History of architecture Books
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Saint Johns Abbey Church Marcel Breuer and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Victoria Young has written an engaging history of Marcel Breuer’s Saint John’s Abbey Church. Her insights into the dynamics of the design process and of the relationships among clients, architects, and contractors make Saint John’s Abbey Church valuable to anyone interested in how great architecture comes into being."—Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota"Victoria Young artfully reminds us how, over fifty years after its creation, the architectural masterpiece, Saint John’s Abbey and University Church, still helps define modern religious design. Unfettered by the limitations of the past, Marcel Breuer captured the forward thinking spirit of the 1500 year-old Benedictine in order to create a worship space that magnificently reflects liturgically reformed Catholic architecture. Dr. Young tells the story of this historic collaboration with exacting precision, detail, and humanity."—Saint John’s University President Michael Hemesath"Saint John’s Abbey Church examines the relationship between architecture and theology/liturgy in a detailed way, and contextualizes architectural materials and relationships between the groups involved in the building program as a stimulating and engaging story."—Paul Eli Ivey, University of Arizona"Young explores in compelling details, photos and drawings what a massive, innovative undertaking the campus building projects were, with most attention focused on the building project’s glorious centerpiece—the abbey church."—Newsleaders"Cogent and compelling. The story of the creation of St. John’s Abbey Church is as captivating and instructive today as it was a half-century ago."—Architecture MN"Young’s book dazzles as an illuminating story of a critical episode in church architectural history, replete with lessons for architects in the present. With the astuteness that only a superior architectural historian could marshal, Young moves us through critical passages in the design dialogue between Breuer and the Benedictines."—ArchNewsNow"Young’s lucid writing style makes this book a page-turner, and its focus on a single site results in richly concentrated narratives that sustain interest throughout. Though the monograph is not biographical, the lives and character of the architect, artists and brethren are apparent in a manner that suggests Young’s own evident enthusiasm and affection for the site, which invigorates her solid academic expertise."—Art and Christianity"Saint John’s Abbey Church gives an insight in the discussions about meaning, art, and liturgy taking place mid-century that influenced the design of so many of the other churches across America regardless of denomination."—Docomomo"Well-written and equally well-researched."—Catholic Library World"Young’s book is quite handsome, and the archival material it unveils will likely appeal to students of Breuer’s work or high-modernist architecture in general."—Catholic Historical Review"Dr. Young's narrative ability has transformed her careful research into a highly readable story, and the University of Minnesota Press has skillfully designed this book to reflect the artistic values celebrated in the text. Every architectural library and every library interested in Catholic art and architecture should possess a copy."—Middle West ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Bricks and Brothers: Establishing the Benedictines in Collegeville2. The Twelve Apostles: Selecting the Architect3. Building the Spiritual Axis: Breuer and the Benedictines Design a Modern Catholic Church4. A Ministry of Art: The Decorative Program of the Abbey ChurchConclusion: A Modern Liturgical Design for the AgesNotesBibliographyIllustration CreditsIndex
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Die Gestalten Verlag Come Together: The Architecture of
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Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated exploration of the impact of Chinese and Japanese material culture on the historic houses and gardens of Britain and Ireland. The art and ornament of China and Japan have had a deep impact in the British Isles. From the seventeenth century onwards, the design and decoration of interiors and gardens in Britain and Ireland was profoundly influenced by the importation of Chinese and Japanese luxury goods, while domestic designers and artisans created their own fanciful interpretations of ‘oriental’ art. Those hybrid styles and tastes have traditionally been known as chinoiserie and japonisme, but they can also be seen as elements of the wider and still very relevant phenomenon of orientalism, or the way the West sees the East. Illustrated with a wealth of new photography and published in association with the National Trust, Borrowed Landscapes is an engaging survey of orientalism in the Trust's historic houses and gardens across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Drawing on new research, Emile de Bruijn demonstrates how elements of Chinese and Japanese culture were simultaneously desired and misunderstood, dismembered and treasured, idealised and caricatured.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. A Pattern Emerges 1600–1690 2. Emblems of Aspiration 1690–1735 3. Peak Chinoiserie 1735–1760 4. Fictions Have Their Own Logic 1760–1780 5. Competing Perspectives 1780–1870 6. The Age of Japonisme 1870–1900 7. New and Old Orientalisms The 20th Century Picture credits Notes Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket
Book SynopsisRecounts the extensive building programme that took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, England, from 1153 to 1167, during the time when Thomas Becket served as Royal Chancellor and then as archbishop of Canterbury. This title also sheds fresh light on the social and cultural history of the mid-12th century.
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Yale University Press Apethorpe
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The contexts and parallels offered are valid and illuminating and will add to Apethorpe’s usefulness as a source of comparative material for other studies."—Nicholas Cooper, Transactions‘[a] superb publication’ — Christopher Ridgeway, The Burlington Magazine “This book is thoroughly researched, as shown in the care taken in the writing and compilation of the text. Readers with a variety of interests from family and genealogical to architectural and art historical will find it to be exceptional. Ultimately, Apethorpe The Story of an English Country House would be a treasure to add to any library.” —Audrey M Thorstad, The Antiquaries Journal‘Apethorpe is a magical place and this handsome, lavishly illustrated architectural biography captures the romantic quality of the story … It is a comprehensive and beautiful publication, worthy of the monumental subject.’ - Rose Dahlsen, House & Garden -- Rose Dahlsen * House & Garden *“Properly coherent and readable… this is perhaps the most complete analysis of a country house published in the past 25 years.”—John Goddall, Country Life -- John Goodall * Country Life *"The contexts and parallels offered are valid and illuminating and will add to Apethorpe’s usefulness as a source of comparative material for other studies."—Nicholas Cooper, Transactions -- Nicholas Cooper * Transactions *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gothic Revival Architecture
Book SynopsisFrom the Houses of Parliament to the Midland Hotel at St Pancras and Strawberry Hill House, Gothic Revival buildings are some of the most distinctive structures found in Britain. Far from a copy of medieval buildings, it was a style full of colour and invention, in which its exponents created a daring new approach to design. Throwing out the old Classical rule book, Gothic Revival architects like Pugin and George Gilbert Scott designed buildings which were asymmetrical in form and visually expressive of their function. The movement went beyond just bricks and mortar and had a strong moral code, the influence of which was still felt into the 20th century. In this illustrated book, Trevor Yorke tells the story of the Gothic Revival from its origins in the whimsical fancies of the Georgian Period through to its High Victorian climax.Table of ContentsThe Gothic Revival Strawberry Hill Gothic Regency Gothic The Pugin and Ruskin Influence High Victorian Gothic Gothic Interiors A Change in Direction Further Reading Places to Visit Index
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The Crowood Press Ltd Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015:
Book SynopsisJapanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. The book introduces the diversity of Japanese architecture and traces the evolution of Japanese architecture in the context of domestic and international developments. It examines the relationship between architecture and nature, and explores various approaches to craft and material. Finally, this new book considers tensions between refinement and ostentation in architectural expression.
