Architecture: public and commercial Books

Book SynopsisCrosses are a quintessential part of the English countryside. Whether standing proud in the village market place or hidden beneath ivy in a forgotten corner of the churchyard, each has its own story to tell. Many of these crosses have ancient origins, dating back to a time when wandering preachers were making the push to convert a wary pagan population, whilst others are far more modern, often serving as memorials to the dead of the two world wars. Many were disfigured by the fervent Puritanism of the Commonwealth period, whilst others have been rebuilt and redesigned to such an extent that they no longer resemble a traditional cross at all. The countryside cross is also more than just a religious symbol; many act as signposts, boundary markers or meeting places. Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, often known as the ''Three Choirs Counties'', are blessed with a plethora of these crosses. Here, Marion Freeman provides the reader with a wealth of information, drawn from y

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Book SynopsisAn exploration into the work of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, as it tests what is possible with regenerative design and the outcome when sustainability is moved to the top of the list of criteria.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius in the first century BCE - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, and artistic styles and cultures.Trade Review'Recommended.' D. Stillman, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Good Construction, Functionality, and Aesthetic Appeal: From Vitruvius to the Eighteenth Century; 2. The Meaning of Beauty: From Kant to Semper; 3. Multiplicity of Meaning in Twentieth-Century Theories; 4. Words and Works: Modern Architecture and Traditional Values; 5. Looking Forward.

