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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Encyclopedia of East Asian Design
Book SynopsisHaruhiko Fujita is Professor of Aesthetics and Design History at Kobe Design University, and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics at Osaka University, Japan.Christine Guth led the Asian design history strand in the V&A / RCA History of Design Programme from 2007 until 2016.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich compendium of knowledge about East Asian design. Contributions from multiple authors help to establish the importance of design from this region to the field's world history. * Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Bloomsbury’s new Encyclopedia of East Asian Design provides a very welcome impetus for achieving a wider and more informed understanding, knowledge and awareness of the histories, cultures, politics, economics, and meanings of design in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Mongolia and Taiwan. Edited by established East Asian specialists Hirohiko Fujita and Christine Guth, the volume contains essays by more than 100 researchers and scholars, many of them emerging voices in the history of design set alongside more widely known and established academics and curators drawn from around the world. Importantly, indigenous scholars from each of the countries covered have made a significant number of these contributions. Since the 1990s considerable energies have been spent in extending the focus of the cartography of design beyond a largely Anglophone and European dominated perspective. This significant volume marks another stage in so doing. * Jonathan M. Woodham, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Brighton, UK *I was so pleased to hear about the publication of the Encyclopedia of East Asian Design. From a Japanese perspective it is easy to think that our clothes and crafts are unique to Japan, but of course they have many influences and origins from the rest of the Asian continent. This encyclopedia explores the transition of such design from a broad and encompassing perspective, and I have great hope that further research will develop as a result of this volume. * Akiko Mabuchi, Director General of the National Museum of Western Art, Japan *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Haruhiko Fujita, Osaka University, Japan, Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, UK, Jae-Joon Han, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea, Chae Lee, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea and Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada China A historical background of pre-modern China - Jessica Tsui-Yan Li, York University, Canada Traditional ideas, religion and aesthetics for design in pre-modern China - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Traditional cultures of China - Jessica Tsui-Yan Li, York University, Canada Traditional colors, forms and patterns of China - Yi-Hsin Lin, independent, UK Painting in pre-modern China - Malcolm McNeill, SOAS, University of London, UK Chinese calligraphy - Sarah Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong The design of the Chinese woodblock printed book - Lucille Chia, University of California, Riverside, USA Silk textiles and clothing in pre-modern China - Helen Persson, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Ceramics in pre-modern China - Luisa Elena Mengoni, British Library, UK Metalwork in pre-modern China - Mélodie Doumy, British Library, UK Carvings (stone and jade) in pre-modern China - Eileen H. 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Lam, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Foundations of ancient Chinese wooden architecture - Kwong-Chiu Chiu, Design and Cultural Studies Workshop, Hong Kong Interior design and furnishing in pre-modern China - Kwong-Chiu Chiu, Design and Cultural Studies Workshop, Hong Kong Architecture in pre-modern China - Puay-Peng Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore Gardens in pre-modern China - Shuishan Yu, Northeastern University, USA Contemporary city planning and environmental design in China - Shirley Surya, M+ Museum, Hong Kong Modern design in China (before 1911) - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada and Jackie Kwok, Independent Scholar, Hong Kong Modern design in China between 1911 and 1949 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada and Jackie Kwok, Independent Scholar, Hong Kong Modern design in China between 1949 and 1979 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Modern design in China between 1980 and 2000 - Jennifer Wong, M+ Museum, Hong Kong Contemporary communication design in China since 1979 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary fashion design in China - Christine Tsui, independent, China The development of craft and product design in China between 1949 and 2010 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary architecture and interior design in China - Jing Xiao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Charlie Q. 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Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chinese comics, animation and digital game design - Jun Xu, Nanjing College of Information Technology, China China and popular culture - Kang Liu, Duke University, USA Contemporary design organisations and societies in China - Gigi Chang, California State University Fullerton, USA China and design education (since 1949) - Christine Tsui, independent, China Autonomous regions of China Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang Uyghur, Guangxi Zhuang, Ningxia Hui and Tibet - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Hong Kong Nature, society, tradition and historical background (with a design focus) of Hong Kong - King-Chung Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong History of design in Hong Kong before 1945: form follows freight - Matthew Turner, Edinburgh Napier University, UK History of design in Hong Kong, 1945 to 1989: design for design for design - Matthew Turner, Edinburgh Napier University, UK History of design in Hong Kong, 1945 to 1989: design for design for design - D. J. Huppatz, Swinburne University, Australia Contemporary communication design in Hong Kong - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Apparel and fashion design in Hong Kong - Wessie Ling, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK Contemporary jewellery design in Hong Kong - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada The development of craft and product design in Hong Kong between 1945 and 2010 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary architecture and interior design in Hong Kong - Charlie Q. L. Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Contemporary city planning and environmental design of Hong Kong - Peter Cookson Smith, Urbis Ltd, Hong Kong Contemporary interaction / interactive / interface / motion design in Hong Kong - Huaxin Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and Kenny K. N. Chow, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Hong Kong Manhua 1945 – 2000 - Victor Ming Hoi Lai, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Design education, curation and infrastructure in Hong Kong - Kin Wai Michael Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and Yi Lin Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Contemporary design organisations and societies in Hong Kong - Grace Lau, Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations, Hong Kong Japan Natural and social environment and historical background of Japan - Keisuke Takayasu, Osaka University, Japan Religious and traditional ideas of Japan (with design focus) - Takashi Murakami, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Aesthetics categories and changing ideas of ‘design’ - Haruhiko Fujita, Osaka University, Japan Traditional culture of Japan - Tomoko Hata, Museum of Kyoto, Japan A history of Japanese approaches to colour - Monica Bethe, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute Kyoto, Japan Traditional Japanese forms and patterns - Hiroko Kurokawa, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan Drawing and painting in Japan (before 1868) - Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Calligraphy in Japan – Noriko Kaya, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan Printing in pre-modern Japan - Ellis Tinios, SOAS, University of London, UK and Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, UK Japanese paper -Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, UK Textiles and clothing in pre-modern Japan - Mary M. Dusenbury, University of Kansas, USA Ceramics in pre-modern Japan - Rupert Faulkner, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Metalwork of pre-modern Japan – Hiroko Kurokawa, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan Carving and sculpture in pre-modern Japan - Patricia J. Graham, independent, USA Woodwork in pre-modern Japan - Kenji Suda, Tokyo University of the Arts, USA Interior and furnishing in pre-modern Japan -Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Architecture in pre-modern Japan - Mira Locher, University of Utah, USA Gardens of pre-modern Japan - Koji Kuwakino, Osaka University, Japan City planning and urbanism in pre-modern Japan - Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Performance and spectacle in Japan - Sean H. McPherson, Bridgewater State University, USA Modern design in Japan (1868 – 1912) - Toyoro Hida, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japan Modern design in Japan (1912 – 1930) - Kazuto Kasahara, Kyoto University of Technology, Japan Modern design in Japan (1930 – 1957) - Takuya Kida, Musashimo Art University, Japan Modern design in Japan (1957 – 1973) - Yasuko Suga, Tsuda College, Japan Modern design in Japan (1973 – 1990) - Yasuko Suga, Tsuda College, Japan Contemporary communication design in Japan - Kiyonori Muroga, IDEA Magazine, Japan Contemporary textiles and fashion design in Japan - Mikiko Tsunemi, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan Contemporary craft design in Japan - Hitomi Kitamura, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan Contemporary product design in Japan - Makoto Watanabe, Chiba University, Japan Interaction / interactive / interface design in Japan - Kenta Ono, Chiba University, Japan Contemporary interior design in Japan - Keiko Hashimoto, Kindai University, Japan Contemporary architecture in Japan - Daiki Amanai, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Japan Contemporary environmental design in Japan - Seiko Goto, Nagasaki University, Japan Solution and service design in Japan - Takayuki Higuchi, Chiba University, Japan Popular culture in Japan - Hiroshi Narumi, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan Character design in Japanese manga, anime and gaming - Ulrich Heinze, University of East Anglia, UK Design curation and education in Japan - Yuko Hashimoto, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan Design organisations in Japan - Yuko Hashimoto, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan Design legislation and governmental organisations of Japan - Eri Mitsui, independent, Japan Korea The natural and social environment and historical background of Korea - Kay Jun, independent, South Korea Religious and traditional ideas of Korea in design - Hyun-Shin Jo, Kookmin University, South Korea Aesthetic categories and changing ideas of ‘design’ in Korea - Bum Choi, independent, South Korea Traditional culture of Korea - Gong-Ho Choi, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage, South Korea Traditional forms, colours and patterns of Korea - Hyun-Taek Park, National Museum of Korea, South Korea Drawing and painting