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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Progetto Urbano E Aree Culturali - Urban Design
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£174.80
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Virtual Restoration 3.1. Architecture
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£297.97
Reaktion Books Prague 1900: Poetry and Ecstasy
Book SynopsisThis illustrated work introduces the world of "fin-de-siecle" Prague. Around 1900, that city's artists and artisans began to develop an ornamental language inspired by the contemporary revival of Czech culture and influenced by Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, and the Vienna Secession. To begin with, lyricism and poetic symbolism dominated the visual arts. Jan Preisler, one of the most important figures of the time, created sensual paintings and sculptures based on themes connected to the writings of such Czech authors as Zeyer and Brezina. Other artists such as Kobliha and Hlavacek focused on turbulent forms, dramatic expressions of torment, and the macabre. In the applied arts, exuberant floral and vegetal motifs were gradually transformed into geometric patterns. This book charts the effects of the emergence of modernism and the search for Czech national identity on both the fine and the applied arts, as well as on architecture, music and literature. The text also includes a wealth of illustrations of interiors, architectural and sculptural details and documentary photographs. Biographies of the most important artists are provided, as well as a full chronology of artists and events.
£58.07
Peeters Publishers Towns in Ancient Israel and in the Southern
Book SynopsisMany towns flourished in the Southern Levant during the 9th to 7th centuries BCE. More than a century of excavations of these towns in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories has resulted in an increased understanding of how such towns functioned and what they looked like. The remains of Megiddo, Samaria or Hazor, for instance, have received numerous visitors. This book aims at summarizing what is now actually known about the architecture of the towns. The reader will be surprised and impressed when he starts to realize the degree of style these rather small towns could have. With this book, the author conducts a virtual city walk through such a town from the later Iron Age in this region.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Power and Architecture. Monumental Public
Book SynopsisPublic buildings reflect the investment of social resources and are usually interpreted as the embodiments of political, social, religious and economic power. The architecture of such buildings is often especially devised to reflect the performance of this power, incorporating a symbolism that served as a signpost for a particular social order. This symbolism was especially carried by monumentality and enhanced by scale, location, decoration, materials and visual impact. By making particular use of the natural landscape and the artificially created environment, the monumentality of public buildings helped to improve social cohesion and legitimated a particular societal system. Moreover, their intergenerational use gave such buildings great potential for communication and remembrance, especially during specific ceremonies. This volume is the reflection of an international conference which brought together specialists from two sides of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East and the Aegean, two areas that interrelated at different levels and at different moments during the Bronze Age, in order to examine how public architecture was used within this process.
£999.99
BIS Modular Structures in Design and Architecture
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£15.29
Leuven University Press Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the
Book SynopsisThe story of modernist architects in East Central Europe The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes intensified. Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers a pioneering study of the dynamics of modernist architects as a group, including how they became qualified, how they organized, communicated and attempted to live the modernist lifestyle themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity raises questions concerning collective work in general and also invites us to examine the social role of architects today.Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewMartin Kohlrausch’s Brokers of Modernity puts forth a solid revision of this narrative and succeeds in shifting it significantly eastward. By inserting the manifold contributions by architects from East Central Europe into the larger history of European modernism, he provides an overdue account of what had been shattered when the trans-European professional networks dissolved in the wake of the Second World War. [...] Kohlrausch presents an immensely informed study, which is based on his research of the past decade. [...] Applying the more recent concept of a ‘multi-speed Europe’ to his period of analysis, the historian masterfully balances institutional history, a history of networks, and a history of modern architecture embedded in its social-historical context.Sarah M. Schlachetzki, H-Soz-Kult'...insightful sociopolitical study of a generation of modernist architects in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary who came of age during the Interwar Years. [...] Kohlrausch’s thoughtful account makes a significant addition to a full understanding of urbanism. Brokers of Modernity gives new life to previously neglected but no less important contributors to the transnational flows that make cities global.'Harold L. Platt, Journal of Urban History, October 2019Martin Kohlrausch setzt in seinen empirischen Kapiteln sein Exposé sehr gekonnt