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Book SynopsisThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'. Yet long-standing concepts such as 'authenticity' in heritage are undermined and trivialised by gatekeepers such as UNESCO. At the same, time, opposition to this manipulation is being undermined by cultural ideas that prioritise memory and impressions over history and facts. In Monumental Lies, Robert Bevan argues that monuments, architecture and cities are material evidence of history. They are the physical trace of past events, of previous ways of thinking and of politics, economics and values that percolate through to today. When our cities are reshaped as fantasies about the past, when monuments tell lies about who deserves honour or are destroyed and the struggle for justice forgotten, the historical record is being manipulated. When decisions are based on misinformed assumptions about how the built environment influences our behaviour or we are told, falsely, that certain architectural styles are alien to our cities, or when space pretends to be public but is private, or that physical separation is natural, we are being manipulated. There is a growing threat to the material evidence of the truth about history. We are in serious trouble if we can no longer trust the tangible world around us to tell us the truth. Monumental Lies explores the threats to our understanding of the built environment and how it impacts on our lives, as well as offers solutions to how to combat the ideological manipulations.Chosen as one of the best Architecture and Design books of 2022 by The Financial TimesTrade ReviewThis useful book connects a number of apparently disparate stories about statues and monuments and considers the various ironies of their representation and significance, past and present. A recommended read. -- Professor Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandRobert Bevan's passionate, timely polemic is a much-needed antidote to all the horror stories about 'woke' protesters tearing down monuments. The true threat to our built-up environment, he argues, comes not from the Left, but from governments who employ all the powers of the state to re-write history in their image. It is at times a truly terrifying read. -- Keith Lowe, author of Prisoners of HistoryWide ranging and rigorous, readable and profound, this superb book argues that if we can no longer trust the tangible world around us to tell the truth, then we are in trouble. Bevan offer us solutions arguing that we need to look at ways we can layer our monuments and our city that turns sites of honour into sites of shame, that change the meaning of the past without losing altogether the vital evidence of that past from the public realm. -- Liza Fior, MUF Architecture/ArtThis close reading of the city is a potent response to the culture wars because it deals in precisely the historical honesty that culture warriors have no stomach for. Righteous but always nuanced, Bevan is the perfect guide to the way urban iconography distorts history and entrenches power. -- Justin McGuirk, Senior Curator, Design MuseumA book that makes you sit up ... powerful -- Charlotte Mullins * Country Life *From statues of slave traders to pictures of medieval town centres offered as evidence of "cultural superiority", architecture and public art are everywhere in a coarsened discourse. Robert Bevan...navigates the territory delicately and brilliantly -- Edwin Heathcote * Financial Times, Best Books of 2022 *One of the most compelling progressive voices in the heritage world ... Using his nuanced knowledge of architectural history, he is attempting to unpick some of the myths and straight lies deployed when architecture is weaponised. -- Eddie Blake * Tribune *Bevan astutely argues that those who manipulate our cultural past are shaping our future, making the case that historic buildings have become battlegrounds for right-wing and nationalist political arguments. * The Art Newspaper, Top Books of 2022 *Knowledgeable and thought-provoking -- Daniel Trilling * Apollo *Topical, thought-provoking, knowledgeable about the uses and abuses of culture wars. -- Rowan Moore, Observer architecture criticMonumental Lies could hardly be better timed ... Bevan's book is the result of many years' research and contemplation, and is thorough, extensive and provocative ... brilliant -- Emma Dent Coad * Building Design *A book on cultural patrimony and historical architecture from Bevan's perspective is necessary ... searching and wide-ranging -- Ben Luke * The Art Newspaper *Blistering ... [a] hugely rewarding book that provides a considered and unexpected commentary on the built environment amid the culture wars -- Tristram Hunt * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating and very wide-ranging ... rich in detailed discussions of both the artistic and architectural issues and political contexts of many different problems across the contemporary world. -- Dominic Alexander * Counterfire *Powerful ... a must-read book for everyone interested in the questions of heritage representation, diversity and the city, and the way to move forward after painful and violent pasts. -- Ammar Azzouz * Urban Studies *Monumental Lies is a highly absorbing and deserving read, and recommended for anyone with an interest in what the built environment says - or avoids saying - about history. -- Richard Crappsley * Urban Design Journal *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 - KILLERS ON EVERY CORNER CHAPTER 2 STYLE WARS /CULTURE WARS CHAPTER 3THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN CHAPTER 4: AUTHENTICITY: THE MATERIAL TRUTH CHAPTER 5 THE MILITARY-HERITAGE COMPLEX CHAPTER 6 THE EVIDENCE OF HISTORY CHAPTER 7: WHITE LIES, MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND WELL-MEANING MYTHS CHAPTER 8: SUBVERSIVE TRANSFORMATION CHAPTER 9: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 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Book SynopsisStrategies for engaging key stakeholders—evaluators, researchers, and designers—to discuss frameworks for promoting collaborative change. Collaborative Change Research, Evaluation, and Design (CCRED) is a framework and collection of participatory practices that engage people and the systems around them to drive community outcomes. This framework emerged out of the recognition that deep participation (or engagement) is frequently missing in collaborative impact approaches. When collaborative change is implemented effectively, community members are viewed as valuable owners and experts instead of being seen as disinterested or unqualified partners. CCRED is a social action process with dual goals of collective empowerment and the deepening of social knowledge. Executed successfully, CCRED has the potential to increase the rigor, reach, and relevance of research, evaluation, and design translated to meaningful action. Written in an easily accessible, narrative style, Working Together for Change, the fourth volume in the Interdisciplinary Community Engaged Research for Health series edited by Farrah Jacquez and Lela Svedin brings together evaluators, researchers, and designers to describe collaborative change by describing their own work in the space.

