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Book SynopsisFrom the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of the twentieth century. This book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia, this collection of essays highlights key moments in industrial architecture and planning representative of the wider paradigms in the field. Areas of analysis include industrial production, factories, hydroelectricity, aerospace, logistics, finance, scientific research and mining. The selected case studies serve to highlight architectural and planning innovations in industry and their contributions to wider cultural and societal currents. This richly illustrated collection will be of interest for a wide range of built environment studies, incorporating findings from both historical and theoretical scholarship and design research.Table of ContentsThe Architecture of Industry

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Book SynopsisWhat if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise Pelletier examines how architecture developed to express political and social intent. Applying this to the modern day, Pelletier considers how architects can learn from these eighteenth century attitudes in order to restore architecture''s communicative dimension.Through an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the beginning of modernity, Louise Pelletier encourages today''s architects to consider the political and linguistic implications of their tools. Combining theory, historical studies and research, Architecture in Words will provoke thought and enriTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Character and Expression: Staging Architecture 1. Architecture as an Expressive Language 2. Character Theory at the Theatre 3. Rules of Expression and the Paradox of Acting Part 2: Playacting and the Culture of Entertainment: Architecture as Theatre 4. Theatre as the Locus of Public and Social Expression 5. Theatre Architecture and the Role of the Proscenium Part 3: Language and Personal Imagination: An Architecture for the Senses 6. Taste, Talent and Genius in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics 7. Newtonian Empirical Sciences and the Order of Nature 8. Empirical Philosophy and the Nature of Sensations Part 4: Plotting an Architectural Program: The Space of Desire 9. Staging an Architecture in Words 10. The Narrative Space of Desire Conclusion: The Temporality of Human Experience Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBeyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural culture. The wired environments first advertised on its pages formulated an architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology at the same time as complex systems were becoming commercially available. Through archival, theoretical and visual analysis, Hadas Steiner explores the process through which this model was envisaged and disseminated within an international network of practitioners and shows how the assimilation of Archigram imagery set the course for the visual output of what are now commonplace tools in architectural practice. This book will provide a foundation for further inquiry into the integration of digital technology at every level of design.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: The Archigram Network 1. The Image of Change 2. Modern Architecture in England 3. City Synthesis Part 2: Bathrooms, Bubbles and Systems 4. Bathrooms 5. Bubbles 6. Systems 7. The Technological Picturesque

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Book SynopsisSir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic early career as a merchant, a soldier and a dramatist preceded Vanbrugh's acceptance of the role of architect to the Third Earl of Carlisle in 1699. His impact on architecture was paralleled by a revolution in landscape design as Vanbrugh shifted the place of the architect from the house to the grounds. He used the ancient rules of proportion combined with an empathetic approach to Nature to create innovative layouts that were geometric, but bore no relation to the formal gardens of the seventeenth century.In Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian Landscape Caroline Dalton seeks to explain Vanbrugh's distinctive style of landscape architecture. The natural and moral philosophy of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius), Euclid, Plato and Epicurus is traced through the Arabic scientists of the Middle Ages into the Italian ReTrade Review"This lavishly illustrated book is rich in plans and aerial photographs, and the text is both highly erudite and very readable. This is a serious contribution to the history of a very important period in English landscape development" - Historic Gardens Review"This lavishly illustrated book is rich in plans and aerial photographs, and the text is both highly erudite and very readable. This is a serious contribution to the history of a very important period in English landscape development" - Historic Gardens Review"Dalton has diligently researched Vanbrugh, creating an excellent survey of his work. This book is certainly for historians of gardens as well as curious readers, like me." - Adele Kleine, Chicago Botanic GardenTable of Contents1. ‘On ye shoulders of giants’: Philosophy, Science and Landscape from the Ancients to the Moderns 2. The Early Enlightenment in England 3. John Vanbrugh (1664-1726): A Short Biography 4. Influences on Vanbrugh’s Landscape Style 5. Castle Howard, Yorkshire 6. Blenheim, Oxfordshire 7. Kimbolton, Heythrop and Grimsthorpe 8. Claremont, Surrey 9. Kings Weston, Avon 10. Duncombe Park and Sacombe Park 11. Eastbury, Dorset 12. Stowe, Buckinghamshire 13. Seaton Delaval, Northumberland 14. Greenwich and Lumley Castle 15. Vanbrugh’s legacy: Charles Bridgeman and the Vitruvian Landscape 16. Conclusion: ‘An Architect Who Composed like a Painter’

