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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments
Book SynopsisHow can a nation''s archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria''s? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria''s outstanding range of sites, accompanied by over 200 colour illustrations, to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean where numerous world cultures intersected.Given the last 12 years of savage conflict, the author reports too on the plight of many of these monuments, addressing the common but unhelpful assumption that much of the country''s archaeological treasures have been ''destroyed''. A better approach is to recognise that Syria''s heritage can play a role in the country''s recovery and cannot simply be declared a write-off. This is a history which tells us much about how Syria''s mixture of traditions defy simplistic categorisation through modern definitions of cultures and identities.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Writing Architectural History
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Taylor & Francis Studies on Constantinople
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the Cityâs existence - for instance, the columns of Constantine and Justinian, the Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles and the churches of St Sophia, St John of Studius, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus - structures which provided the basic monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived. In his reconstruction of these monuments and their history, Cyril Mango demonstrates how much can be achieved by combining the information gained from meticulous examination of the written sources, whether contemporary or from post-medieval travellers, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that have been excavated. Ce volume, vouà à lâhistoire, aux monuments et à la topographTable of ContentsContents: The development of Constantinople as an urban centre; Constantinopolitana; Constantine’s column; Constantine’s porphyry column and the chapel of St Constantine; Constantine’s mausoleum and the translation of relics (with addendum); Three imperial Byzantine sarcophagi discovered in 1750; A newly-discovered Byzantine imperial sarcophagus; The Fourteenth Region of Constantinople; Epigrammes honorifiques, statues et portraits à Byzance; The columns of Justinian and his successors; Justinian’s equestrian statue; The date of the Studius basilica at Istanbul; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus at Constantinople and the alleged tradition of octagonal palatine churches; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus once again; On the history of the templon and the martyrion of St Artemios at Constantinople; A 12th-century description of St Sophia; The conciliar edict of 1166; A Russian graffito in St Sophia, Constantinople; A note on Panagia Kamariotissa and some imperial foundations of the 10th and 11th centuries at Constantinople; The date of the Anonymous Russian Description of Constantinople; The work of M.I. Nomidis in the Vefa Kilise Camii, Istanbul (1937-38); Addenda; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Structure in Architecture History Design and
Book SynopsisAll buildings must stand. An adequate structure was as necessary for the simplest primitive hut as it is for the tallest or widest-spanning modern building. However, this requirement became more difficult to satisfy as designers became more adventurous and the experience already gained became less directly applicable. The present papers look at the consequent evolution of design methods and the types of understanding that have been essential guides. A particular focus is the question of how earlier innovations, made without the benefits of modern theory, were possible. Other papers look in detail at the most outstanding of these achievements, such as the church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and the dome of Florence Cathedral.Trade Review'During 40 years Rowland Mainstone has been a prolific and original writer on developments in the history of architectural structures. This collection of 22 of his papers demonstrates their quality and authority...These papers should help destroy the popular myth that we do not know how cathedrals and great works of antiquity were designed or built...They should be essential reading for everyone engaged in restoring and conserving buildings, and will be equally rewarding for the sheer pleasure of better understanding the enormity of our debt to the technical achievements of past centuries.' Architectural Review '...very readable and has much to interest the practising engineer or anyone with a visual sense and an enquiring mind.' Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings News 'With the depth of research reported, the great wealth of its references, and its illumination of such diverse themes and topics, the book must easily claim space in architectural libraries and provide stimuli for further studies. Significant assistance to the wide variety of studies which can be envisaged is given by the inclusion of three separate indexes, for 'subjects', 'bridges, buildings and places', and 'persons'.' Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: Intuition and the springs of structural invention; The springs of invention revisited; The role of tradition in the development of form in domes, shells, and space structures; Structural theory and design before 1742; Developments in structural design since the seventeenth century especially in Britain; Structural analysis, structural insights, and historical interpretation; On the structure of the Roman Pantheon; The structure of the church of St Sophia, Istanbul; The reconstruction of the tympana of St Sophia at Istanbul; Hagia Sophia: Justinian’s Church of Divine Wisdom, later the Mosque of Ayasofya, in Istanbul; Hagia Sophia’s first dome; The structural conservation of Hagia Sophia: past history and present needs; The first and second churches of San Marco reconsidered; Squinches and pedentives: comments on problems of definition; Westminster Hall roof; Brunelleschi’s dome of S. Maria del Fiore and some related structures; Brunelleschi’s dome; The dome of St Peter’s: structural aspects of its design and construction and inquiries into its stability; Sinan’s Suleymaniye Mosque and Justinian’s Hagia Sophia; Designs for ribbed vaults by Guarini and Leonardo; The reinforced flat arches of the east colonnade of the Louvre; The Eddystone Lighthouse; Additional notes and comments; Index of subjects; Index of buildings; Index of persons.
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Hurtwood Press Katherine Preston Inn of the Few
Book SynopsisInn of the Few is a tale of the White Hart inn, which became a home to the brave fighter pilots of WWII who battled over the skies of Southern England. In the dark days of 1940, when Britain stood alone, Churchill's Few', the brave fighter pilots who battled over the skies of Southern England, found a haven in the White Hart inn in Brasted, where they could escape the traumas of war for a few hours. The landlords Kath and Teddy Preston were there to share in the hopes and fears, the elation and sorrow of the men who lived their lives on the edge daily. Inn of the Few is a tale of those precarious days, an insight into life at the White Hart and its famous visitors. The book includes fascinating anecdotes and archive photographs and documents of a momentous time in history, in which local lives gained national significance.