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Book SynopsisBased on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon warehouses, the concept of fulfilment described the achievement of a desire - sometimes tangible, often psychological or spiritual. With the rapid growth of e-commerce, our understanding of fulfilment has evolved to reflect a seemingly endless cycle of desire and gratification - one whose continuity hinges on our willingness to overlook the cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of our ever-increasing expectation of quick and efficient fulfilment. A closer look at fulfilment reveals a social, typological, formal, aesthetic, and economic practice constructed collectively through both digital and physical interactions. It is a cultural practice which evolves like a language, both universally transferable and contextually specific. As a symposium, exhibition, and now publication, this project aims to draw out these new arrangements, sticky relationships, and material by-products of cultural production and to ask again the age-old question, “What does it mean to be fulfilled?” This book examines the architecture of fulfilment through three lenses: logistical, material, and cultural fulfilment. Each reveals the new forms of architectural practice and research that are possible, typical, and even surreptitiously encouraged in the age of Amazon. Fulfilment networks are not invisible systems; they are tangible objects - warehouses, suburban houses, parking lots, cardboard boxes, shopping malls, mechanical systems, shipping containers - with which architects necessarily interact. From political mapping and questions of labour to digital and physical storage typologies, contemporary architects learn from and work critically within the architecture of fulfilment. Their interests and approaches include the material and environmental shortcomings of global logistics and the formal, representational, and cultural potentials of a culture of excess. This book highlights architecture’s unique capacity to offer methodologies for confronting an increasingly ambiguous, alienating world and produce new knowledge and unexpected solutions that go beyond the dichotomies of rural and urban territories. Featuring new texts and visual work by more than a dozen contemporary architects: Ana Miljački – Boston, MA; Ang Li – Boston, MA; Ashley Bigham – Columbus, OH; Cristina Goberna Pesudo – Madrid, Spain; Curtis Roth – Columbus, OH; Jesse LeCavalier – Toronto, Canada; John McMorrough – Ann Arbor, MI; Keith Krumwiede – San Francisco, CA; Laida Aguirre – Ann Arbor, MI; Leigha Dennis – New York, NY; Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco – Barcelona, Spain; Michelle Chang – Boston, MA; Miles Gertler – Toronto, Canada; Mira Henry & Matthew Au (Current Interests) – Los Angeles, CA

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Book SynopsisIn this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to enchant architects, designers, fashion designers, and beyond. Through key projects including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces, we explore a uniquely monumental yet comforting aesthetic that draws as much on the calm restraint of Japanese tradition as the compelling modernist vocabularies of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier. With featured projects in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, we see not only Ando’s global reach but also his refined sensitivity for the environs: the play of light through windows, and, in particular, the interaction of buildings with water. From the mesmerizing Church of the Light in Osaka to the luminous Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center in Venice, this is a radiant tour through a distinctly contemporary form as much as a timeless appeal of light, elements, and equilibrium.