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Book SynopsisExamining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this bookquestions the prevailing assumption in German architectural circles that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility and greater democracy.The Transparent State traces the development of transparency in German political and architectural culture, tying this lineage to the relationship between culture and national identity, a connection that began before unification of the German state in the eighteenth century and continues today. The Weimar Republic and Third Reich periods are examined although the focus is on the postwar period, looking at the use of transparency in the three projects for a national parliament - the 1949 Bundestag project by Hans Schwippert, the 1992 Bundestag building by Gunter Behnisch and the 1999 Reichstag renovation by Norman Foster.Transparency is an important issue in contemporary architectural practice; this book will appeal to both the practising architect and the architectural historian.Trade Review'Barnstone's aim is as ambitious as it is fascinating.' - Domus'[Barnstone] offers a stimulating argument which will engage readers interested in the debates about both German history and architecture in the twentieth century.' – The Art Book'Barnstone's aim is as ambitious as it is fascinating.' - Domus'[Barnstone] offers a stimulating argument which will engage readers interested in the debates about both German history and architecture in the twentieth century.' – The Art BookTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Transparency Ideology 2. Transparency in German Architecture before and after the War 3. The Quest for an Open Society 4. Looking in the Mirror: Transparency after 1989 5. A Metaphor for the New Germany 6. House of Openness, Architecture of Encounter 7. Coming to Terms with the Past: Transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag 8. Why Transparency? Appendix 1: Biography of Hans Schwippert Appendix 2: Biography of Günter Behnisch Appendix 3: Biography of Sir Norman Foster Appendix 4: Glück und Glas, Hans Schwippert Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe seventh book in the Architecture in Context series, this is a comprehensive survey of European architecture from the pre-dawn of the Enlightenment in early Georgian England to the triumph of Brutalism in the seventh decade of the twentieth century.The three main sections of the book are preceded by a concise introduction isolating the key philosophical or political theories which dominated the period: in particular Enlightenment and industrialization. The first section covers Anglo-Palladianism, French academic rationalism, their Neoclassical developments and the aspiration to the Sublime. This first part of the book develops the major strand of eclecticism before progressing to Historicism in the second, the choice of style seen to be relevant to a given commission, and the impact of industrial building techniques. The third and final part begins with Design Reform in reaction to industrialism and then proceeds to Design Reform in response to the reactionaries, but they too continue to make their mark as the chronicle progresses. The epilogue covers developments from the advent of the Postmodernists and their High-Tech adversaries to the diversity of formal and technological games played out towards the end of the century.The many great architects and designers whose work both defines and illustrates the themes of the book include visionaries like Soane, BoullÃe and Schinkel, entrepreneurial innovators such as the Adams brothers and Repton, engineers of the age of iron including Eiffel, Paxton and BÃlanger, and 20th-century giants â Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier among numerous others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: 18th-Century Rationalism and Romanticism Context: History to Napoleon 1.1 Augustan Prelude 1.2 Pursuit of Perfection in France 1.3 Rome Reviewed, Athens Revealed and Eclectic Diversity in Britain 1.4 The Sublime, the Visionary and Radical Eclecticism Part 2: 19th-Century Historicism and the Industrial Revolution Context: History to 1914 2.1 Bonaparte and Restored Bourbons 2.2 The British at Home and in the East 2.3 Protegés of German Rulers and their Tsarist Relatives 2.4 United States 2.5 Architecture of Revival and Engineering Part 3: Design Reformers and Reactionaries Context: History of Cataclysm to the New Millennium Design Reform 3.1 From Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau 3.2 Bauhaus to Brutalism 3.3 Augean Coda Further Reading. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements? Or are they unintended design replacements? The book is divided into five parts giving you multiple viewpoints on the role of the relations between architecture, nature, technology, and culture. A detailed case study of a built project concludes each part to help you translate theory into practice. This holistic approach will allow you to formulate your own theory and to adjust your practice based on your findings. Will you provoke change, design architecture that responds to change, or both?Coedited by an architect and a historian, the book features new essays by Robert Levit, Catherine Ingraham, Sylvia Lavin, Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, Diane Lewis, Andrew Payne, Mark Jarzombek, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Elizabeth Diller, Antoine Picon, and Jorge Silvetti. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Organic Conceits; 1. Design’s New Catechism, Robert Levit; 2. Faculty of Omnipotence, Catherine Ingraham; 3. The Raw and the Cooked, Sylvia Lavin; Case Study: MOS Architects, afterparty, Winner, MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architects Program (2009); Part 2: The Sublime Past; 4. The Nature Parallel, Barry Bergdoll; 5. Next to Nothing, K. Michael Hays; 6. Nature After Mies, Diane Lewis; Case Study: Michael Bell Design, Gefter-Press House, Ghent, NY (2007); Part 3: Sustaining Nature; 7. On Limits, Andrew Payne; 8. Eco-Pop, Mark Jarzombek; 9. Nature, Model of Complexity, Jean-François Chevrier; Case Study: Steven Holl Architects, Sliced Porosity Block/Chengdu project; Part 4: The Nature of Infrastructure; 10. Agri-tecture, Elizabeth Diller; 11. Nature, Infrastructure and Cities, Antoine Picon; Case Study: George L. Legendre, Henderson Waves, Singapore (2008); Part 5: Nature, Unnaturally; 12. Block That Metaphor, Jorge Silvetti; Case Study: Prescott Scott Cohen, Inc., Chevron House, Los Gatos CA (2011); Index.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago''s architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of materials through engineering. Each section of Chicago''s history, starting with the 1870s and ending in the 2010s is illustrated with selected examples of buildings that define the style and achievements.TOC: I: The Great Fire /II: World Fair /III: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago School /IV: Mies and the Second Chicago School /V: Weese and Goldberg - Mies'' legacy /Further reading /IndexTable of ContentsIntroduction / After the Great Fire-Fireproofing / Foundations Set in Wet Sand / Tall Buildings / There's a Limit to How High the Sky / Places to Visit / Further Reading / Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on architectural inscriptions throughout the Muslim world, some going back to the Middle Ages, others dating from our own lifetime. This book features 28 case studies that explain different aspects and contexts of calligraphy in Islamic architecture. It covers North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, China and Spain.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part A: Sites; 1. Inscribing the Square: The Inscriptions on the Maidan-i Shah in Isfahan, Sheila S. Blair; 2. Speaking Architecture: Poetry and Aesthetics in the Alhambra Palace, Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez; 3. The Arabic Calligraphy on the Ceiling of the Twelfth-Century Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily: Function and Identity, Hashim Al-Tawil; 4. Wall-Less Walls: The Calligraphy at the Hadzi Sinanova Tekija in Sarajevo, Snjezana Buzov; 5. Survey - The Qur'anic Inscriptions Monument From Jam, Afghanistan, Ulrike-Christiane Lintz; Part B: Style vs. Content; 6. Multi-Sensorial Messages of the Divine and the Personal: Qur'an Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosques in Istanbul, Nina Ergin; 7. The Revival of Kufi Script During the Reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II, Irvin Cemil Schick; 8. Calligraphy in Chinese Mosques: At the Intersection of Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy, Barbara Stocker-Parnian; 9. Qur'anic Verses on Works of Architecture: The Ottoman Case, Murat Sulun; 10. Reading Qajar Epigraphs: Case Studies from Shiraz and Isfahan, Bavand Behpoor; Part C: Patronage; 11. 'The Pen Has Extolled Her Virtues': Gender and Power within the Visual Legacy of Shajar al-Durr in Cairo, Caroline Olivia M. Wolf; 12. Sovereign Epigraphy in Location: Politics, Devotion and Legitimisation around the Qusb Minar, Delhi, Johanna Blayac; 13. Archival Evidence on the Commissioning of Architectural Calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire, Talip Mert; 14. On the Renewal of the Calligraphy at the Mosque of the Prophet (al-Masjid al-Nabawi) under the Reign of Sultan Abdulmecid, Hilal Kazan; 15. Fasimid Kufi Epigraphy on the Gates of Cairo: Between Royal Patronage and Civil Utility, Bahia Shehab; Part D: Artists; 16. An Art Ambassador: The Inscriptions of 'Ali Reza' Abbasi, Saeid Khaghani; 17. Mustafa Rakim Efendi's Architectural Calligraphy, Suleyman Berk; 18. Yesarizade Mustafa Izzet Efendi and his Contributions to Ottoman Architectural Calligraphy, M. Ugur Derman; 19. The Visual Interpretation of Nasta'liq in Architecture: Mirza Gholam Reza's Monumental Inscriptions for the Sepahsalar Mosque in Tehran, Sina Goudarzi; Part E: Regional; 20. Ma'qili Inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: Stylistic and Epigraphic Contexts, Tehnyat Majeed; 21. The Composition of Kufi Inscriptions in Transitional and Early-Islamic Architecture of North Khurasan, Nasiba S. Baimatowa; 22. Space and Calligraphy in the Chinese Mosque, Sadiq Javer; 23. Medium and Message in the Monumental Epigraphy of Medieval Cairo, Bernard O'Kane; 24. Allegiance, Praise and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia as Architectural Guides, Patricia Blessing; 25. Symmetrical Compositions in Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Architectural Inscriptions in Asia Minor, Abdulhamit Tufekcioglu; Part F: Modernity; 26. Writing Less, Saying More: Calligraphy and Modernisation in the Last Ottoman Century, Edhem Eldem; 27. The Absence and Emergence of Calligraphy in Najd: Calligraphy as a Modernist Component of Architecture in Riyadh, Sumayah Al-Solaiman; 28. Cairo to Canton and Back: Tradition in the Islamic Vernacular, Ann Shafer; Bibliography; List of Figures; About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThe 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times.In this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new.* There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. * The chapter on traditional architecture of India has been rewritten and the section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded, both with new specially commissioned drawings* The architecture of the Americas before 1900 has been enlarged to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean* The book's scope has been widened to include more architecture from outside Europe* The bibliography has been expanded into a separate section and is a key source of information on every period of world architecture* The coverage of the 20th century architecture of North America has been divided into two chapters to allow fuller coverage of contemporary works* 20th century architecture of Western Europe has been radically recast* For the first time the architecture of the twentieth century is considered as a whole and assessed in an historical perspective* Coverage has been extended to include buildings completed during the last ten years* The coverage of Islamic architecture has been increased and re-organised to form a self contained sectionThis unique reference book places buildings in their social, cultural and historical settings to describe the main patterns of architectural development, from Prehistoric to the International Style. Again in the words of Sir Banister Fletcher, this book shows that 'Architecture ... provides a key to the habits, thoughts and aspirations of the people, and without a knowledge of this art the history of any period lacks that human interest with which it should be invested.'Trade Review'..the whole point of Banister Fletcher is that it does cram everything into a single volume. It will remain one of the most thumbed tomes in Building Design's office library..above all, gloriously and frustratingly, invaluable.'Building Design, October 1996'..clearly a bargain.'The Architect's Journal, October 1996'...a revolution has taken place in Banister Fletcher. The timid modernizing, the anxious realignments of the past fifty years are over; under Dan Cruickshank's editorship, it has achieved a thoroughness and flexibility one would never have thought possible within the grandiose shell of this late Victorian institution. Half the pleasure, as half the volume, of Banister Fletcher is its pictures. The thousands of photographs are, as always in Banister Fletcher, unimprovably fine.'The Times Educational Supplement, November 1996is 'a monument in itself'Book Reviews on the Internet 1996"A thundering classic appears again with useful additions. As Sir Banister Fletcher said, 'The study of architecture opens up the enjoyment of buildings with an appreciation of their purpose, meaning, and charm.' These words aptly summarise what this book has become for generations of students and architects. No serious fan of architecture should be without it."American Institute of Architects.'It is such a remarkable book, containing so much detail and so skilfully illustrated, that it is a must for all architectural and surveying offices at such a reasonable price.'ASI Journal, Jan 1997'An easy-to-use reference book with all the world's major architecture described, explained and, in many cases, fully illustrated.'B & M Architecture & Design'Students would be well advised not to waste money on a pile of discounted colourful coffee-table books, but rather to concentrate resources on this single volume... It will continue its usefulness beyond the years of study and become an additional aid to everyday practice.'Times Higher Educations Supplement'...the bible of architectural history... Banister Fletcher remains a potted history with remarkably pithy writing.'Building'...succinct characterization of individual architects and a liveliness of both criticism and description'The Times Educational SupplementTable of ContentsPart 1: Background; Prehistoric; Egypt; The ancient near East; Early Asian culture; Greece; The hellenistic kingdoms; Part 2: Background; Prehistoric; Rome and the Roman Empire; The Byzantine Empire; Early Russia; Early Medieval and Romanesque; Gothic; Part 3: Background; Seleucid, Parthian, Sasanian, Hellenistic; Umayyad, Abbasid and Spain until the Fall; Timurid, Seljuk and pre-Moghul India; Safavid Persia, the Ottoman Empire and Moghul India; Vernacular Building and the Paradise Garden; Part 4: Background; Africa; The Americas; China; Japan; South Asia; South East Asia; Part 5: Background; Italy; France, Spain and Portugal; Austria, Germany and Central Europe; The Low Countries and Britain; Russia and Scandinavia; Post Renaissance Europe;Part 6: Background; Africa; The Americas; China; Japan; South East Asia; Indian Subcontinent; Australasia; Part 7: Background; Western Europe 1900-45; Western Europe 1945-95; Eastern Europe; Russia; Middle East; Africa; N America 1900-50; North America 1950-95; Central and S America; China; Japan; S E Asia; Hong Kong and Macau; Indian Subcontinent; Oceania.