in pre-modern Korea - Young-Soo Kim, Hongik University, South Korea Calligraphy in pre-modern Korea – Hyun-Taek Park, National Museum of Korea, South Korea Printing in pre-modern Korea - Byung-Geol Min, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea Textiles and clothing in pre-modern Korea - Woo Hyun Cho, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Woodwork, ceramics and metalwork in pre-modern Korea - Gong-Ho Choi, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage, South Korea Architecture and city planning in Korea - Mi-Kyung Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Concepts of modern design in Korea since the 20th century - Chang-Sup Oh, Konkuk University, South Korea North Korea Society, tradition and modern history in North Korea - Mary S. Ginsberg, independent, USA Design and culture in modern North Korea - Mary S. Ginsberg, independent, USA South Korea Society, tradition and modern history in South Korea - Sang-Kyu Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea Contemporary communication design in South Korea - Chae Lee, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea Contemporary fashion design in South Korea - Juhee Park, Kookmin University, South Korea Contemporary craft design in South Korea - Gong-Ho Choi, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage, South Korea Contemporary product design in South Korea - Sang-Kyu Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea Contemporary interior design in South Korea - Soo-Jung Kim, Daegu University, South Korea Contemporary architecture in South Korea - Hyungmin Pai, University of Seoul, South Korea Contemporary environmental and social design in South Korea - Hyun-Shin Jo, Kookmin University, South Korea Popular Culture in South Korea - Youngchul Kim, AGI Society, South Korea Design education and infrastructure in South Korea - Hyeon Joo Kang, Inha University, South Korea Design legislation, organisations, societies and policy - Jong-Kyun Kim, Korean Intellectual Property Office, South Korea Macao The historical background and social environments of Macao - Zhidong Hao, University of Macau, Macau Culture and design in Macao - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Mongolia Natural environment, social context and historical background in Mongolia - Yuki Konagaya, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan Traditional culture, colours, forms, patterns and aesthetics in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Painting, printing and book culture in Mongolia - Uranchimeg Tsultemin, independent, USA Textiles and clothing in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Metalwork and woodwork in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Carving and sculpture in Mongolia - Uranchimeg Tsultemin, independent, USA Architecture and urbanism in Mongolia - Isabelle Charleux, American Center for Mongolian Studies, USA Contemporary design and popular culture in Mongolia - Mayuko Okamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan Taiwan Taiwan: Nature, society, tradition and historical background - Hsin-Tein Liao, Australian National University, Australia A history of arts, crafts and design in Taiwan before 1895 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Modern graphic design development in Taiwan 1895 – 1945 - Tsun-Hsiung Yao, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Modern design in Taiwan after 1945 - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada The evolution of contemporary Taiwanese graphic design - Li-Min Chen, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Apparel and fashion design in Taiwan - Wessie Ling, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK Contemporary jewellery and accessories in Taiwan - Tan-Chi Chao, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan Contemporary craft and product design in Taiwan - Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada Contemporary architecture, interior design and city planning in Taiwan - Ya-Chun Chiang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan and Wei-Hsiu Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan The development of Taiwan Manhua - I-Yun Lee, National Taipei University, Taiwan The transition of design education in Taiwan - Chien-Tu Jeff Lai, Pennsylvania State University, USA Design organisations and societies in Taiwan - Ken-Tsai Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ludwig Hilberseimer
Book SynopsisThe German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influeTrade ReviewScott Colman’s excellent new book Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City contributes fundamentally to our renewed appreciation of the often-misunderstood German émigré architect. The book offers the definitive English-language account of Hilberseimer’s intellectual formation, cultural commitments, and urban aspirations. * Charles Waldheim, Harvard University, USA *This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer’s modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century. * Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Individual 2. Hilberseimer's Theory of Art 3. Organicism and Morphology 4. The Metropolis as an Organism 5. The Metropolis and the Work of Art 6. The City-Building-Art 7. Spiritualizing the Metropolis 8. Polarizing the Metropolis 9. The Fate of the Metropolis 10. Basso Continuo 11. Hilberseimer and Dada 12. The Equivalence of Art and Life 13. Metropolis-Building Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paolo Portoghesi
Book SynopsisThrough the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.It explores how Portoghesi's personal postmodern project was based on the triangulation of a renewed interest in historical architectural language, unprecedented use of media and intertwined links between architecture and politics. Organized in a sequence of critical chapters supported by the analysis of Portoghesi's most significant architectural projects including Casa Baldi (1959), The Mosque in Rome (197595) and his Strada Novissima exhibition (1980) and publications, the book unfolds around the three main themes of history, politics and media. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist Table of ContentsList of illustrations Series preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Italian postmodern architecture revisited State of the art Methodology and sources Structure Setting the scene 1 THE POSTMODERN PROJECT Impresario of postmodern architecture Choosing Rossi Mendini and the Banal Ideological duel with Tafuri Beyond Italy Galleria Apollodoro, a centre for Roman culture 2 TURN TO HISTORY Architect as historian/historian as architect Neoliberty polemic Instrumental value of the past Technique of lap dissolves Geometria borrominiana Casa Baldi, or the rehabilitation of the curve 3 SOCIALISM FOR FREEDOM Rise and leadership of the PSI Years of the protests Craxismo and the end of prohibitionism Staging the PSI Control over the lagoon The Mosque of Rome, between religion and oil 4 EMBRACING MASS MEDIA Mediatization of the building Ars oratoria Through the pages of the magazines Architecture on the dance floor From movie protagonist to stage set Casa Papanice framed by the camera EPILOGUE 1992 Annus horribilis Retreat to Calcata CODA By Maristella Casciato Notes Bibliography Index: Paolo’s world
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC After the Fall
Book SynopsisFlavia Marcello is Professor of Architectural History at Swinburne University of Technology's School of Design, Australia.Trade ReviewThis book is not only a rich compendium of case studies of difficult heritage but also a significant contribution to an understanding of postwar architectural culture. Peeling back and reconstructing layers of meaning associated with key works of the Fascist Regime in Rome, the book will make the city more comprehensible and richer in historical associations. Flavia Marcello has illuminated this study with a humanist understanding that would not have been possible a few years ago. * Tim Benton, Open University, UK *After the Fall provides a detailed account of how key sites of fascist Rome have evolved and endured in the last century. Comprised of concise encyclopedic entries on monuments, buildings and sites, it will be a useful guide for all those interested in what has become of fascist Rome. * Stephanie Pilat, University of Oklahoma, USA *Flavia Marcello’s absorbing and richly detailed book explores the ongoing impact of Fascism and Italy’s evolving relationship to its history on Rome’s urban development and built environment. It will be invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in Rome’s historical and contemporary urban topography or in Italy’s complex and contested relationship with its Fascist past. * Sally Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Terms and Acronyms Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Mussolini’s Mark: Tracing the Legacy of Fascism in Rome’s Post-war Urban Planning Chapter 3: The Architecture of Fascist Rome between Politics and Practicality Chapter 4: The Fascist Phoenix: Virgilio Testa and the Resurrection of EUR Chapter 5: Mothers, Martyrs and Military Men: The Changing Meanings of Rome’s Fascist Monuments Chapter 6: Aspirations and Illusions of Control: Re-contextualising Rome’s Fascist Epigraphy A Conclusion for a Centenary Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Domesticity Under Siege
Book SynopsisTheories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of home as haven'. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents.Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in safety and comfort', it is argued as a Table of ContentsIntroduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University, Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION ONE: Microbes, Animals and Insects 1. Miasmatical Fears, Annmarie Adams (McGill University, Canada) 2. Domesticity and Fear: Insects and Creepy Crawlies, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) SECTION TWO: Human Agents – Burrowing, Hoarding, Concealing, Undermining 3. The Domestic Screen, Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) 4. Hoarding Disorder, Schwitters’ Merzbau and its Conflict with Domesticity, Judit Pusztaszeri (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION THREE: Wars and Disasters as Agents 5. Under Siege: The Wartime Home in British Art of the London Blitz, Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) 6. Searching for (a) Home in the Rubble: The Heimkehrer-Flâneur in Wolfgang Staudte’s Die Mörder sind unter uns, Kai-Uwe Werbeck (University of North Carolina, USA) SECTION FOUR: Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny 7. I Have Ended up Like the House, Pretending to be Myself: Uncanny Heritage House Museums, Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne, Australia) 8. Suburban Horror Story, James F. Kerestes (Ball State University, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Detailing Worlds
Book SynopsisIn the 21st century, the word detail appears constantly in discussions of building, and we use it in many different waysyet just over 250 years ago, detail meant nothing at all particular to the work of architects, engineers, or builders. Detailing Worlds is the first book to examine the origins and evolution of detail as a concept with meanings specific to practices of building. By exploring how past meanings and roles were ascribed to detail in different worlds of practicethose of academics, technicians, students, engineers, and architectsDetailing Worlds looks to the future, illuminating the ways disciplinary knowledge and the concepts on which it is based evolve and change over time. It is a story about how such concepts are slowly but constantly reconceived, redefined, and transformed by individuals as they interact with one another, and how this process is shaped by the ever-changing sociocultural and technological dimensions of the world around us.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Home Screens
