Architecture: public and commercial Books
Black Dog Press Rick Mather Architects
Book SynopsisRick Mather Architects (RMA) have been working in London since the early 70s. Best known for their award winning museum extensions, such as the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Maritime Museum, RMA's portfolio spans a broad spectrum of projects, including residential and student housing, master plans and urban design for both renovations and new buildings. They are world renowned for their intuitive sense of place and context, as well as their pioneering technologies in structural glass and sustainable design. The book establishes Rick Mather's unique approach to resolving complex design issues on both a large scale and in the fine details; the work of the practice is described in accessible terms through the texts and through a wealth of visual material, including photography and drawings supplied by the practice. Alongside this documentation, the visual aspect is supplemented by reproduced paintings, maps and drawings from a diverse range of sources, which have inspired and informed the work. Over the past 33 years, the practice has undertaken 500 projects. These include the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the student halls of residence in Norfolk; the Ashmolean Museum extension, Oxford; the masterplanning of London's South Bank Centre; as well as Mather's iconic housing of the 1980s and 90s. This book will cover the full range of the projects, exploring Mather's response to the technical and social requirements of the briefs, and the way that a US born architect has re-imagined Britain's culture and made it his own.
£36.53
ActarD Inc Passages: Transitional Spaces for the
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£22.80
Actar Publishers XPositions: Pavilion Dialogues
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£28.80
ActarD Inc Xpositions: The Pavilion Dialogues
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£28.80
Seguin, Galerie Patrick Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Chandigarh India
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£142.50
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Digiarch 2021: Kulturerbe Im Digitalen Zeitalter
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£50.35
Taschen Calatrava
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£15.00
JOVIS Verlag Monuments of Everyday Life: Interplays of City,
Book SynopsisMonuments have fascinated human beings and enriched cities as keepers of memories and history, as places to spend time, as meeting points, and as points of orientation through various times and in various forms. However, as a major component of the discipline of architecture and urban design, the term monument and its relation to the city are in crisis. This book explores a rediscovery of the concept of monuments as essential and creative parts of cities. Based on the re-reading of four powerful urban interplays in Sao Paulo, the concept of 'Monuments of Everyday Life' is outlined, revealing specific spatial patterns that are understood as alternatives to places of instability, commercialisation and homogenisation of urban space. These interplays are relevant as reference points of collective life and material representatives of collective values. Monuments of Everyday Life draws conclusions from the past, but also addresses relevant questions and potentials for urban futures.
£23.40
DOM Publishers Architectural Map Delhi
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£21.31
Edition Axel Menges New Museums in Spain: Neue Museen in Spanien
Book SynopsisText in English and German. Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire extraordinary museum buildings. This is expressed most visibly without a shadow of a doubt in Frank O Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But there are not just the international stars who have contributed to this success. Spanish architects in particular have designed unique museums that have changed the look of whole towns. One example is the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León in Castille, built by the Madrid architects Mansilla + Tuñon. Rafael Moneo, who recently completed the annexe for the Museo del Prado in Madrid is still the undisputed leading figure in Spanish architecture, but in the meantime architects like Mansilla + Tuñon, who trained under Moneo, are attracting attention internationally as well as in Spain, and so are young talents who have just left architecture school and are successfully designing museums. Spanish architects use a wide variety of formal languages. And yet there are some characteristics that apply to them all: they have never been interested in the games Postmodernism plays; many of them value reinterpreting regional building traditions in a modern way; they are also sensitive to special features of the existing topography. Kenneth Frampton said in this context that Spanish architecture essentially runs counter to the globalisation tendencies that are increasingly reducing architectural form to a comfortable aesthetic product. The present book, which is also suitable as a museum guide, shows that this tendency is particularly conspicuous in the new museums. It confirms the world-class nature of Spanish architecture, recorded from Rafael Moneo's early Museo de Arte Romano in Mérida to Herzog and de Meuron's new Calixa Forum art gallery in Madrid.
