History of architecture Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fairground Theory
Book SynopsisStephen Walker is Professor of Architectural Humanities at The Manchester School of Architecture, The University of Manchester, UK.
£80.75
ABC-CLIO World Architecture and Society 2 volumes
Book SynopsisThis two-volume encyclopedia covers buildings and sites of global significance from prehistoric times to the present day, providing students with an essential understanding of architectural development and its impact on human societies.This two-volume encyclopedia provides an in-depth look at buildings and sites of global significance throughout history. The volumes are separated into four regional sections: 1) the Americas, 2) Europe, 3) Africa and the Middle East, and 4) Asia and the Pacific. Four regional essays investigate the broader stylistic and historical contexts that describe the development of architecture through time and across the globe. Entries explore the unique importance of buildings and sites, including the megalithic wonder of Stonehenge and the imposing complex of Angkor Wat.Entries on Spanish colonial missions in the Americas and the medieval Islamic universities of the Sahara connect to broader building traditions. Other entries highlight re
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Little, Brown Book Group The Real Crown Jewels of England
Book SynopsisAn irresistible and charming celebration of the places, buildings and landscapes that underpin British identity.Trade ReviewGlorious * Daily Mail *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals
Book SynopsisThe touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache's career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use oTrade Review"The editors and authors have done a fine job celebrating Prache’s great intellectual acumen, diplomatic gifts, and warmth as a human being, while leaving behind erudite 'memories' and a wealth of new ideas."- CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, Kathleen Nolan and Dany Sandron; Preface; Anne Prache: a distinctive approach to the history of architecture, Dany Sandron; Introduction, Kathleen Nolan. Part I Architecture: The 13th-century foundations of Notre-Dame de Reims: new evidence for the construction history of the cathedral, Walter Berry; Cathedral, palace, hôtel: architectural emblems of an ideal society, Michael T. Davis; Ambulatories, arcade screens, and visual experience from Saint-Remi to Saint-Quentin, Ellen M. Shortell; Roriczer, Schmuttermayer, and two late Gothic portals at The Cloisters, Nancy Wu. Part II Stained Glass: Stained glass and the chronology of Reims Cathedral, Sylvie Balcon-Berry; Joseph's Dream in the Thomson Collection: reconsidering the reconstruction of the Infancy of Christ window from Suger’s Saint-Denis, Michael W. Cothren; The west rose window of the cathedral of Chartres, Claudine Lautier; Out with the new and in with the old: Jacques Coeur’s Annunciation window and its reception in Bourges Cathedral, Philippe Lorentz. Part III Sculpture: Teachers, preachers, and the Good Shepherd at Reims Cathedral: another look at the radiating chapel sculptures, William W. Clark; The function of drawings in the planning of Gothic sculpture: evidence from the archivolts of the central portal of Bourges Cathedral, Fabienne Joubert; Joseph at Chartres: sculpture lost and found, Charles T. Little; Filiae Hierusalem: female statue-columns from Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, Kathleen Nolan and Susan Leibacher Ward; A little-known work from the 14th century: the façade of the cathedral of Lyons, Nicolas Reveyron. Afterword, Gérard P. Prache; Index.
£128.25
Edinburgh University Press Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia
Book SynopsisThis book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Persian Historic Urban Landscapes
Book SynopsisPersian cities are part of a corridor of civilisation with settlements straddling thousands of years. Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically.Trade Review"This is an ambitious and pioneering study of the evolution of an Iranian desert city over the millennia, enlivened by a deep understanding of its social context, the changing structural imperatives at work and the adaptability of brick as a building material." -- Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh"This is the first work on Iranian cities that combines both a long run account of development and a micro level of analysis." -- Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Isfahan and its Palaces
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501 1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship.
£38.00
Edinburgh University Press ChinaS Early Mosques
Book SynopsisExplains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged
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Edinburgh University Press The Architecture of Scotland 16601750
Book SynopsisThis architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Bayana
Book SynopsisOffers a broad reinvestigation of North Indian Muslim architecture through a case study of a desert fortress: Bayana in Rajasthan.
£190.00
Edinburgh University Press Domestic Architecture Literature and the Sexual
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria.
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Edinburgh University Press Studies in Arab Architecture
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume with many images previously unpublished in colour collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture
Book SynopsisThis volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparisons to Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain, within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures of the Islamic world between the 11th and 13th centuries.
£117.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture. The case studies in this volume offers new methodologies and models for the subject of corporate patronage, going beyond the usual focus on corporate sponsorship and collecting to explore the complex organizational networks and motivations behind corporate commissions. Featuring chapters on Margaret Bourke-White, Julie Mehretu, Maxfield Parrish, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Eugene Savage, Millard Sheets, and Kehinde Wiley, as well as studies on Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr., and Dorothy Shaver, and companies such as Herman Miller and Lord and Taylor, this book looks at a wide array of works, ranging from sculpture, photography, mosaics, and murals to advertisements, department store displays, sportswear, medical schools, and public libraries. It also contains an extensive Trade ReviewMore than just a necessary corrective to the prevailing scholarly inattention to the private sector’s consumption of the visual arts, Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States demonstrates how extensively the histories of art and commerce interlace. Brimming with archival gems, fresh interpretations, and new interpretive frameworks, this collection of essays by fourteen authors examines artistic commissions of remarkable variety and complexity, both in terms of their underlying motives and their outward manifestations: hospital architecture, installations for office buildings, banks, and ocean liners, department store displays, furniture design, magazine advertisements, contemporary sportswear, and even the very materials from which art is made. Often circulating beyond the white cube of the museum, these collaborations between cultural producers and business enterprise, moreover, represented most Americans' first or primary exposure to modern art, design, and architecture. This volume will not only encourage business historians to take corporate visual culture more seriously but also urge art historians to reconsider the facile distinctions between commercial culture and the avant-garde that have shaped the field. * John Ott, Professor of Art History, James Madison University, USA *Writing in 1927, the American advertising executive Earnest Elmo Calkins declared that “beauty [is] the new business tool.” This anthology re-considers the modern alliance between art and industry that laid the foundation for the ubiquitous corporate sponsorship of our own time. Calkins would have approved, thankful for this new history of beauty and business. * Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Beyond the Commercial: Corporate Patronage Reconsidered Monica E. Jovanovich and Melissa Renn Part I: Rethinking Corporate Patronage Chapter 1: Corporate Patronage at the Crossroads: Situating Diego Rivera’s ‘Rockefeller Mural’ Then and Now Mary K. Coffey Chapter 2: Maxfield Parrish’s Creative Machinery for Transportation Jennifer A. Greenhill Chapter 3: Connections and Conflicts: Margaret Bourke-White’s Corporate, Commercial, and Documentary Photography Mark Durden Chapter 4: Incorporated Philanthropy: The General Education Board, Abraham Flexner, and the Architecture of American Medical Schools in the Early Twentieth Century Katherine L. Carroll Part II: From Tastemaking to Marketing: Corporate Patronage Networks Chapter 5: The Corporate Person as Art Collector: Andrew Mellon’s Capital and the Origins of the National Gallery of Art Seth Feman Chapter 6: ‘To live is to look and move forward’: Lord and Taylor’s 1928 Exposition of Modern Art and Design Elizabeth McGoey Chapter 7: Merchants, Manufacturers, and Museums: The Patronage Networks of Modern Design in the United States, 1930s–1950s Margaret Maile Petty Chapter 8: Marketing Hawaii: Eugene F. Savage and the Matson Murals (1938–1940) Elizabeth B. Heuer Part III: Corporate Commissions as Branding and Public Relations Chapter 9: Civic Space and an Iconic Brand: Paradoxes of Corporate Patronage in the Carnegie Library Phenomenon Douglas Klahr Chapter 10: Banking with Family in Postwar California: Howard Ahmanson, the Millard Sheets Studio, and the Home Savings and Loan Commissions, 1953–1991 Adam Arenson Chapter 11: Rusting Giant: U.S. Steel and the Promotional Material of Sculpture Alex J. Taylor Chapter 12: From Bank Lobbies to Sportswear: Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, and the Shift in Corporate Patronage in the Twenty-First Century Daniel Haxall Bibliography List of Contributors