um: Er charakterisiert zunächst den neuen Typ des Architekten als sich selbst so verstehenden, teilweise als solchen anerkannten sozialpolitischen Experten. […] Die Arbeit rückt demnach nicht nur die Gewichte in der Wahrnehmung dessen, was Architekturmoderne überhaupt ist, zurecht, sondern weist die beträchtliche diskursive Kraft von Modernisierungsbewegungen in Zentraleuropa nach. Dass die polnischen Architekten durch den nationalsozialistischen Krieg zu einem Drittel den Tod erlitten, gehört ebenso zum Gesamtbild wie der von Kohlrausch souverän erbrachte Nachweis, wie viele konstruktive Impulse aus dem untersuchten Raum auf die Entstehung der Disziplin Städtebau ausgingen.Clemens Zimmermann, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 27.4.2020Martin Kohlrauschs Studie über die ostmitteleuropäischen Architekten und Architektinnen der Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) als Avantgarde sozialer Architektur schließt eine Forschungslücke. Als Historiker betrachtet Kohlrausch vierzig Jahre Professionsgeschichte und ihre historischen Bedingungen in deduktiver Perspektivierung und formt die Untersuchung der Akteure, ihrer Ausbildung, Institutionen und Werte zu einem Spiegel des Nation-building vor allem in Polen. […] Architekten und Architektinnen als Broker zu betrachten heißt, sie innerhalb ihrer Netzwerke als zentrale Akteure zu erforschen.Regine Heß, sehepunkte, Ausgabe 20 (2020), Nr. 7/8Far too little has been published about Polish modernism or urbanism outside the country; Kohlrausch is absolutely right to try to mend the imbalance. What he has produced is a useful look at Polish modernism and urbanism set into its regional context that will, one hopes, begin to shift our shared view a little further to the east.Christopher Long, Urban History Volume 47, Special Issue 3, August 2020 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926820000395Little-known centers of modernity have long coalesced around Eastern Europe. Over the past three decades, their stories have begun to be rediscovered.“Due to more than 40 years of the Cold War, it has largely been forgotten—or never fully realized—how formative the eastern perspective has been for the arts and for architecture in the first half of the 20th century, ” historian Martin Kohlrausch observes in his book, Brokers of Modernity.vc_on, Maria Wiesner, September 4, 2020In his truly interdisciplinary book 'Brokers of Modernity', Martin Kohlrausch seeks to rectify this geographical asymmetry in architectural scholarship by placing the new, or significantly reshaped, post-1918 nation-states of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary at the heart of his narrative. Kohlrausch has a larger goal, however: to investigate modernist architecture’s group formation. [….] The book’s final chapter follows the struggles and ultimate fates of Polish, Czechoslovak, and Hungarian architects through World War II and stands out as an example of extraordinary historical scholarship.Christina E. Crawford, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 79.3, September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.344In this original study of modernism in interwar east central Europe, Martin Kohlrausch sets an ambitious agenda to study modernist architects as a group of experts. Noting that architects are typically studied individually or in small groups, he brings a fresh perspective to the topic by stepping away from the traditional concerns of architectural history such as style and focuses instead on group formation and the emergence of a shared professional discourse. […] The analysis of CIAM as a group shows how the presence of these architects, especially those from Poland, contributed to and shaped the discourse of CIAM and architectural modernism in ways that an analysis of individual contributions could never uncover. Zarecor K., Slavic Review, 79(4), 859-860. doi: 10.1017/slr.2020.223The book offers a fascinating analysis of the convoluted dynamics of the rise and fall of modernism in the “East”. […] the book is an important and very timely contribution to the history of architecture in Central Europe, and especially Poland, in the first half of the twentieth century. It reveals the transformation of architects from professionals into crucial political actors, whose expertise becomes political capital.Emanuela Grama, Ab Imperio, 1/2021Martin Kohlrauschs Buch über die „Makler der Moderne“ ist ein wesentlicher Beitrag zur Architekturgeschichte der Zwischenkriegszeit, weil es den weithin unterschätzten Anteil von Architektinnen und Architekten aus dem östlichen Europa an der Verflechtungsgeschichte der Moderne ins Licht rückt. [..] Mit seinem Buch hat K. den hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang „verschwundenen“ östlichen Teil des CIAM-Netzwerks freigelegt. Die Materialfülle und die breite Quellenbasis macht die Lektüre außerordentlich gewinnbringend.Beate Störtkuhl, ZfO JECES 70 | 2021 | 3Martin Kohlrausch manages sensibly more than to rewrite the history of Eastern Modernism into the frame of the wider history of modernism. It is his bias and his attachment to the personal narrative of the Syrkus couple, the anecdotes and intimate correspondence between the members of the CIAM, along with the numerous references to cinematography and the literature of the region that turn Brokers of Modernity from an immense research work into a history of Modernism rewritten from an Eastern perspective, proving that not all that is solid melts into air.Ilinca Pop, studies in History and Theory of Architecture, no. 7 (2019): 251-254. https://sita.uauim.ro/article/7-pop-martin-kohlrausch-brokers-ofTable of ContentsNote on Translation Abbreviations Introduction Brokers of Modernity Why Modernist Architects? Modernist Architects and Modernity Thematic and Temporal Structures 1. Modernity in Eastern Europe – East European Modernism? The