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Book SynopsisServes as a guide to vital features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. This work describes twenty types of buildings; and includes national monuments, libraries, theaters, hospitals, prisons, factories, hotels, and many other public buildings. It contains more than seven hundred illustrations.Trade Review"A monument of lively scholarship, and also a most revealing anthology. . . . Gloriously informative. It brims with curious details."---Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the inaugural Architecture Book of the Year Award, Technical Category""A rare opportunity to look closer at modernists’ environmental ethics and not just their aesthetics — and a timely reference for our worsening climate crisis."---Diana Budds, Curbed"The premise of [Modern Architecture and Climate] is this: The battle for the supremacy of air conditioning above all other solutions for climate mitigation was, in fact, a battle . . . [it] spanned continents, political ideologies, and architectural discourses…What makes Barber’s book so interesting is not only the meticulous documentation of…climate-control alternatives and their practitioners, but the tension between their goals and their underlying ideologies. . . . The lesson from Barber’s book is not to replicate the conditions that begat yesterday’s missed opportunities, but to change them for the better."---Kate Wagner, The Architect’s Newspaper"It’s easy to think of Modernism as inseparable from air conditioning, simply because we are surrounded by so much of it that is. A valuable reminder that this wasn’t always the case is provided in Daniel A. Barber’s Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning, which outlines the story of the febrile, flexible, and often-forgotten early experiments in climate control."---Anthony Paletta, Metropolis"[Modern Architecture and Climate] offers . . . the most comprehensive and concise corrective to the reigning histories of Modernism that have tended to exclude, or at least consider only superficially, environmental context."---Russell Fortmeyer, Architectural Record"[An] erudite work…Heavily illustrated and deeply researched. . . . Academics, urban planners, and environmental designers will most appreciate this thought-provoking and detailed volume." * Publishers Weekly *"Modern Architecture and Climate is a fresh and original history that chronicles the intense research undertaken by designers to adapt modernist architecture to various climate conditions, as modernism’s political and aesthetic influence reached across the globe. . . . Barber’s work is a welcome addition to the history of architectural modernism, and is particularly pertinent in our current circumstances. It demonstrates the profound impact that our expectations of a uniform interior have had on the planet we share. But its examples also offer an inspiring model for challenging assumptions about the role of building form in mitigating climate extremes."---Javier Zeller, Canadian Architect"Barber's book is not simply a technological history, but ultimately also an impassioned lament for our collective carbon footprint as planetary temperatures increase…Architects, engineers, and students interested in systematic and environmentally friendly approaches to indoor cooling will find inspiration in Modern Architecture and Climate….In a time of an airborne pandemic, Modern Architecture and Climate, with its rigorous examination of open interiors, airflow, and ventilation, will serve well those readers who have the grit to absorb the author's intensive approach and sobering message."---Paul Glassman, ARLIS/NA Reviews"[Daniel] Barber’s thorough account, written in the distanced expert voice of a historian, shines when it dispels established beliefs . . . [Modern Architecture and Climate] does an excellent job of documenting the subjects it cover."---Ross Wienert, Rice Design Alliance"[An] exhaustively researched book . . . [in Modern Architecture and Climate] Barber makes a well-supported argument that through the propagation of this very specific set of cultural and Modern Architecture and Climate comfort ideals, modern architecture became an instrument for globalization, economic development, and postwar colonialism."---Kristin Schuster, Texas Architect Magazine"I’ve waited years for a book like this… What Modern Architecture and Climate suggests is an alternative reckoning with modernism’s legacy—its ideas, strategies, and practitioners. With the urgency of our global climate crisis, many of these concerns are once again central…Barber’s book points us in the right direction." * Arris *"Daniel Barber's historical narrative is fascinating and holds many useful lessons for a contemporary audience."---Brian Ford, The Plan Journal"Richly illustrated. . . . For the academic and the architect, this valuable volume encourages more careful consideration of climatic modernism as both history and limit. It is thought-provoking, giving us pause to consider the passionate attempts that architects have made to mediate their environment. The tales gathered here trace a lineage that situates design within the planetary. . . . Barber’s constant and learned skepticism warns us to maintain an informed but critical distance from the pursuit of immediate comfort."---Hannah Le Roux, Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians"A thoroughly researched and superbly illustrated discussion of some of the most important connections between architecture and technology in the twentieth century, essential reading for anyone interested in the discourse around modern architecture in the light of current challenges."---Florian Urban, Architectural History"[A] deeply researched and richly illustrated volume. . . . [Modern Architecture and Climate] takes the material mediation of local climate through architecture as its path and sheds light on some of the (built and written) genealogies of questions pertaining to thermal comfort, solar heating, and passive cooling."---Anna-Maria Meister, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society"This is a vitally important work of historical scholarship. . . . a landmark study."---Marcus Colla, German History"Modern Architecture and Climate is theoretically and visually rich, with many wonderful full-page illustrations that allow the reader to pick apart the layouts and diagrams of many mid-century publications and buildings. It is also an optimistic book, one that shows that the homogenous airconditioned interior wasn’t an inevitability, and still need not be."---Daniel J. Ryan, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review

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Book SynopsisOutgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2013, under the title: Architecture for a new age: imperial Ottoman mosques in eighteenth-century Istanbul.Trade Review"Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural Historians""One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019""Winner of the Alice David Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians""This book belongs to a new type of discourse on Ottoman architecture in which received accounts of events are challenged and the buildings are seen as important historical documents in their own right, allowing us to gain a better understanding of the period as a whole."---Tim Stanley, Cornucopia"Ünver Rüstem’s groundbreaking study of this most unexpected of European Baroques reveals the vigour and inventiveness of a style usually dismissed as decadent and superficial. . . . Ottoman patrons may have drawn upon Western European models, but when they were done with them, there was nothing Western left."---Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Art Newspaper"Fascinating . . . . Ottoman Baroque, as Rüstem shows, is therefore about more than just the adoption of stylistic forms perceived as novel or attractive . . . . Rüstem’s lucid study offers a new perspective on the Baroque as an international phenomenon"---Bernhard Schulz, Art Newspaper