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Rowman & Littlefield Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron
Book Synopsis"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today.Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today. Together, Napoleon III and his right-hand man, Georges Haussmann, completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades—a breathtaking achievement made possible not only by the emperor’s vision and Haussmann’s determination but by the regime’s unrelenting authoritarianism, augmented by the booming economy that Napoleon fostered.Yet a number of Parisians refused to comply with the restrictions that censorship and entrenched institutional taste imposed. Mary McAuliffe follows the lives of artists such as Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Claude Monet, as well as writers such as Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, while from exile, Victor Hugo continued to fire literary broadsides at the emperor he detested. McAuliffe brings to life a pivotal era encompassing not only the physical restructuring of Paris but also the innovative forms of banking and money-lending that financed industrialization as well as the city’s transformation. This in turn created new wealth and lavish excess, even while producing extreme poverty. More deeply, change was occurring in the way people looked at and understood the world around them, given the new ease of transportation and communication, the popularization of photography, and the emergence of what would soon be known as Impressionism in art and Naturalism and Realism in literature—artistic yearnings that would flower in the Belle Epoque.Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative narrative.Trade Review[A] wonderful and fascinating book. . . . Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. . . . Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative narrative. * Eye Prefer Paris *Her reputation as a social and literary historian of Paris already cemented, McAuliffe returns with a detailed history of the City of Light and its nineteenth-century transformation into the sophisticated, envied capital. Its wide boulevards, monumental architecture, health-improving sewers and aqueducts, and efficient transportation systems began in earnest in the 1850’s under Napoleon III and his chief urban planner, Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Before becoming Emperor, Louis Napoleon in his London exile already had formulated plans for extending broad avenues west of the Louvre. With Haussmann’s skills at planning and at creating political will to action, the new Emperor created substantial parks on the city’s outskirts and built conveniently situated train stations for the novel technology of rail travel. Razing tenements and codifying design for new apartment buildings, Haussmann constructed the cityscapes of Paris so beloved in the twentieth century. Urban elegance came at the cost of democratic rule as the former republic hardened into autocracy. Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography. * Booklist, Starred Review *The re-creation of Paris from a medieval urban maze to the city of lights and boulevards comes to life in Mary McAuliffe’s historical exposé . . . an enlightening and overwhelming story of a tumultuous and transformative Parisian period. * Foreword Reviews *As the world’s most magical city, Paris was created over the centuries by kings, emperors, and presidents, but, as Mary McAuliffe so magisterially reveals in Paris, City of Dreams, no one played a greater role in the modern configuration of this wondrous city than Louis-Napoleon and his chief urban advisor, Baron Georges Haussmann. Reading this masterful account, one realizes how Napoleon III and Haussmann transformed a city of narrow lanes, insalubrious dwellings, and staggering pestilence into a triumph of vital sanitation and unparalleled beauty, creating the broad boulevards and architectural masterpieces so universally admired. -- David Garrard Lowe, president of Beaux Arts Alliance and author of Lost ChicagoIf you want to know how Paris came to look as it does, read this book! Mary McAuliffe has written a thoroughly entertaining account of the politics and business behind Haussmann’s famous boulevards. Weaving the lives of artists and writers into the tale of the city’s transformation, Paris, City of Dreams is also a well-informed history of France’s Second Empire and its inglorious end. -- David Bellos, author of The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisérablesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of Paris, 1860–1870Introduction Chapter 1 From Barricades to Bonaparte (1848–1851) Chapter 2 Blood and Empire (1852) Chapter 3 Enter Haussmann (1853) Chapter 4 A Nonessential War (1854) Chapter 5 A Queen Visits (1855) Chapter 6 What Goes Up . . . (1856–1857) Chapter 7 More and More (1858) Chapter 8 Dreams of Glory (1859) Chapter 9 Suddenly Larger (1860) Chapter 10 Turning Point (1861) Chapter 11 Les Misérables de Paris (1862) Chapter 12 Scandal (1863–1864) Chapter 13 Death and Taxes (1865) Chapter 14 Crisis (1866) Chapter 15 A Setting Sun (1867) Chapter 16 Twenty Years Later (1868) Chapter 17 Haussmann in Trouble (1869) Chapter 18 Finale (1870) Chapter 19 An End and a Beginning (1870–1871)Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£14.24
Monacelli Press New York Rising: An Illustrated History from the
Book SynopsisNew York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation - of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth century, this book presents a broad historical survey, illustrated with images drawn largely from the rich archival resources of the Durst Collection at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. The patriarch of one of New York City's most prominent real estate families, Seymour B. Durst, was a bibliophile and an avid collector of New York memorabilia. His archival holdings - once known as the Old York Library and now the Durst Collection - reflect his fascination with the city's street grid, mass transit, port, parks and open spaces, as well as its monumental buildings and signature skyline. Ten leading scholars - the late Hilary Ballon, Ann Buttenwieser, Andrew Dolkart, David King, Reinhold Martin, Richard Plunz, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Hilary Sample, Russell Shorto, and Carol Willis - delved into the collection to select objects that reflect their own areas of interest and expertise. Using these materials, they have created visual narratives on specific topics, focusing on the Dutch and English governance of Manhattan, the growth of the city according to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, the emergence of the public transit system, the "race for height," the rise of multi-family and affordable housing, the transformation of Midtown into a commercial center, urban renewal in the Moses era, the revival of Times Square, and the reclaiming of the waterfront as public space. Essays by Kate Ascher and Thomas Mellins provide a framework for exploring these topics. New York Rising is published in association with The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.Trade Review"Kate Ascher and Thomas Mellins mined the 35,000 items that the developer Seymour Durst’s family donated in 2011 to Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library to produce New York Rising: An Illustrated History From the Durst Collection. Maps, ephemera, photographs and other illustrations generously punctuate the 10 chapters on subjects ranging from “Moving the People” to “Remaking Times Square” and written by an A-team of municipal experts that includes Russell Shorto, Hilary Ballon (who died in 2017), Andrew Dolkart, Carol Willis, Ann Buttenwieser and Lynne B. Sagalyn." - The New York Times "New York Rising is the perfect book for readers who want their NYC history in short, clearly written and abundantly-illustrated doses. The quality of the reproductions in the book is particularly impressive; its design and layout, credited to Yve Ludwig, deserves special mention. The Durst collection is a wonder and the contributors and editors have certainly done justice to its remarkable scope in this new book.... this is a beautiful book and a useful addition to your New York history bookshelf. Its size makes it a coffee table book but don’t let it sit on the coffee table. Move it to your bedside table, or wherever you put the books that you are really planning to read." - Brick Underground "If you want to go on a visual journey that begins with Manhattan’s first European settlement, way back in the seventeenth century, up through the skyscrapers and urban planning of the late twentieth century, look no further than New York Rising: An Illustrated History from the Durst Collection.” - 6sqft
