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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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