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Book SynopsisRetrieving the term 'baroque' from the margins of art history, where it has been sidelined as 'anachronistic', scholars from a range of disciplines reconsider the usefulness of the term 'baroque'. This book attempts re-engagement with the term 'baroque' - its promise, its limits, and its overlooked potential - in relation to the visual arts.Trade ReviewWinner, Paul Mellon Centre Publication Grant 'The baroque - the concept, not the period - has had a paradoxical destiny in the last few decades. Prudently shunned by academic historians of seventeenth-century European art and culture, it reemerges regularly - if uncritically - in textbooks and art exhibitions, on the one hand, and as an adjective in discussions of contemporary, postmodern culture on the other. Rethinking the Baroque from a serious, scholarly point of view, is thus a well-needed enterprise, and this collection of essays by some of the most important thinkers of our time marvelously tackles the task.' Renaissance Quarterly '... this book’s greatest contribution is that it prompts historians of Baroque art and architecture to look again at the term and its implications, and with the aid of Deleuze’s "fold" reassess the period through the prism of its very construction and history as an archive worthy of study.' The Burlington Magazine 'Perhaps we sympathize with the baroque today because, as participants in a postmodern world, we are painfully aware of being suspended between the epistemological and the ontological-that is, between the way things seem and the way they are. We can no longer speak of the past in confident positivist terms and are only too cognizant that, like Walter Benjamin, we are blindly collecting shards of history for our own use. The question of what we as scholars, educators, and students do with these fragments is one of the many perplexing ones raised by this stimulating volume.' CAA Reviews 'Hill's purpose in assembling such a vibrant and diffuse collection of essays on the baroque was to 'trouble the smooth waters of a linear historicism' (p. 91), and this collection certainly succeeds in doing that ... Together, the essays offer a stimulating demonstration of the breadth of approach currently being taken in relation to the baroque.' Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsContents: Section I Rethinking the Baroque: Introduction: Introduction: rethinking the Baroque, Helen Hills; The Baroque: the grit in the oyster of art history, Helen Hills. Section II Baroque as Style: On sculptural relief: malerisch, the autonomy of artistic media and the beginnings of Baroque studies, Alina Payne; Ottoman Baroque: the limits of style, Howard Caygill. Section III Rethinking Baroque Art History: Discomfited by the Baroque: a personal journey, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Reframing the Baroque: on idolatry and the threshold of humanity, Claire Farago. Section IV Baroque Traditions: Nicholas Hawksmoor's drawing technique of the 1690s and John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Anthony Geraghty; The real in the Rococo, Glenn Adamson. Section V Benjamin's Baroque: Benjamin and the Baroque: posing the question of historical time, Andrew Benjamin. Section VI Baroque Folds: Baroque matters, Mieke Bal; The Baroque fold as map and as diagram, Tom Conley; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis gorgeous oversized tome features thirty-six sublime country homes, many overlooking the Hudson River.Trade Review"You might think that a book dedicated to the houses of one New York family would be rather slim, but when dealing with the vast genealogy of the Livingstons it means a 336-page deep dive into more than thirty-five estates. Estersohn, an architecture and interiors photographer, not only shot the character-rich spaces but poured through archival materials to compile histories for each of the properties." —Brownstoner

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Book SynopsisFor nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost and environmental grounds, it's time to move on from this approach....Trade ReviewThe convincing case for why our future is urban -- Danny DorlingHow do you persuade buyers your new development isn't really in a city? Call it a 'garden suburb' or a 'garden city'. Anyone curious about the origin of those two strange oxymorons can learn much from Simon Matthews's House in the Country, a history of British town planning over the past two centuries * Telegraph *In the light of the government's recent proposal of a 'benefits to bricks' scheme to 'reinvigorate the council housing Right to Buy programme', House in the Country is timely, offering a decent primer on how we've ended up where we are when it comes to housing * Spectator *Anyone interested in the challenges of housing policy will want to read this methodical analysis of what went well and what did not over much of the last century -- Lord Heseltine