£49.30
JOVIS Verlag Tel Aviv:: The White City
Book SynopsisA photographic guide to the 'White City' of Tel Aviv, which contains over 4000 white Bauhaus buildings. Celebrates the city's current state while placing it within its historical context. Over 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings give Tel Aviv its most famous name: 'the White City'. The city centre, created in the 1930s and '40s under the influence of international modernism, was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 2003. Many architects, most of them emigrating from Europe, found opportunities here to realize their ideological principles and architectural ideas. Tel Aviv's modernism is characterised by a specific combination of functionality and elegance. While the buildings are adapted to the climatic conditions, many of them display highly specific stylistic features. Stefan Boness succeeds in capturing the particularities and unique atmosphere of the city in his photographs. By juxtaposing classical modernism with the contemporary architecture of the city, he demystifies it while simultaneously embedding it in its historical context. This book is published to celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus movement in 2019. Text in English and German.
£14.72
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Fruhchristliche Kirchenraum: Ikonographie -
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£42.75
Artguide s.r.o. Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture
Book SynopsisMoscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism. Buildings include the Palace of Youth, the Rossiya cinema, the Pioneer Palace, the Ostankino TV Tower, the TASS headquarters, the "golden brains" of the Academy of Sciences and less well-known structures such as the House of New Life and the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant Museum. The authors situate Moscow's postwar architecture within the historical and political context of the Soviet Union, while also referencing developments in international architecture of the period.
£18.00
Ediciones Trea Los espacios del saber historia de la
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£28.35
Aarhus University Press Arkitekturfortaellinger
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£66.88
ListLab Shophouses De Taiwan: 100 Shophouses, 100 Maneras
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£30.40
Viella The Tombs of the Doges of Venice: From the
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£46.00
Nai010 Publishers Cycle Infrastructure
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£41.25
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida William Morgan Evolution of an Architect
Book SynopsisWilliam Morgan (1930-2016) was a bold, innovative, and highly imaginative architect known internationally for fusing ancient and modern styles and for his early championing of green design principles. This extensively illustrated book traces Morgan's life story and the development of his singular design vision.
£37.76
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Designing Libraries for the 21st Century
Book SynopsisExplores trends and identifies promising strategies for new or renovated library space. The book features an impressive array of authors who provide guidance, principles, and a wealth of creative ideas for spaces, technology, programs, and partnerships.Table of Contents Introduction Tom Hickerson, Joan K. Lippincott, and Leonora Crema Section I. 21st-Century Academic Libraries in an Evolving Environment Chapter 1. Permeable Thinking and Design: Libraries and the Changing Knowledge Ecosystem Tom Hickerson Chapter 2. Library as Platform: The Transformed Library’s Impact on Teaching, Learning, and Research Gregory K. Raschke Chapter 3. Library as Laboratory: Transforming Scholarly Services and Spaces Harriette Hemmasi Chapter 4. 21st-Century Libraries for Students: Learning and Belonging Joan K. Lippincott Section II. Aligning with the Institutional Vision Chapter 5. “A Positive Disruption within the Urban Fabric”: The Charles Library and Institutional Mission at Temple University Joseph P. Lucia Chapter 6. The University of Arizona Student Success District: Vital Signs of Library Alignment with the Institutional Vision at Scale Shan C. Sutton Chapter 7. Vision, Advocacy, Narrative, Outreach: Strategic Communication for New Library Buildings John E. Ulmschneider Section III. Working with Architects, Designers, and Planners Chapter 8. Translations: Optimizing Collaborations between Librarians and Their Designers Andrew Frontini Chapter 9. It’s a Team Effort: Roles and Responsibilities of Project Team Members Stephen Dantzer Chapter 10. The Role of the Librarian on the Project Team Patrick Deaton Chapter 11. The Designer’s Lens: How Architects See Space Janette Blackburn and Carole Wedge Section IV. Key Issues in Planning Chapter 12. From Collections to Connections: Rethinking the Print Presence and Use of Space on Campus Leonora Crema Chapter 13. Technology and Interactive Experiences Kristin Antelman and David Woodbury Chapter 14. Service Innovation from Outside In and Inside Out Ameet Doshi and Elliot Felix Chapter 15. Design Inclusive Spaces with Accessibility and Universal Design Carli Spina Section V. Collaborations and Convergence Chapter 16. Cocreating the Commons: Campus Partnerships at the Heart of Two Library Space Design Projects at the University of Miami Kelly E. Miller, Roxane Pickens, and Kineret Ben-Knaan Chapter 17. A Renovation Solidifies a Partnership: The Odegaard Writing and Research Center John Danneker Chapter 18. The Convergence of Knowledge and Culture: Collaborations Creating a New Footprint