Book SynopsisLorrie Palmer is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Towson University, USA. She has published widely on film history, digital aesthetics, race, gender and technology in film and television, genre, and cinematic urban architecture.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging and very necessary volume grapples with what it means for public housing to become an image. Across twelve strikingly argued chapters, Palmer and her contributors show how film and television not only materially contribute to that image on a global scale, but how they can iterate, complicate, or question it and, in doing so, redefine our image of the home. -- Erica Stein, Vassar College, USAHome Screens is a must read for anyone interested in government-financed housing in both material reality and cinematic space. Palmer and her contributors deftly examine how diverse tenants try to create a sense of “home” in its contained, often precarious spaces. -- Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Public housing in global film and television - Lorrie Palmer I: Design, architecture and space 1. Uncanny architecture: Haunted structures in Candyman and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - Lorrie Palmer 2. Die architekten (1990): East/west ideology, concrete topography and the shadow of plattenbau - Heike Kumpf and Kirsten Kumpf Baele 3. Architect and amateur documentarian, Yitzhak Perlstein: Planning Israeli public housing (1960–70) - Daphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan 4. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962): INA-Casa public housing and remaking Rome’s postwar social landscape - Alberto Lo Pinto 5. Aerial transitions: Drones and domestic space in the Banlieue - Isabelle McNeill II: Spatialization of race, class and gender 6. Precarious homes in Britain and France – girlhood, escape and dance in Fish Tank and Divines - Anna Viola Sborgi 7. Cooley High, Cabrini-Green and early-onset rusting in Chicago - Michael D. Dwyer 8. Franklin Wong’s Below the Lion Rock television series: Community dialogue in 1970s Hong Kong public housing - Chung-kin Tsang 9. Within the public housing flats: Interiorization of class drama in Singapore cinema - Meisen Wong and Chua Beng Huat III: Home screens: Public housing in serialized television drama of The Wire, Treme, and Show Me a Hero 10. Ignoring women and communities of care: Public housing in The Wire - Kalima Young 11. ‘People need to come home’: Treme, Abandoned housing and post-Katrina New Orleans - Helen Morgan Parmett 12. Public housing, social problems and defensible space in David Simon’s show me a hero - Steve Macek Further Viewing Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Single People and Mass Housing in Germany
Book SynopsisErin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.Trade ReviewThis insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities. * Abigail A. Van Slyck, Dayton Professor Emerita of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College, USA *German architecture rewritten from the perspective of the single men and women living in mass housing. Meticulously researched, Erin Eckhold Sassin’s book is a major contribution to the histories of modernization and urbanization and their highly gendered designs for living. * Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem” 1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth 2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male” 3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All 4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public Sphere Extended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Reconstruction
Book SynopsisCommendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years.While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier developments of the interwar period (1919-1939) have been comparatively overlooked. Filling an important gap in surveys of 20th-century British architecture, this volume reveals how the architectural developments of this period not only provided important foundations for what happened after 1945 they are also of real significance in their own right.Sixteen essays bring together new and diverse approaches to the period a period of reconstruction, fraught with the challenges of modernity and democratisation. The collec
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modern Architecture and the Sacred
Book SynopsisRoss Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia.Maximilian Sternberg is a University Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University, UK.Trade ReviewAs religiosity declined in the West, architecture became the bearer of a powerful secular spirituality, widely ignored in the standard histories. In its broad and inclusive approach, this volume argues persuasively that the pursuit of the sacred was a key constituent of 20th-century architectural design and theory: a revision long overdue. * Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK) Part One Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred 1. Architecture and the question of ‘the’ sacred, Peter Carl (University of Cambridge, UK) 2 Romantic Kunstreligion and the search for the sacred in modern architecture: From Schinkel’s Altes Museum as ‘aesthetic church’ to Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel as Gesamtkunstwerk and ‘heavenly cave’, Gabriele Bryant (Independent Scholar) 3. The Ordinary as the extraordinary: Modern sacred architecture in Germany, the United States and Japan, Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland) 4. Città dei Morti: Alvar Aalto’s funerary architecture, Sofia Singler (University of Cambridge, UK) Part Two Buildings for modern worship 5. Light, form and formación: Daylighting, church building and the work of the Valparaíso School, Mary Ann Steane (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. Reading, storing and parading the book: Between tradition and modernity in the synagogue, Gerald Adler (University of Kent, UK) 7. Compacting civic and sacred: Goodhue’s University of Chicago Chapeland the modern metropolis, Stephen Gage (University of Reading, UK) 8. A diaspora of modern sacred form: Auguste Perret, Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry, Karla Cavarra Britton (Diné College, Navajo Nation) 9. Structure for spirit in The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal, 1945–70, Sam Samarghandi (Independent Scholar, Australia) Part Three Semi-sacred settings in the cultural topography of modernity 10. Revelatory earth: Adolphe Appia and the prospect of a modern sacred, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) 11. Anagogical themes in Schwitters’ Kathedrale des erotischen Elends, Matthew Mindrup (University of Sydney, Australia) 12. Modern medievalisms: Curating the sacred at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne (1932–9), Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK) 13. Architecture, politics and the sacred in military monuments of Fascist Italy, Hannah Malone (Max Planck Institute, Germany) 14. Atmosphere of the sacred: The awry in music, cinema, architecture, Michael Tawa (University of Sydney, Australia) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Atlas of Informal Settlement
Book SynopsisKim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. Matthijs van Oostrum currently works with UN-Habitat, Nairobi. Tanzil Shafique is Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Sheffield. Ishita Chatterjee is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University. Elek Pafka is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Melbourne.The authors are all associated with InfUr- the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne.Trade ReviewThe Atlas demonstrates the indispensable value that is generated by investigating the spatial logic of informal settlement, as this exposes factors often overlooked in broad-brush statistics and geospatial analysis based on artificial intelligence. Focusing on fifty-one sites, the Atlas offers a nuanced spatial analysis at different scale levels and reveals the processes and outcomes of self-organized urban design. In doing so, it offers learnings for context-sensitive policies for affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure in rapidly growing cities. * Raf Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division, UN-Habitat *We know very little about most of the informal settlements that house over a billion urban dwellers. This book advances and deepens our understanding of these settlements‘ development and expansion over time in all their diversity and complexity. * David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development *This is a vital empirical consolidation of the heterogeneous ways urban settlements are being composed and governed. The "informal" is always extending itself across new terrain and vernaculars; something always being worked and worked on in incessant processes of becoming unsettled and resettled. * AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield *Table of ContentsList of figures List of authors Acknowledgements Part A INTRODUCTION: Informal Settlement as a Verb Part B METHOD: Mapping Informal Assemblages Part C SETTLEMENT Part D MORPHOGENESIS: The Spatial Logic of Self-Organized Urban Design Part E REFERENCES Glossary Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architecture Media Archives
Book SynopsisOver 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his drawings. The critical role that Littlewood played, however, remains largely unrecognized by architectural scholarship, and a whole area of the project's cultural agenda remains overlooked.Architecture, Media, Archives is the first serious study of the complex relations between Littlewood and Price, reframing the Fun Palace as an extended media project and positioning Littlewood more clearly as co-designer. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book considers how, due to a lack of institutional support, the aims of the Fun Palace to transform the passive mass-audiences of post-war consumer socie
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architecture and Retrenchment
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic''s Award 2023Architecture and Retrenchment explores the neoliberal turn' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous Swedish Model and now home to Europe''s fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.With close feminist analysis running throughout and drawing from oral hi
£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeares House