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Book SynopsisThe seventh book in the Architecture in Context series, this is a comprehensive survey of the European tradition of architecture from the pre-dawn of the Enlightenment in early Georgian England to the triumph of Brutalism in the seventh decade of the twentieth century.The three main sections are preceded by a concise introduction isolating the key philosophical and political theories which dominated the period: in particular Enlightenment and industrialization. The first section of the book covers Anglo-Palladianism, French academic rationalism, their Neoclassical developments and the aspiration to the Sublime. This first part develops the major strand of eclecticism before progressing to Historicism and the impact of industrial building techniques in the second. The third and final part begins with Design Reform in reaction to industrialism and then proceeds to Design Reform in response to the reactionaries â though they too continue to make their mark as the chronicle progresses. The epilogue covers developments from the advent of the Postmodernists and their High-Tech adversaries to the diversity of formal and technological games played out towards the end of the century.The numerous great architects and designers whose work both defines and illustrates the bookâs themes include visionaries like Soane, BoullÃe and Schinkel, entrepreneurial innovators such as the Adams brothers and Repton, engineers of the age of iron including Eiffel, Paxton and BÃlanger, and 20th-century giants â Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier among many others.Table of ContentsForeword on Rationalism and Romanticism Part 1: 18th-Century Rationalism and Romanticism 1.1. Augustan Prelude 1.2. Rationalists and Romanticists; Reductivists and Eclectics 1.3. The Apogee of French Classicism 1.4. Athens Revealed and Eclectic Diversity in Britain 1.5. The Sublime, the Visionary and Radical Eclecticism Part 2: 19th-Century Historicism and Industrial Revolution 2.1. Bonaparte and Restored Bourbons 2.2. The British at Home and in the East 2.3. Germans, Russians and their neighbours 2.4. United States 2.5 Classicists, Goths and Engineers at Large 2.6. Supernational Historicism Part 3: 20th-Century Modernism and Traditionalism 3.1. Mechanization and Nostalgia 3.2. Transatlantic Cross-currents 3.3. Nationalist Revivalists, Internationalist Reformers 3.4. The Modern Movement and its Opponents 3.5. Augean Coda Further Reading. Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first in a series of seven books that describe and illustrate the seminal architectural traditions of the world. It describes the origins of the Classical tradition in the mountain temples of Sumer, the pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. The story continues with the temples, theatres, palaces and council chambers of ancient Greece and Rome, and finishes with the adoption of Classical models to house the new institutions of Christian Europe. Excursions along the way take in Mesoamerica and the Andean littoral, and Africa.Not simply a profusely illustrated catalogue of buildings, the book also provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts. It functions equally well as a detailed and comprehensive narrative, as a collection of the great buildings of the world, and as an archive of themes across time and place.Trade Review'[The first in] a grand survey of the whole of world architecture.' - The Times'[The first in] a grand survey of the whole of world architecture.' - The Times‘This book is an absolute tour de force. Architecture is only the beginning; we are told about the civilizations that created it, with examples of their artefacts as well as their buildings.’ - John Julius Norwich‘Astonishing in its scope, clarity and insight, Tadgell’s survey of the built environment from the beginnings to the twilight of Byzantium works at every level: it will guide the student and stimulate the scholar.’ - David StarkeyTable of ContentsPrologue: Origins Part 1: West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean 1.1. The Fertile Crescent and the Nile Valley 1.2. The Aegean, Anatolia and the Aryans 1.3. Issues From a Dark Age Part 2: Trans-Atlantica 2.1. Mesoamerica 2.2. The Andean Littoral Part 3: The Classical World 3.1. Hellenic Order 3.2. Macedonians and the East 3.3. Republican Rome and its Mentors 3.4. Augustan Rome and its Empire Part 4: Christianity and Empire 4.1. Rome and New Romes 4.2. Justinian and the Apotheosis of Byzantium Epilogue: The Last Half Millennium of Byzantium Glossary Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisUnprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak characterized as the High Renaissance.Table of ContentsDefinitions Context Part 1: Seminal Italians 1.1 Inception 1.2. Roman Revival 1.3. Vignola and his Contemporaries in the Orbit of Rome 1.4. The Ducal Architects of Florence 1.5. Sansovino, Sanmicheli and their Venetian Inheritance 1.6. Palladio 1.7. Alessi and his Colleagues in Lombardy 1.8. Rome at the Turn of a New Era Part 2: Seminal French 2.1. From Misunderstanding to Mannerism under François I 2.2. Mannerism versus Classicism under the Late Valois 2.3. Classicism versus Baroque under the Early Bourbons Part 3: Orbit of Empire 3.1. Seminal Netherlanders 3.2. Eclectic Germans and their Eastern Neighbours 3.3. Netherlandish Revival Part 4: Across the Channel 4.1. Elizabethan and Jacobean Eclecticsm 4.2. Inception of Palladianism Part 5: Beyond the Pyrenees 5.1. Iberia at the Turn of the Renaissance Century 5.2. Advent of Classicism in Portugal and estilo chão 5.3. Spain in Transition: Caroline Renaissance; Philippine Mannerism 5.4. Ascendancy of Madrid and the Spanish estilo desornamentado 5.5. Portugal during the Habsburg Interregnum 5.6.The Spanish Americas Glossary Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisArchitecture in Context is a series of seven books describing and illustrating all the seminal traditions of architecture from the earliest settlements in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys to the stylistically and technologically sophisticated buildings of the second half of the twentieth century. It brings together the fruits of the author's lifetime of teaching and travelling the world, seeing and photographing buildings in an extraordinary synthesis. Each stand-alone volume sets the buildings described and illustrated within their political, technological, social and cultural contexts, exploring architecture not only as the development of form but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolved.The series focuses on the story of the Classical tradition from its origins in Mesopotamia and Egypt, through its realization in ancient Greece and Rome, to the Renaissance, Neo-Classicism, Eclecticism and Modernism. This thread is supplemented with detai