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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Dark Space – Architecture, Representation, Black
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and cliches to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolism-but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Master Builders of Byzantium
Book SynopsisExamining Byzantine architecture—primarily churches built in the area of Constantinople between the ninth and fifteenth centuries—from the perspective of its masons, its master builders, Robert Ousterhout identifies the problems commonly encountered in the process of design and construction. He analyzes written evidence, the archaeological record, and especially the surviving buildings, concluding that Byzantine architecture was far more innovative than has previously been acknowledged. Ousterhout explains how masons selected, manufactured, and utilized materials from bricks and mortar to lead roofing tiles, from foundation systems to roof vaultings. He situates richly decorated church interiors, sheathed in marble revetments, mosaics, and frescoes—along with their complex iconographic programs—within the purview of the master builder, referring also to masons in Russia, the Balkans, and Jerusalem.Table of ContentsPreface to Paperback Edition Introduction: The Problem of Byzantine Architecture Defining the Byzantine Church The Mysterious Disappearing Architect and His Patron Drawing the Line and Knowing the Ropes Buildings That Change Building Materials The Construction of Foundations and Walls Structural Design, Structural Expression, and the Construction of Arches and Vaults Builders and Artists: Creating the Decorated Interior Afterword Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index A Glossary of Architectural Terminology
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Royal Academy of Arts Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of
Book SynopsisLost Futures looks in detail at the wide range of buildings constructed in Britain between 1945 and 1979. Although their bold architectural aspirations reflected the forward-looking social ethos of the postwar era, many have since been either demolished or altered beyond recognition.Photographs taken at the time of their completion are accompanied by expertly researched captions that examine the buildings' design, creation, the ideals they embodied and the reasons for their eventual destruction. Lost Futures covers many building types, from housing to factories, commercial spaces and power stations, and presents the work of both iconic and lesser-known architects. The author charts the complex reasons that led to the loss of these projects' ambitious futures, and assesses whether some might one day be recaptured.
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INSTAP Academic Press Akrotiri Thera: An Architecture of Affluence
Book SynopsisIt was long felt that an English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri, dealing not only with the building technology, but also with issues of typology, form, and function, would be welcomed. The present book is, thus, an attempt to provide the reader with an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean. The book is based on the author's personal observations and experience obtained over a fifteen year period (1977-1992) of work at the site as the architect of the Akrotiri excavation. This book is confined to the last phase of habitation and the uniquely preserved houses that are seen today.
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Dover Publications Inc. Manhattan Moves Uptown An Illustrated History New
Book SynopsisCompiled from newspaper archives and richly illustrated with historic images, this fascinating chronicle traces the city's growth from Wall Street to Harlem during the period between 1783 and the early 20th century.
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Taschen GmbH Entryways of Milan. Ingressi di Milano
Book SynopsisFirst impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city’s most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese entryways, until now hidden away behind often restrained façades, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian modernism, mediating public and private space with vivid configurations of color and form, from floors of juxtaposed stones to murals of minimalist geometry. The collection spans buildings from 1920 to 1970 and showcases the work of some of the city’s most illustrious architects and designers, including Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, and Luigi Caccia Dominioni, as well as non-pedigreed architecture of equal impact and interest. The photographs for the publication were exclusively created by Delfino Sisto Legnani, Paola Pansini, and Matthew Billings, each evoking the entryways with individual sensibility and a stylistic interplay of detail shots—such as stones, door handles, and handrails—with larger architectural views. The images are accompanied by outstanding written contributions from Penny Sparke, Fabrizio Ballabio, Lisa Hockemeyer, Daniel Sherer, Brian Kish, and Grazia Signori, together bringing a wealth of architecture, design, and natural stone expertise to guide the reader through the applied materials and fittings as well as the art-historical and social implications of each of the ingressi. As much an architectural city guide as an aesthetic study, the book provides the exact address and an annotated Milan map for all featured entryways, as well as the architect name and date of construction. In the well-documented realm of 20th-century Italian design, Kolbitz has stepped over the threshold and delivered a brand new area of inquiry in Milanese modernism. With the rigor of its multifaceted research, poised photography, and breadth of its featured hallways, this is an invigorating new reference work and an inside look at the city’s design DNA across high to low architecture.
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Actar Publishers Cerda: 150 Years of Modernity
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Oro Editions Robert Venturi's Rome
Book SynopsisRobert Venturi's Rome is a guidebook to the city of Rome, seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi, reinterpreted by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows and architects, Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby. Published in 1966, Venturi looks at architecture, landscape and art as different manifestations of common themes. For students, the book is fundamental to the development of any young architect's outlook on architecture. Venturi wrote the book following a two year Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, and there is no doubt that the city had a profound influence on his thinking. He used many buildings in Rome as examples to illustrate his theories. From the Pantheon, through works by his favourite artist, Michelangelo, and on to 20th century buildings by Armando Brasini and Luigi Moretti, Venturi reveals Rome as a complex and contradictory city.
