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Taylor & Francis Captured Landscape
Book SynopsisThe enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together. It has a long and varied history, ranging from the early paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and as a stage for social display. The enclosed garden has continued to develop into its many modern forms: the city retreat, the redemptive garden, the deconstructed building. As awareness of climate change becomes increasingly important, the enclosed garden, which can mediate so effectively between interior and exterior, provides opportunities for sustainable design and closer contact with the natural landscape. By its nature it is ambiguous. Is it an outdoor room, or captured landscape; is it architecture or garden?Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contemporary architects by exploring influential historical examples and the concepts they generate, alongside some Trade Review“Throughout, Baker supplements objective analysis of particular sites with ‘experiential’ descriptions – observing such elements as acoustics, air-flow and light. While aimed at landscapists and architects, this book will be useful to anybody interested in designing space.” – Garden Design Journal "Kate Baker is an architect and her real interest lies in seeing how places that are apparently cut off from the outside world in fact interact with it; how one can move in, through and out of them" – Historic Gardens Review"British architect and educator Kate Baker reviews the relevance of the enclosed garden in modern architecture and landscape design. Walled gardens have been landscape features for centuries; she finds that their long history continues in contemporary landscapes. Using examples from Britain, the Mediterranean, Japan, and South America, the author sets forth her argument that the walled enclosure is an option that designers should consider as a design possibility. The author does an admirable job in this study of the enclosed garden and opportunities for sustainable design." - Marilyn K. Alaimo, Chicago Botanic Garden"Baker leads readers to moments of discovery--hinting, nudging, and intuiting toward the realization that design is more than something attractive; it is something that comprises meaning at its core... Readers will gain a profound appreciation of the present as they allow built environments to inform through their own aesthetic... Highly recommended" - S. Hammer, CHOICE, September 2012"One of the strengths of the book is the diversity of case studies that are included reinforcing the versatility of the enclosed garden as applied to different cultures, climates, landscapes and historic periods. This mix of old and new reinforces the importance of the enclosed garden throughout time and lays the foundation for a discussion about why the form remains relevant today as urban environments adapt to the challenges of climate change." - Massachusetts Horticultural Society "...this book is a valuable addition to current work on emotional/sensuous geographies and it sits well alongside existing investigations of the experience of the domestic garden and restorative landscapes and gardens. Meanwhile, the architectural analysis, historical background and the sheer breadth of case studies contained within makes it an admirable source book for those who will play a part in shaping our built environment. Hopefully for them, it will prove what a positive, profound and life-giving element the enclosed garden can be." - Planning PerspectivesTable of Contents1. Defining the Territory 2. From Patio to Park 3. Taming Nature 4. Ritual and Emptiness 5. Sensory Seclusion 6. Detachment 7. Green City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Good the Bad and the Ugly Routledge Revivals
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects. Educated in the Modernist tradition of architecture in Britain and Denmark, Hackney's return to England in the 1970s changed his outlook completely. Cities like Birmingham and Sheffield had been ruined by ill-conceived planning; whole communities had been torn apart by massive destruction of Victorian terraces, and relocated to grim tower block estates. To those communities that he has rescued from the threat of redevelopment, Rod Hackney is a local hero. Determined to save Britain's inner cities, he has been a major influence on Prince Charles and a powerful spokesman for the silent majority of the urban poor, who often have no say as to where and how they live.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Foreword by the Rt Hon The Lord Scarman OBE 1. The Making of a Modernist 2. An Innocent Abroad 3. The Dream Becomes a Nightmare 4. The Battle of Black Road 5. The Wasteland 6. Cry for Help 7. Sound and Fury 8. Modernism is Dead 9. Hackney’s Empire; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd American Architects and the SingleFamily Home