£33.96
Monacelli Press Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West
Book SynopsisTwenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world’s most intriguing destinations. When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called “among the largest and most beautiful in the world,” and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape. In keeping with Judd’s site-specific intentions, those who call Marfa home have made a choice to live in concert with their untamed, open surroundings. Marfa Modern features houses that represent unique responses to this setting - the sky, its light and sense of isolation - some that even predate Judd’s arrival. Here, conceptual artist Michael Phelan lives in a former Texaco service station with battery acid stains on the concrete floor and a twenty-foot dining table lining one wall. A chef’s modest house comes with the satisfaction of being handmade down to its side tables and bath, which expands into a private courtyard with an outdoor tub. Another artist uses the many rooms of her house, a former jail, to shift between different mediums - with Judd’s Fort D. A. Russell works always visible from her second-story sun porch. Extraordinary building costs mean that Marfa dwellers embrace a culture of frontier ingenuity and freedom from excess—salvaged metal signs become sliding doors and lengths of pipe become lighting fixtures, industrial warehouses are redesigned after the area’s white-cube galleries to create space for private or personally created art collections, and other materials are suggested by the land itself: walls are made of adobe bricks or rammed earth to form sculptural courtyards, or, in one remarkable instance, a mix of mud and brick plastered with local soils, cactus mucilage, horse manure, and straw.Trade Review"This book of modern interiors captures both the unique sense of place and the vibrant artistic community of Marfa, Texas, a mecca for art pilgrims, design aficionados, and international hipsters. The idea of 'a place where the demand to live for art is so compelling as to be unavoidable' might sound hyperbolic, but when readers see how these residents live, they'll understand." —Publishers Weekly "Thompson’s clear, brief essays describe how each homeowner arrived in Marfa—a nice contextual touch, given that it’s a remote place where residents and visitors have to decide very consciously to be. Her descriptions of plans, materials, and design concepts give heft to what could have simply been a lifestyle coffee table book. Photographer Casey Dunn leaves people and styling (extraneous food, flowers, and props) out of his shots, for the most part, which keeps the focus on design choices as well as the play of the desert light inside. The result is a visual page-turner and is clearly a result of Thompson’s reporting skills from her days at Metropolitan Home magazine. Marfa Modern serves as a primer on how a “watering hole” that [Donald] Judd put on the map has evolved without him, and lets it lay claim to importance as a place of vernacular design, not solely an art destination." —Architectural Record "Each of 21 houses showcases a different response to the landscape—from artful transformations of a former service station and a onetime jail to new builds with 360-degree views. Helen Thompson's brightly knowledgeable tone makes her a welcome guide, but Casey Dunn's 200 photos prove that the least expensive material—the light—remains key to each project's success." —Interiors "Marfa has grown to be an enclave for artists, chefs, hoteliers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Helen Thompson describes the architecture as intensely personal, an oddball mix of funky vibes with ultra-modern art: 'Each home is a site-specific construction that exists in the spirit of Judd's command to make art suit its space. In the best sense, the thoughtful creatives who have settled lately in Marfa carry on the tradition of Marfa as Donald Judd saw it—as a place where the demand to live for art is unavoidable and compelling.'" —Styleblueprint
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors: From
Book SynopsisThis compact, heavily-illustrated guide makes it a snap to identify period styles from the 17th century to the present day. The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference that combines depth of content with ease of use. Including examples and analysis on 17th-century Louis XIV through 20th-century Late Modern and each style in between, this new edition is also updated with the latest trends of the 21st century, including computer design, sustainable design, and modern office design. New sidebars interspersed throughout the book offer glimpses into historic design styles from around the globe. Each style section ends with a summary of key characteristics, major designers, and iconic fabrics. This book is an indispensable tool for identifying the trends throughout the history of interior design.Trade ReviewAs before, it is a compact volume covering a wide range of styles over the last 400-plus years. The book has a wealth of quality color photographs, showing individual examples of furnishings and composites of period rooms. Its illustrative value is backed up with a text that supports the various periods and styles within, plus the particular pieces of popular furnishings. Although the book is formatted more like an academic textbook, its primary audience would appear to be anyone who is actually seeking information about historic pieces of furniture and their interior spaces. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *[Gura is] even-handed, treating each period and designer fairly. The book is mainly aimed at students of design and design history, but it will be of interest to those, like me, who visit private and publicly open properties. * Reference Reviews *This updated pictorial guide to interior design features fully revised sections and a new chapter on twentyfirst-century styles. There are 350 photographs, a bibliography, a glossary, and a chronology. Every era iscovered in a brief narrative, along with photos of prime examples (mostly individual furniture pieces) of the style. Sidebars offer information on movements, designers, and styles. Enough here has changed that libraries owning the first edition will want to consider this update. Essential for academic and special libraries serving art and design students; a nice purchase for larger libraries where there is an interest in interior design or history. * Booklist *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 17th Century An Overview Louis XIV William and Mary Colonial America/Pilgrim 18th Century An Overview Louis XV Queen Anne Georgian 19th Century An Overview Greek Revival Biedermeier Gothic Revival Rococo Revival Renaissance Revival Aesthetic Movement Eclecticism and Exotica English Arts & Crafts Art Nouveau Glasgow Style 20th Century An Overview European Avant-Garde Art Deco Industrial Design Midcentury American Modern Scandinavian Modern Italian Modern French Modern Studio Crafts Postmodern Late Modern 21st Century An Overview Computer Design Design Art Sustainable Design Design in New Materials Conceptual Design Avant-Garde Design (New Technology) Modern Office Design Appendix I: Timeline of Styles Appendix II: Names to Know Appendix III: Distinctive Design Elements Glossary Bibliography
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Museum of Modern Art Bogdanovic by Bogdanovic: Yugoslav Memorials
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Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd MMXX: Two Decades of Architecture in Australia
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Amber Books Ltd Abandoned Sacred Places