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Park Books AP 164: Abalos and Herreros
Book SynopsisInaki Abalos and Juan Herreros established their studio in Madrid in 1984 and working together until 2006, when the firm was dissolved. They mainly realised projects in Spain. Both architects are still active internationally, Inaki Abalos with Abalos+Sentkiewicz, based in Madrid and Cambridge (MA), Juan Herreros with Estudio Herreros in Madrid. The archive of Abalos & Herreros was donated to the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal in 2012. It comprises some 250 projects dating from 1985-2008: sketches and drawings, collages, related text documents, slides and models. This new book presents three contemporary encounters with the Abalos & Herreros archive at CCA. The architects OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Juan Jose Castellon and SO - IL conducted research into the archive and developed specific readings of the material. The book reframes these research projects, showing archival material in its current state and re-interpreting it. The essays offer more background to the research and also give voice to Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros themselves. Richly illustrated, the book reveals as much about the interests of a new generation of architects as about the work of Abalos & Herreros. Text in Spanish. AUTHOR: Giovanna Borasi is an architect and curator of contemporary architecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. 136 colour, 248 b/w illustrations
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Kapon Editions Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki (German
Book SynopsisSpaziergänge durch Byzantinische Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, the most important city in the Byzantine empire after Constaninople, experienced periods of great economic prosperity and cultural and artistic flowering that created monuments of great importance in the development of Byzantine civilisation. Throughout its existence a bustling metropolis and Mediterranean port, the city is unusual in having a continuous history and cultural evolution that were not interrupted even in the most turbulent times. The monuments surviving from over two thousand years of history of the Byzantine city are representative of Byzantine culture and art over the centuries. Thessaloniki is now regarded as an open-air museum of Byzantine art. Spaziergänge durch Byzantinische Thessaloniki reveals the Byzantine face of the city to the modern visitor, through the marks stamped on it by 2,300 years of history. The text describes and evaluates all the most recent evidence for the Byzantine monuments of the city. Lavishly illustrated, it offers an elegant account of the history of Byzantine civilization, enticing visitors along the major streets and narrow alleyways of the Upper town and introducing them, through the expertise of the specialist and the love of the admirer, to the enchantment of its unique monuments. German language text. 259 illustrations including 220 full colour.Table of ContentsEINFÜHRUNG DIE STADTMAUER UND DIE AKROPOLIS Die Schutzhülle der antiken Stadt und die Siedlungsstruktur VON DER KÜSTE DEN OSTABSCHNITT DER STADTMAUER ENTLANG Der Weiße Turm, die Kirchen A´ gios AntfiniÔs und Néa Panagía. Die Friedhofsbasilika an der Trítis Septemvríou-Straße IM UMKREIS DER PRACHTSTRASSE Die Kirchen Ypapantí, Sotír, Panagoúda, A´ gios Panteleïmon, der Galeriusbogen und die Rotunde IN DEN GASSEN DER OBERSTADT Vom Hormísdas-Turm zum Trigfinion-Turm. Der frühchristliche Friedhof, die Kirchen A ´ gios Nikfilaos Orfanfis und Laodigítria, die byzantinische Zisterne, das byzantinische Bad, die Kirchen Taxiárches und O´ sios Davíd, das Vlatádes-Kloster und die frühchristliche Zisterne VON DER OBERSTADT ZUM HAFEN KONSTANTINS DES GROSSEN Die Kirchen Profítis Ilías, Agía Äkateríni und A ´ gii Apfistoli, das Fínix-Bad und die Vardáris-Festung IM HANDELSVIERTEL DER STADT Die ´Agios Minás-Kirche, das Yahudi-Hamam, das Bezesténi und die Hamza Bey-Moschee IM UMKREIS DES ANTIKEN FORUMS Die A ´ gios Dimítrios-Basilika, das Yeni Hamam, das Alaca Imaret, die Panagía Chalkéon-Kirche, das Bey Hamam und die Achiropíitos-Kirche (Acheiropoietos) VON DER BYZANTINISCHEN METROPOLIS ZUR HEUTIGEN MITRfiPOLI Die Kirchen Agía Sofía und A´ gios Grigfirios Palamás AUSGEWÄHLTE BIBLIOGRAPHIE
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Birkhauser Atmosphères: Environnements architecturaux - Ce
Book Synopsis What "really constitutes an architectural atmosphere," Peter Zumthor says, is "this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way." Zumthor’s passion is the creation of buildings that produce this kind of effect, but how can one actually set out to achieve it?In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses. Images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him. From the composition and "presence" of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, this poetics of architecture enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Albert Speer (1905-1981)
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Taschen GmbH Bauhaus
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Taschen GmbH Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP. Cosmic Communist
Book SynopsisElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet architecture, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990.Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi).A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the “speaking architecture” widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad).In their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are extraordinary remnants of a collapsing system. In their diversity and local exoticism, they testify both to the vast geography of the USSR and its encroaching end of the Soviet Union, the holes in a widening net. At the same time, they immortalize many of the ideological dreams of the country and its time, from an obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity.Trade Review“The wonderfully titled CCCP is the perfect coffee table book for unrepentant Marxists.” * Huffington Post *“...an eye-opening experience for those who assumed that Soviet architecture died with the rise of Stalin.” * The New York Times *“…one of the most splendid of recent architecural publications and a revelation.” * Apollo Magazine *“This book is an extraordinary achievement, and Chaubin’s haunting photographs only improve with looking.” * World of Interiors *“A revolutionary read.” * Architectural Digest *“Soviet brutalism is not something traditionally thought of as beautiful, but Frederic Chaubin’s stunning photographs should go some way to changing this. This book is a bold foray into an architectural period that is barely documented, either in the former Soviet Union or the west.” * The Observer *
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Taschen GmbH Zaha Hadid
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Taschen GmbH Adolf Loos
Book SynopsisAdolf Loos (1870–1933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country’s architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist aesthetic prevalent at the time, as well as any hallmarks of the European fin de siècle. Instead, in lectures and essays, such as the milestone Ornament and Crime of 1908, Loos articulated his “passion for smooth and precious surfaces.” He advocated that architectural ornamentation was, by its nature, ephemeral—locked into current trends and styles, and therefore quickly dated. Loos, himself a Classicist at heart, argued instead for simple, timeless designs with time-honored aesthetic and structural qualities. In this essential introduction, we explore Loos’s writings, projects, and legacy, from his key concept of “spatial plan” architecture to his rejection of decorative fripperies in favor of opulent, fine-quality materials and crisp lines. Featured projects include Vienna’s Café Museum (1899), the fashion store Knize (1913), and the controversial Loos House (1912), which Emperor Franz Joseph I would refuse to travel past, bristling with rage at its insolently minimalist aesthetic.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House