for the Future Tom Hickerson Section VI. Leadership, Organizational Change, and New Staff Roles Chapter 19. Effecting Transformational Change Leads to Transformational Spaces Mary Ann Mavrinac Chapter 20. It’s Not a Space, It’s a Philosophy: Designing a High-Purpose Culture within Your Learning Environment Brian Mathews Chapter 21. Reimagining the Library Workforce Catherine Murray-Rust Section VII. Programming for Research, Learning, and Community Chapter 22. Foregrounding Users in Humanities-centric Labs Catherine DeRose and Peter Leonard Chapter 23. On the Edge: Balancing Space and Services in a Digital Scholarship Program Liz Milewicz, Joel Herndon, and Brittany Wofford Chapter 24. Reimagining Special Collections Mimi Calter Chapter 25. Supporting the Research Experience: Creating a Hub for Interdisciplinary Collaboration John Brosz Chapter 26. An Academic “Ecotone”: The Wilmeth Active Learning Center, Purdue University James L. Mullins Chapter 27. Serving the Broad Needs of Community through a Patron-Centered, Partnership-Focused, Inclusive Approach Sarah Meilleur< Chapter 28. A 21st-Century Program for the Library: Serving the Broad Needs of the Community Sohair F. Wastawy Section VIII. Looking Ahead Tom Hickerson, Joan K. Lippincott, and Leonora Crema Appendix A. Interview with Tom Hickerson Joan K. Lippincott Appendix B. Saluting Joan K. Lippincott Tom Hickerson Appendix C. Remembering Susan K. Nutter Gregory K. Raschke About the Editors and Contributors
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Edinburgh University Press Emotion Mission Architecture
Book SynopsisMissionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was considered the best and surest method to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the indigenous population in the so-called Muslim World. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India, and building upon existing works on missionaries in the Middle East and British India, this book examines the practice of obtaining trust. A synthesis of Christian mission history, architectural history, emotions history and history of medicine and empire, Emotion, Mission, Architecture raises broader historical questions about the process of mobilising and regulating emotions in the Christian missionary contexts ? contributing in turn to discussions on hybridity, missionary and local encounters, women?s agency and the interactions between mission and empire.
£18.99
University of Texas Press Banking on Beauty
Book SynopsisExpansively researched and illustrated, this lively history recounts how the extraordinary partnership of financier Howard Ahmanson and artist Millard Sheets produced outstanding mid-century modern architecture and art for Home Savings and Loan.Trade ReviewLovers of California art and architecture will swoon at the photos of the murals, statues and mosaics that Sheets designed for about 200 Home Savings and Loan branches between the 1960s and 1980s. . . . Banking on Beauty invites readers to remember a time when our captains of industry cared about public spaces as much as they did the bottom line — and it also challenges us to preserve those remaining buildings that possess Sheets originals. -- Gustavo Arellano * Los Angeles Times *Banking on Beauty is a thoroughly researched and thought-provoking exploration of the distinctive Home Savings Bank branches designed by the Millard Sheets Studio…Banking on Beauty provides a compelling case for preserving these structures. * Journal of American History *Once upon a time, a visit to a department store or a branch bank was a chance to be inspired by fine art…waves of corporate takeovers doomed most of the art, but some remain, like the 1968 masterpiece at Sunset and Vine that's now a Chase bank. This richly illustrated book finally tells their story. * Los Angeles Magazine *[L]avishly illustrated…If you'd like to explore [Millard Sheets's art] yourself, you won't find a better guide than Arenson's Banking on Beauty." * The Objective Standard *Banking on Beauty…shows that commercial architecture does not have to be drab. * World Magazine *Arenson alternates between telling the story of, on the one hand, [Howard F.] Ahmanson and the growth of his savings and loan business, and, on the other hand, [Millard] Sheets and the development of his artistic practice, to great effect. * Journal of Urban History *This lavishly illustrated book by Adam Arenson offers an in-depth and insightful history of Millard Sheets…With almost 160 color plates, this beautiful book is a stunner that not only gives Sheets's lifework a place to shine but also offers an unusually rich study of the places, people, and events that shaped the artists creative vision over a fifty-year period. * California History *Table of Contents Introduction: The Story, the Letter, the Building 1. Origins: Millard Sheets, Howard Ahmanson, and Architecture before the Letter 2. Creating the Millard Sheets Studio, Creating the Home Savings Style 3. Building New Places 4. Home Savings in Your Changing Community 5. Expansion and Change after Howard Ahmanson 6. Beyond Millard Sheets, Beyond California 7. Preservation after Home Savings Acknowledgments Appendix A: List of Sheets Studio Artists and Contractors and Home Savings Artists Appendix B: How the Sheets Studio Mosaics Were Made, by Brian Worley, Sheets Studio Artist List of Interviews and Archival Collections Consulted Notes Index
£31.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Civic Buildings after the SpanishAmerican War
Book SynopsisFollowing the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Maria Eugenia Achurra G. examines this architecture and urban design as a backdrop for US exceptionalism and expansionism.