Book SynopsisWe may think of churches, mosques, synagogues and temples as ordered places for organized religion. But what happens when the congregation moves away? Or when shifting borders or persecution mean that people can no longer reach them? And, in the absence of humankind, what happens when nature’s unceasing efforts invade the hallowed walls? Abandoned Sacred Places is a brilliant pictorial exploration of both ancient and modern temples, synagogues, churches, mosques and stone circles that have been left behind. From the mysteries around Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France constructed thousands of years ago to crumbling inner cities churches and synagogues in present-day Detroit and Chicago, from ancient Roman temples to Mayan pyramids in Mexico, and from Hindu temples lost in the Indian jungle to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, the book shows what happens when humanity retreats and nature is allowed to reclaim the land. With 200 outstanding colour photographs exploring hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Sacred Places is a moving examination of more than 100 lost worlds.Table of ContentsIntroduction AFRICA Tassili, Algeria Giza Pyramids, Egypt Khonsu Temple, Luxor\Karnak, Egypt Abu Simbel, Egypt Medinet Habu, Ancient Egypt Nubian Pyramids, Sudan Ptomelaic Egypt: Temple of Kom Ombo and Temple of Edfu Roman Africa: Dougga, Tunisia; Sbeitia, Tunisia Christian Tombs, Al-Bagawat, Egypt Roman Basilica, Volubilis, Morocco Roman Basilica, Leptis Magna, Libya Mosque, Kilwa Kisiwani Island, Tanzania THE MIDDLE EAST Ain Dara, Syria Petra, Jordan Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia Myra Necropolis, Turkey Temple of Artemis, Jerash, Jordan Temple of Baal, Palmyra, Syria Palmyra, Syria Zechariah’s Tomb, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, Israel Absalom’s Tomb, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, Israel Sumatar, Sabian site, Turkey At Hamat Synagogue, Tiberias, Israel Dura-Europos Synagogue, Syria Mushabbak Basilica, Dead Cities of Syria, Syria Cathedral/Mosque Fethiye, Ani, Turkey Church of the Redeemer, Ani, Turkey Orthodox Church Kayaköy, Turkey Lower Church, Kayaköy, Turkey Modern Mosque, Desert, Dubai Armenian Church, Mosul, Iraq ASIA Tomb of Darius, Naqsh-e Rustem, Iran Garni Ancient Roman Temple, Armenia Zvarnots Early Christian Cathedral, Armenia Ajanta Caves, India Elephanta Caves, Hindu, India Ellora Caves, India Site of Bamyan Buddhas, Afghanistan Khajuraho Hindu and Jain Temples, India Borobudur Buddhist Temples, Java, Indonesia Prambanan Hindu Temples, Indonesia Angkor Khmer Temples, Cambodia Prasat Hin Mueang Tam Khmer Temples, Thailand Bagan Temples, Burma Mogao Caves, China Polunnaruwa, Sri Lanka My Son, Cham Temple, Vietnam Ayutthaya, Thailand Hampi, India Bodhesar Jain Temple, Pakistan Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Delhi, India Trai Tim Church, Nam Dinh, Vietnam Buddhist Shrine, Nokogiri, Japan Buddhist Shrine, Nepal Muslim Necropolises, Kazakhstan Shiva Sunken Temple, Scindia Ghat, Varanasi, India British Colonial Church, Ross Island, Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean Chicken Church, Indonesia THE AMERICAS AND THE PACIFIC Pyramid, Caral Supe, Peru Temple of the Sun, Tiwanaku, Bolivia Nazca Lines, Peru Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA Guatape Rock, Colombia Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico Mayan Sites: Lamanai Mask Temple, Belize Sacred Cenote, Mexico Becan, Yucatan, Mexico Copan, Honduras Yaxchilan, Mexico Tikal, Guatemala Incan Sites: Machu Picchu, Peru Moray Circle, Peru Easter Island statues Russian Cemetery, Sitka, Alaska, USA Church, Dooley, Montana Church, Dorothy, Alberta Anglican Old Church, Godmanchester, Quebec, Canada Methodist Church, Gary, Indiana Lower East Side Synagogue, New York East Methodist Church, Detroit Potosi Church, Venezuela Jesuit Mission, La Santisima Trinidad e Parana, Paraguay Jesuit Mission, Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay San Juan Parangaricutiro Church, Mexico Port au Prince Cathedral, Haiti Penal Colony Church, Tasmania EUROPE Hagar Qim, Malta – 4thC BCE megalithic site Stonehenge, England Parthenon, Athens, Greece Temple of Delphi, Greece Altar, Pompeii, Italy Ercole Temple, Agrigento, Sicily Tomb of the Kings, Cyprus Baptistry, Butrint, Albania Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire, England Elgin Cathedral, Moray, Scotland Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland Ermita de la Piedad Chapel, near Segovia, Spain Church, Bussana Vecchia, Liguria, Italy Abbey, Mont-Saint-Eloi, France Villers Abbey, Wallonia, Belgium All Saints, Stovlinky, Czech Republic Catholic Church, Near Chervonohorod, Nyrkiv, Ukraine Novotroitskoye Church, Lipetsk Region, Russia Bogorodskoye Village Church, Penza Region, Russia Monastery near Kalach, Voronezh, Russia Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Yaropolets, Volokolamsk District, Russia Wooden Church, Maslovskaya Arkhangelsk Region, Russia Highgate Cemetery, London Kaiser Wilhelm Church, Berlin, Germany Church of St Etienne the Old, Caen, Normandy France Church, Oradour-sur-Glane, France St Luke’s Church, Liverpool, England Vidin Synagogue, Bulgaria Jewish Cemetery, Vienna, Austria Jewish Cemetery, Wroclaw, Poland Submerged Church, Reschensee, South Tyrol, Italy St Nicholas’s Cathedral, Kalyazin, Russia Church, Jrebchevo, Bulgaria
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Basilicas of Ethiopia: An Architectural
Book SynopsisThe basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church of M?ry?m ??yon, sadly destroyed in 1535, and since then many hundreds of basilicas have been built in Ethiopia, many, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lalibela, literally 'hewn from the rock'. In this book, architectural historian and architect Mario di Salvo considers the unique architectural features of Ethiopia's basilicas and explains how they developed over time. Featuring almost 200 colour illustrations, this book is an attractive and comprehensive guide to some of Ethiopia's most inspiring religious buildings.Trade Review'This is an extremely worthwhile study of basilicas in Ethiopia by an architect. He presents the stylistic developments of sacred buildings by comparing a number of churches, which though different preserved a more or less defined form. People everywhere come together to celebrate religious rites in sacred sites. In Ethiopia exigencies of landscape and politics created buildings which were monolithic, semi-monolithic or carved out of the living rock. A number of very impressive large buildings for sacred and secular usage can still be found there, however, many have all but disappeared or are in a very ruinous state, so that the study of individual sites is an increasingly necessary task for understanding the development of this architectural style. The genesis and development of building traditions during the Aksumite Empire continued for many centuries after its demise. These architectural solutions are meticulously explained and richly illustrated with the author's own photographs and images from earlier excavation campaigns. This beautifully produced volume will inspire the serious student of architecture as well as introduce the general reader to the Ethiopian landscape and politics under which large buildings such as basilicas were created.' - Dorothea McEwan, Honorary Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London, 'Many books have hitherto been written about ancient Ethiopian churches - mostly by historians, archaeologists and well known photographers. This is one of the very few books written about this enthralling subject by a professional architect. Without doubt, Mario di Salvo's The Basilicas of Ethiopia is the most authoritative book yet on the architectural history of the magnificent Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. This sumptuously presented oeuvre is not only a seriously academic book written just for other architects, but indeed also for the wider audience of aficionados of Ethiopian art and culture, for whom it will be a great delight to have in their collection.' - Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, PhD., Chairman of the Board of Patrons, ORBIS AETHIOPICUS - The Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Ethiopian CultureTable of ContentsForeword by Professor Michael Gervers Introduction: The Structural Characteristics of Christian Basilicas Part I - The Ruins of the Ancient Aksumite Basilicas (4th-7th c.) Part II - The Architecture of Ethiopia's 8th-12th century (post-Aksumite) Basilicas Modified/Edified Basilicas Subterranean /Hypogeal Basilicas Semi-monolithic Basilicas Later Basilicas Part III - The Architecture of the Medieval Basilicas of Ethiopia Basilicas constructed in Caves Monolithic Basilicas in Lalibela The Last Ethiopian Basilicas GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Handel Hendrix House: A Souvenir Guide
Book SynopsisThis evocative souvenir traces the life and times of George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix – two of the greatest musicians ever to have lived in London. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street from 1723 until his death in 1759. It was here that Handel composed his greatest works, including Messiah and its ever popular Hallelujah chorus. His stirring anthem Zadok the Priest was also written in Brook Street and has accompanied the coronation of every British monarch since George II. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix moved into an adjoining flat at number 23. Here, in the only place he said he felt truly at home, Hendrix entertained, inspired and collaborated with other icons of British 60s rock music. Handel Hendrix House reopened in May 2023 following a £3million restoration, shedding new light on its famed residents, the great composer George Frideric Handel and rock legend Jimi Hendrix.