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University of Texas Press Sao Paulo
Book SynopsisThis extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the physical development of Brazil's largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts.Trade Review[Presents] a complex analysis of the growth of Säo Paulo…offering tools for more sustainable development in the future. * Abitare *Felipe Correa's impressive, heavily illustrated 'graphic biography' of São Paulo thoroughly conveys the layered complexity of the city's physical past and present, allowing someone like me, who hasn't set foot on Brazilian soil, to start to understand the place. * A Daily Dose of Architecture *Sao Paulo: A Graphic Biography/Uma Biografia Gráfica is an exceptional addition to Correa’s growing list of publications and an exemplar of urban analysis and graphic communication. Although its focus is on a single city and aspects that can help it evolve meaningfully into the future, its lessons are applicable well beyond the boundaries of São Paulo to other contemporary cities that suffer from many of the same challenges—from outdated mono-functional infrastructure to derelict post-industrial lands ready for reenvisioning. * Spacing *[São Paulo] should be celebrated as a valuable provocation for São Paulo's most critical development conundrum, which is how to position the city as conserving of hydrological systems for perpetuity, while redeveloping adjacent industrial tracts to improve connectivity and urban livability. * Latin American Research Review *For those with a taste for clean design and visual aids, São Paulo: A Graphic Biography is both informative and aesthetically pleasing. Through words, photographs and illustrations, this graphic biography offers a unique analysis of the growth and sustainability of São Paulo alongside beautifully designed layouts and images. * CNN Underscored *[São Paulo's] focus on interscalarity allows for a remarkably comprehensive analysis of Sao Paulo’s geometric and organizational complexity and this alone makes it an important resource to both professionals and students of architecture, urban design or urban planning, who are interested in Sao Paulo. All the images and maps are of extremely high quality...what makes this book valuable is that it not only carefully situates some of Sao Paulo’s most complex physical problems, it also articulates ambitious, but undoubtedly doable, design proposals which, if they materialize, can significantly improve Sao Paulo’s residents’ quality of life. * Journal of Urban Design *There is much to commend in [São Paulo]. Along with its stylish design, the book is chock-full of thematic maps, architectural models, analytical diagrams, and historical and contemporary photographs—all of which parallel and enliven the text…São Paulo: A Graphic Biography serves as a useful reference work—and a beautifully illustrated one—with an emphasis on evolving urban forms and patterns of growth. From that angle, Correa provides important insights and possibilites for a notoriously complex metropolis...Overall, this is an impressive survey of the past, present, and future of the Paulista capital region. * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of Contents Foreword / Prefácio Introdução / Introduction São Paulo: Models of Urban Growth / São Paulo: modelos de crescimento urbano Collective Living in South America: A Primer / Habitações coletivas na América do Sul: guia introdutório Infraestrutura de mobilidade: campanha do projeto urbano / Mobility Infrastructure: Driver of the Urban Project Urban Plans and Visions: A Genealogy of São Paulo / Planejamentos e visões urbanas: a genealogia de São Paulo An Evolutionary Plan: Connecting the City to the River / Plano evolutivo: conexão da cidade com o rio
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Read Churches
Book SynopsisThis handy, easy-to-carry book will providethe reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of thechurch.Table of ContentsIntroduction Building Types Church Types A Grammar of Styles Materials Floor Plans The Nave Apses & Sanctuaries Choirs & Stalls Vaulting & Buttresses Domes & Cupolas Façades & Portals Baptisteries & Fonts Windows & Tracery Towers & Spires Altars & Tabernacles Stained Glass Ornaments & Symbols Glossary Resources Index Acknowledgements
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Taschen Bauhaus
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Faber & Faber Walls
Book SynopsisFor thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet they rarely appear in our history books.Spanning centuries and millennia, drawing on archaeological digs to evidence from Berlin and Hollywood, David Frye uncovers the story of walls and asks questions that are both intriguing and profound. Did walls make civilization possible? Can we live without them?This is more than a tale of bricks and stone: Frye reveals the startling link between what we build and how we live, who we are and how we came to be. It is nothing less than the story of civilization.
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University of Minnesota Press Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and
Book SynopsisAn innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architectureGraphic Assembly unearths the role played by montage and collage in the development of architectural culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, showing how breakthroughs in optical media and printing technologies enabled avant-garde architects to reimagine their field.Graphic Assembly considers a range of architects and movements from the 1950s through the early ’70s, including Theo Crosby, Hans Hollein, and John McHale; the magazine Clip-Kit; and the groups Archigram, Superstudio, and Utopie. It gives a thorough account of how montage concepts informed the design of buildings, prototypes, models, exhibitions, and multimedia environments, accompanied by Buckley’s insightful interpretations of the iconic images, exhibitions, and buildings of the 1960s that mark how the decade is remembered.Richly illustrated with never-before-published material from more than a dozen archives and private collections, Graphic Assembly offers a comparative overview of the network of experimental architectural practice in Europe. It provides a deep historical account of the cut-and-paste techniques now prevalent with architecture’s digital turn, demonstrating the great importance of montage to architecture past, present, and future.Trade Review"Graphic Assembly traces recent ineluctable change in the DNA of architecture with compelling force. Connecting media construction to construction on building sites, Craig Buckley convincingly argues that print-based montage shared conceptual ground with metallic assembly after WWII in a critical historical intersection. By tying together a range of activities heretofore only notionally connected, the book ushers out a period of postwar history that haunts the present with images of ad hoc material improvisation and manual work. Graphic Assembly will shift the ground for studies of architecture and media, prompting new research on what followed and preceded the history it narrates."—Claire Zimmerman, author of Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century"Graphic Assembly stages a brilliant recasting of the role of montage practices within the experimental architecture of the 1960s, turning toward the media-technical underpinning, material specificity, and visual logics of practices of ‘assembly’ as well as the cultural effects of their ‘envisioning.’ Full of vivid, original, precise, and archivally-rich readings of works by Archigram, Hans Hollein, Utopie, Superstudio and more, Craig Buckley draws out the technical and historical nuances of their construction to provide a powerful new account of architecture’s entanglements with media and the ‘intermedial tension’ to which it gave rise. A major contribution to architectural and media-historical scholarship, Graphic Assembly dismantles conventional distinctions—the semiotic and the concrete, images and buildings, print and electronic media—to offer a rich and compelling reading of such ‘mediating entities’ as they emerged from and operated within the dispersed and fluid dispositif of this historical moment."—Felicity Scott, author of Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency"The writing is crisp and academic with a rich appendix that appends a meticulously researched text. The images themselves, including forty-seven color plates, are particularly illuminating."—ARLIS/NA"With many illustrations, 47 color images, and endnotes, this hefty, sturdy volume will appeal to enthusiasts of the avant-garde."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Envisioning Assembly1. Clipping2. The Infamous Plug3. Everything Is Architecture4. The Rhetoric of Disassembly5. Scenarios6. Epilogue: Image as AssemblageAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Rizzoli International Publications Fallingwater Rizzoli Classics
Book SynopsisThis seminal volume, now back in print in a new format and at a reduced price, offers a deeply immersive tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most legendary building. A landmark volume to commemorate what is arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With stunning photography commissioned especially for the book, Fallingwater captures the much-loved masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The book includes authoritative texts on Fallingwater’s history, structure, restoration, and collections, including the house’s relationship to its setting and its importance to the sustainability movement; its meaning in the context of Wright’s body of work; the analysis and planning process that went into Fallingwater’s restoration and how a seemingly unsolvable problem was overcome through modern engineering. The book is a tribute to the genius behind this masterwork.Trade Review“Editor Lynda Waggoner and photographer Christopher Little have produced a remarkable tribute to one of Wright’s signature works on the 75th anniversary of the 1936 groundbreaking (construction took three years).” ~Wall Street Journal “The book includes her introduction, as well as a great deal of new information, including correspondence between Wright and Kaufman never published before.” ~Architects and Artisans"Both informative and aesthetically pleasing, this definitive work will be well appreciated..." ~Publishers Weekly “…the book brings to the foreground the emotional experience that a visitor can extract from visiting this exceptional place.” ~Archinovations"Thanks to Fallingwater, a new book of essays and sumptuous photographs edited by Fallingwater's director, Lynda Waggoner, you can take an engrossing armchair tour. Those cantilevered decks still inspire..." ~Houseplans.com
£22.50
Pindar Press Studies in Medieval Islamic Architecture, Vol. I:
Book SynopsisProfessor Hillenbrand has written extensively over the last twenty-five years on Islamic architecture from Spain to India and from the seventh to the twentieth century. He has paid consistent attention to the architecture of Iran, focusing particularly on the Saljuq period (11th-12th centuries), but has also worked on Umayyad monuments in the Levant between 660 and 750 A.D., a period when Islamic architecture came of age. Apart from recording unfamiliar buildings, he has increasingly concerned himself with the iconographic significance of Muslim buildings The papers in these two volumes closely reflect these interests. Some present primary material, others attempt to explore the achievements of a specific period or dynasty while yet others analyse the religious, royal, or political context of an important monument or school of architecture. The opportunity has been taken to add illustrations to articles, and to provide additional notes and a comprehensive index.Table of ContentsPreface The Legacy of the Dome of the Rock The Ornament of the World - Cordoba A Pair of Medieval Tomb Towers in Van La dolce vita in Early Islamic Syria: the Evidence of Later Umayyad Palaces Islamic Art at the Crossroads: East and West at Mshatta Some Observations on the Use of Space in Medieval Islamic Buildings Eastern Islamic Influneces in Syria: Raqqa and Qal'at Ja'bar in the Later Twelfth Century Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology The Classical Heritage in Islamic Art: the Case of Medieval Architecture The Use of Spatial Devices in the Great Mosque of Cordoba Islamic Art and Architecture Political Symbolism in Early Indo-Muslim Mosque Architecture: the Case of Ajmir Qur'anic Epigraphy in Medieval Islamic Architecture Cresswell and Contemporary Central European Scholarship Turco-Iranian Elements in the Medieval Architecture of Pakistan - the Case of the Tomb of Rukn-i 'Alam at Multan Mamluk Caravansarais in Galilee The Dervish Lodge. Architecture, Art and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey Reflections on O. Aslanapa's Turkish Art and Architecture Traditional Architecture in the Arabian Peninsula Musalla Qasr Kharana re-examined Occidental Oriental: Islamic Influences in the Art of Britain and America Splendour and Austerity. Islamic Architectural Ornament. The Monument Reviews of M. Meinecke, Die Madrasa des Amir Mitqal C. Ewert and J.-P. Wisshak, Forschungen zur almohadischen Moschee. I. Vorstafen E. C. Dodd and S. Khairallah, The Image of the World
£28.50
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Iconic House
Book SynopsisPresents over 100 of the world's most significant residential buildings, now published in a compact format to create a handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design.Trade Review'A pretty much definitive guide to the houses that have come to define “modern architecture”' - Wallpaper*'The ultimate handbook for those wanting to delve into the evolution of 20th-century architecture' - House & GardenTable of ContentsIntroduction • 100 house profiles
£25.00
Oro Editions The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design
Book SynopsisPlanting design is, rather obviously, a complex topic, spanning as it does art, science, social need, and morality - especially during these days of increasing planetary environmental threat. Although certainly not denying the importance of scientifically appropriate practices, the symposium “The Aesthetics of [Contemporary] Planting Design” addressed planting design today, proposing a renewed concern for the cultural and aesthetic aspects of the landscapes that result. This book, which has been developed from the original presentations at the symposium, presents the thoughts of a select international group of landscape architects and historians who discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work as well as the work of others, both contemporary and historical. They suggest that, as in real estate, the most important factor in selecting plants is “location, location, location.” Certainly the Californian situation is far more forgiving than the aridity and other restrictive environmental conditions endemic to the Sonoran desert, or the frost and short growing seasons of Nordic lands that direct Scandinavian landscape architects to rely on native birches, pines, rowan, and moss. Most of us would agree that there are plants sensible for each climatic zone. Addressing environmental conditions is but the first step in the equation, however. There are also the issues of combination and composition.
