presentation of extremely complex historical processes. The scholarship is formidable.”—Charles Burroughs,Case Western Reserve University“[The Italian Piazza Transformed] has value on many levels. First, the story of the development of these piazzas is well told, and is supported by clear, abundant diagrams and photographs. One can begin to visualize the evolving spatial order. Second, the lessons that can be drawn from this story are important ones for cities in Italy in the coming centuries and in some ways for all cities across time. Through the discussions of the way the development of these piazzas related to the emerging ecclesiastical and communal roles, one can begin to understand how political power and social values relate to urban space. Third, the book describes and exemplifies first-rate scholarship. The text describes the methodologies and challenges of historical inquiry. The book contains excellent, informative appendixes, extensive and enriching notes, a thorough bibliography, and a detailed index. Given its various assets, this volume should appeal to scholars in various fields, and should find a welcome place in many academic libraries.”—D. Sachs Choice“The Italian Piazza Transformed makes an extremely valuable empirical advance in Italian urban studies. Marina’s careful reconstruction, through historical texts and site surveys, of the development of . . . important Parmesan sites places their study on new foundations. She also offers a model of how open space in an urban fabric can be rigorously studied. One can only hope others will follow the stimulating lead Marina pioneers in this book.”—Maureen C. Miller Renaissance Quarterly“Marina’s highly developed method of processing, analyzing, and organizing disparate spatial, historical, and representational systems not only makes an important contribution to contemporary debates about urban design, but would also have been immediately recognized and greatly appreciated by her medieval forebears.”—Niall Atkinson Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“In this splendidly illustrated, intelligently designed, and elegantly written book, Areli Marina establishes herself as a leading new voice in medieval Italian urbanistic studies.”—Gary Radke SpeculumTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsAbout the Reconstruction DiagramsIntroductionPart I: The Production of Order1 (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo2 (Re)constructing the Communal PiazzaPart II: The Piazza and Public Life3 The Legislation of Order4 The Eloquent PiazzaEpilogue: Parma’s Spatial Practice ComparedAppendixesI: On Measurement, Module, and Geometry in Medieval ParmaII: The Communal Buildings of Parma: Evidence and InterpretationIII: Salimbene de Adam’s Account of Parma’s Late Thirteenth-Century Architectural ProjectsNotesBibliographyIndex
£86.66
Pennsylvania State University Press AirConditioning in Modern American Architecture
Book SynopsisWesleyan University. He is the author of four books, including most recently Beth Sholom Synagogue: Trade Review“Joseph Siry’s excellent new book makes a convincing case for the inclusion of technology and the conditions of architectural production in our approach to architectural history. It provides a major new contribution to our understanding of the field.”—Dietrich C. Neumann,editor of “The Structure of Light”: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture“Siry has written an interesting and necessary text. By carefully examining a number of familiar buildings and architects, he reveals that the role of HVAC systems was essential to design debates in American modernism. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, the book advances a novel and refreshing account of the technological and social issues that inform architectural developments.”—Daniel A. Barber,author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning“This reader came away with a deep understanding of the details of each building discussed—design as well as materials and engineering—and how passive cooling, fans, air ducts, and even mechanical floors (for example) influenced and altered the ‘art’ of building design. . . . This is an excellent complement to the modern architecture literature.”—L. B. Allsopp Choice“Although many of the book’s buildings have already been covered in a few other historical accounts, it is the first time that they are discussed in a single in-depth and comprehensive narrative. Besides the focus on the aesthetics of integration and collaborative authorship typical of an internalist approach, the chapters also begin to foreground fascinating historical connections between air-conditioning and the various spaces of production and consumption in a capitalist economy, as well as the attendant concerns with comfort, health, welfare, productivity, and profit.”—Jiat-Hwee Chang Technology and Culture“The text describes iconic buildings and the work of heroic architectural figures: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, to name but a few. The surprise and the novelty is that Joseph M. Siry foregrounds building services, unearthing the “back story” of heating and cooling and explaining how these systems figure in the strategies and ambitions of well-known architects. If you want to know exactly how structures like the Larkin Building or the Seagram Building were cooled, this is the book for you.”—Elizabeth Shove West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material CultureTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on TerminologyIntroduction: Air-Conditioning and the Historiography of Modern Architecture1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building and Mechanical Cooling, 1890-19102. Industrial Air-Conditioning from the Daylight Factory to the Windowless Factory, 1905-403. The Architecture of Air-Conditioning in Movie Theaters, 1917-404. Air-Conditioning Comes to the Nation’s Capital and the South, 1928-605. The First Air-Conditioned Tall Buildings, 1928-326. Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Windowless” Buildings for SC Johnson Company and the Air-Conditioned Tower7. Air-Conditioned Glass Buildings in the Mid-Twentieth Century8. Louis I. Kahn’s Architecture and Air-Conditioning to the 1970sCoda: Air-Conditioning and the New Consciousness of Energy in Architecture Since the 1970sAppendix: Compressive Refrigeration and the Heat PumpNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Yale University Press The History and Architecture of Chethams School
Book SynopsisChetham's School and Library is an exceptional example of 15th century collegiate architecture. First built as a lodge for the clergy serving Manchester cathedral, it survived the turbulence of the Reformation and eventually became Humphrey Chetham's charity school and free public library.
£31.50
Yale University Press The Architecture of British Transport in the
Book SynopsisTransport buildingsrailway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garagesare such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems, methods, and even purposes underwent enormous change. The contributors to the book consider transport buildings both well known and unfamiliar from a variety of intriguing viewpoints. They explore the design and promotion of the London Underground, the battle between road and rail, the intentions of architectsto glamorize travel, to calm fears, to accommodate huge numbers of travelersand the political and cultural significance of the transport buildings that have become a major part of modern life. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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