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a fascinating study of public space and the less-than-public contradictions of nineteenth-century culture, Kirk Savage sheds light not only on memory and monument but also on the invention of the 'popular' itself." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "A richly detailed and engagingly written study." —Boston Globe "Kirk Savage shows ingenuity in his analysis and interpretation of post-war commemorative sculpture." —Times Literary Supplement"An important and innovative work that will surely gain a wide scholarly audience . . . My hope is that it will also gain the wider readership its message deserves among the civic leaders who shape public policy and the general citizenry who both inherit and build the public monuments that guide public memory. Though the story Savage traces is often a discouraging one, his message is ultimately hopeful. By understanding how we have defined our past and our present through the lasting medium of public sculpture, we can imagine how we can shape, and perhaps redeem our future." —Catherine W. Bishir, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "[A] tour de force." —Library Journal

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Book Synopsis"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize""Shortlisted for the Best Book in Cultural Studies Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages""One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books""Honorable Mention for the Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies""Impressive detail"---Anthony Paletta, Literary Review"Zubovich has done stellar work in the city’s archives, uncovering a trove of letters and petitions from ordinary Soviet citizens. . . This is a book which delves into the very human tensions created by a society forced into transition, and the effects on a city undergoing a seismic political, cultural, and architectural change."---Jennifer Eremeeva, The Moscow Times"A superb, sweeping account of the realization of a magnificent group of skyscrapers. Grounded in meticulous archival research, and highly readable, it will appeal to specialists and general readers alike interested in topics as wide ranging as Soviet-US relations, architecture, intellectuals, and everyday life under Stalin."---Christine Varga-Harris, American Historical Review"Russian and Soviet urban history has expanded and developed greatly in the last two decades by drawing attention to the built environment, lived experience, and aesthetic choices and meanings of buildings. In Katherine Zubovich’s Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital we have an example of some of the best trends in recent years."---Karl Qualls, Russian Review"Drawing on extensive archival research, the book delineates an arc from early conceptualization of Moscow as the capital of Soviet Russia to infighting leading to the demise of monumentality as a dominant force in Soviet architecture during the 1950s. ... Recommended." * Choice *"Well researched and lucidly written, Moscow Monumental is a welcome contribution to the field of urban history. It will be a good addition to the reading lists for university courses on Russian social and cultural his­tory. It will also be much appreciated by lovers of Russian history outside academe."---Elena V. Baraban, Ab Imperio Quarterly ​​​​​​​"A monumental story, pun intended. . . .Readers will find this highly refreshing."---Heather D. DeHaan, Contemporary European History"Zubovich gives us what the archives (and page limits) allow: a rich and thoughtful story of the ambition and contradiction that characterized the Soviet effort to create a lived utopia."---Diane P. Koenker, Journal of Modern History

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Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive, updated guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Steam Underground 2 Deeper Underground 3 Twentieth-Century Electric 4 In to Work, Out to Live 5 Combining it All 6 War and Austerity 7 Towards a New Tube 8 Renewal Timeline Index Further Reading