Book Synopsis[A] page-turning story Times Literary SupplementEye-opening Michael BillingtonA detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar. The Stratford HeraldIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 known colloquially as the ''Birthplace'' remains the chief shrine. It''s not as romantic as Anne Hathaway''s thatched cottage, it''s not where he wrote any of his plays, and there''s nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.Based on original research in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in StratforTrade ReviewThis book is a terrific addition to the Shakespeare library … Combining social, architectural and theatrical history, the first third of the book offers a vivid evocation of life in Elizabethan Stratford … His most piercing observation, in this eye-opening book, is that the most important person in the birthplace is not the absent Shakespeare, but the curious visitor who finds in it whatever he or she is looking for. -- Michael Billington * Country Life *The book is jam-packed with facts and dates, but it flows well and it's easy to follow - Shakespeare's House is a delectable piece of microhistory and the perfect stocking filler for those who dabble in bardolatry. -- Cindy Marcolina * Broadway World UK *[Schoch] proves himself an impressive detective with a nose for a good story … Entertaining in its own right and also helpful as a reminder of the life and work of the great man. -- Philip Fisher * British Theatre Guide *A lively account of Shakespeare’s Birthplace. -- Glyn Paflin * The Church Times *Fascinating … A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar. * The Stratford-Herald *A sparklingly irreverent and yet sympathetic account of how and why Shakespeare’s birthplace became The Birthplace. Schoch brings the Stratford-upon-Avon that Shakespeare would have known vividly to life before telling the story of how a house in Henley Street turned into cultural heritage. It is a tale of fluctuating family fortunes, changing ideas of authorship, unashamed entrepreneurialism, mingled national reverence and hypocrisy, and how much the Birthplace has been worth and to whom. Brilliantly detailed and impeccably researched new materials dug out of the archive shed light on the second-best bed, the mulberry tree, the earliest tourists, the fabrication of Shakespeare relics, the auction of the house in 1847 and restoration anxieties. The Birthplace comes into new focus as a strange and wonderful amalgam of the genuine and sham, history and mythology. Essential reading for all Shakespeare enthusiasts – thrilling, entertaining, definitive. * Nicola J. Watson, The Open University, UK *Richard Schoch's account of how the site of Shakespeare's birth became an international icon is Shakespearean in its range and ambition. His impressive cast includes poets, novelists, historians, biographers, actors, scholars, visual artists, local personalities, a circus-entrepreneur, even royalty, all of whom process across Schoch's Birthplace-stage and earn a place in the story. This is not only a gripping account of how Shakespeare's Birthplace evolved (family residence, inn, butcher's shop, pub, site of pilgrimage, museum, library, archive), but a delightful tour through the highlights of the first three hundred years of Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon. * Paul Edmondson, Head of Research, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK *Marking 400 years since the publication of the First Folio, in Shakespeare’s House Richard Schoch looks at the hidden history of the Bard’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, examining how it has become the chief shrine to our greatest playwright and asks what that changed status tells us about changing attitudes to Shakespeare himself. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Part I: Shakespeare and the World 1. On the Right Hand of Avon 2. To Be Wise in Building a House 3. Epitome of the Whole World 4. Household Stuff Part II: The World and Shakespeare 5. Thy Stratford Monument 6. Our Shakespeare’s House 7. A Marvellous Convenient Place 8. Birth of the Birthplace 9. Cottage of Humility 10. This House for Sale 11. Snatched from Quick Decay 12. Restoring Shakespeare 13. W.S. Epilogue: ‘Memorials of the Marvellous Man’ Bibliographic Essay Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Architecture Empire and Trade
Book SynopsisIain Jackson is Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK; Ewan Harrison is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Rixt Woudstra is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Michele Tenzon is research associate at University of Liverpool; Claire Tunstall is Global Head of Art Collections, Archives and Records Management at Unilever.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of the Home
Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Home provides a comprehensive survey of the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800 years, the six volumes explore how different cultures and societies have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space.1. A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity (800 BCE - 800 CE)2. A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450)3. A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648)4. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 - 1815)5. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Empire (1815 - 1920)6. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (1920 - present)Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:1. The Meaning of the
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific
Book SynopsisArchitectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the world's most dispersed and culturally diverse region.A wide-ranging collection of case studies uncover these forgotten connections, drawing together stories of migratory architects, imperial commodities, and indentured labour. From Iran to Tasmania, Japan to Java, and Imperial China to the Pacific Islands, the chapters reveal how remnants of colonial trade and industry shed light on the many multi-faceted mobilities of the imperial age, and their enduring legacy in the postcolonial built environments of Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and beyond. The chapters also reveal deep strands of cultural influences and material imprints long neglected by national histories of architecture, and showcase new methodologies to analyse the interconnectivities and bo
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hans Heyerdahl Hallen
Book SynopsisKathi Holt, PhD is Founding Director of NERØ HOLT, as well as an Industry Fellow in the Faculty of Science, QUT, Australia, and the President of the Urban Design Alliance, Queensland.Errol Haarhoff is Emeritus Professor of Architecture and previous Head of School at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and recipient of the South African Institute of Architects' Distinguished Research Award.Walter Peters is Emeritus Professor of Architecture of both the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Free State (UFS), South Africa. He holds both the South African Institute of Architects' Writers and Critics Award and Medal of Distinction and was elected 21st Sophia Gray laureate.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fairground Theory
Book SynopsisStephen Walker is Professor of Architectural Humanities at The Manchester School of Architecture, The University of Manchester, UK.
£80.75
ABC-CLIO World Architecture and Society 2 volumes
Book SynopsisThis two-volume encyclopedia covers buildings and sites of global significance from prehistoric times to the present day, providing students with an essential understanding of architectural development and its impact on human societies.This two-volume encyclopedia provides an in-depth look at buildings and sites of global significance throughout history. The volumes are separated into four regional sections: 1) the Americas, 2) Europe, 3) Africa and the Middle East, and 4) Asia and the Pacific. Four regional essays investigate the broader stylistic and historical contexts that describe the development of architecture through time and across the globe. Entries explore the unique importance of buildings and sites, including the megalithic wonder of Stonehenge and the imposing complex of Angkor Wat.Entries on Spanish colonial missions in the Americas and the medieval Islamic universities of the Sahara connect to broader building traditions. Other entries highlight re
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Little, Brown Book Group The Real Crown Jewels of England
Book SynopsisAn irresistible and charming celebration of the places, buildings and landscapes that underpin British identity.Trade ReviewGlorious * Daily Mail *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals
Book SynopsisThe touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache's career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use oTrade Review"The editors and authors have done a fine job celebrating Prache’s great intellectual acumen, diplomatic gifts, and warmth as a human being, while leaving behind erudite 'memories' and a wealth of new ideas."- CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, Kathleen Nolan and Dany Sandron; Preface; Anne Prache: a distinctive approach to the history of architecture, Dany Sandron; Introduction, Kathleen Nolan. Part I Architecture: The 13th-century foundations of Notre-Dame de Reims: new evidence for the construction history of the cathedral, Walter Berry; Cathedral, palace, hôtel: architectural emblems of an ideal society, Michael T. Davis; Ambulatories, arcade screens, and visual experience from Saint-Remi to Saint-Quentin, Ellen M. Shortell; Roriczer, Schmuttermayer, and two late Gothic portals at The Cloisters, Nancy Wu. Part II Stained Glass: Stained glass and the chronology of Reims Cathedral, Sylvie Balcon-Berry; Joseph's Dream in the Thomson Collection: reconsidering the reconstruction of the Infancy of Christ window from Suger’s Saint-Denis, Michael W. Cothren; The west rose window of the cathedral of Chartres, Claudine Lautier; Out with the new and in with the old: Jacques Coeur’s Annunciation window and its reception in Bourges Cathedral, Philippe Lorentz. Part III Sculpture: Teachers, preachers, and the Good Shepherd at Reims Cathedral: another look at the radiating chapel sculptures, William W. Clark; The function of drawings in the planning of Gothic sculpture: evidence from the archivolts of the central portal of Bourges Cathedral, Fabienne Joubert; Joseph at Chartres: sculpture lost and found, Charles T. Little; Filiae Hierusalem: female statue-columns from Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, Kathleen Nolan and Susan Leibacher Ward; A little-known work from the 14th century: the façade of the cathedral of Lyons, Nicolas Reveyron. Afterword, Gérard P. Prache; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia
Book SynopsisThis book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Persian Historic Urban Landscapes
Book SynopsisPersian cities are part of a corridor of civilisation with settlements straddling thousands of years. Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically.Trade Review"This is an ambitious and pioneering study of the evolution of an Iranian desert city over the millennia, enlivened by a deep understanding of its social context, the changing structural imperatives at work and the adaptability of brick as a building material." -- Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh"This is the first work on Iranian cities that combines both a long run account of development and a micro level of analysis." -- Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Isfahan and its Palaces
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501 1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship.
£38.00
Edinburgh University Press ChinaS Early Mosques
Book SynopsisExplains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged
£38.00
Edinburgh University Press The Architecture of Scotland 16601750
Book SynopsisThis architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Bayana
Book SynopsisOffers a broad reinvestigation of North Indian Muslim architecture through a case study of a desert fortress: Bayana in Rajasthan.
£190.00
Edinburgh University Press Domestic Architecture Literature and the Sexual
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria.
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Edinburgh University Press Studies in Arab Architecture
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume with many images previously unpublished in colour collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day.