Book SynopsisAmerican Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects' Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces, and service spaces for living; details about the books they published to promote good design; as well as new essays from contemporary practitioners will inspire your own designs. More than 200 black and white images.Trade Review"A fascinating walk through the rise and fall of the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau and the change in attitudes about ‘home’ that were supported, and then dismissed, by design professionals. The drawings, details, photographic images and perspectives included provide a unique insight into the development of the American home." - Cynthia Mohr, Professor and Chair, University of North Texas, USATable of ContentsForeward 1. An Overview of Single-Family Houses in the U.S. 2. An Introduction to the ASHSB and their Designs 3. Site, Form and Style 4. Spaces for Living and Entertainment 5. Functional Living Spaces 6. Private Spaces for Living 7. The ASHSB and Interior Design 8. Residential Architecture and Implications for the Future 9. Design Principles of Small Homes Bibliography Image Credits
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Architecture of the Facade
Book SynopsisThe Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization, and representation, the facade carries the lion's share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world. And yet, in recent decades, the very question of what exactly a facade is has been raised by the dramatic changes in building technology, advances of parametric design, and the ubiquity of autonomous buildings. The Architecture of the Facade addresses these and other related issues. The book is organized into 12 chapters, with each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of the phenomenon of the facade such as those Table of Contents1. A History of the Facade in Twelve Buildings 2. Notes Towards a Difficult Definition 3. Phenomenology and the Facade 4. The Phenomenon of the Wall 5. The Phenomenon of the Frame 6. The Outside, the Inside and the In-between 7. The Repetitive Bay 8. Representation, Abstraction, and Meaning 9. Transparency, Translucency and Opacity 10. Proportion and the Search for a Cosmic Connection 11. Precedent and Invention 12. The City and the Facade
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Primer on Theory in Architecture
Book SynopsisA Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics of theory along with subjects associated with theory and how these associations are recognized. In addition, case studies tackle both individual theorists and common approaches to the topic. Aimed at the new student of architectural theory, if you are just beginning to tackle this subject, begin with this book.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Exploring the Subject of Theory in Architecture Why Theory in Architecture Needs Exploration How Theory in Architecture Has Escaped Investigation The Approach for this Work An Overview of the Discussions in the Book 1. Defining Theory Introduction The History of the Term Theorizing and Theorems The Elements of TheorizingCharacteristics of Theorizing 2. The Paradigms that Ground Theorizing Introduction Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology Four Worldviews The Cacophony of Worldviews Worldviews in the Discipline The Importance of Coherency Recognizing a Network of Theory in Architecture 3. The Place of Theory in the Discipline Introduction Theory and History Theory and Design Theory and Criticism Theory and Manifestoes The Relationship of Theorizing to Other Writings 4.Engaging in Theorizing and the Construction of Theorems Introduction A Checklist for Theorizing Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conservation of Architectural Ironwork
Book SynopsisThe peak of architectural ironwork in the 19th Century saw the spread of ornate decorative ironwork across the world. In recent years there has been a significant increase in conservation and restoration projects aiming to protect the artistry of traditional ironwork for future generations. Conservation of Architectural Ironwork is the first book to provide a complete guide to the conservation and maintenance of traditional architectural ironwork.First introducing the contextual history and key material features of architectural ironwork, the book goes on to guide readers through the management and delivery of conservation projects from start to finish, explaining the very latest in conservation technology. At its peak, architectural ironwork was used on a vast global scale in buildings, bridges, street furniture and ornamental structures. With international case studies and detailed illustrations, this book will be an essential reference for heritage profesTrade ReviewA well-thumbed copy of Conservation of Architectural Ironwork should be found on the shelves of all conservation practitioners. The philosophically robust, yet practical approach not only provides a sound framework for the conservation of iron structures, it has a much wider potential application as a benchmark for developing approaches to the conservation of modern component-based buildings.Robert Chambers, director of Chambers Conservation, ChesterContext 157: November 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. History 2. Materials 3. Decay Mechanisms and Hazards 4. Survey and Research 5. Managing an Architectural Ironwork Project 6. Intervention 7. Replication of Architectural Ironwork 8. Characteristics and Common Issues Bibliography. Other Sources. Glossary. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Terms of Appropriation