£77.35
University of South Carolina Press The Great Cooper River Bridge
Book SynopsisThe Cooper River Bridge opened in 1929, and for the first time connected Charleston directly to the north. This volume is a complete history of the bridge, exploring how early 20th-century Charleston helped shape the bridge, and how the bridge subsequently shaped the city.
£20.85
Texas A & M University Press Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas Volume 23
Book SynopsisBastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its label: “Most Historic Small Town in Texas.”In Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, local historians and researchers Robbie Moore Sanders and Sandra Chipley have collected the stories behind nearly a hundred of the city’s most historic dwellings, most built between 1835 and 1950. Copiously illustrated and engaging, the book begins with a quick historical overview of the community that incorporates period photographs, historic floorplans and maps, and engaging stories about the people who built and lived in the homes. In addition, the authors have provided beautiful, full-color photographs of the buildings as they exist today.From the simple dwelling of a community activist to the ornate Victorian mansions of the wealthy, Sanders and Chipley trace the narrative of this culturally rich community through the remarkably varied lives of its people and the houses they built. Readers with an interest in local history and culture and historic preservation as well as visitors to this popular tourist locale—recognized as a “Distinctive Destination” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation—will thoroughly enjoy Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas.
£31.96
Fonthill Media LLc Southern Berkshires Through Time
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Fonthill Media LLc Connecticut Schoolhouses Through Time
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£19.54
University of South Carolina Press Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South. At the heart of the debate is the question of what these monuments represent. The arguments and counterarguments are formulated around sets of assumptions grounded in Southern history, politics, culture, and race relations. Comprehending and evaluating accurately the associated claims and counterclaims calls for a careful examination of facts and legal considerations relevant to each side's assertations. In Monumental Harm, Roger C. Hartley offers a road map to addressing and resolving this acrimonious debate.Although history and popular memory play a vital role in the discussion, there have been distortions of both parts. Monumental Harm reviews the fact-based history of the initial raising of these monuments and distinguishes it from the popular memory held by many Confederate-monument supporters. Hartley also addresses concerns regarding the potential erasure of history and the harm these monuments have caused the African American community over the years, as well as the role they continue to play in politics and power.The recent rise in White nationalism and the video-recorded murders of Black citizens at the hands of White police officers have led to nationwide demonstrations and increased scrutiny of Confederate monuments on public land. As injustice is laid bare and tempers flare, the need for a peaceful resolution becomes ever-more necessary. Monumental Harm offers a way to break the rhetorical deadlock, urging that we evaluate the issue through the lens of the U.S. Constitution while employing the overarching democratic principle that no right is absolute. Through constructive discourse and good-faith compromise, a more perfect union is within reach.