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Edinburgh University Press The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture
Book SynopsisThis volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparisons to Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain, within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures of the Islamic world between the 11th and 13th centuries.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture. The case studies in this volume offers new methodologies and models for the subject of corporate patronage, going beyond the usual focus on corporate sponsorship and collecting to explore the complex organizational networks and motivations behind corporate commissions. Featuring chapters on Margaret Bourke-White, Julie Mehretu, Maxfield Parrish, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Eugene Savage, Millard Sheets, and Kehinde Wiley, as well as studies on Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr., and Dorothy Shaver, and companies such as Herman Miller and Lord and Taylor, this book looks at a wide array of works, ranging from sculpture, photography, mosaics, and murals to advertisements, department store displays, sportswear, medical schools, and public libraries. It also contains an extensive Trade ReviewMore than just a necessary corrective to the prevailing scholarly inattention to the private sector’s consumption of the visual arts, Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States demonstrates how extensively the histories of art and commerce interlace. Brimming with archival gems, fresh interpretations, and new interpretive frameworks, this collection of essays by fourteen authors examines artistic commissions of remarkable variety and complexity, both in terms of their underlying motives and their outward manifestations: hospital architecture, installations for office buildings, banks, and ocean liners, department store displays, furniture design, magazine advertisements, contemporary sportswear, and even the very materials from which art is made. Often circulating beyond the white cube of the museum, these collaborations between cultural producers and business enterprise, moreover, represented most Americans' first or primary exposure to modern art, design, and architecture. This volume will not only encourage business historians to take corporate visual culture more seriously but also urge art historians to reconsider the facile distinctions between commercial culture and the avant-garde that have shaped the field. * John Ott, Professor of Art History, James Madison University, USA *Writing in 1927, the American advertising executive Earnest Elmo Calkins declared that “beauty [is] the new business tool.” This anthology re-considers the modern alliance between art and industry that laid the foundation for the ubiquitous corporate sponsorship of our own time. Calkins would have approved, thankful for this new history of beauty and business. * Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Beyond the Commercial: Corporate Patronage Reconsidered Monica E. Jovanovich and Melissa Renn Part I: Rethinking Corporate Patronage Chapter 1: Corporate Patronage at the Crossroads: Situating Diego Rivera’s ‘Rockefeller Mural’ Then and Now Mary K. Coffey Chapter 2: Maxfield Parrish’s Creative Machinery for Transportation Jennifer A. Greenhill Chapter 3: Connections and Conflicts: Margaret Bourke-White’s Corporate, Commercial, and Documentary Photography Mark Durden Chapter 4: Incorporated Philanthropy: The General Education Board, Abraham Flexner, and the Architecture of American Medical Schools in the Early Twentieth Century Katherine L. Carroll Part II: From Tastemaking to Marketing: Corporate Patronage Networks Chapter 5: The Corporate Person as Art Collector: Andrew Mellon’s Capital and the Origins of the National Gallery of Art Seth Feman Chapter 6: ‘To live is to look and move forward’: Lord and Taylor’s 1928 Exposition of Modern Art and Design Elizabeth McGoey Chapter 7: Merchants, Manufacturers, and Museums: The Patronage Networks of Modern Design in the United States, 1930s–1950s Margaret Maile Petty Chapter 8: Marketing Hawaii: Eugene F. Savage and the Matson Murals (1938–1940) Elizabeth B. Heuer Part III: Corporate Commissions as Branding and Public Relations Chapter 9: Civic Space and an Iconic Brand: Paradoxes of Corporate Patronage in the Carnegie Library Phenomenon Douglas Klahr Chapter 10: Banking with Family in Postwar California: Howard Ahmanson, the Millard Sheets Studio, and the Home Savings and Loan Commissions, 1953–1991 Adam Arenson Chapter 11: Rusting Giant: U.S. Steel and the Promotional Material of Sculpture Alex J. Taylor Chapter 12: From Bank Lobbies to Sportswear: Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, and the Shift in Corporate Patronage in the Twenty-First Century Daniel Haxall Bibliography List of Contributors
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Rowman & Littlefield Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron
Book Synopsis"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today.Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today. Together, Napoleon III and his right-hand man, Georges Haussmann, completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades—a breathtaking achievement made possible not only by the emperor’s vision and Haussmann’s determination but by the regime’s unrelenting authoritarianism, augmented by the booming economy that Napoleon fostered.Yet a number of Parisians refused to comply with the restrictions that censorship and entrenched institutional taste imposed. Mary McAuliffe follows the lives of artists such as Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Claude Monet, as well as writers such as Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, while from exile, Victor Hugo continued to fire literary broadsides at the emperor he detested. McAuliffe brings to life a pivotal era encompassing not only the physical restructuring of Paris but also the innovative forms of banking and money-lending that financed industrialization as well as the city’s transformation. This in turn created new wealth and lavish excess, even while producing extreme poverty. More deeply, change was occurring in the way people looked at and understood the world around them, given the new ease of transportation and communication, the popularization of photography, and the emergence of what would soon be known as Impressionism in art and Naturalism and Realism in literature—artistic yearnings that would flower in the Belle Epoque.Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative narrative.Trade Review[A] wonderful and fascinating book. . . . Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. . . . Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative narrative. * Eye Prefer Paris *Her reputation as a social and literary historian of Paris already cemented, McAuliffe returns with a detailed history of the City of Light and its nineteenth-century transformation into the sophisticated, envied capital. Its wide boulevards, monumental architecture, health-improving sewers and aqueducts, and efficient transportation systems began in earnest in the 1850’s under Napoleon III and his chief urban planner, Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Before becoming Emperor, Louis Napoleon in his London exile already had formulated plans for extending broad avenues west of the Louvre. With Haussmann’s skills at planning and at creating political will to action, the new Emperor created substantial parks on the city’s outskirts and built conveniently situated train stations for the novel technology of rail travel. Razing tenements and codifying design for new apartment buildings, Haussmann constructed the cityscapes of Paris so beloved in the twentieth century. Urban elegance came at the cost of democratic rule as the former republic hardened into autocracy. Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography. * Booklist, Starred Review *The re-creation of Paris from a medieval urban maze to the city of lights and boulevards comes to life in Mary McAuliffe’s historical exposé . . . an enlightening and overwhelming story of a tumultuous and transformative Parisian period. * Foreword Reviews *As the world’s most magical city, Paris was created over the centuries by kings, emperors, and presidents, but, as Mary McAuliffe so magisterially reveals in Paris, City of Dreams, no one played a greater role in the modern configuration of this wondrous city than Louis-Napoleon and his chief urban advisor, Baron Georges Haussmann. Reading this masterful account, one realizes how Napoleon III and Haussmann transformed a city of narrow lanes, insalubrious dwellings, and staggering pestilence into a triumph of vital sanitation and unparalleled beauty, creating the broad boulevards and architectural masterpieces so universally admired. -- David Garrard Lowe, president of Beaux Arts Alliance and author of Lost ChicagoIf you want to know how Paris came to look as it does, read this book! Mary McAuliffe has written a thoroughly entertaining account of the politics and business behind Haussmann’s famous boulevards. Weaving the lives of artists and writers into the tale of the city’s transformation, Paris, City of Dreams is also a well-informed history of France’s Second Empire and its inglorious end. -- David Bellos, author of The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisérablesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of Paris, 1860–1870Introduction Chapter 1 From Barricades to Bonaparte (1848–1851) Chapter 2 Blood and Empire (1852) Chapter 3 Enter Haussmann (1853) Chapter 4 A Nonessential War (1854) Chapter 5 A Queen Visits (1855) Chapter 6 What Goes Up . . . (1856–1857) Chapter 7 More and More (1858) Chapter 8 Dreams of Glory (1859) Chapter 9 Suddenly Larger (1860) Chapter 10 Turning Point (1861) Chapter 11 Les Misérables de Paris (1862) Chapter 12 Scandal (1863–1864) Chapter 13 Death and Taxes (1865) Chapter 14 Crisis (1866) Chapter 15 A Setting Sun (1867) Chapter 16 Twenty Years Later (1868) Chapter 17 Haussmann in Trouble (1869) Chapter 18 Finale (1870) Chapter 19 An End and a Beginning (1870–1871)Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£14.24
Monacelli Press New York Rising: An Illustrated History from the