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Rule of Logistics shows how the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture, subjectivity, and sovereignty by moving merchandise and information through space and time. Jesse LeCavalier’s research and interpretations are astute and multifaceted."—Jonathan Massey, California College of the Arts"Recommended."—CHOICE"The author has many intriguing observations about [Walmart] and its logistical obsessions."—Planning Magazine"The book is, at its core, a historical account of the largest retailer in the US and how it adjusted over time to deliver products to consumers and enhance their shopping experience. Its audience will be anyone interested in retailing design."—CHOICE"The perspective it provides is a welcome addition to the literature about the impacts of logistics on the contemporary economic landscape."—Economic Geography"In his case study of the logistical foundations and ethos of Walmart—The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment—LeCavalier delves deeply into the multiscalar workings of the retail giant, revealing along the way that logis- tics is at the core of its emergence as the largest company in the world and its continuing success."—Landscape Architecture Magazine"The best book on architecture and infrastructure of this decade."—The Architect’s Newspaper"The Rule of Logistics provides a wonderful complement to that growing literature on critical logistics and critical transport geography more broadly."—AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: All Those Numbers1. Logistics: The First With the Most 2. Buildings: A Moving System in Motion3. Locations: From Intuition to Calculation4. Bodies: Coping With Data Rich Environments5. Territory: Management CityConclusion: Form, Happiness, InfrastructureAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter''s panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings of war, from 1914 to the present. He reveals the ways in which different creative arts have framed our meditations on war, from painting and sculpture to photography, film and poetry, and ultimately to silence, as a language of memory in its own right. He shows how these highly mediated images of war, in turn, circulate through language to constitute our ''cultural memory'' of war. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the diverse ways in which men and women have wrestled with the intractable task of conveying what twentieth-century wars meant to them and mean to us.Trade Review'The agony of looking war's carnage in the face compels us to refract its horror through symbolic re-enactments and collective commemorations, as well as to dull the pain through rituals of healing and consolation. Drawing on decades of pioneering research in the First World War and its aftermath, the distinguished historian Jay Winter trenchantly explores a wide variety of such efforts, including painting, photography, war poetry, state monuments, different national languages of 'glory' and 'sacrifice,' and even the uses and abuses of silence. Insofar as the mourning process is still ongoing for conflicts both under way and likely to come, War beyond Words not only instructs us about the past, but also foretells, alas, our future.' M. E. Jay, author of Reason After its Eclipse'For over four decades, Jay Winter has been the foremost historian of the Great War and its disastrous impact on the participant nations around the globe. This book is the culmination of his pioneering research and constant pondering of some of the most vexing questions of industrialized warfare, extreme violence, mass trauma, mourning, and memory. He has expanded his seminal studies of the culture of warfare and memory into the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the deep traces, as well as silences, that affect all parts of the world to this day. Even as the forms of global violence change, this book provides a unique learning experience for readers of all generations.' V. R. Berghahn, author of Europe in the Era of Two World Wars'For four decades, Winter (Emeritus Professor of History, Yale) has researched war and communicated his findings to scholars and laypersons. His new book addresses the cultural history of war through the lenses of language and the creative arts that frame memory … The book's last sentence is as depressing as it is insightful: 'Imagining war is the curse of our violent world; we have no choice but to face that task with as much intelligence, compassion, and courage as we can.' Splendid illustrations. Essential.' B. Osborne, Choice'… this lavishly presented volume (with fifty-eight pages of glossy color photographs) will prove a valuable resource for any scholars interested in the cultural history of war and the collective memory of conflict.' David Clarke, H-Diplo'In our present troubled times, when not only the belief in human rights that emerged from the Second World War in Western democracies but also democracy itself feel under attack, this is an important book - a necessary reminder that no matter how hard it is to understand the horrors of war, it is a task we must always attempt.' Lucy Noakes, The American Historical Review'… War Beyond Words provides a sweeping study of Western cultural memories of warfare, packed with references that provide a valuable starting point for any student of the subject.' Lizzie Oliver, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Vectors of Memory: 1. Configuring war; 2. Photographing war; 3. Filming war; 4. Writing war; Part II. Frameworks of Memory: 5. Memory and the sacred: martyrdom in the twentieth century and beyond; 6. The geometry of memory: horizontality and war memorials in the twentieth century and after; 7. War beyond words: shell shock, silence, and memories of war; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning, and despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organised into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, this book thoroughly addresses regions around the globe. Each reading is introduced by short prefatory remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered. The book will serve as an easy reference for administrators, professionals, teachers and students faced with the day-to-day challenges confronting the historic city under siege by rampant development.