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University of South Carolina Press Creating the South Caroliniana Library
Book SynopsisThe South Caroliniana Library, located on the historic Horseshoe of the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, is one of the premier research archives and special collections repositories in South Carolina and the American Southeast. The library's holdings--manuscripts, published materials, university archives, and visual materials--are essential to understanding the Palmetto State and Southern culture as it has evolved over the past 300 years.When opened as the South Carolina College library in 1840 it was the first freestanding academic library building in the United States. Designed by Robert Mills, architect of the Washington Monument, it is built in the Greek Revival style and features a replica of the reading room that once housed Thomas Jefferson's personal library in the second Library of Congress. When the college built a larger main library (now known as the McKissick Museum) in 1940, the Mills building became the home of ""Caroliniana""--published and unpublished materials relating to the history, literature, and culture of South Carolina.Through a dedicated mining of the resources this library has held, art historian John M. Bryan crafted this comprehensive narrative history of the building's design, construction, and renovations, which he enhanced with personal entries from the diaries and letters of the students, professors, librarians, and politicians who crossed its threshold. A treasure trove of Caroliniana itself, this colorful volume, featuring 95 photographs and illustrations, celebrates a beautiful and historic structure, as well as the rich and vibrant history of the Palmetto State and the dedicated citizenry who have worked so hard to preserve it.A foreword is provided by W. Eric Emerson, director, South Carolina Department of History and Archives.Trade ReviewExpertly researched and richly illustrated, John Bryan's latest contribution to South Carolina's history provides both a chronicle of past achievements and a prelude to future accomplishments, acquisitions, and discoveries at what is one of the Palmetto State's most venerable landmarks and institutions."--John Sherrer, Historic Columbia "Meticulously researched, this handsome tome explores the complex history of the South Caroliniana Library, weaving together layers of personal stories using collections held by the very institution it seeks to describe. Future scholars will be able to look to this volume for inspiration--and its excellent bibliography!"--Edward Blessing, South Caroliniana Library
£28.45
University of Utah Press,U.S. Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance
Book SynopsisDesignated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict between ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states’ rights advocates, and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region’s history to illuminate what’s truly at stake in this conflict and distills this geography as a place of refuge and resistance for Native Americans who seek to preserve their ancestral homes, and for the descendants of Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880. Gulliford’s engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, impacts of the Atomic Age, uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Native graves that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century ago. The book describes how the national monument came about and its deep significance to five native tribes. Bears Ears National Monument is a bellwether for public land issues in the American West. Its recognition will be a relevant topic for years to come.Trade Review“This is a significant contribution to a current controversy. It presents multiple sides of questions fairly. In the ongoing arguments over Bears Ears, Gulliford’s book will be a resource and a reference. It presents an excellent history of Bears Ears and surrounding southeastern Utah."—Steve Lekson, author of A Study of Southwestern Archaeology“Andrew Gulliford’s long experience with the lands and people of Utah’s San Juan County is apparent in this fair-minded, richly informative historical account. He shows how the Bears Ears National Monument became such a charged public issue and what can be learned from the ongoing struggle to protect it."—John D. Leshy, author of Our Common Ground: A New History of America’s Public LandsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Bears Ears and a Deep Map of Place 1. Hunter- Gatherers and Deep Time: From Pleistocene Mammoths to Archaic Rock Art 2. From Basketmakers to Ancestral Puebloans, ad 50 to 1150 3. Into the Cliffs, 1150–1300 4. Navajos, Utes, and Canyon Exploration, 1300–1859 5. “The Fearing Time” and Mapping Ancient America, 1860–1875 6. “We Thank Thee, Oh God”: Mormons Settle Bluff and Cattle Come to the Canyons, 1876–1890 7. Cowboy Archaeology, a Lady Botanist, a Failed Indian Reservation, and the Antiquities Act, 1891–1906 8. The US Forest Service, Natural Bridges, and the Last Indian War, 1907–1923 9. Lost in Bears Ears, Murder in Johns Canyon, and a Failed New Deal National Monument, 1924–1944 10. Yellowcake, the Atomic Age, and a Golden Circle, 1945–1970 11. U-95, Nuclear Waste, Deadly Daughters, and Pothunting Raids, 1971–1986 12. Tribes Come Together for Bears Ears National Monument, 1987–2016 13. Resistance and Challenge to Bears Ears and the Antiquities Act 14. Tiny Tubers, Dark Skies, and the Future of a Sacred Native Landscape 15. Bears Ears Restored?: Coming Full Circle in Canyon Country Notes Bibliography Index
£24.71
Texas A&M University Press Historic Buildings of Waco, Texas
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NewSouth Publishing Andrew Andersons: Architecture and the Public
Book SynopsisDistinguished architect Andrew Andersons has redefined Australia's art galleries over the last five decades (in Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and regionally) and his award-winning designs have extended the NSW Parliament and transformed the State Library of New South Wales. After two decades in the Government Architect's Branch, Andersons joined PTW Architects for a new period marked by renovation of the Capitol Theatre, design of the City Recital Hall and the Roslyn Packer Theatre, along with offices and major apartment buildings from Bondi to Canberra.Andersons' work has reimagined industrial areas of Sydney's shorelines, transforming Darling Harbour, Walsh Bay, Jones Bay and Barangaroo, and redefined the Sydney Opera House and East Circular Quay as Australia's 'first national precinct' and pre-eminent civic gathering place. In this landmark book, Bernice Murphy and Leon Paroissien draw on interviews and research over many years to illuminate Andersons' life and achievements.