Book SynopsisNew York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation - of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth century, this book presents a broad historical survey, illustrated with images drawn largely from the rich archival resources of the Durst Collection at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. The patriarch of one of New York City's most prominent real estate families, Seymour B. Durst, was a bibliophile and an avid collector of New York memorabilia. His archival holdings - once known as the Old York Library and now the Durst Collection - reflect his fascination with the city's street grid, mass transit, port, parks and open spaces, as well as its monumental buildings and signature skyline. Ten leading scholars - the late Hilary Ballon, Ann Buttenwieser, Andrew Dolkart, David King, Reinhold Martin, Richard Plunz, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Hilary Sample, Russell Shorto, and Carol Willis - delved into the collection to select objects that reflect their own areas of interest and expertise. Using these materials, they have created visual narratives on specific topics, focusing on the Dutch and English governance of Manhattan, the growth of the city according to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, the emergence of the public transit system, the "race for height," the rise of multi-family and affordable housing, the transformation of Midtown into a commercial center, urban renewal in the Moses era, the revival of Times Square, and the reclaiming of the waterfront as public space. Essays by Kate Ascher and Thomas Mellins provide a framework for exploring these topics. New York Rising is published in association with The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.Trade Review"Kate Ascher and Thomas Mellins mined the 35,000 items that the developer Seymour Durst’s family donated in 2011 to Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library to produce New York Rising: An Illustrated History From the Durst Collection. Maps, ephemera, photographs and other illustrations generously punctuate the 10 chapters on subjects ranging from “Moving the People” to “Remaking Times Square” and written by an A-team of municipal experts that includes Russell Shorto, Hilary Ballon (who died in 2017), Andrew Dolkart, Carol Willis, Ann Buttenwieser and Lynne B. Sagalyn." - The New York Times "New York Rising is the perfect book for readers who want their NYC history in short, clearly written and abundantly-illustrated doses. The quality of the reproductions in the book is particularly impressive; its design and layout, credited to Yve Ludwig, deserves special mention. The Durst collection is a wonder and the contributors and editors have certainly done justice to its remarkable scope in this new book.... this is a beautiful book and a useful addition to your New York history bookshelf. Its size makes it a coffee table book but don’t let it sit on the coffee table. Move it to your bedside table, or wherever you put the books that you are really planning to read." - Brick Underground "If you want to go on a visual journey that begins with Manhattan’s first European settlement, way back in the seventeenth century, up through the skyscrapers and urban planning of the late twentieth century, look no further than New York Rising: An Illustrated History from the Durst Collection.” - 6sqft
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Monacelli Press Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West
Book SynopsisTwenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world’s most intriguing destinations. When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called “among the largest and most beautiful in the world,” and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape. In keeping with Judd’s site-specific intentions, those who call Marfa home have made a choice to live in concert with their untamed, open surroundings. Marfa Modern features houses that represent unique responses to this setting - the sky, its light and sense of isolation - some that even predate Judd’s arrival. Here, conceptual artist Michael Phelan lives in a former Texaco service station with battery acid stains on the concrete floor and a twenty-foot dining table lining one wall. A chef’s modest house comes with the satisfaction of being handmade down to its side tables and bath, which expands into a private courtyard with an outdoor tub. Another artist uses the many rooms of her house, a former jail, to shift between different mediums - with Judd’s Fort D. A. Russell works always visible from her second-story sun porch. Extraordinary building costs mean that Marfa dwellers embrace a culture of frontier ingenuity and freedom from excess—salvaged metal signs become sliding doors and lengths of pipe become lighting fixtures, industrial warehouses are redesigned after the area’s white-cube galleries to create space for private or personally created art collections, and other materials are suggested by the land itself: walls are made of adobe bricks or rammed earth to form sculptural courtyards, or, in one remarkable instance, a mix of mud and brick plastered with local soils, cactus mucilage, horse manure, and straw.Trade Review"This book of modern interiors captures both the unique sense of place and the vibrant artistic community of Marfa, Texas, a mecca for art pilgrims, design aficionados, and international hipsters. The idea of 'a place where the demand to live for art is so compelling as to be unavoidable' might sound hyperbolic, but when readers see how these residents live, they'll understand." —Publishers Weekly "Thompson’s clear, brief essays describe how each homeowner arrived in Marfa—a nice contextual touch, given that it’s a remote place where residents and visitors have to decide very consciously to be. Her descriptions of plans, materials, and design concepts give heft to what could have simply been a lifestyle coffee table book. Photographer Casey Dunn leaves people and styling (extraneous food, flowers, and props) out of his shots, for the most part, which keeps the focus on design choices as well as the play of the desert light inside. The result is a visual page-turner and is clearly a result of Thompson’s reporting skills from her days at Metropolitan Home magazine. Marfa Modern serves as a primer on how a “watering hole” that [Donald] Judd put on the map has evolved without him, and lets it lay claim to importance as a place of vernacular design, not solely an art destination." —Architectural Record "Each of 21 houses showcases a different response to the landscape—from artful transformations of a former service station and a onetime jail to new builds with 360-degree views. Helen Thompson's brightly knowledgeable tone makes her a welcome guide, but Casey Dunn's 200 photos prove that the least expensive material—the light—remains key to each project's success." —Interiors "Marfa has grown to be an enclave for artists, chefs, hoteliers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Helen Thompson describes the architecture as intensely personal, an oddball mix of funky vibes with ultra-modern art: 'Each home is a site-specific construction that exists in the spirit of Judd's command to make art suit its space. In the best sense, the thoughtful creatives who have settled lately in Marfa carry on the tradition of Marfa as Donald Judd saw it—as a place where the demand to live for art is unavoidable and compelling.'" —Styleblueprint
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors: From
Book SynopsisThis compact, heavily-illustrated guide makes it a snap to identify period styles from the 17th century to the present day. The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference that combines depth of content with ease of use. Including examples and analysis on 17th-century Louis XIV through 20th-century Late Modern and each style in between, this new edition is also updated with the latest trends of the 21st century, including computer design, sustainable design, and modern office design. New sidebars interspersed throughout the book offer glimpses into historic design styles from around the globe. Each style section ends with a summary of key characteristics, major designers, and iconic fabrics. This book is an indispensable tool for identifying the trends throughout the history of interior design.Trade ReviewAs before, it is a compact volume covering a wide range of styles over the last 400-plus years. The book has a wealth of quality color photographs, showing individual examples of furnishings and composites of period rooms. Its illustrative value is backed up with a text that supports the various periods and styles within, plus the particular pieces of popular furnishings. Although the book is formatted more like an academic textbook, its primary audience would appear to be anyone who is actually seeking information about historic pieces of furniture and their interior spaces. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *[Gura is] even-handed, treating each period and designer fairly. The book is mainly aimed at students of design and design history, but it will be of interest to those, like me, who visit private and publicly open properties. * Reference Reviews *This updated pictorial guide to interior design features fully revised sections and a new chapter on twentyfirst-century styles. There are 350 photographs, a bibliography, a glossary, and a chronology. Every era iscovered in a brief narrative, along with photos of prime examples (mostly individual furniture pieces) of the style. Sidebars offer information on movements, designers, and styles. Enough here has changed that libraries owning the first edition will want to consider this update. Essential for academic and special libraries serving art and design students; a nice purchase for larger libraries where there is an interest in interior design or history. * Booklist *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 17th Century An Overview Louis XIV William and Mary Colonial America/Pilgrim 18th Century An Overview Louis XV Queen Anne Georgian 19th Century An Overview Greek Revival Biedermeier Gothic Revival Rococo Revival Renaissance Revival Aesthetic Movement Eclecticism and Exotica English Arts & Crafts Art Nouveau Glasgow Style 20th Century An Overview European Avant-Garde Art Deco Industrial Design Midcentury American Modern Scandinavian Modern Italian Modern French Modern Studio Crafts Postmodern Late Modern 21st Century An Overview Computer Design Design Art Sustainable Design Design in New Materials Conceptual Design Avant-Garde Design (New Technology) Modern Office Design Appendix I: Timeline of Styles Appendix II: Names to Know Appendix III: Distinctive Design Elements Glossary Bibliography
£80.00
Museum of Modern Art Bogdanovic by Bogdanovic: Yugoslav Memorials
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Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd MMXX: Two Decades of Architecture in Australia
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£32.00
Profile Books Ltd The Stones of Christ Church: The Story of the