Book SynopsisThis collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.Table of ContentsIntroduction Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ana Miljački Part 1: Authorship 1. Signed, Anonymous: The Persona of the Architect in the Mansion House Debate Timothy Hyde 2. The Anxiety of Anonymity: On the Historiographic Problem of Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative Michael Kubo 3. The Power of Association: Le Corbusier in the Banlieue Kenny Cupers Part 2: Transfer 4. Edvard Ravnikar's Eclecticism of Taste and the Politics of Appropriation Vladimir Kulić 5. Cold War Adaptations: SIAL Školka's Real and Imaginary Architectural Dialogues with the West Ana Miljački 6. Translation Theory and the Intertwined Histories of Building for Self-Governance Esra Akcan Part 3: Rights 7. Architecture and Copyright: Rights of Authors and Things in the Age of Reproduction Ines Weizman 8. Sufficient Originality: The Legal Contours of Creativity in Architecture Sarah Hirschman 9. Architectural Patents Beyond Bucky Fuller’s Quadrant Kevin Emerson Collins Part 4: Reenactments 10. By the Book: Philip Johnson's Ledoux Redoux at the University of Houston Amanda Reeser Lawrence 11. A Careful Misreading of Precedent: the Politics of Transparency in the work of Lina Bo Bardi David Rifkind 12. Not Exactly the Same: On the Fantasy of "Chinese Architectural Copies" Winnie Wong 13. Città Analoga: Aldo Rossi's Visual Theory on Display Szacka, Léa-Catherine Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Algarve Building
Book SynopsisForeword by Adrian Forty.The Algarve is not only Portugal's foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the vernacular' three essential tropes of twentieth-century architecture culture converged in the region's building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead.Drawing on work that won the Royal Institute of British Architects President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 2013, Algarve Building challenges the conventional inclusion of Portuguese modern architecture in Critical Regionalism' narratives. A fine-grain reconstruction of the debates and cultures at play locally exposes the extra-architectural and widely participated antecedents Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 From the Centre; Chapter 1 Regional Formulae on Vernacular Material; Chapter 2 Architects on the Algarvian Identity; Part 2 From the Region; Chapter 3 Modernism and Vernacular in a Negotiated Identity; Chapter 4 ‘Miracle’ in Faro; Chapter 5 Modernist Regionalism; Chapter 6 The Stock and the Graft;
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Cambridge University Press Vitruvius and Later Roman Building Manuals
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Cambridge University Press French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton Volume 4 The Architectural Drawings
Book SynopsisRobert Willis' monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge was hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man.' These fully illustrated volumes are here reprinted in their entirety, with a modern introduction by Professor David Watkin.Table of Contents1. Town of Cambridge; 2. Peterhouse: site and buildings; 3. Peterhouse: buildings; 4. Clare Hall: buildings; 5. Clare Hall: copy of ancient plan; 6. Pembroke College: site and buildings; 7. Pembroke College: buildings of the Principal Court previous to 1870; 8. Gonville and Caius College: site and buildings; 9. Trinity Hall: site and buildings; 10. Corpus Christi College: site and buildings; 11. Eton College: site and buildings; 12. Eton College: school-yard and cloister; 13. King's College: site and buildings; 14. King's College: chapel; 15. Queen's College: site and buildings; 16. St Catharine's Hall: site and buildings; 17. Jesus College: buildings; 18. Christ's College: site and buildings; 19. St John's College: site and buildings; 20. St John's College: site on the west side of the River Cam; 21. St John's College: old chapel; 22. Magdalene College: site and buildings; 23. Trinity College: site; 24. Trinity College: buildings; 25. Emmanuel College: site and buildings; 26. Sidney Sussex College: site and buildings; 27. Schools, Senate House, Library: buildings; 28. Schools and Library: first and ground floor; 29. New museums for Natural Science: buildings.
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Cambridge University Press St Stephens Chapel
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Cambridge University Press Architecture in the Age of Stalin
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Cambridge University Press The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancien R Gime
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Cambridge University Press Constantine Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age
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Cambridge University Press Art in the Era of Alexander the Great Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions
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Cambridge University Press Architects and the Building World from Chambers to Ruskin
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the Doric Temple
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.Table of Contents1. Introduction: explaining architectural change; 2. Korkyra: contextualizing early Doric architecture; 3. Foce del Sele: mythical and colonial landscapes; 4. Selinous: urbanizations and temple building; 5. Delphi: architecture and panhellenism.