£33.30
Bauer and Dean Publishers Inc Kansas City Houses 18851938
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive book on the rich architectural heritage of Kansas City. Profiling forty of the city's finest houses built between 1885 and 1938, each chapter includes floor plans and photographs detailing the exterior and interior architecture.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Explores the development of Kansas City's affluent residential districts and park and boulevard system, from the 1850s through the boom years of the 1920s; 40 chapters: Each documents an individual house, with history of architect and patron, photographs, floor plans, and architectural drawings; Selected catalogue (appendix): 60 additional houses, each with an exterior view and a caption listing original owner, architect, and date completed; Architects biographies (appendix): 20 brief biographies of the architects and firms that designed the 40 houses profiled; Bibliography; Index.
£52.25
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd The Irish Aesthete: Ruins of Ireland
Book SynopsisGo on a journey with Robert O’Byrne as he brings fascinating Irish ruins to life. Fantastical, often whimsical, and frequently quirky, these atmospheric ruins are beautifully photographed and paired with fascinating text by Robert O’Byrne. Born out of Robert’s hugely popular blog, The Irish Aesthete, there are Medieval castles, Georgian mansions, Victorian lodges, and a myriad of other buildings, many never previously published. Robert focuses on a mixture of exteriors and interiors in varying stages of decay, on architectural details, and entire scenarios. Accompanying texts tell of the Regency siblings who squandered their entire fortune on gambling and carousing, of an Anglo-Norman heiress who pitched her husband out the window on their wedding night, and of the landlord who liked to walk around naked and whose wife made him carry a cowbell to warn housemaids of his approach. Arranged by the country’s four provinces, the diverse ruins featured offer a unique insight into Ireland and an exploration of her many styles of historic architecture.Trade ReviewThis is a beautiful yet sad survey of buildings abandoned to time. – House & GardenThis book is a love letter to the romantic ruins that litter Ireland’s landscape – Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
£15.29
Rowman & Littlefield Building Nazi Germany: Place, Space,
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany’s economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The authors trace the specific roles of its component parts—the monumental redevelopment and cleansing of cities; the construction of new civic landscapes for educational, athletic, and leisure pursuits; the improvement of transportation, industrial, and military infrastructures; and the creation of networked landscapes of fear, slave labor, and genocide. Through distinctive examples, the book draws out the ways in which combinations of place, space, and architecture were utilized as a cumulative means of undergirding the regime and its ambitions. The authors consider how these reshaped spaces were actually experienced and perceived by ordinary Germans, and in some cases the world at large, as the regime intentionally built a new Nazi Germany.Trade ReviewThere is a substantial scholarly literature concerning architecture in the Third Reich, but Hagen and Ostergren break new ground. While dealing—as other scholars have—with the relationship between the construction of public buildings and Nazi aesthetics, Hagen and Ostergren go a step further by placing their study in a broad context. They approach their subject from the point of view of geographers, seeking to understand the relationship among aesthetics, ideology, utility, and urban planning during the Third Reich. Of particular interest is the chapter on the construction of concentration camps. In their epilogue, "The Building and Breaking of Nazi Germany," the authors provide a brief but valuable analysis of the destruction of Germany’s urban landscape during the final days of WW II; there is also interesting discussion of the use of Nazi buildings during the postwar period. These are subjects usually ignored by other scholars. The numerous illustrations enhance the utility of this book. Building Nazi Germany makes an important contribution to understanding of National Socialism.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * Choice *An indispensable work for anyone interested in urban planning and architecture under National Socialism. Erudite, captivating, and filled with fascinating photos and maps, the book leaves the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted and often contradictory imprint of Nazi ideology on the built landscape of Germany. -- Guntram H. Herb, Middlebury CollegeNazi Germany may be best remembered for the unparalleled, global destruction wrought by its toxic racism and war machinery. But, as Hagen and Ostergren demonstrate in this fascinating book, the regime’s totalitarian ideology extended to the built world, too. Their valuable research shows the stunning and frightening extent of the Nazi regime’s architectural megalomania. -- Steven Hoelscher, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPreface 1 Statism, Totalitarianism, and National Socialism 2 Things to Take Your Breath Away: The Führer Cities 3 A Nazi Civic Spirit: Reordering Cities and Towns 4 From Chaos to Order and Back Again: Home, Hearth, and Family Life 5 Mind, Body, and Heart: Turning Germans into Nazis 6 The Machinery of Conquest: The Military-Industrial Complex 7 Working toward Genocide: Camps of Confinement, Enslavement, and Death Epilogue: The Building and Breaking of Nazi Germany Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors
£36.90
Taschen GmbH Bjarne Mastenbroek. Dig it! Building Bound to the
Book SynopsisBuilding is one of very few endeavours that are physically connected to the surface of the earth, fixed and enduring. Nevertheless, for centuries, especially in the West, we have considered ourselves separate and above nature, drifting away, defining our own systems and order, and using the ground as a nothing more than a passive foundation. Other times we sought connection, drawing on nature for ritual and religion, fortified protection, and ecological balance. This global compendium of nearly 1,400 pages brings architecture back in harmony with Earth’s surface. For years, Bjarne Mastenbroek and his architectural firm, SeARCH, have delved into the relationship architecture has, had, and will have with its surroundings, seeing buildings as landscapes that fit into their site without dominating or disturbing it. For Dig It!, they have dug deep into the history of building culture and brought to light fascinating examples of this philosophy—some well known, some previously overlooked. From African churches chiseled from rock and Chinese villages dug into terrains to Parisian housing vibrantly overgrown and a villa built into the cliffs of Capri (famously featured in the film Le Mépris starring Brigitte Bardot), this book dissects structures from the past millennia. Part atlas, part encyclopedia, it highlights traditional vernacular practices, reconsiders all-time favorites, and celebrates contemporary examples across the globe. Designed by Mevis & Van Deursen, the extensive collection features analytical drawings from SeARCH and photo essays by Iwan Baan. Dig It! acknowledges an effort to reconnect architecture and landscape and merge building with ground. Separated into six chapters (or “strategies”)—Bury, Embed, Absorb, Spiral, Carve, and Mimic—this remarkable survey reveals humanity’s connection to the earth through building culture: clever and utterly relevant for the challenges that we have and will face in both urban and natural environments.Trade Review“A global tour of buildings that have a strong relationship to the earth.” * canadianarchitect.com *“Explores past and present examples of how humans have interacted with and lived on the ground.” * designweek.co.uk *“Dig it! Building Bound to the Ground explores innovative, sustainable, and technically stunning approaches to architecture.” * thisiscolossal.com *“Mankind destroys the skin of the earth at an unprecedented scale. The time has come for a fundamental reset.” * Bjarne Mastenbroek *
£75.00
WW Norton & Co American House Styles: A Concise Guide