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Paddy Rossmore: Photographs
Book SynopsisPaddy Rossmore: Photography records half a century of the travels made by Lord Rossmore and his companions the Knight of Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, and Mariga Guinness of the Irish Georgian Society. The visual record made by Rossmore provides a unique archive dedicated to preserving the landscape of a bygone era. With accompanying essays by fine art historian Robert O'Byrne, Rossmore's photographs capture the bittersweet beauty of an uncertain era for Ireland's architectural heritage, with many of his subjects now fallen to ruin, and others enjoying restoration and new life in modernized Ireland.Trade ReviewPaddy Rossmore’s photographs are a unique visual history of houses and interiors. * The Irish Times *
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue:
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the recent histories of Western and Japanese architecture have been well recorded, they have rarely been interwoven. Based on extensive research, this book provides a synthetic overview that brings together the main themes of Japanese and Western architecture since 1850 and shows that neither could exist in its present state without the other. It should be no surprise that the Bank of Japan in Tokyo is based upon the national banks in Brussels and London, or that Le Corbusier's cabanon at Cap Martin in the south of France is based upon an eight mat tatami room. In considering these histories, this book demonstrates the mutual inter-dependence of both architectural cultures while, at the same time, acknowledging their differences. In conclusion, the book moves beyond style and structure to the Japanese concept of ma - the pause or the space between, and demonstrates how this Zen Buddhist concept has found a place in Western architecture.Trade Review"An ambitious and exhaustively researched book.... Jackson's well-illustrated essays track important figures, movements and themes, from the isolationist, feudal pre-Meji period to the present, switching back and forth between parallel or related developments in Japan, Europe and the USA." - Paul Baxter, Architecture TodayTable of ContentsPrelude. Part 1: Shogun. 1: the Chained Country; 2. The Japanese Ambassadors; 3. The Land of the Morning; Part 2: Meiji. 4. The Japanese Pavilions; 5. The Art-Architects; 6. The Manners of the West; 7. The Western Architects; 8. The Japanese Architects; Part 3. Taisho. 9.The Winds of Heaven; 10. The Shaken Reed; 11. The Principle of Evolution; Part 4: Showa. 12. The Artist Samurai; 13. The Presence of Le Corbusier; 14. The Pacific Rim; 15. The West and Japan
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A History of the Squares and Palaces of London
Book SynopsisThe squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James's Square - the names are inextricably linked with the history of London itself. And the great houses of the capital - Buckingham House, Apsley House, Spencer House, to mention but a few - are intimately bound with the story not just of London but of the great families of the land. Edwin Beresford Chancellor's two volumes form an absorbing and informative account of the history of two of London's defining features. First published almost a century ago, these rare volumes still provide the most comprehensive accounts of their subject in a single volume. Attractively illustrated, with a new Introduction by Simon Jenkins, and handsomely produced in large format, they will be welcomed by all those with an interest in London's architectural and cultural history.Table of ContentsVolume I: The History of the Squares of London, Topographical and Historical Preface Introduction by Simon Jenkins Introduction by Edwin Beresford Chancellor 1. Berkeley and Grosvenor Square 2. Cavendish and Hanover Square 3. St James's, Panton and Cleveland Squares 4. Soho and Golden Squares 5. Leicester Square 6. Red Lion, Bloomsbury, and Bedford Squares 7. Russell and Queen Squares 8. Tavistock, Gordon, Brunswick, mecklenburgh, Woburn, ..etc., Squares 9. Portman, Montagu, Bryanston, Dorset, ... etc., Squares 10. Kensington Squares - Cadogan, Ovington, Trevor, Onslow, ... etc., Squares Squares North of the Park - Connaught, Oxford, Cambridge, Gloucester, ..... etc., Squares 11. Westminster Squares - Vincent, Smith and Queen Squares Belgravia Squares - St George's, Warwick, Ebury, Eaton, .... etc., Squares Chelsea Squares - Markham, Marlborough, Tedworth, Paultons, .....etc., Squares 12. Squares of the City and East End - Gough, Salisbury, Devonshire, Myddleton, .... etc.,Squares Squares of North-East and South London - Arundel, Barnsbury, Cloudesley, De Beauvoir, ....etc., Squares Index Volume II The Private Palaces of London, Past and Present Preface Introduction by Edwin Beresford Chancellor 1. Past City Palaces - Devonshire House, Northampton House, Bridgewater House, Aylesbury House, Albermarle House, ..... etc. 2. Great Houses of the Strand - Essex House, Arundel House, Worcester House, ....etc. 3. Burlington House and Others - Burlington House, Clarendon House, Buckingham House, ....etc. 4. Leicester House and Others - Leicester House, Drury or Craven House, Harcourt House, ....etc. 5. Whitehall Houses - Richmond House, Pembroke House, Gwydyr House, Carrington House, .... etc. 6. Apsley House 7. Bridgewater House 8. Chesterfield House 9. Crewe House 10. Devonshire House 11. Dorchester House 12. Grosvenor House 13. Lansdowne House 14. Londonderry House 15. Montagu House 16. Norfolk House 17. Portman House 18. Spencer House 19. Stafford House 20. Wimborne House Index
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Historic Environment Scotland St Peter's, Cardross: Birth, Death and Renewal
Book SynopsisThe ruin of St Peter's College has sat on a wooded hilltop above the village of Cardross for more than three decades. Over that time, with altars crumbling, graffiti snaking across its walls and nature reclaiming its concrete, it has gained a mythical, cult-like status among architects, preservationists and artists. St Peter’s only fulfilled its original role as a seminary for 14 years, from 1966 to 1979. As its uncompromising design gave way to prolonged construction and problematic upkeep, the Catholic Church reassessed the role of seminaries, resolving to embed trainee priests not in seclusion, but in communities. Although briefly repurposed as a drug rehabilitation centre, the building was soon abandoned to decay and vandalism. Ever since, people have argued and puzzled over the future and importance of St Peter’s. It has been called both Scotland’s best and worst twentieth century building. In 1992, it was listed category A. One of its architects suggested the idea of ‘everything being stripped away except the concrete itself – a purely romantic conception of the building as beautiful ruin’. And now in 2016, St Peter’s is renewed as a cultural space through the work of the arts organisation NVA. In this landmark book, Diane Watters looks at the history of a structure that emerged out of an innovative phase of post-war Catholic church building. She traces the story of an architectural failure which morphed into a tragic modernist myth: unappreciated architects betrayed by an unloving client, and abandoned by an uncaring society. This is a historian’s account of the real story of St Peter’s College: an exploration of how one of Scotland’s most singular buildings became one its most troubled – and most celebrated.Trade Review'Vast and visually stunning ... the brilliance of this work is in treating the building almost as a sentient being' * The Skinny *'The book itself is beautiful, well written and researched and packed with gorgeous photographs and drawings ... a fascinating and detailed history' * RIAS Quarterly *'... little short of a masterpiece' * Undiscovered Scotland *
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Batsford Ltd 100 Houses 100 Years
Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into Britain’s built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 100 houses – one from each year from 1914 – that represent the range of architectural styles throughout the years and show how housing has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is accompanied by stunning photography and texts written by leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Ellis Woodman and Gillian Darley. From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for individuals and for families to housing built for increased workforces, each of the 100 houses brings a different design style or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached suburban houses, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories and affordable post-war homes. The architectural styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts & Crafts and brutalist and the featured architects include Giles Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and David Chipperfield. The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last 100 years, looking at the impact the World Wars had on housing, exploring domestic technology and building materials and asking how the modern house came about. Whether exploring Grayson Perry’s folly-like House for Essex, Patrick Gwynne’s modernist glass villa in Surrey, Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House or Simon Conder’s black rubber-clad fisherman’s hut in Dungeness, this book gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing in Britain and is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
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Darf Publishers Ltd Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial
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Merrell Publishers Ltd London: Architecture, Building and Social Change
Book SynopsisLondon, a fascinating metropolis not just in terms of its history and landmark buildings, is also a city that grew out of villages. Its unique geography is expressed in a mosaic of districts, each with its own distinctive character and pedigree. London's districts, with their patchwork layout of primarily Georgian and Victorian squares and terraces juxtaposed with modern buildings and estates, reflect changing ideals in architecture, urban design and planning as well as shifting values in real estate and the insatiable thirst of its consumers. London is thus both text and context: fossilized social history, layerings of economic, social, and architectural history conveyed in stock brick, stucco, Portland stone, glass and steel. Underpinning this urban landscape is an evolutionary resilience that has maintained the basic spatial framework of the metropolis and sustained its imitable character. The city's institutional framework has been severely ruptured and reinvented time and time again after fires, bombs, floods or wholesale redevelopment. Political unrest and racial conflict have resulted in riots, while successive rounds of investment and disinvestment have replaced elements of the built environment many times over. This book offers an insightful perspective into the distinctiveness of London as expressed through its socially significant buildings and districts.
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Merrell Publishers Ltd Metroburbia: The Anatomy of Greater London
Book SynopsisLondon's suburbs are home to many thousands of people who travel into the centre every day to work, but they also house many thousands who rarely find a reason to do so. They contain all the essential infrastructure for the city, too, including airports, offices, shopping centre, factories and warehouses. Outer London is therefore both metropolitan and suburban at the same time - it is Metroburbia. In this book Paul Knox examines the architectural history and development of London's suburbs, and celebrates their surprising variety and organized structure, refuting the common claim that they are monotonous or amorphous. The first chapter, The Foundations of Metroburbia, explains the foundation and development of Metroburbia and looks at how topography and geology influenced the siting of the villages that would become part of Greater London. The River Thames, of course, is one of London's most important and well-known structural elements, and in this chapter Knox examines how its meanders and bends have produced distinct patterns of settlement and development. He also describes in detail the seven distinctive sectors of London, which are (running clockwise from the west) the Thames Valley, Northwest London, North London, the Lea Valley, Northeast London, the Thames Estuary and South London. Finally, he looks at how early settlements, country estates and royal palaces shaped Metroburbia, and how the increase in roads and industry consolidated the development of what would become suburbia. Chapter 2, Pattern-book London, looks at Victorian and Edwardian suburbs - the first developments to be given that name. The building booms and their effect on employment in the city, and the difference in style and purpose between the various suburbs, are discussed, and Knox also examines the effects of immigration and industrialization on the city's housing requirements. He also describes the genesis of the parks, cemeteries and garden villages that now provide such valuable green space for Londoners, and the creation of the impressive industrial, civic and institutional buildings that are still striking parts of the city's infrastructure. Chapter 3, Inter-war Suburbia: Metro-Land and the Universal Plan, describes the acceleration of building projects between the wars and the beginning of the transition from Edwardian society to the modern welfare state. The term 'Metro-Land', introduced by the Metropolitan Railway Company in the early twentieth century, gives the chapter its title, and describes the expansion of residential London along the route of the Underground lines into Buckinghamshire. The effect of widespread car ownership is discussed, and the various housing styles - Stockbroker Tudor, Suburban Moderne, the mansion block, and so on - are described. The fourth chapter, Secular Reformation and Modernism, covers the thirty years from the end of the Second World War, during which time the welfare state brought about radical changes to life in London and the architecture of the city. Chapter 5, Counter-Reformation, describes the changes wrought on the country by the new neo-liberal agenda, as the welfare state was overtaken by a market-driven economy that fostered free-for-all development. By this time Metroburbia had spread outwards to incorporate Chelmsford, Southend-on-Sea, Maidstone, Guildford, Reading and Luton. This was an era of radical new infrastructure projects - from the rise of the suburban shopping centre to the construction of the new Thames Barrier - and huge increases in house prices. The regeneration of the Isle of Dogs into the Docklands commercial area is one of the most high-profile developments of the era, but infill house-building and small-scale environmental developments were also produced, and social housing regenerated. Finally, the last chapter, Megapolitan Futures, explores the various theories about the capital's future and conjectures about the shape of the city in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Foundations of Metroburbia Chapter 2: Pattern-book London Chapter 3: Inter-war Suburbia: Metro-Land and the Universal Plan Chapter 4: Secular Reformation and Modernism Chapter 5: Counter-Reformation Chapter 6: Megapolitan Futures Notes Further Reading Index
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Fontanka Architecture of the NKTP Sanatorium in Kislovodsk
Book SynopsisThe NKTP (People''s Commissariat for Heavy Industry) Sanatorium was commissioned in 1934 by Grigory Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin''s closest allies and head of the Commissariat for Heavy Industry (he committed suicide after falling out with Stalin in 1937, the year of the sanatorium''s completion). Despite the prevailing ideology that sought to outlaw modernism in favour of Stalinist neoclassicism, architect Moisei Ginzburg, with a team that included Ivan Leonidov, Evgeny Popov and Nikolai Paliudov, succeeded in creating an architectural ensemble that essentially retained its modernist integrity - and today remains a masterpiece of 1930s modernism - while making only minor concessions to the new Stalinist orthodoxy. In the early Soviet period, Kislovodsk in the northern Caucasus became known as a center for health spas and sanatoria - ''palaces of health for the workers''. Ginzburg''s sanatorium still functions as a therapy center, and retains many of its original features, including windows, light fixtures, some of the furniture etc. This first English-language publication of the original book documenting its creation is an important addition to the Ginzburg canon.