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Cambridge University Press Architects and the Building World from Chambers to Ruskin
Book SynopsisThis study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… the scholarship is impressive …' Architecture TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Section 1. 'The Shadow of their Wings': The Architect among Builders: 1. John Gwynn; 2. William Chambers; 3. The example of Chambers; Section 2. 'The Poetry of Architecture': The Architect above Builders: 4. Joseph Gwilt; 5. John Soane; 6. The example of Soane; Part II: Section 3. 'Mystery and Craft Are Gone By': The Poet's Descent: 7. A language of men; 8. The pictorial art; Section 4. 'He Never Condescended': Coming to Terms with New Disciplines: 9. Charles Barry; 10. Pugin; 11. A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists; Part III: Section 5. 'Conjunctive All': The Sharing of Knowledge in Building: 12. John Britton; 13. The Artizan; Section 6. 'Orthodoxy of Practice': The Builder and a New Freemasonry: 14. Josiah Hansom and The Builder; 15. Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the freemasons of the Church; 16. Bartholemew's College; 17. Godwin's Builder; Part IV: Section 7. Ruskin's Changing Prospect: 18. Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon; 19. The poetry of architecture; 20. Modern Painters I and II; 21. The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Part V: Section 8. Ruskin's Descent: 22. Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle; 23. The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett; 24. Ruskin in 1854 and 1855; 25. Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites; Part VI: Section 9. Incarnation: 26. Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum; 27. Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum; 28. Deane and Woodward; 29. Pre-Raphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum; Part VII: Section 10. Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s: 30. John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin; 31. G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts; 32. E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect'; 33. The architectural museum in the late 1850s; 34. The failure of the Oxford Museum; 35. Ruskin's lectures to architects; Part VIII. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture
Book SynopsisSir William Chambers (172296), architect and furniture designer, wished to increase his status in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. His Treatise, annotated and republished in two volumes in 1825 by the architect Joseph Gwilt (17841863), is regarded as one of the standard English texts on classical architecture.Table of ContentsOf pedestals; Of the application of the orders of architecture; Of intercolumniations; Of arcades and arches; Of orders above orders; Of basements and attics; Of pediments; Of balustrades; Of gates, doors, and piers; Of windows; Of niches and statues; Of chimney-pieces; Of profiles for doors, windows, niches, chimney-pieces, etc.; Of block cornices and extraneous entablatures; Of the proportions of rooms; Of ceilings; Designs for casines, temples, gates, doors, etc.; Explanation of the principal terms employed in the science of architecture; General index; Directions to the binder; Errata.
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Cambridge University Press Contrasts
Book SynopsisAugustus Welby Northmore Pugin (181252), architect, author and interior designer, was among the most important figures in Britain's nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. First published in 1836, Contrasts is his most famous work, and this revised second edition of 1841 champions medieval architecture by satirically comparing it with 'debased' Regency equivalents.Table of ContentsPreface to the second edition; Plates; 1. On the feelings which produced the great edifices of the middle ages; 2. On the revived pagan principle; 3. Under Henry VIII; 4. Under Edward VI; 5. On the present degraded state of ecclesiastical buildings; Conclusion; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Book SynopsisActive in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books, covering a broad range of practical and theoretical topics. Complete with illustrative plates, this one-volume translation by Joseph Gwilt (17841863), first published in 1826, was long considered the standard English edition.Table of ContentsDedication; List of subscribers; Preface; Life of Vitruvius; List of the several editions and versions of Vitruvius; List of the chapters contained in the work; Description of the head-pieces; The architecture of Vitruvius, Books I-X; Plates, and explanations of them; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture