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Book SynopsisHaruhiko Fujita is Professor of Aesthetics and Design History at Kobe Design University, and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics at Osaka University, Japan.Christine Guth led the Asian design history strand in the V&A / RCA History of Design Programme from 2007 until 2016.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich compendium of knowledge about East Asian design. Contributions from multiple authors help to establish the importance of design from this region to the field's world history. * Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Bloomsbury’s new Encyclopedia of East Asian Design provides a very welcome impetus for achieving a wider and more informed understanding, knowledge and awareness of the histories, cultures, politics, economics, and meanings of design in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Mongolia and Taiwan. Edited by established East Asian specialists Hirohiko Fujita and Christine Guth, the volume contains essays by more than 100 researchers and scholars, many of them emerging voices in the history of design set alongside more widely known and established academics and curators drawn from around the world. Importantly, indigenous scholars from each of the countries covered have made a significant number of these contributions. Since the 1990s considerable energies have been spent in extending the focus of the cartography of design beyond a largely Anglophone and European dominated perspective. This significant volume marks another stage in so doing. * Jonathan M. Woodham, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Brighton, UK *I was so pleased to hear about the publication of the Encyclopedia of East Asian Design. From a Japanese perspective it is easy to think that our clothes and crafts are unique to Japan, but of course they have many influences and origins from the rest of the Asian continent. This encyclopedia explores the transition of such design from a broad and encompassing perspective, and I have great hope that further research will develop as a result of this volume. * Akiko Mabuchi, Director General of the National Museum of Western Art, Japan *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Haruhiko Fujita, Osaka University, Japan, Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, UK, Jae-Joon Han, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea, Chae Lee, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea and Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada China A historical background of pre-modern China - Jessica Tsui-Yan Li, York University, Canada Traditional ideas, religion and aesthetics for design in pre-modern China - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Traditional cultures of China - Jessica Tsui-Yan Li, York University, Canada Traditional colors, forms and patterns of China - Yi-Hsin Lin, independent, UK Painting in pre-modern China - Malcolm McNeill, SOAS, University of London, UK Chinese calligraphy - Sarah Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong The design of the Chinese woodblock printed book - Lucille Chia, University of California, Riverside, USA Silk textiles and clothing in pre-modern China - Helen Persson, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Ceramics in pre-modern China - Luisa Elena Mengoni, British Library, UK Metalwork in pre-modern China - Mélodie Doumy, British Library, UK Carvings (stone and jade) in pre-modern China - Eileen H. L. Lam, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Foundations of ancient Chinese wooden architecture - Kwong-Chiu Chiu, Design and Cultural Studies Workshop, Hong Kong Interior design and furnishing in pre-modern China - Kwong-Chiu Chiu, Design and Cultural Studies Workshop, Hong Kong Architecture in pre-modern China - Puay-Peng Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore Gardens in pre-modern China - Shuishan Yu, Northeastern University, USA Contemporary city planning and environmental design in China - Shirley Surya, M+ Museum, Hong Kong Modern design in China (before 1911) - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada and Jackie Kwok, Independent Scholar, Hong Kong Modern design in China between 1911 and 1949 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada and Jackie Kwok, Independent Scholar, Hong Kong Modern design in China between 1949 and 1979 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Modern design in China between 1980 and 2000 - Jennifer Wong, M+ Museum, Hong Kong Contemporary communication design in China since 1979 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary fashion design in China - Christine Tsui, independent, China The development of craft and product design in China between 1949 and 2010 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary architecture and interior design in China - Jing Xiao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Charlie Q. L. Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chinese comics, animation and digital game design - Jun Xu, Nanjing College of Information Technology, China China and popular culture - Kang Liu, Duke University, USA Contemporary design organisations and societies in China - Gigi Chang, California State University Fullerton, USA China and design education (since 1949) - Christine Tsui, independent, China Autonomous regions of China Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang Uyghur, Guangxi Zhuang, Ningxia Hui and Tibet - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Hong Kong Nature, society, tradition and historical background (with a design focus) of Hong Kong - King-Chung Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong History of design in Hong Kong before 1945: form follows freight - Matthew Turner, Edinburgh Napier University, UK History of design in Hong Kong, 1945 to 1989: design for design for design - Matthew Turner, Edinburgh Napier University, UK History of design in Hong Kong, 1945 to 1989: design for design for design - D. J. Huppatz, Swinburne University, Australia Contemporary communication design in Hong Kong - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Apparel and fashion design in Hong Kong - Wessie Ling, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK Contemporary jewellery design in Hong Kong - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada The development of craft and product design in Hong Kong between 1945 and 2010 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary architecture and interior design in Hong Kong - Charlie Q. L. Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Contemporary city planning and environmental design of Hong Kong - Peter Cookson Smith, Urbis Ltd, Hong Kong Contemporary interaction / interactive / interface / motion design in Hong Kong - Huaxin Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and Kenny K. N. Chow, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Hong Kong Manhua 1945 – 2000 - Victor Ming Hoi Lai, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Design education, curation and infrastructure in Hong Kong - Kin Wai Michael Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and Yi Lin Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Contemporary design organisations and societies in Hong Kong - Grace Lau, Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations, Hong Kong Japan Natural and social environment and historical background of Japan - Keisuke Takayasu, Osaka University, Japan Religious and traditional ideas of Japan (with design focus) - Takashi Murakami, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Aesthetics categories and changing ideas of ‘design’ - Haruhiko Fujita, Osaka University, Japan Traditional culture of Japan - Tomoko Hata, Museum of Kyoto, Japan A history of Japanese approaches to colour - Monica Bethe, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute Kyoto, Japan Traditional Japanese forms and patterns - Hiroko Kurokawa, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan Drawing and painting in Japan (before 1868) - Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Calligraphy in Japan – Noriko Kaya, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan Printing in pre-modern Japan - Ellis Tinios, SOAS, University of London, UK and Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, UK Japanese paper -Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, UK Textiles and clothing in pre-modern Japan - Mary M. Dusenbury, University of Kansas, USA Ceramics in pre-modern Japan - Rupert Faulkner, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Metalwork of pre-modern Japan – Hiroko Kurokawa, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan Carving and sculpture in pre-modern Japan - Patricia J. Graham, independent, USA Woodwork in pre-modern Japan - Kenji Suda, Tokyo University of the Arts, USA Interior and furnishing in pre-modern Japan -Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Architecture in pre-modern Japan - Mira Locher, University of Utah, USA Gardens of pre-modern Japan - Koji Kuwakino, Osaka University, Japan City planning and urbanism in pre-modern Japan - Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Performance and spectacle in Japan - Sean H. McPherson, Bridgewater State University, USA Modern design in Japan (1868 – 1912) - Toyoro Hida, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japan Modern design in Japan (1912 – 1930) - Kazuto Kasahara, Kyoto University of Technology, Japan Modern design in Japan (1930 – 1957) - Takuya Kida, Musashimo Art University, Japan Modern design in Japan (1957 – 1973) - Yasuko Suga, Tsuda College, Japan Modern design in Japan (1973 – 1990) - Yasuko Suga, Tsuda College, Japan Contemporary communication design in Japan - Kiyonori Muroga, IDEA Magazine, Japan Contemporary textiles and fashion design in Japan - Mikiko Tsunemi, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan Contemporary craft design in Japan - Hitomi Kitamura, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan Contemporary product design in Japan - Makoto Watanabe, Chiba University, Japan Interaction / interactive / interface design in Japan - Kenta Ono, Chiba University, Japan Contemporary interior design in Japan - Keiko Hashimoto, Kindai University, Japan Contemporary architecture in Japan - Daiki Amanai, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Japan Contemporary environmental design in Japan - Seiko Goto, Nagasaki University, Japan Solution and service design in Japan - Takayuki Higuchi, Chiba University, Japan Popular culture in Japan - Hiroshi Narumi, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan Character design in Japanese manga, anime and gaming - Ulrich Heinze, University of East Anglia, UK Design curation and education in Japan - Yuko Hashimoto, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan Design organisations in Japan - Yuko Hashimoto, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan Design legislation and governmental organisations of Japan - Eri Mitsui, independent, Japan Korea The natural and social environment and historical background of Korea - Kay Jun, independent, South Korea Religious and traditional ideas of Korea in design - Hyun-Shin Jo, Kookmin University, South Korea Aesthetic categories and changing ideas of ‘design’ in Korea - Bum Choi, independent, South Korea Traditional culture of Korea - Gong-Ho Choi, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage, South Korea Traditional forms, colours and patterns of Korea - Hyun-Taek Park, National Museum of Korea, South Korea Drawing and painting in pre-modern Korea - Young-Soo Kim, Hongik University, South Korea Calligraphy in pre-modern Korea – Hyun-Taek Park, National Museum of Korea, South Korea Printing in pre-modern Korea - Byung-Geol Min, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea Textiles and clothing in pre-modern Korea - Woo Hyun Cho, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Woodwork, ceramics and metalwork in pre-modern Korea - Gong-Ho Choi, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage, South Korea Architecture and city planning in Korea - Mi-Kyung Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Concepts of modern design in Korea since the 20th century - Chang-Sup Oh, Konkuk University, South Korea North Korea Society, tradition and modern history in North Korea - Mary S. Ginsberg, independent, USA Design and culture in modern North Korea - Mary S. Ginsberg, independent, USA South Korea Society, tradition and modern history in South Korea - Sang-Kyu Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea Contemporary communication design in South Korea - Chae Lee, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea Contemporary fashion design in South Korea - Juhee Park, Kookmin University, South Korea Contemporary craft design in South Korea - Gong-Ho Choi, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage, South Korea Contemporary product design in South Korea - Sang-Kyu Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea Contemporary interior design in South Korea - Soo-Jung Kim, Daegu University, South Korea Contemporary architecture in South Korea - Hyungmin Pai, University of Seoul, South Korea Contemporary environmental and social design in South Korea - Hyun-Shin Jo, Kookmin University, South Korea Popular Culture in South Korea - Youngchul Kim, AGI Society, South Korea Design education and infrastructure in South Korea - Hyeon Joo Kang, Inha University, South Korea Design legislation, organisations, societies and policy - Jong-Kyun Kim, Korean Intellectual Property Office, South Korea Macao The historical background and social environments of Macao - Zhidong Hao, University of Macau, Macau Culture and design in Macao - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Mongolia Natural environment, social context and historical background in Mongolia - Yuki Konagaya, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan Traditional culture, colours, forms, patterns and aesthetics in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Painting, printing and book culture in Mongolia - Uranchimeg Tsultemin, independent, USA Textiles and clothing in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Metalwork and woodwork in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Carving and sculpture in Mongolia - Uranchimeg Tsultemin, independent, USA Architecture and urbanism in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Contemporary design and popular culture in Mongolia - Mayuko Okamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan Taiwan Taiwan: Nature, society, tradition and historical background - Hsin-Tein Liao, Australian National University, Australia A history of arts, crafts and design in Taiwan before 1895 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Modern graphic design development in Taiwan 1895 – 1945 - Tsun-Hsiung Yao, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Modern design in Taiwan after 1945 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada The evolution of contemporary Taiwanese graphic design - Li-Min Chen, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Apparel and fashion design in Taiwan - Wessie Ling, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK Contemporary jewellery and accessories in Taiwan - Tan-Chi Chao, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan Contemporary craft and product design in Taiwan - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary architecture, interior design and city planning in Taiwan - Ya-Chun Chiang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan and Wei-Hsiu Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan The development of Taiwan Manhua - I-Yun Lee, National Taipei University, Taiwan The transition of design education in Taiwan - Chien-Tu Jeff Lai, Pennsylvania State University, USA Design organisations and societies in Taiwan - Ken-Tsai Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