Book SynopsisColonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences that shaped each of these styles and many more. Organized in periods, from Early Colonial (1600–1715) to the Modern Movement (1920–60) and beyond, this tour of America’s varied residential architecture is rendered in elevation drawings that precisely illustrate the key characteristics of each style. Nearly 25 years since the original publication of American House Styles, this updated edition includes a new preface and house styles from the mid-1990s to the present—from the rise and fall of the McMansion to energy-efficient, regionally influenced homes. The illustrations, now in color, are more delightful than ever in a new, larger format. This a must-have volume for anyone interested in architecture or adding a bit of style to their home.Trade Review"History is all around us—so much so that it can be hard to see it. John Milnes Baker’s classic work, now beautifully updated, helps us to locate it in our very houses. Through brick and stucco, pediments and porticos, he literally brings history home to us." -- Russell Shorto, author of Revolution Song and The Island at the Center of the World"John Milnes Baker is a congenial companion, encyclopedic without being dull, discriminating but not dismissive. His affectionate survey of four centuries of American houses and American aspirations is an accessible guide to the world we’ve built and a good set of principles for understanding whatever we’ll think up next." -- Kent Barwick, former chair of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
£19.79
Taschen GmbH Piano. Complete Works 1966–Today. 2021 Edition
Book SynopsisRenzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that “turned the architecture world upside down.” Since then, he has continued to craft such iconic cultural spaces as the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago and, more recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries. In London, the Piano touch has also transformed the skyline with the Shard. At the age of 84, the Italian maestro retains all of his enthusiasm and kindness—and his recent roster is more impressive than ever. As he confided to the author, “I think at a certain age, one can discover that there is what the French call the ‘fil rouge,’ a kind of red thread that relates one building to another over time. In my case, I believe it is about lightness and the art of building.” From freshly built museums in Athens and Santander; ongoing works in Lisbon, London, Toronto, and Geneva; to such humanitarian projects as the Emergency Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda, and the Children’s Hospice in Bologna, Italy, Piano’s career is a thrilling journey through the beauty and very essence of architecture. Based on the massive XXL monograph, this widely updated edition brings the architect’s definitive career overview to an accessible format and is illustrated by photographs, sketches, and plans.
£54.00
Anthem Press The Origin and Development of Dougong and Zaojing
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on two significant architectural elements in traditional Chinese buildings, that is, Dougong and Zaojing. Dougong is a bracket set often sitting above columns and beams as a key component in the great buildings and tombs of imperial China. Zaojing is a special structure sunken into the ceiling, often profusely decorated with carvings and colorful paintings in various motifs. The book inquires about the origin of Dougong and Zaojing in the Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220). Compared to their later technically oriented development during the Tang to the Qing dynasties (c. 618–1912), and their preservation and innovative reinterpretation in modern times, the rich cultural meanings originally embodied in Dougong and Zaojing have almost disappeared. Trade Review“Multidisciplinary in approach and content, this book provides a succinct and visually striking presentation of dougong and zaojing, two iconic features of traditional Chinese architecture. Jing XIE’s narrative and abundant visual material will be of great interest to undergraduate and graduate students who often struggle to fully understand their significance” — Ronald G. Knapp, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, State University of New York, New PaltzTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Prologue; Searching for the Origin of Dougong in the Chinese Bronze Age; The Development of Column and Bracket Sets in the Han Dynasty; The Origin and Development of Zaojing; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
£19.94
Editions Flammarion Bagatelle: A Princely Residence in Paris
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£48.75
Birkhauser Basics Design Methods
Book SynopsisArchitects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms. These methods make it possible to break free of the traditional canon of forms and established paradigms. At the same time, there must be enough leeway for a functional, systematic design conception to take shape. This volume focuses in depth on the design methods that have decisively shaped current architectural practice.Themes are - Diagrammatic methods (using drawings and schematic representations), -Mimetic methods (imitative), - Parametric methods (using a characteristic quantity), - Automated and digital design methods of the contemporary avant-garde, e.g. scaling, datascapes, folding, and morphing.
£18.52
Taschen GmbH Koolhaas/Obrist. Project Japan. Metabolism Talks
Book Synopsis“Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture—Metabolism—that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men… Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic....” —Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism—the first non-Western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s postwar miracle. Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images—master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions—telling the 20th-century history of Japan through its architecture. From the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s, a devastated Japan after the war, and the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokyo to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka, and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s: The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair. Oral history by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist Extensive interviews with Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Takako and Noritaka Tange Hundreds of never-before-seen images, architectural models, and magazine excerpts Layout by award-winning Dutch designer Irma Boom Further reading Trade Review"Project Japan features hundreds of fantastic never-before-seen images that tell the 20th Century history of Japan through its architecture." * Yellow Magazine *
£40.00
D Giles Ltd America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the
Book SynopsisIn 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the “Eden of America” in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted created dramatic gardens by the sea for his wealthy clients, and artists from John Frederick Kensett to Henry James and Thornton Wilder celebrated the city as a verdant paradise in painting, poetry, and prose. America’s Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages builds on the city’s iconic reputation as a centuries-old paradise, and establishes Newport as a cultural landscape of national significance. The comprehensive history from European settlement to the present day is illustrated by a treasure trove of rare period maps, paintings and photographs by prominent artists, and drawings and sketches by leading designers. Ten chapters discuss topography, geology, and climate; the history of the city from the early days of colonial New England, through the Gilded Age estates, to the 21st century. A chapter on Living Legends emphasises the importance of Newport’s historic trees. The book serves as a critical resource guide encompassing landscape architecture, fine art, tree and plant propagation, and the conservation of natural sites. A rich story of art, history, design and horticulture awaits readers among the gardens, gazebos and trees of Newport.Table of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgments; A Note from the Author; Introduction: America’s Eden; A Land Blessed and Cursed: Topography, Geology, and Climate; From Eden to Eternity: An Historical Overview; Paradise of New England: The Colonial Era and Early Republic; Case Study Seeing, or Recording the Land: Changing Perspectives on Mapping Newport; Genteel Landscapes: Romantic Villas and Rustic Views; Case Study The Horticulturists; Case Study Touro Park; The Art of Scenery: Design in the Age of the Picturesque; The Gilded Age: Estate Gardens and Urban Forests; Case Study Blooming Beauty; Floral Culture and Fashion during the Gilded Age; Working Landscapes: Gardeners and Greenhouses; The Age of the New: Modernism in the Landscape; Living Legend: Newport’s Historic Trees; Case Study The Sentinels of Eden; An Arborist’s View of Newport and Its Trees; Eden Preserved and Propagated; Conclusion: The Legacy and Future of Eden; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Picture Credits.