Book SynopsisThis book is for those interested in the Roman world. It treats the reuse of sculptural and architectural materials in new contexts, and explores the new associations that these 'out of place' materials created for their viewers. Materials were sometimes used to create new meanings, and sometimes for economic expedience.Trade Review'Throughout, the volume is impressively well illustrated. It is wide ranging, informative, challenging and thought provoking. It is one of the best edited volumes I have read for some time. While each paper has a specific aim, sight of the bigger picture and wider context is never lost. Moreover, the fact that the papers communicate with each other throughout the volume is indicative of both careful editing and collaborative participation by the contributors in the overall process. The success of this volume means that there is good scope to broaden the contributions to include extra-urban regions and more provinces in future endeavours.' Rebecca J. Sweetman, The Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. 'Reuse, renovation, reiteration' Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland; 1. 'The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in Pompeii' Brenda Longfellow; 2. 'The Vigiles, dynastic succession and symbolic reappropriation in the Caserma dei Vigili at Ostia' Margaret L. Laird; 3. 'The epigraphy of appropriation: retrospective signatures of Greek sculptors in the Roman World' Catherine M. Keesling; 4. 'Gateways to the past: the Hadrianic architecture of procession in Pisidian Antioch and Athens' Adrian J. Ossi; 5. 'Visual literacy and reuse in the architecture of late Imperial Rome' Elisha Ann Dumser; 6. 'Urban transformations at Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: destruction or intentional preservation?' Esen Ogus; 7. 'Acquiring the antique in Byzantine Rome: the economics of architectural reuse at Santa Maria Antiqua' Gregor Kalas; 8. 'The afterlife of the amphitheater: cultural biography and social memory at Tarragona' Sheila Bond.
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture
Book SynopsisIn this study, Marcello Mogetta examines the origins and early dissemination of concrete technology in Roman Republican architecture. Framing the genesis of innovative building processes and techniques within the context of Rome''s early expansion, he traces technological change in monumental construction in long-established urban centers and new Roman colonial cites founded in the 2nd century BCE in central Italy. Mogetta weaves together excavation data from both public monuments and private domestic architecture that have been previously studied in isolation. Highlighting the organization of the building industry, he also explores the political motivations and cultural aspirations of patrons of monumental architecture, reconstructing how they negotiated economic and logistical constraints by drawing from both local traditions and long-distance networks. By incorporating the available evidence into the development of concrete technology, Mogetta also demonstrates the contributions of Trade Review'… [a] stimulating work … the bold thesis will inspire much discussion, in no small part because it rests on a keen understanding of the evidence … [Mogetta's] efforts deserve broad readership and serious engagement.' Seth Bernard, American Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Deconstructing Roman Concrete; 3. A New Date for Concrete in Rome; 4. A View from the Suburbium; 5. Building Samnite Pompeii; 6. Colonial Networks; 7 Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture
Book SynopsisPresents more than 60 noteworthy case studies in a portable format, showcasing a range of structures worldwide. Incorporating every type of architectural project possible - private, commercial and public - this book features the work of world-renowned architects such as Gehry Partners, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, and othres.
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The University of Chicago Press Plotting Gothic
Book SynopsisPresents a new way of understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: as rhetorical constructs. The author traces common analogies between rhetoric and architectural space that date back to late antiquity, and then shows how those links were translated into wood, stone, and space under specific local conditions.