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Book SynopsisThe German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influeTrade ReviewScott Colman’s excellent new book Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City contributes fundamentally to our renewed appreciation of the often-misunderstood German émigré architect. The book offers the definitive English-language account of Hilberseimer’s intellectual formation, cultural commitments, and urban aspirations. * Charles Waldheim, Harvard University, USA *This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer’s modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century. * Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Individual 2. Hilberseimer's Theory of Art 3. Organicism and Morphology 4. The Metropolis as an Organism 5. The Metropolis and the Work of Art 6. The City-Building-Art 7. Spiritualizing the Metropolis 8. Polarizing the Metropolis 9. The Fate of the Metropolis 10. Basso Continuo 11. Hilberseimer and Dada 12. The Equivalence of Art and Life 13. Metropolis-Building Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThrough the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.It explores how Portoghesi's personal postmodern project was based on the triangulation of a renewed interest in historical architectural language, unprecedented use of media and intertwined links between architecture and politics. Organized in a sequence of critical chapters supported by the analysis of Portoghesi's most significant architectural projects including Casa Baldi (1959), The Mosque in Rome (197595) and his Strada Novissima exhibition (1980) and publications, the book unfolds around the three main themes of history, politics and media. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist Table of ContentsList of illustrations Series preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Italian postmodern architecture revisited State of the art Methodology and sources Structure Setting the scene 1 THE POSTMODERN PROJECT Impresario of postmodern architecture Choosing Rossi Mendini and the Banal Ideological duel with Tafuri Beyond Italy Galleria Apollodoro, a centre for Roman culture 2 TURN TO HISTORY Architect as historian/historian as architect Neoliberty polemic Instrumental value of the past Technique of lap dissolves Geometria borrominiana Casa Baldi, or the rehabilitation of the curve 3 SOCIALISM FOR FREEDOM Rise and leadership of the PSI Years of the protests Craxismo and the end of prohibitionism Staging the PSI Control over the lagoon The Mosque of Rome, between religion and oil 4 EMBRACING MASS MEDIA Mediatization of the building Ars oratoria Through the pages of the magazines Architecture on the dance floor From movie protagonist to stage set Casa Papanice framed by the camera EPILOGUE 1992 Annus horribilis Retreat to Calcata CODA By Maristella Casciato Notes Bibliography Index: Paolo’s world

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Book SynopsisFlavia Marcello is Professor of Architectural History at Swinburne University of Technology's School of Design, Australia.Trade ReviewThis book is not only a rich compendium of case studies of difficult heritage but also a significant contribution to an understanding of postwar architectural culture. Peeling back and reconstructing layers of meaning associated with key works of the Fascist Regime in Rome, the book will make the city more comprehensible and richer in historical associations. Flavia Marcello has illuminated this study with a humanist understanding that would not have been possible a few years ago. * Tim Benton, Open University, UK *After the Fall provides a detailed account of how key sites of fascist Rome have evolved and endured in the last century. Comprised of concise encyclopedic entries on monuments, buildings and sites, it will be a useful guide for all those interested in what has become of fascist Rome. * Stephanie Pilat, University of Oklahoma, USA *Flavia Marcello’s absorbing and richly detailed book explores the ongoing impact of Fascism and Italy’s evolving relationship to its history on Rome’s urban development and built environment. It will be invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in Rome’s historical and contemporary urban topography or in Italy’s complex and contested relationship with its Fascist past. * Sally Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Terms and Acronyms Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Mussolini’s Mark: Tracing the Legacy of Fascism in Rome’s Post-war Urban Planning Chapter 3: The Architecture of Fascist Rome between Politics and Practicality Chapter 4: The Fascist Phoenix: Virgilio Testa and the Resurrection of EUR Chapter 5: Mothers, Martyrs and Military Men: The Changing Meanings of Rome’s Fascist Monuments Chapter 6: Aspirations and Illusions of Control: Re-contextualising Rome’s Fascist Epigraphy A Conclusion for a Centenary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTheories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of home as haven'. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents.Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in safety and comfort', it is argued as a Table of ContentsIntroduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University, Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION ONE: Microbes, Animals and Insects 1. Miasmatical Fears, Annmarie Adams (McGill University, Canada) 2. Domesticity and Fear: Insects and Creepy Crawlies, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) SECTION TWO: Human Agents – Burrowing, Hoarding, Concealing, Undermining 3. The Domestic Screen, Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) 4. Hoarding Disorder, Schwitters’ Merzbau and its Conflict with Domesticity, Judit Pusztaszeri (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION THREE: Wars and Disasters as Agents 5. Under Siege: The Wartime Home in British Art of the London Blitz, Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) 6. Searching for (a) Home in the Rubble: The Heimkehrer-Flâneur in Wolfgang Staudte’s Die Mörder sind unter uns, Kai-Uwe Werbeck (University of North Carolina, USA) SECTION FOUR: Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny 7. I Have Ended up Like the House, Pretending to be Myself: Uncanny Heritage House Museums, Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne, Australia) 8. Suburban Horror Story, James F. Kerestes (Ball State University, USA)