Book SynopsisChrist Church, Oxford's largest and arguably grandest college, has awed visitors ever since its foundation by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525: one seventeenth-century visitor said 'it is more like some fine castle, or great palace than a College'. The already impressive site was further enhanced during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by ever more imposing structures, and building has continued up to the present day, sometimes following fashion, sometimes leading the way with new architectural styles. The Stones of Christ Church tells the fascinating story of the college's buildings throughout its five centuries, and of those who brought them into being, from the three great 'builder deans', John Fell, Henry Aldrich and Henry Liddell, to the humble slaters, joiners, bricklayers and stonemasons, and the materials that they worked with. The resulting buildings - Tom Tower, Peckwater Quad, Meadow Buildings and many more - are among the most iconic sights of Oxford today. Judith Curthoys, archivist at Christ Church since 1994, is also the author of The Cardinal's College (Profile, 2012), an in-depth history of this remarkable institution. Her new and impeccably researched study shows how much each generation's buildings, whether grand or humble, can tell us about the history both of the site and of those who occupied it.Trade ReviewCurthoys' book is not simply an erudite exposition on building archaeology, but has become a fascinating tale of the human lives which created it ... this is a valuable resource. * SPAB *
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Amber Books Ltd Abandoned Sacred Places
Book SynopsisWe may think of churches, mosques, synagogues and temples as ordered places for organized religion. But what happens when the congregation moves away? Or when shifting borders or persecution mean that people can no longer reach them? And, in the absence of humankind, what happens when nature’s unceasing efforts invade the hallowed walls? Abandoned Sacred Places is a brilliant pictorial exploration of both ancient and modern temples, synagogues, churches, mosques and stone circles that have been left behind. From the mysteries around Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France constructed thousands of years ago to crumbling inner cities churches and synagogues in present-day Detroit and Chicago, from ancient Roman temples to Mayan pyramids in Mexico, and from Hindu temples lost in the Indian jungle to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, the book shows what happens when humanity retreats and nature is allowed to reclaim the land. With 200 outstanding colour photographs exploring hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Sacred Places is a moving examination of more than 100 lost worlds.Table of ContentsIntroduction AFRICA Tassili, Algeria Giza Pyramids, Egypt Khonsu Temple, Luxor\Karnak, Egypt Abu Simbel, Egypt Medinet Habu, Ancient Egypt Nubian Pyramids, Sudan Ptomelaic Egypt: Temple of Kom Ombo and Temple of Edfu Roman Africa: Dougga, Tunisia; Sbeitia, Tunisia Christian Tombs, Al-Bagawat, Egypt Roman Basilica, Volubilis, Morocco Roman Basilica, Leptis Magna, Libya Mosque, Kilwa Kisiwani Island, Tanzania THE MIDDLE EAST Ain Dara, Syria Petra, Jordan Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia Myra Necropolis, Turkey Temple of Artemis, Jerash, Jordan Temple of Baal, Palmyra, Syria Palmyra, Syria Zechariah’s Tomb, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, Israel Absalom’s Tomb, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, Israel Sumatar, Sabian site, Turkey At Hamat Synagogue, Tiberias, Israel Dura-Europos Synagogue, Syria Mushabbak Basilica, Dead Cities of Syria, Syria Cathedral/Mosque Fethiye, Ani, Turkey Church of the Redeemer, Ani, Turkey Orthodox Church Kayaköy, Turkey Lower Church, Kayaköy, Turkey Modern Mosque, Desert, Dubai Armenian Church, Mosul, Iraq ASIA Tomb of Darius, Naqsh-e Rustem, Iran Garni Ancient Roman Temple, Armenia Zvarnots Early Christian Cathedral, Armenia Ajanta Caves, India Elephanta Caves, Hindu, India Ellora Caves, India Site of Bamyan Buddhas, Afghanistan Khajuraho Hindu and Jain Temples, India Borobudur Buddhist Temples, Java, Indonesia Prambanan Hindu Temples, Indonesia Angkor Khmer Temples, Cambodia Prasat Hin Mueang Tam Khmer Temples, Thailand Bagan Temples, Burma Mogao Caves, China Polunnaruwa, Sri Lanka My Son, Cham Temple, Vietnam Ayutthaya, Thailand Hampi, India Bodhesar Jain Temple, Pakistan Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Delhi, India Trai Tim Church, Nam Dinh, Vietnam Buddhist Shrine, Nokogiri, Japan Buddhist Shrine, Nepal Muslim Necropolises, Kazakhstan Shiva Sunken Temple, Scindia Ghat, Varanasi, India British Colonial Church, Ross Island, Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean Chicken Church, Indonesia THE AMERICAS AND THE PACIFIC Pyramid, Caral Supe, Peru Temple of the Sun, Tiwanaku, Bolivia Nazca Lines, Peru Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA Guatape Rock, Colombia Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico Mayan Sites: Lamanai Mask Temple, Belize Sacred Cenote, Mexico Becan, Yucatan, Mexico Copan, Honduras Yaxchilan, Mexico Tikal, Guatemala Incan Sites: Machu Picchu, Peru Moray Circle, Peru Easter Island statues Russian Cemetery, Sitka, Alaska, USA Church, Dooley, Montana Church, Dorothy, Alberta Anglican Old Church, Godmanchester, Quebec, Canada Methodist Church, Gary, Indiana Lower East Side Synagogue, New York East Methodist Church, Detroit Potosi Church, Venezuela Jesuit Mission, La Santisima Trinidad e Parana, Paraguay Jesuit Mission, Jesus de Tavarangue, Paraguay San Juan Parangaricutiro Church, Mexico Port au Prince Cathedral, Haiti Penal Colony Church, Tasmania EUROPE Hagar Qim, Malta – 4thC BCE megalithic site Stonehenge, England Parthenon, Athens, Greece Temple of Delphi, Greece Altar, Pompeii, Italy Ercole Temple, Agrigento, Sicily Tomb of the Kings, Cyprus Baptistry, Butrint, Albania Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire, England Elgin Cathedral, Moray, Scotland Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland Ermita de la Piedad Chapel, near Segovia, Spain Church, Bussana Vecchia, Liguria, Italy Abbey, Mont-Saint-Eloi, France Villers Abbey, Wallonia, Belgium All Saints, Stovlinky, Czech Republic Catholic Church, Near Chervonohorod, Nyrkiv, Ukraine Novotroitskoye Church, Lipetsk Region, Russia Bogorodskoye Village Church, Penza Region, Russia Monastery near Kalach, Voronezh, Russia Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Yaropolets, Volokolamsk District, Russia Wooden Church, Maslovskaya Arkhangelsk Region, Russia Highgate Cemetery, London Kaiser Wilhelm Church, Berlin, Germany Church of St Etienne the Old, Caen, Normandy France Church, Oradour-sur-Glane, France St Luke’s Church, Liverpool, England Vidin Synagogue, Bulgaria Jewish Cemetery, Vienna, Austria Jewish Cemetery, Wroclaw, Poland Submerged Church, Reschensee, South Tyrol, Italy St Nicholas’s Cathedral, Kalyazin, Russia Church, Jrebchevo, Bulgaria
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Basilicas of Ethiopia: An Architectural
Book SynopsisThe basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church of M?ry?m ??yon, sadly destroyed in 1535, and since then many hundreds of basilicas have been built in Ethiopia, many, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lalibela, literally 'hewn from the rock'. In this book, architectural historian and architect Mario di Salvo considers the unique architectural features of Ethiopia's basilicas and explains how they developed over time. Featuring almost 200 colour illustrations, this book is an attractive and comprehensive guide to some of Ethiopia's most inspiring religious buildings.Trade Review'This is an extremely worthwhile study of basilicas in Ethiopia by an architect. He presents the stylistic developments of sacred buildings by comparing a number of churches, which though different preserved a more or less defined form. People everywhere come together to celebrate religious rites in sacred sites. In Ethiopia exigencies of landscape and politics created buildings which were monolithic, semi-monolithic or carved out of the living rock. A number of very impressive large buildings for sacred and secular usage can still be found there, however, many have all but disappeared or are in a very ruinous state, so that the study of individual sites is an increasingly necessary task for understanding the development of this architectural style. The genesis and development of building traditions during the Aksumite Empire continued for many centuries after its demise. These architectural solutions are meticulously explained and richly illustrated with the author's own photographs and images from earlier excavation campaigns. This beautifully produced volume will inspire the serious student of architecture as well as introduce the general reader to the Ethiopian landscape and politics under which large buildings such as basilicas were created.' - Dorothea McEwan, Honorary Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London, 'Many books have hitherto been written about ancient Ethiopian churches - mostly by historians, archaeologists and well known photographers. This is one of the very few books written about this enthralling subject by a professional architect. Without doubt, Mario di Salvo's The Basilicas of Ethiopia is the most authoritative book yet on the architectural history of the magnificent Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. This sumptuously presented oeuvre is not only a seriously academic book written just for other architects, but indeed also for the wider audience of aficionados of Ethiopian art and culture, for whom it will be a great delight to have in their collection.' - Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, PhD., Chairman of the Board of Patrons, ORBIS AETHIOPICUS - The Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Ethiopian CultureTable of ContentsForeword by Professor Michael Gervers Introduction: The Structural Characteristics of Christian Basilicas Part I - The Ruins of the Ancient Aksumite Basilicas (4th-7th c.) Part II - The Architecture of Ethiopia's 8th-12th century (post-Aksumite) Basilicas Modified/Edified Basilicas Subterranean /Hypogeal Basilicas Semi-monolithic Basilicas Later Basilicas Part III - The Architecture of the Medieval Basilicas of Ethiopia Basilicas constructed in Caves Monolithic Basilicas in Lalibela The Last Ethiopian Basilicas GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Handel Hendrix House: A Souvenir Guide
Book SynopsisThis evocative souvenir traces the life and times of George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix – two of the greatest musicians ever to have lived in London. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street from 1723 until his death in 1759. It was here that Handel composed his greatest works, including Messiah and its ever popular Hallelujah chorus. His stirring anthem Zadok the Priest was also written in Brook Street and has accompanied the coronation of every British monarch since George II. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix moved into an adjoining flat at number 23. Here, in the only place he said he felt truly at home, Hendrix entertained, inspired and collaborated with other icons of British 60s rock music. Handel Hendrix House reopened in May 2023 following a £3million restoration, shedding new light on its famed residents, the great composer George Frideric Handel and rock legend Jimi Hendrix.