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Old Street Publishing Concretopia A Journey Around the Rebuilding of
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University College Dublin Press More Than Concrete Blocks: Dublin city's
Book SynopsisMore Than Concrete Blocks: Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories is a three volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and written for the general reader. Unpacking the history of Dublin's architecture during the twentieth century, each book covers a period, in chronological sequence: Volume 1, 1900-1939; Volume 2, 1940-1972; Volume 3, 1973-1999. The series comes out of a pioneering research and survey project commissioned and funded by Dublin City Council's Heritage Office and has received grant support from the Heritage Council and the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage. Edited by Dr Ellen Rowley, the series considers the city as a layered and complex place. It makes links between Dublin's buildings and Dublin's political, social, cultural and economic histories. By focusing on architecture as the central thread in the story of the city in formation, 1900-2000, More Than Concrete Blocks is about the relationship between architecture and people in Dublin City. For Volume 3, the series editor is joined by Dr Carole Pollard as co-editor. This volume contains three introductory historical essays covering the building culture in Dublin of the 1970s (Carole Pollard), the 1980s (Ellen Rowley) and the 1990s (Merlo Kelly). These overview essays are followed by 31 studies ranging from iconic situations such as the Poolbeg Chimneys (1971-78), the Papal Cross (Phoenix Park, 1979) or the Central Bank (1979) on Dame Street, to lesser-known structures like the Willowfield housing scheme (1985) in Sandymount, the AnCO Training Centre (1981) in Finglas or the Donaghmede RC parish church (1979). Each study is framed according to key historic questions, and raises issues around architectural technology and materials, patronage, economic histories and urban planning, residents and ceremonial or daily use, and so on. Importantly, Volume 3 covers the decades of the end of the twentieth century, as Ireland joined the European Commission and Dublin city grew confident enough to reimagine Temple Bar. So, much of this history captures the energy and subsequent architectural framing of social infrastructure during this period. Volume 3 also presents an overview, in guidebook style, of 140 sites; a survey of the city's buildings over the period 1973 to 1999, not as 'a best of' but as a representation of architectural endeavour at the time.Trade Review'Dublin’s 20th century architecture can get a raw deal, More Than Concrete Blocks highlights its many strengths' –Frank McDonald, Irish Times, December 2023.
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University College Dublin Press Stones in Water: Inheritance in the Built
Book SynopsisStones in Water explores how the inherited built environment is understood and valued. This inheritance, created by the forebears of communities worldwide, is central to cultural identity everywhere. It is variously protected, exploited and at times weaponised, used to celebrate human achievement and also to undermine it. This curated collection, written over a period of years, reflects on persistent themes in heritage protection. These range from the implications of tourism for the cultural heritage of buildings and landscapes, to supporting recovery from the impacts of catastrophic events affecting historic places. The need to maintain the useful lives of inherited environments brings new demands and, also, fresh opportunities. Stones in Water: Inheritance in the Built Environment draws on the author's work, nationally and internationally, to interrogate how current and emerging challenges are changing perceptions of this endowment, and how new understandings can contribute positively to constructing a sustainable future.Trade Review'This curated collection, written over a period of years, reflects on persistent themes in heritage protection. These range from the implications of tourism for the cultural heritage of buildings and landscapes, to supporting recovery from the impacts of catastrophic events affecting historic places.' - RTE Culture (06/07/2023); 'A pilgrimage of thought. A window into the author consciousness as they move through a life lived in sharp focus to the intricacies of contradiction. Should been seen as essential for any student or practitioner of heritage conservation in Ireland.' Architecture Ireland, September 2023.
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University College Dublin Press Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during
Book SynopsisAn environmental history of the Irish Revolution. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to both natural and human-built landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged, and destroyed Ireland’s landscapes. The first environmental history of the revolutionary period, it incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and human-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarization of private and public spaces and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland’s civic spaces and colonial legacy. Re-evaluating conventional interpretations and introducing new arguments, Enduring Ruin pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Trade Review'Ernie O’Malley’s description of the destruction of the Four Courts as 'duelling orchestras of crashing stone and singing flame' was poetic, but this book does justice to the range of environmental destruction behind such lyricism.' - Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Times, January 2023; 'Enduring Ruin is a welcome study in that it departs from the normal discussions around either politics or the metrics of death and violence in quantifying revolutionary activity in Ireland from 1916 to 1923.' - Westmeath Examiner, December 2022.
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Blue Crow Media Concrete Los Angeles Map: Guide to concrete and
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Blue Crow Media Art Deco New York Map: Guide to Art Deco
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Mount Orleans Press Holland Blind Twilight
Book SynopsisRobinson describes his involvement with saving Spitalfields; his life as a "Young Fogey" with characters such as A.N. Wilson, Glynn Boyd Hart and Gavin Stamp; and the Georgian Group. The style is humorous, personal, politically incorrect and very entertaining.
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Jonglez Abandoned France
Book SynopsisFollowing the success of Sylvaine Margaine's first book, Forbidden Places, Abandoned France continues his journey in search of forbidden and often overlooked places. He draws attention to the dramatic fate of the country's heritage, the preservation of which has become a matter for serious reflection. An unrestricted visual journey inside the forgotten heritage of France; Captivating, explorative photography exposes the forgotten places and buildings shedding light on a long-abandoned world; 22 abandoned places chosen from 15 years of exploration take you to the four corners of France to tell the story of a forgotten heritage through thought-provoking images and text; Places included are the Gandrange steelworks, the decommissioned Uckange blast furnaces in Lorraine, a marine graveyard in Brittany, a forgotten chateau on the outskirts of Paris, a derelict sanatorium in the Alps, a military fort in the Pyrenees. For readers who love old things, old places, forgotten places, once elegant places of once thriving businesses. The photographs and text bring these forgotten places back to life.
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Birkhauser Architektur denken
Book SynopsisArchitecture that is meant to have a sensuous connection to life calls forthinking that goes far beyond form and construction. In his texts, Peter Zumthor articulates what motivates him to design his buildings, which appeal to the visitor's heart and mind in so many different ways and possess a compelling and unmistakable presence and aura.Now in its third edition, this book has been expanded to include two new essays: „Architecture and Lanscape” deals with the relationship between the structure and its surroundings, with the secret of the successful placement and topographical integration of architecture. In „The Leis Houses,” Peter Zumthor describes the genesis of two wooden houses in the town of Leis in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, thus thematizing the special challenge of integrating contemporary architecture into a traditional architectural context.
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Birkhauser Basics Entwurfsidee
Book SynopsisDesign Ideas offers students a variety of different ways to go about finding a design solution. In addition to suggesting fundamental ways to get the creative process moving and develop a design approach, it also proposes various sources of inspiration for design ideas. It focuses on the three elements of place, form, and function, which can sometimes constitute immediate springboards for concrete designs. These elements must eventually be incorporated as the design process.Subjects: Creativity in the design process; Sources of inspiration and design approaches; Working with place; Working with form; Working with function.
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Birkhauser Basics Technisches Zeichnen
Book SynopsisTechnical Drawing deals with the representation of plans throughout all phases of a project. For students, the primary focus is on the development and methodical construction of a technical drawing. Themes: Types of plan (from site plan and preliminary drawings to design and detail plans) Components of the plan (floor plan, section, elevation, detail) Line width, dimensioning, hatching, use of text, symbols Plan presentation and compilation
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Birkhauser Architekturtheorie im 20. Jahrhundert: Eine
Book SynopsisWorte bringen die Architektur zur Sprache, sie halten sie am Leben, vermitteln sie im kulturellen Diskurs. Mit dieser einzigartigen Textanthologie liegt nun ein unverzichtbares Vademekum der Architekturtheorie in einer zweiten, überarbeiteten Auflage vor. 100 Quellentexte von Architekten, Künstlern, Kunsthistorikern und Philosophen, zum Teil mit Illustrationsmaterial der Erstdrucke, stehen dem Leser für die eigenen Recherchen zur Verfügung: nach fünf Themenbereichen geordnet, in kommentierter Form und handlichem Format. Die zweite überarbeitete Auflage enthält neue Texte und ein neues Vorwort zur aktuellen Theorie-Entwicklung.