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Book SynopsisIn the 21st century, the word detail appears constantly in discussions of building, and we use it in many different waysyet just over 250 years ago, detail meant nothing at all particular to the work of architects, engineers, or builders. Detailing Worlds is the first book to examine the origins and evolution of detail as a concept with meanings specific to practices of building. By exploring how past meanings and roles were ascribed to detail in different worlds of practicethose of academics, technicians, students, engineers, and architectsDetailing Worlds looks to the future, illuminating the ways disciplinary knowledge and the concepts on which it is based evolve and change over time. It is a story about how such concepts are slowly but constantly reconceived, redefined, and transformed by individuals as they interact with one another, and how this process is shaped by the ever-changing sociocultural and technological dimensions of the world around us.

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Book SynopsisLorrie Palmer is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Towson University, USA. She has published widely on film history, digital aesthetics, race, gender and technology in film and television, genre, and cinematic urban architecture.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging and very necessary volume grapples with what it means for public housing to become an image. Across twelve strikingly argued chapters, Palmer and her contributors show how film and television not only materially contribute to that image on a global scale, but how they can iterate, complicate, or question it and, in doing so, redefine our image of the home. -- Erica Stein, Vassar College, USAHome Screens is a must read for anyone interested in government-financed housing in both material reality and cinematic space. Palmer and her contributors deftly examine how diverse tenants try to create a sense of “home” in its contained, often precarious spaces. -- Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Public housing in global film and television - Lorrie Palmer I: Design, architecture and space 1. Uncanny architecture: Haunted structures in Candyman and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - Lorrie Palmer 2. Die architekten (1990): East/west ideology, concrete topography and the shadow of plattenbau - Heike Kumpf and Kirsten Kumpf Baele 3. Architect and amateur documentarian, Yitzhak Perlstein: Planning Israeli public housing (1960–70) - Daphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan 4. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962): INA-Casa public housing and remaking Rome’s postwar social landscape - Alberto Lo Pinto 5. Aerial transitions: Drones and domestic space in the Banlieue - Isabelle McNeill II: Spatialization of race, class and gender 6. Precarious homes in Britain and France – girlhood, escape and dance in Fish Tank and Divines - Anna Viola Sborgi 7. Cooley High, Cabrini-Green and early-onset rusting in Chicago - Michael D. Dwyer 8. Franklin Wong’s Below the Lion Rock television series: Community dialogue in 1970s Hong Kong public housing - Chung-kin Tsang 9. Within the public housing flats: Interiorization of class drama in Singapore cinema - Meisen Wong and Chua Beng Huat III: Home screens: Public housing in serialized television drama of The Wire, Treme, and Show Me a Hero 10. Ignoring women and communities of care: Public housing in The Wire - Kalima Young 11. ‘People need to come home’: Treme, Abandoned housing and post-Katrina New Orleans - Helen Morgan Parmett 12. Public housing, social problems and defensible space in David Simon’s show me a hero - Steve Macek Further Viewing Index

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Book SynopsisErin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.Trade ReviewThis insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities. * Abigail A. Van Slyck, Dayton Professor Emerita of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College, USA *German architecture rewritten from the perspective of the single men and women living in mass housing. Meticulously researched, Erin Eckhold Sassin’s book is a major contribution to the histories of modernization and urbanization and their highly gendered designs for living. * Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem” 1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth 2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male” 3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All 4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public Sphere Extended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type

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Book SynopsisCommendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years.While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier developments of the interwar period (1919-1939) have been comparatively overlooked. Filling an important gap in surveys of 20th-century British architecture, this volume reveals how the architectural developments of this period not only provided important foundations for what happened after 1945 they are also of real significance in their own right.Sixteen essays bring together new and diverse approaches to the period a period of reconstruction, fraught with the challenges of modernity and democratisation. The collec

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Book SynopsisRoss Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia.Maximilian Sternberg is a University Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University, UK.Trade ReviewAs religiosity declined in the West, architecture became the bearer of a powerful secular spirituality, widely ignored in the standard histories. In its broad and inclusive approach, this volume argues persuasively that the pursuit of the sacred was a key constituent of 20th-century architectural design and theory: a revision long overdue. * Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK) Part One Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred 1. Architecture and the question of ‘the’ sacred, Peter Carl (University of Cambridge, UK) 2 Romantic Kunstreligion and the search for the sacred in modern architecture: From Schinkel’s Altes Museum as ‘aesthetic church’ to Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel as Gesamtkunstwerk and ‘heavenly cave’, Gabriele Bryant (Independent Scholar) 3. The Ordinary as the extraordinary: Modern sacred architecture in Germany, the United States and Japan, Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland) 4. Città dei Morti: Alvar Aalto’s funerary architecture, Sofia Singler (University of Cambridge, UK) Part Two Buildings for modern worship 5. Light, form and formación: Daylighting, church building and the work of the Valparaíso School, Mary Ann Steane (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. Reading, storing and parading the book: Between tradition and modernity in the synagogue, Gerald Adler (University of Kent, UK) 7. Compacting civic and sacred: Goodhue’s University of Chicago Chapeland the modern metropolis, Stephen Gage (University of Reading, UK) 8. A diaspora of modern sacred form: Auguste Perret, Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry, Karla Cavarra Britton (Diné College, Navajo Nation) 9. Structure for spirit in The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal, 1945–70, Sam Samarghandi (Independent Scholar, Australia) Part Three Semi-sacred settings in the cultural topography of modernity 10. Revelatory earth: Adolphe Appia and the prospect of a modern sacred, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) 11. Anagogical themes in Schwitters’ Kathedrale des erotischen Elends, Matthew Mindrup (University of Sydney, Australia) 12. Modern medievalisms: Curating the sacred at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne (1932–9), Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK) 13. Architecture, politics and the sacred in military monuments of Fascist Italy, Hannah Malone (Max Planck Institute, Germany) 14. Atmosphere of the sacred: The awry in music, cinema, architecture, Michael Tawa (University of Sydney, Australia) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. Matthijs van Oostrum currently works with UN-Habitat, Nairobi. Tanzil Shafique is Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Sheffield. Ishita Chatterjee is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University. Elek Pafka is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Melbourne.The authors are all associated with InfUr- the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne.Trade ReviewThe Atlas demonstrates the indispensable value that is generated by investigating the spatial logic of informal settlement, as this exposes factors often overlooked in broad-brush statistics and geospatial analysis based on artificial intelligence. Focusing on fifty-one sites, the Atlas offers a nuanced spatial analysis at different scale levels and reveals the processes and outcomes of self-organized urban design. In doing so, it offers learnings for context-sensitive policies for affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure in rapidly growing cities. * Raf Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division, UN-Habitat *We know very little about most of the informal settlements that house over a billion urban dwellers. This book advances and deepens our understanding of these settlements‘ development and expansion over time in all their diversity and complexity. * David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development *This is a vital empirical consolidation of the heterogeneous ways urban settlements are being composed and governed. The "informal" is always extending itself across new terrain and vernaculars; something always being worked and worked on in incessant processes of becoming unsettled and resettled. * AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield *Table of ContentsList of figures List of authors Acknowledgements Part A INTRODUCTION: Informal Settlement as a Verb Part B METHOD: Mapping Informal Assemblages Part C SETTLEMENT Part D MORPHOGENESIS: The Spatial Logic of Self-Organized Urban Design Part E REFERENCES Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisOver 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his drawings. The critical role that Littlewood played, however, remains largely unrecognized by architectural scholarship, and a whole area of the project's cultural agenda remains overlooked.Architecture, Media, Archives is the first serious study of the complex relations between Littlewood and Price, reframing the Fun Palace as an extended media project and positioning Littlewood more clearly as co-designer. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book considers how, due to a lack of institutional support, the aims of the Fun Palace to transform the passive mass-audiences of post-war consumer socie