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The University of Chicago Press A World of Homeowners American Power and the
Book SynopsisIs there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around the world. In the aftermath of World War II, American advisers urged countries to pursue greater access to homeownership, arguing it would give families a literal stake in their nations, jumpstart a productive home-building industry, fuel economic growth, and raise the standard of living in their countries, helping to ward off the specter of communism. A World of Homeowners charts the emergence of democratic homeownership in the postwar landscape and booming economy; its evolution as a tool of foreign policy and a vehicle for international investment in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; and the growth of lower-income homeownership programs in the United States from the 1960s to today. Kwak unravels all these threads, detailing the complex stories an
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University of Illinois Press Chicago Skyscrapers 19341986
Book SynopsisWinner ofThe Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, by The Pattis Family Foundation and the Newberry Library From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skyscraper era views the skyscraper idea, and the buildings themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As construction emerged from the Great Depression, structural, mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to influence designs. But the truly radical changes concerned the motivations that drove construction. While profit remained key in the Loop, developers elsewhere in Chicago worked with a Daley political regime that saw tall buildings as tools for a wholesale recasting of the city’s apTrade Review"An ambitious history that’s less the usual roundup of Loop landmarks than an architecture junkie’s dense wandering intriguingly away from downtown." --Chicago Tribune"A magisterial account of our city's high-rise foundations." --Newcity"An impressive and important book that ranks with other works providing the deepest insights into what makes Chicago, Chicago. . . . Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 is one of those rare books about significant architectural structures that looks beyond design controversies, elegant descriptions, and engineering details and examines the forces behind their creation." --Third Coast Review“A worthy successor to the pathbreaking work of Carl Condit, this deeply researched volume explores the architectural design, structure and equipment of tall buildings in Chicago from the 1930s into the 1980s in their full and complex relationship to changing economic, social, and political realities in the city.”--Robert Bruegmann, author of Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern AmericaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972 Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art Chapter 9. After Sears Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School” Notes Bibliography Index
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MIT Press Ltd A Second Modernism MIT Architecture and the
Book SynopsisAn account of architecture's postwar ambition to transform itself into a research-oriented and technologically complex discipline of design expertise.After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture—an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, “to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise.” Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the “techno-social” turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar. In essays and interviews, prominent architectural historians and educators examine the postwar “research-industrial” complex, its attendant cult of expertise, and its influence on life and lette
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University of Washington Press The Seattle Bungalow
Book SynopsisThe Seattle bungalow was the nation's first modern home, and it established the essential characteristics of popular housing. This book modifies the common notion that architectural change flows only from the design elite - the architects, reformers and planners - and argues that ordinary people played a crucial role in creating the bungalow.Trade Review"This book will be an essential resource for historians examining modest housing anywhere in America in this period . . . . Bungalows are still popular today. . . but their current romanticization obscures a much more interesting story of how a building type was developed for and changed by a lower-middle-class clientele. Janet Ore has fortunately brought this history to light." * IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Architecture *"Ore provides a fine addition. . . . By adopting a broad perspective, The Seattle Bungalow adds to our understanding of the process by which builders and owners expanded the twentieth-century markets for housing." * Winterthur Portfolio *"The Seattle Bungalow presents architectural history from the bottom up. It unravels not only the decisions of designers, builders, and housing entrepreneurs, but also those who lived in such buildings. In Janet Ore's expert hands, the bungalow becomes more than an arts and crafts icon of the simple life. . . . she has demonstrated its significance as symbol, commodity, and place of living." * Western Historical Quarterly *"The Seattle Bungalow makes an important contribution to the study of bungalows and early-twentieth-century architecture." * Technology and Culture *"By stitching together her variously themed chapters with constant reference to one house and one family, she brings an ethnographic approach to the study of the modern built environment. . . Ore's work amplifies on regionally based studies of the bungalow." * BC Studies *"Ore's book is a valuable addition to American cultural history. It is based on imaginative and wide-ranging research, is clearly presented, and is illustrated with a large number of photographs." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"A valuable retrospective." * Choice *"The Seattle Bungalow is recommended not only for urban historians but also for Seattle and Northwest historians and history buffs… Ore's analysis of the maturation of finance, salesmanship, consumerism, and citizenship in the early 20th century (is) well worth the read." * Columbia *"Certainly every Arts & Crafts enthusiast should have this title on their bookshelf. As should architectural historians, students of material culture, social life and customs." * New York-Pennsylvania Collector *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Blueprints for "The Seattle Bungalow" 2. Idealizing The Seattle Bungalow 3. Building The Seattle Bungalow 4. Selling The Seattle Bungalow 5. Living in The Seattle Bungalow 6. Legacy of The Seattle Bungalow Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co Broadway A History of New York City in Thirteen