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Birkhauser Mies van der Rohe: Raum - Material - Detail
Book SynopsisEs ist unbestritten, dass Mies van der Rohe als einer der bedeutendsten Architekten der Moderne gilt. Aber wie verhalten sich seine Überlegungen und Ideale zur Architektur in seinem gebauten – und teils auch ungebauten – Werk? Dieser Frage geht das Buch anhand von 14 Projekten Mies‘ nach. Dabei stehen Detaillierung und Materialwahl im Vordergrund. Die Bauten umfassen, beim Haus Esters und Haus Lange (1927-30) beginnend, über das Haus Tugendhat (1928-30), den Barcelona-Pavillion (1928-29), das Farnsworth House (1946-51), den Lake Shore Drive (1948-51) bis hin zur Neuen Nationalgalerie (1962-68), mehrere Jahrzehnte Mies‘ Wirkens und sowohl seine deutsche, als auch seine amerikanische Schaffensphase.Sämtliche Zeichnungen sind durch den Autor einheitlich neugezeichnet.
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Birkhauser Das Rote Wien 1919–1934: Ideen, Debatten, Praxis.
Book SynopsisDie ersten freien Wahlen zum Wiener Gemeinderat bringen 1919 der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei die absolute Mehrheit. So beginnt ein international beachtetes Reformprojekt, das auf eine tiefgreifende Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen in der Stadt und eine weitreichende Demokratisierung der Gesellschaft zielt. Zentrales Handlungsfeld wird die Wohnungsfrage. Auf der Grundlage von „Luxussteuern" werden bis 1934 mehr als 60.000 Wohnungen sowie zahlreiche Sozial-, Freizeit- und Kultureinrichtungen geschaffen. Die umfangreich illustrierte Publikation fragt nach historischen Voraussetzungen und Wirkungen, den internationalen Einflüssen und der Ausstrahlung nach Außen, nach dem Verhältnis von Ideologie und Pragmatismus sowie nach dem aktuellen Potenzial dieser dynamischen Stadtentwicklung im Zeichen der Moderne. Table of ContentsVorläufiges Inhaltsverzeichnis: Schulreform/Bildung/Volksbildung Willfried Göttlicher: Schulreform, Experimentelle Pädagogik Christian Dewald: Freihofsiedlung Christian Stifter: Volkshochschule Alfred Pfoser: Arbeiterbüchereien Elsbeth Walnöfer: Heimatbegriff im Roten Wien Frauen/Gender Veronika Duma/Marie Yazdanpanah: Frauenpolitik im Roten Wien (Käthe Leichter) Ökonomie/Versorgung Peter Eigner: Überblick Christian Stadelmann: Versorgung, Energie, Elektrizität, Gas Kultur/Kunst/Wissenschaft Elke Wikidal: Franz Čižek / Kinetismus Wolfgang Fichna Rotes Wien und Neue Musik Sabine Zelger: Dichtung (Luitpold Stern), Literatur Berthold Ecker: Bildende Kunst, Avantgarde Gernot Waldner: Wiener Kreis, Sozialforschung Elizabeth Danto: Psychoanalyse und Rotes Wien Ralph Gleis: O. R. Schatz Kommunikation (Fotografie, Ausstellungen, Statistik, Museen, Modellbau etc.) Marion Krammer: Fotografie Günther Sandner: Otto Neurath und das Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum Joachim Schätz: Kino- und Filmpolitik Julia König, Christian Maryska: Plakat Rob McFarland: Amerikanismus Sport/Freizeit/Arbeiterkultur Georg Spitaler: Überblick Bernhard Hachleitner: Stadion und Arbeiter-Olympiade Ernst Gerhard Eder: Badekultur im Roten Wien (Amalienbad, Kongressbad etc.) Austromarxismus Vrääth Öhner: Überblick Kolonialismus/Postkolonialismus/Internationalismus Wohnen/Architektur/Städtebau/Stadtplanung Andreas Nierhaus: Überblick Andreas Pavlic: Anarchistische Siedlungsbewegung Sandor Békési: Verkehrsplanung Eva Maria Orosz: Wohnen, Mobiliar Christine Zwingl: Schütte-Lihotzky, Wiener Küche Christoph Freyer: Architektur für Kinder Susanne Breuss: Küche Hans Kapfinger: Brenner Haus Reinhard Sieder: Arbeiterfamilien Christoph Reinprecht: Rotes Wien im internationalen Vergleich des sozialen Wohnbaus (Berlin, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Moskau etc.) Romana Pöter: Freihofsiedlung Sabrina Rahman: Leeds, Quarry Hills Flats Johan Hartle: Manfredo Tafuri und die linke Kritik am Roten Wien Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik Katrin Pilz/Birgit Nemec: Eheberatung, Sozialfürsorge Sigrid Wadauer: Obdachlosigkeit, Bettelei etc. Wer sind die WienerInnen, Migration Stadtverwaltung Peter Becker, Therese Garstenauer Partei/Mobilisierung/Wahlen Wolfgang Maderthaner: Überblick Judentum / Antisemitismus Gerhard Milchram: Überblick Margit Reiter: Antisemitismus im Roten Wien
£32.30
Birkhauser Ein kleines Haus
Book SynopsisDie Villa le Lac, die seit 2016 zum Weltkulturerbe zählt, hat Le Corbusier 1925 am Genfer See für seine Eltern projektiert und gebaut. Aufgrund seiner sparsamen Raumdisposition bezeichnete er es selbst als „Wohnmaschine“. Bis heute ist es der moderne Prototyp des „kleinen Hauses“ geblieben, das mit einem Minimum an Grundfläche und ineinander übergehenden Räumen alle Funktionen des Wohnens erfüllt. Das Buch erscheint erstmals in drei getrennten Sprachausgaben und folgt der Originalausgabe, in der Le Corbusier die Geschichte des Gebäudes dokumentiert hat: mit Fotos, Skizzen und einem poetischen Text. Sie greift dabei aber auch auf die Originalfotografien zurück und bietet so eine maßgeblich verbesserte Abbildungsqualität; zudem enthält sie ein Nachwort der Architekturhistorikerin Guillemette Morel-Journel.
£24.70
Birkhauser Erich Mendelsohn: Bauten und Projekte
Book Synopsis Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) was one of the most versatile architects of the 20th century. His work reconciles the opposites of organic and rational building, of technological innovation and a regionalist attitude, of individual form and universal expression. He fled from Germany in 1933 via England and Palestine to the USA, and his work remains influential to this day. This comprehensive monograph documents all 70 of Mendelsohn's known completed buildings through text and images. In two essays, it also looks at his unbuilt projects. A newly compiled catalogue raisonné lists all of his works. The publication also contains numerous new photographs by Carsten Krohn, newly drawn plans and historical illustrations.
£57.95