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic''s Award 2023Architecture and Retrenchment explores the neoliberal turn' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous Swedish Model and now home to Europe''s fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.With close feminist analysis running throughout and drawing from oral hi

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Book Synopsis[A] page-turning story Times Literary SupplementEye-opening Michael BillingtonA detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar. The Stratford HeraldIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 known colloquially as the ''Birthplace'' remains the chief shrine. It''s not as romantic as Anne Hathaway''s thatched cottage, it''s not where he wrote any of his plays, and there''s nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.Based on original research in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in StratforTrade ReviewThis book is a terrific addition to the Shakespeare library … Combining social, architectural and theatrical history, the first third of the book offers a vivid evocation of life in Elizabethan Stratford … His most piercing observation, in this eye-opening book, is that the most important person in the birthplace is not the absent Shakespeare, but the curious visitor who finds in it whatever he or she is looking for. -- Michael Billington * Country Life *The book is jam-packed with facts and dates, but it flows well and it's easy to follow - Shakespeare's House is a delectable piece of microhistory and the perfect stocking filler for those who dabble in bardolatry. -- Cindy Marcolina * Broadway World UK *[Schoch] proves himself an impressive detective with a nose for a good story … Entertaining in its own right and also helpful as a reminder of the life and work of the great man. -- Philip Fisher * British Theatre Guide *A lively account of Shake­speare’s Birthplace. -- Glyn Paflin * The Church Times *Fascinating … A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar. * The Stratford-Herald *A sparklingly irreverent and yet sympathetic account of how and why Shakespeare’s birthplace became The Birthplace. Schoch brings the Stratford-upon-Avon that Shakespeare would have known vividly to life before telling the story of how a house in Henley Street turned into cultural heritage. It is a tale of fluctuating family fortunes, changing ideas of authorship, unashamed entrepreneurialism, mingled national reverence and hypocrisy, and how much the Birthplace has been worth and to whom. Brilliantly detailed and impeccably researched new materials dug out of the archive shed light on the second-best bed, the mulberry tree, the earliest tourists, the fabrication of Shakespeare relics, the auction of the house in 1847 and restoration anxieties. The Birthplace comes into new focus as a strange and wonderful amalgam of the genuine and sham, history and mythology. Essential reading for all Shakespeare enthusiasts – thrilling, entertaining, definitive. * Nicola J. Watson, The Open University, UK *Richard Schoch's account of how the site of Shakespeare's birth became an international icon is Shakespearean in its range and ambition. His impressive cast includes poets, novelists, historians, biographers, actors, scholars, visual artists, local personalities, a circus-entrepreneur, even royalty, all of whom process across Schoch's Birthplace-stage and earn a place in the story. This is not only a gripping account of how Shakespeare's Birthplace evolved (family residence, inn, butcher's shop, pub, site of pilgrimage, museum, library, archive), but a delightful tour through the highlights of the first three hundred years of Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon. * Paul Edmondson, Head of Research, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK *Marking 400 years since the publication of the First Folio, in Shakespeare’s House Richard Schoch looks at the hidden history of the Bard’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, examining how it has become the chief shrine to our greatest playwright and asks what that changed status tells us about changing attitudes to Shakespeare himself. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Part I: Shakespeare and the World 1. On the Right Hand of Avon 2. To Be Wise in Building a House 3. Epitome of the Whole World 4. Household Stuff Part II: The World and Shakespeare 5. Thy Stratford Monument 6. Our Shakespeare’s House 7. A Marvellous Convenient Place 8. Birth of the Birthplace 9. Cottage of Humility 10. This House for Sale 11. Snatched from Quick Decay 12. Restoring Shakespeare 13. W.S. Epilogue: ‘Memorials of the Marvellous Man’ Bibliographic Essay Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisIain Jackson is Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK; Ewan Harrison is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Rixt Woudstra is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Michele Tenzon is research associate at University of Liverpool; Claire Tunstall is Global Head of Art Collections, Archives and Records Management at Unilever.

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Home provides a comprehensive survey of the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800 years, the six volumes explore how different cultures and societies have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space.1. A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity (800 BCE - 800 CE)2. A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450)3. A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648)4. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 - 1815)5. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Empire (1815 - 1920)6. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (1920 - present)Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:1. The Meaning of the

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Book SynopsisArchitectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the world's most dispersed and culturally diverse region.A wide-ranging collection of case studies uncover these forgotten connections, drawing together stories of migratory architects, imperial commodities, and indentured labour. From Iran to Tasmania, Japan to Java, and Imperial China to the Pacific Islands, the chapters reveal how remnants of colonial trade and industry shed light on the many multi-faceted mobilities of the imperial age, and their enduring legacy in the postcolonial built environments of Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and beyond. The chapters also reveal deep strands of cultural influences and material imprints long neglected by national histories of architecture, and showcase new methodologies to analyse the interconnectivities and bo

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Book SynopsisKathi Holt, PhD is Founding Director of NERØ HOLT, as well as an Industry Fellow in the Faculty of Science, QUT, Australia, and the President of the Urban Design Alliance, Queensland.Errol Haarhoff is Emeritus Professor of Architecture and previous Head of School at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and recipient of the South African Institute of Architects' Distinguished Research Award.Walter Peters is Emeritus Professor of Architecture of both the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Free State (UFS), South Africa. He holds both the South African Institute of Architects' Writers and Critics Award and Medal of Distinction and was elected 21st Sophia Gray laureate.

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Book SynopsisStephen Walker is Professor of Architectural Humanities at The Manchester School of Architecture, The University of Manchester, UK.

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