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Intellect Books Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran:
Book SynopsisThis volume considers the major trends and developments in Iranian architecture during the 1960s and 70s in order to further our understanding of the underpinnings and intentions of Persian architecture during this period. While narrative explorations of modernism have relied heavily upon classifications based on western experiences and influences, this book provides a more holistic view of the development of Persian architecture by studying both the internal and external forces that influenced it in the late twentieth century. The chapters compiled in Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran, accompanied by more than eighty images, shed light on the fascinating — and sometimes controversial — evolution of Iranian architecture and its constant quest for a new paradigm of cultural identity.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part One: Vernacular Integrated with Modernism Chapter 1: A Personal Reflection: On the Traditional, the Modern and the Perennial in Iranian Architecture – Nader Ardalan Chapter 2: Making Architecture Modern: A History of Globalization in Iran’s Architecture Profession – Shawhin Roudbari Chapter 3: Passages and Malls in Translation: Class, Culture, and Design in the Commercial Architecture of Pahlavi Iran – Farshid Emami Part Two: Modernism Imported, Vernacular Eclipsed Chapter 4: Building Cities for Tomorrow: The US Point Four Program and Discourse of Urban Planning in Iran – Sahar Hosseini Chapter 5: The Israeli Plan for Rebuilding the Rural Region of Qazvin – Neta Feniger and Rachel Kallus Chapter 6: Philip Johnson’s Design at Group Apartments in Isfahan: From a Dispute Between Tradition and Modernity to a Dialogue – Mehdi Azizkhani Chapter 7: Paradise by Design: Pardisan Park in Tehran – Kathleen John-Alder
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Historic England Nonconformist places of worship: Introductions to
Book Synopsis`Nonconformist’ has long been used as a description of Protestant Christians in England and Wales who were not part of the Church of England. Among the numerous denominations are the Baptists, Methodists, Quakers and the Salvation Army. By the mid-nineteenth century their chapels and meeting houses, the subject of this brief introduction, outnumbered the buildings of the Church of England’s. While many chapels are now disused or have seen conversion, they remain characteristic and often notable buildings in settlements in all parts of the country. Table of ContentsIntroduction Historical background and chronology Development of the building type Associations Change and the future Further reading Acknowledgements
£25.64
Oro Editions The Nuclear Chronicles
Book SynopsisThe Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the US Nuclear Highway leverages fictional design narratives as devices for discussing the impact of nuclear technology within the territory of the western United States. Storytelling registers design research in a graphic novel format while promoting the use of such a method to provide insight into speculative design that informs and aids in approaching the contemporary territorial issues that landscape architecture seeks to address. The conflicts and controversies surrounding the landscapes of the Nuclear Highway system of the United States are made visible through a graphic novel format. The research visualises alternative realities in which projects actually proposed by the US government that were not carried out are implemented. The narratives provide perspectives from both the landscape and its occupants of how such dramatic infrastructures and policies, if implemented, would play out. Novel
£26.36
Gebruder Mann Verlag Neues Bauen Im Berliner Sudwesten: Gross-Berlin
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De Gruyter DIE NEUE HEIMAT (1950–1982): Eine
Book SynopsisDie „Neue Heimat” war der größte und bedeutendste nicht-staatliche Wohnungsbaukonzern im Europa der Nachkriegszeit. In einem Zeitraum von über dreißig Jahren hat das Gewerkschaftsunternehmen mehr als 400.000 Wohnungen und seit den sechziger Jahren auch zahlreiche Kommunal- und Gewerbebauten in Deutschland geplant und ausgeführt. Die „Neue Heimat“ war ein Hoffnungsträger für die Teilhabe am Wirtschaftswunder – und der skandalträchtige Zusammenbruch des Unternehmens Anfang der achtziger Jahre wirkte wie ein Schock auf die westdeutsche Bevölkerung. Der zeitliche Abstand von über einer Generation bietet die Chance für eine kritische Untersuchung: Was waren die Ansätze der sozialdemokratischen Visionen und was ist aus dem bis heute angestrebten „Wohnen für Alle“ geworden? Anhand zahlreicher historischer Foto- und Planmaterialien und Kurzbeiträgen werden u.a. Großsiedlungen wie die Neue Vahr Bremen oder die Entlastungsstadt Neuperlach sowie gigantische Großprojekte der „Neuen Heimat Städtebau“ wie das ICC Berlin dokumentiert.
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