European East – Sketches of a Projection screen East Central Europe – A Space of Crisis? The Post-Monarchic State and the Legacy of the War Eastern Modernity Conclusion 2. Architects as Experts of the Social: A new Type entering the European Scene New Tasks for Architects Architects and the Rise of the Modern Expert Training Modern Architects The Rise of Scientific Urbanism and the Self-Empowerment of Architects The Lure of the Machine Themes of Change – Architecture as Technology: Rationalization, Planning, and Technocracy 89 Conclusion 3. Organising New Architectural Goals Organising Architects in a New State Architecture in a New Key – the CIAM Self-empowerment – the CIAM and its Polish Group CIAM-Universalism or Eastern Fast-track? The CIAM-Ost Realizers – the WSM as Interface Conclusion 4. Communicating Social Change through Architecture The Spatial Structure of the New Discourse on Architecture The Abstract Heritage of the First World War and the Logic of the Media Architectural Journals and Books as Architectural Programme Travelling, Gathering, Thinking Alike: Architects as Modern Men Communicating Problems and Solutions via Language and Exhibitions Conclusion Gallery with Plates5. Materialising the International Agenda: Warszawa Funkcjonalna The CIAM IV Moment – Politics Coming in Realising the Novel: The Functionalist Laboratory of Zlín The Idea of the Functional City Warszawa Funkcjonalna Conclusion 6. Under Pressure: Modernist Architects and the Rise of Political Extremes Questioned Loyalties and Strained International Exchange Continuity and Rupture – the Onslaught on Warsaw Personal Toll and Collaboration Windows of Opportunity: Warsaw as a Post-catastrophic City Old Bonds and new Attention: Warsaw as a Realized Utopia? 2 Conclusion Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
£41.65
Melissa Publishing House Architecture Traditionelle Des Pays Balkaniques
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£72.00
Melissa Publishing House Moderna Architektonike Sten Hellada
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£999.99
Melissa Publishing House Neoclassical Architecture in Greece
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£89.96
Melissa Publishing House Architektonikes Metamorphoseis I: Mitropolitika
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£72.00
Melissa Publishing House Architektonikes Metamorphoseis II: Elleniki
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£72.00
Melissa Publishing House L'Ambassade de France En Grece: Une Visite Sans
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£999.99
Melissa Publishing House Oikologike Skepse Kai Architektonike
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£76.50
Melissa Publishing House The Language of Architecture
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£96.74
Melissa Publishing House Walking in Towns and Cities: The Architecture of
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£42.75
Kapon Editions I. Vikelas: Bilingual edition, Greek/English
Book SynopsisThis volume presents architectural syntheses distinctive of the oeuvre of architect Ioannis Vikelas. The selection is based on chronological rather than thematic criteria, so giving a diachronic picture of Vikelas' work and enabling the reader to follow the changes occurring in the design and the construction of architectural projects over time. In the course of his fifty-year career (1959-2009) Vikelas has prepared studies for a large number of buildings of various architectural types and supervised their construction. The book presents urban ensembles, residential complexes, villas, office blocks, high-rise buildings, government ministries, town halls, libraries, museums, educational foundations, hospitals, industrial buildings, churches, exhibition pavilions, shops and department stores, banks, malls, cinemas, sports facilities, hotels, marinas, airports, churches, monumental tombs, public parks and squares. The concise description of each building, accompanied by plans and certain details regarding its function, is complemented by abundant photographs. Greek and English bilingual. 600 illus., mainly colour.Table of ContentsΠρόλογος Άγγελος Δεληβορριάς Διευθυντής Μουσείου Μπενάκη Preface Aggelos Delivorrias Director of Benaki Museum Η αρχιτεκτονική των επιρροών και η κοινωνική λειτουργία Αντρέας Γιακουμακάτος, Καθηγητής Ιστορίας, Κριτικής Ανάλυσης και Θεωρίας της Αρχιτεκτονικής, Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων – Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης Influence architecture and social function Prof. Arch. Andreas Giakoumakatos - Department of History, Theory and Restoration School, School of Architecture – Aristotle University, Thessaloniki Ο Πύργος και η Πλάζα Πάνος Δραγώνας, Αρχιτέκτων, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Αρχιτεκτονικού, και Αστικού Σχεδιασμού στο Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών Tower and Plaza Panos Dragonas - Architect, Associate Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras Μια αρχιτεκτονική διαδρομή: σκέψεις και περιπέτειες Ιωάννης Βικέλας An architectural journey: reflections and adventures Ioannis Vikelas Έργα - Projects Βιογραφικά στοιχεία Biografical data Κατάλογος έργων - List of projects
£38.70
Editorial Terracota Arquitectura & Restauración
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£999.99
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers States of Architecture in the Twenty-First
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£63.00
Gingko Press Museum Design
Book SynopsisMuseum Design showcases 46 beautifully designed museums from around the world that demonstrate extraordinary architectural creativity.
£49.58
Gingko Press Utilization
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£50.07
Getty Research Institute Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House 192535
£47.33