£31.96
Kapon Editions The Rotunda in Thessaloniki and its Mosaics
Book SynopsisThe mosaics in the Rotunda in Thessaloniki are the most significant decorations that remain from the early Byzantine period. Th is richly illustrated book invites the reader to enter the building and experience the splendid golden and silver mosaics that cover the cupola and vaults. It includes a timeline and a list of recent publications. Colour photographs, many specially taken for this publication, document the spectacular qualities of these magnificent mosaics. After an introduction to the architecture of the Rotunda, the authors focus on the mosaics, discussing such issues as imperial patronage, the martyr portraits, the pictorial programme, as well as mosaic technique and the aesthetic qualities of the multi-coloured images. The succinct text provides an up-to-date introduction to the mosaics.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Roman Rotunda The Conversion into a Church Overview of the Mosaic Decorations The Date of the Mosaics The Silver Vault The Martyr Zone The Medallion of Christ Supported by Flying Angels The Mosaic Technique Aesthetic Aspects of the Mosaics Timeline Select Bibliography
£12.50
Rutgers University Press American Hotel The WaldorfAstoria and the Making
Book SynopsisKnown internationally as a symbol of elegance and luxury, Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria is one of the world's most famous hotels. David Freeland takes us behind the glittering image to reveal the full extent of the Waldorf's contribution as a shaper of twentieth-century life and culture.Trade Review"David Freeland is such a fascinating writer, and a true scholar of New York City. I have always loved the passion and joy that he brings to his work, and I’ve learned so much from him over the years. In this book, Freeland takes us on a tour of one hundred years of American history, as seen through the lens of New York’s legendary Waldorf-Astoria. From turn-of-the-century battles over women’s rights, through Prohibition, battles over Labor rights, communism, and segregation, the Waldorf has played host to some of the most electrifying moments in the American story. Through Freeland’s meticulous research, this book—and the Waldorf-Astoria itself—jump vividly to life. A tour-de-force." -- Elizabeth Gilbert * author of Eat, Pray, Love *"David Freeland is a master at reconstructing lost Manhattan history and plunging us into it. Now he checks us into the most glamorous hotel New York has ever known and lets us wallow in its luxuries, meet its quirky cast of characters, applaud its shows, and uncover its scandals. This fascinating book tracks the unfolding of several unforgettable eras and shows us what made a phenomenon like the Waldorf-Astoria possible." -- James Gavin * author of Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne *"Known internationally as a symbol of elegance and luxury, Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria is one of the world’s most famous hotels. Its reputation as a host to political leaders and movie stars is matched only by the renown of its cuisine and soaring Art Deco architecture....American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and The Making of a Century [goes] behind the glittering image, using rare photos and documents to reveal the full extent of the Waldorf’s contribution as a shaper of twentieth-century life and culture." * Untapped Cities *"The many lives of the Waldorf-Astoria and the future of the iconic NYC hotel," by Jacqueline Cutler * New York Daily News *"Freeland’s new book offers a new perspective. While exclusion, discrimination and shoddy treatment of guests are woven into the histories of all American hotels, he argues that the Waldorf’s legacy is largely one of openness and acceptance. Its very symbolism enabled it to play a part in creating a more inclusive society." * BookTrib *"BBO NYC's David Freeland Releases Book On Waldorf-Astoria: The hotel has hosted countless movie stars, business tycoons, and world leaders over the past ninety years," by Alexa Criscitiello * Broadway World *"American Hotel explores the ways in which the Waldorf-Astoria shaped popular notions about hotels in the twentieth century. The concept of a hotel containing a village-like arcade of shops on site was among the many innovations that the Waldorf-Astoria pioneered. Guests were now able to shop, dine, and entertain themselves without venturing beyond the hotel’s walls. This new model, which persists to the current day (for instance, in all-inclusive resorts), was quickly copied by other hotels around the world." * The New Criterion *Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1 A Haven for the Well-to-Do 2 Woman Spelled with a Big “W” 3 “Boom Centre” 4 Temporary Storms and Stress 5 No More Junior Proms! 6 Weekend at the Waldorf 7 Little America 8 The Waldorf Belongs to the People 9 Becoming Visible Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
The Crowood Press Ltd The Architecture of British Bridges
Book SynopsisDuring the Industrial Revolution, Britain was at the forefront of bridge innovation. Pioneering designers such as George and Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel created Britain's rich bridge heritage that features many world firsts and we can learn much from their ground-breaking designs. Written by an experienced bridge architect, this book includes an introduction to bridge aesthetics; it gives an outline of British bridge development and advice on parapet treatment and bridge lighting. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how the best of British bridges marry aesthetic considerations with engineering ingenuity.Trade ReviewSince I received the book, I have not been able to put my copy down. I never realised there were so many different kinds of bridge and the stories attached to some of them are fascinating. There is a feature on Bennerley Viaduct in the Iron bridges section with a lovely full page illustration. The book is well illustrated, easy to read, informative and clearly set out. -- Kieran Lee * Friends of Bennerley Viaduct Newsletter *
£18.00
Steidl Publishers Mona Kuhn: Kings Road
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