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Paddy Rossmore: Photographs
Book SynopsisPaddy Rossmore: Photography records half a century of the travels made by Lord Rossmore and his companions the Knight of Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, and Mariga Guinness of the Irish Georgian Society. The visual record made by Rossmore provides a unique archive dedicated to preserving the landscape of a bygone era. With accompanying essays by fine art historian Robert O'Byrne, Rossmore's photographs capture the bittersweet beauty of an uncertain era for Ireland's architectural heritage, with many of his subjects now fallen to ruin, and others enjoying restoration and new life in modernized Ireland.Trade ReviewPaddy Rossmore’s photographs are a unique visual history of houses and interiors. * The Irish Times *
£20.90
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue:
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the recent histories of Western and Japanese architecture have been well recorded, they have rarely been interwoven. Based on extensive research, this book provides a synthetic overview that brings together the main themes of Japanese and Western architecture since 1850 and shows that neither could exist in its present state without the other. It should be no surprise that the Bank of Japan in Tokyo is based upon the national banks in Brussels and London, or that Le Corbusier's cabanon at Cap Martin in the south of France is based upon an eight mat tatami room. In considering these histories, this book demonstrates the mutual inter-dependence of both architectural cultures while, at the same time, acknowledging their differences. In conclusion, the book moves beyond style and structure to the Japanese concept of ma - the pause or the space between, and demonstrates how this Zen Buddhist concept has found a place in Western architecture.Trade Review"An ambitious and exhaustively researched book.... Jackson's well-illustrated essays track important figures, movements and themes, from the isolationist, feudal pre-Meji period to the present, switching back and forth between parallel or related developments in Japan, Europe and the USA." - Paul Baxter, Architecture TodayTable of ContentsPrelude. Part 1: Shogun. 1: the Chained Country; 2. The Japanese Ambassadors; 3. The Land of the Morning; Part 2: Meiji. 4. The Japanese Pavilions; 5. The Art-Architects; 6. The Manners of the West; 7. The Western Architects; 8. The Japanese Architects; Part 3. Taisho. 9.The Winds of Heaven; 10. The Shaken Reed; 11. The Principle of Evolution; Part 4: Showa. 12. The Artist Samurai; 13. The Presence of Le Corbusier; 14. The Pacific Rim; 15. The West and Japan
£41.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A History of the Squares and Palaces of London
Book SynopsisThe squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James's Square - the names are inextricably linked with the history of London itself. And the great houses of the capital - Buckingham House, Apsley House, Spencer House, to mention but a few - are intimately bound with the story not just of London but of the great families of the land. Edwin Beresford Chancellor's two volumes form an absorbing and informative account of the history of two of London's defining features. First published almost a century ago, these rare volumes still provide the most comprehensive accounts of their subject in a single volume. Attractively illustrated, with a new Introduction by Simon Jenkins, and handsomely produced in large format, they will be welcomed by all those with an interest in London's architectural and cultural history.Table of ContentsVolume I: The History of the Squares of London, Topographical and Historical Preface Introduction by Simon Jenkins Introduction by Edwin Beresford Chancellor 1. Berkeley and Grosvenor Square 2. Cavendish and Hanover Square 3. St James's, Panton and Cleveland Squares 4. Soho and Golden Squares 5. Leicester Square 6. Red Lion, Bloomsbury, and Bedford Squares 7. Russell and Queen Squares 8. Tavistock, Gordon, Brunswick, mecklenburgh, Woburn, ..etc., Squares 9. Portman, Montagu, Bryanston, Dorset, ... etc., Squares 10. Kensington Squares - Cadogan, Ovington, Trevor, Onslow, ... etc., Squares Squares North of the Park - Connaught, Oxford, Cambridge, Gloucester, ..... etc., Squares 11. Westminster Squares - Vincent, Smith and Queen Squares Belgravia Squares - St George's, Warwick, Ebury, Eaton, .... etc., Squares Chelsea Squares - Markham, Marlborough, Tedworth, Paultons, .....etc., Squares 12. Squares of the City and East End - Gough, Salisbury, Devonshire, Myddleton, .... etc.,Squares Squares of North-East and South London - Arundel, Barnsbury, Cloudesley, De Beauvoir, ....etc., Squares Index Volume II The Private Palaces of London, Past and Present Preface Introduction by Edwin Beresford Chancellor 1. Past City Palaces - Devonshire House, Northampton House, Bridgewater House, Aylesbury House, Albermarle House, ..... etc. 2. Great Houses of the Strand - Essex House, Arundel House, Worcester House, ....etc. 3. Burlington House and Others - Burlington House, Clarendon House, Buckingham House, ....etc. 4. Leicester House and Others - Leicester House, Drury or Craven House, Harcourt House, ....etc. 5. Whitehall Houses - Richmond House, Pembroke House, Gwydyr House, Carrington House, .... etc. 6. Apsley House 7. Bridgewater House 8. Chesterfield House 9. Crewe House 10. Devonshire House 11. Dorchester House 12. Grosvenor House 13. Lansdowne House 14. Londonderry House 15. Montagu House 16. Norfolk House 17. Portman House 18. Spencer House 19. Stafford House 20. Wimborne House Index
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Historic Environment Scotland St Peter's, Cardross: Birth, Death and Renewal
Book SynopsisThe ruin of St Peter's College has sat on a wooded hilltop above the village of Cardross for more than three decades. Over that time, with altars crumbling, graffiti snaking across its walls and nature reclaiming its concrete, it has gained a mythical, cult-like status among architects, preservationists and artists. St Peter’s only fulfilled its original role as a seminary for 14 years, from 1966 to 1979. As its uncompromising design gave way to prolonged construction and problematic upkeep, the Catholic Church reassessed the role of seminaries, resolving to embed trainee priests not in seclusion, but in communities. Although briefly repurposed as a drug rehabilitation centre, the building was soon abandoned to decay and vandalism. Ever since, people have argued and puzzled over the future and importance of St Peter’s. It has been called both Scotland’s best and worst twentieth century building. In 1992, it was listed category A. One of its architects suggested the idea of ‘everything being stripped away except the concrete itself – a purely romantic conception of the building as beautiful ruin’. And now in 2016, St Peter’s is renewed as a cultural space through the work of the arts organisation NVA. In this landmark book, Diane Watters looks at the history of a structure that emerged out of an innovative phase of post-war Catholic church building. She traces the story of an architectural failure which morphed into a tragic modernist myth: unappreciated architects betrayed by an unloving client, and abandoned by an uncaring society. This is a historian’s account of the real story of St Peter’s College: an exploration of how one of Scotland’s most singular buildings became one its most troubled – and most celebrated.Trade Review'Vast and visually stunning ... the brilliance of this work is in treating the building almost as a sentient being' * The Skinny *'The book itself is beautiful, well written and researched and packed with gorgeous photographs and drawings ... a fascinating and detailed history' * RIAS Quarterly *'... little short of a masterpiece' * Undiscovered Scotland *
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Batsford Ltd 100 Houses 100 Years
Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into Britain’s built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 100 houses – one from each year from 1914 – that represent the range of architectural styles throughout the years and show how housing has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is accompanied by stunning photography and texts written by leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Ellis Woodman and Gillian Darley. From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for individuals and for families to housing built for increased workforces, each of the 100 houses brings a different design style or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached suburban houses, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories and affordable post-war homes. The architectural styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts & Crafts and brutalist and the featured architects include Giles Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and David Chipperfield. The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last 100 years, looking at the impact the World Wars had on housing, exploring domestic technology and building materials and asking how the modern house came about. Whether exploring Grayson Perry’s folly-like House for Essex, Patrick Gwynne’s modernist glass villa in Surrey, Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House or Simon Conder’s black rubber-clad fisherman’s hut in Dungeness, this book gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing in Britain and is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
£18.75
Darf Publishers Ltd Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial
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