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.Trade Review"Wonderful. This isn’t only a history of Broadway—it’s a history of the entire city told through the story of the most famous street in America. Engagingly written and full of vivid characters. I couldn’t put it down." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City"Meticulously researched…Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters…It is a whirl, too, of events…graced with wry wit." -- Clyde Haberman - New York Times Book Review"Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way." -- Wall Street Journal"A new history of the street that tells the story of modern America." -- David Taylor - The Guardian"Fran Leadon’s Broadway uses the thirteen miles of the great New York avenue to tell the remarkable story of the city’s evolution—its landmarks and legends, its high-rollers and lowriders. Part architectural history, part social history, it’s a cornucopia of intellectual delights. Endlessly fascinating and full of fun." -- John Lahr"A magical mystery tour of the street that invented American popular culture." -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz"[An] entertaining look at how the growth and development of New York City’s most famous street paralleled that of Manhattan…A welcome complement to more daunting and encyclopedic volumes on New York’s history." -- Publishers Weekly"Impressively detailed…A lively history of one of the most famous streets in America." -- Kirkus"[Leadon's] knowledge is expansive…[Broadway] is engagingly written and supplemented by good, easy-to-follow maps at each milestone." -- Booklist
£26.59
WW Norton & Co Broadway A History of New York City in Thirteen
Book Synopsis“Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street JournalTrade Review"Wonderful.… Engagingly written and full of vivid characters. I couldn’t put it down." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City"Meticulously researched.… [Fran] Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters.… It is a whirl, too, of events.… Leadon is graced with a wry wit." -- Clyde Haberman - New York Times Book Review"A new history of the street that tells the story of modern America." -- David Taylor - Guardian"Fran Leadon’s Broadway uses the thirteen miles of the great New York avenue to tell the remarkable story of the city’s evolution—its landmarks and legends, its high rollers and lowriders. Part architectural history, part social history, it’s a cornucopia of intellectual delights. Endlessly fascinating and full of fun." -- John Lahr"A magical mystery tour of the street that invented American popular culture." -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz"Fran Leadon… is a perfect biographer for Broadway, a main character in the development of one of the world’s great cities. His book is dense, richly written and researched, loaded with a million fun anecdotes." -- Bowery Boys blog"Well-written and very readable. I recommend it highly for anyone with an interest in New York City and its history. In following the journey up Broadway mile by mile, the reader can better understand a lot of American history and the trip is quite enjoyable." -- Richard D. Weigel - Bowling Green Daily News"Fran Leadon’s Broadway is only incidentally about the theaters that are the avenue’s famous feature, but is, as the subtitle promises, a witty and informed history of New York City—a travelogue through the past." -- David Luhrssen - Shepherd Express
£14.24
The University of Michigan Press A Setting For Excellence
Book SynopsisWhile there are times when the mix of old and new buildings and the chaotic activities of thousands of students can give a haphazard appearance to the university, campus planning has in fact become a highly refined form of architecture. This is demonstrated in a convincing fashion by this immensely informative and entertaining history of the evolution of the campuses of the University of Michigan.
£60.65
LSU Museum of Art Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellors Res
Book SynopsisTakes the reader inside the original 1928 Chancellor's Residence at 1803 Hillsborough Street to share the vision and the family life of each of the university's leaders, from President Brooks to Chancellor Woodson.
£37.60
Arcadia Publishing Philadelphias City Hall Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. The Historic Core of Los Angeles Images of
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. San Luis Obispo A History in Architecture Images
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Arcadia Publishing Toledo A History in Architecture 1914 to Centurys
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DK Architecture
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Universal Principles of Architecture
Book Synopsis Take an expansive and provocative tour of architectural theory and practice, exploring everything from basic concepts to speculative design and subversive interventions.Universal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world. This radical and perhaps surprising survey is divided into five sections: Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries. And, each of the five sections in the book introduces in 20 principles architecture at different scales and stages of the design process. Through an inclusive and holistic approach, the book refers to initial design ideas, creative design approaches, reflections on the effects of the built and destroyed environments, and architectural desires and aspirations to transform the world and engage with the cosmos.Because architecture is theTrade Review"Beautifully illustrated...especially and unreservedly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION How to read Universal Principles of Architecture ARCHETYPES METHODS CONDITIONS RELATIONSHIPS IMAGINARIES GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Victorian Architecture Original Plans for
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd SOUTH BEACH ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHS Art Deco to
Book SynopsisA resident of Miami Beach since 1990, Brazilian-born photographer Paul Clemence captures the emotion and spirit of the area's architecture in a collection of 65 b&w photographs.
£21.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Art Deco Architecture Miami Beach Postcards
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