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Book SynopsisIn a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the grey, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens' Great Expectations. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century, Galveston suffered catastrophe in the twentieth as a deadly hurricane and shifting economics dropped a pall over its waterfront and Victorian mansions. Originally conceived as a requiem for the faded city, The Galveston That Was (developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and funded by Jean and Dominique de Menil) instead helped resurrect the city. Architect-author Howard Barnstone, renowned portrait photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and architect-photographer Ezra Stoller captured the soul of the city in The Galveston That Was and as a result, inspired a major and successful effort to restore Galveston's historic architectural treasures. Many of the buildings pictured in the book have since been restored, and the pace of demolition slowed dramatically after the book's initial publication. In 1994, Rice University Press, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and George and Cynthia Mitchell, published an updated edition of the book. This printing of the book, now under the Texas A&M University Press imprint, contains the text annotations and updates, plus Peter H. Brink's afterword, that were added to the 1994 edition.Trade Review“This coffee table sized book contains countless beautiful photos and the fascinating histories of the great buildings that made Galveston and Texas what they are today.”- TopCountryMusic.com;“Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstone’s The Galveston That Was, published 28 years ago. This poignant and vivid record of the great mansions and public buildings of the historic island city by the late Houston architect is credited as being a catalyst in the preservation and restoration movement in Galveston.”- Houston Chronicle;“This beautiful picture book about nineteenth-century Galveston architecture is also a book about how Galveston’s historic buildings were saved.”- Historic Preservation;“The compelling power of The Galveston That Was comes from both Barnstone’s text and the photographs by Cartier-Bresson and Stoller. . . . The Galveston That Was probes the present on the same level as the past. It disquiets and unsettles us, asking us to establish ourselves, wherever we are, by building what we care about and caring about what we build.”- Bloomsbury Review

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth exploration of the award-winning King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta Ithra, also known as the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is an unprecedented architectural achievement. Designed on a monumental scale by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, built by Saudi Aramco, and inaugurated by King Salman bin Abdulaziz in late 2017, Ithra has been listed in Time magazine as one of the world’s top 100 places to visit and is the winner of Project of the Year and Best Innovative Project of the Year at the Construction Innovation Awards in 2019. This multi-purpose cultural institution, with its unusual geometric sculptures, is one of a kind in contemporary architecture. With stunning imagery and a holographic wrap-around case, the book offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration for Ithra, from the competition process and selection of the architect to its complex construction and reveals the story behind this striking architectural gem, from its inception to its realization.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to help architects, design teams and University clients (estates departments, and academics) in their pursuit of practical and innovative solutions for the creation of enabling higher education learning environments. It includes abundant examples of solutions to design problems and advice on best practice. This book argues that investment in the higher education sector is a driver for intellectual, social and economic development, offering opportunities for positive impacts for the physical environment on the character and performance of higher education. The editor believes that good outcomes result from good design, which should address elements such as learning from best current practice, the importance of clear briefing, good environmental performance, the positive social impacts and, also, the importance of ensuring a beautiful outcome. It has chapters contributed from leading-edge practices, including case studies with highly illustrated project examples. All this is underpinned by an understanding of the practicalities of working in the sector as well as the socio-political and economic context and trends shaping future practice.Table of ContentsForeword: Philip Ogden Introduction: Ian Taylor Part I: 1 + 2 Context + Planning Context Planning Part II: 3 + 4 Learning Spaces + Community Spaces Learning Spaces Community Spaces Part III: 5 + 6 Design + Construction Design Construction Part IV: 7 + 8 Value + Performance Value Performance Case Studies Further Reading Sector Guidelines Glossary

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