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Thompson & Columbus, Inc. The World Trade Center Classics of American Architecture
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Legare Street Press A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology
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Legare Street Press A Description of Bath Wherein the Antiquity of
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Legare Street Press Lamberts Suburban Architecture
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Legare Street Press London Churches of the XVIIth and XVIIIth
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland and
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Legare Street Press A History of Architecture in Italy From the Time
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Legare Street Press Della Architettura Libri Dieci
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Taylor & Francis Worship Sound Spaces
Book SynopsisWorship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship. Gathering a wide range of case studies set in Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, the book presents investigations into Muslim, Christian and Hindu spaces. These diverse cultural contexts demonstrate the composite nature of designing and experiencing places of worship. Beginning with a historical overview of the three primary indicators in acoustic design of religious buildings, reverberation, intelligibility and clarity, the second part of this edited collection offers a series of field studies devoted to perception, before moving onto recent examples of restoration of the sound ambiances of former religious buildings. Written for academics and students interested in architecture, cultural heritage, acoustics, sensory studies and sound.The multimedia documents of Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religious Listenings: A multidisciplinary approach Christine Guillebaud and Catherine Lavandier PART 1. Sonic architecture: Acoustic intentions in worship buildings 1. Characterizing the acoustics of places of worship: Should we believe in acoustic indicators? Marc Asselineau 2. Towards a history of architectural acoustics using archeological evidence: What recent research on the uses of acoustic pots contributes to understanding of the quest for sound quality in 11th to 17th century churches Jean-Christophe Valière and Bénédicte Palazzo-Bertholon 3. Temple soundspaces and ancient Hindu ritual texts Gérard Colas PART 2. Experiencing the sacred through sound 4. The worldmaking ways of church bells: Three stories about the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris Gaspard Salatko 5. What should the reverberation inside a masjid be? A study exploring the demands of Imams Ahmed Elkhateeb 6. ‘Soundwalks in Shiva temple’: A situated approach to perceived ambiance Christine Guillebaud 7. Bells, auspiciousness and the god of music: Reflections on sound in ritual space in Nepalese Hindu traditions Astrid Zotter 8. Resonant voices and spatial politics: An acoustemology of citizenship in a Muslim neighbourhood of the Kenyan coast Andrew J. Eisenberg PART 3. Restoring the sound ambiances of the past 9. The church beyond worship: Experiencing monumental soundspaces in the Roman Catholic churches of Montréal (Québec, Canada) Josée Laplace 10. Sound heterotopia in a Cistercian monastery Pascal Joanne 11. The original acoustics of the sixteenth-century Mughal heritage of Burhanpur (India) Amit J. Wahurwagh Akshay P. Patil Alpana R. Dongre AFTERWORD A world of attunements Jean-Paul Thibaud
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Computer Architectures
Book SynopsisComputer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi-material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface,Trade Review"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." - Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of Contents1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space PART I PROGRAM 2. Computing Environmental Design 3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers 4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality PART II INPUT/OUTPUT 5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum 6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968 7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface PART III STORAGE 8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information 9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings PART IV COMPUTATION 10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry 11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Poetics of Underground Space
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows.The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generates increasingly compromised landscapes, what are the possible strategies to transform, expand and change the usual relationship between abuse of soil and unused subsoil?Psychological, philosophical, literary and cinematographic legacies of underground architecture are mixed with the compositional, typological and constructive expedieTrade Review"Antonello Boschi investigates the subject in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary, historical and theoretical survey. Inverting the classic dictates of surface construction, he explores possible strategies for transforming, expanding and changing the typical relationship between the mistreatment of land and unused subsoil." Francesca Tagliabue, Abitare, excerpt from The charm of underground, https://www.abitare.it/en/research/publications/2022/05/27/antonello-boschi-underground-architecture-strategies/"Quarries, subways, cellars, grottos and underpasses seem to overturn the rule that says buildings only exist above ground, facing the need to exploit urban space down to the last square centimetre. As Michael Jakob reminds us in his introduction, "architecture has always been lair, cavern, shelter, also and above all. So thinking about the underground means thinking about architecture."Elena Sommariva, excerpt from domus 1069 June 2022Table of Contents1. Huddling 2. Notes from the underground 3. The city other 4. Mimicry 5. Novelty is but oblivion 6. Stone skies 7. Sensations 8. Sous passages 9. Buried high-rises 10. Brightening the dark Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Architecture Ritual and Cosmology in China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Long Millennium
Book SynopsisThis book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call global trade in the first millennium CE. The book coins the term dark matter economy to better describe this complex though mostly invisible relationship to normative realities.The first full integration of dark matter economy with the emerging global flows took place in South India and Sri Lanka at the beginning of the millennium. The book then moves to other places in the world sweet spots where a particular type of affluence was generated through the trade in luxury goods. This upstream affluence manifested itself in the creation of shrines, palaces, temples and engineering works that all thickened the landscape of memory, control and extraction and also served as a defense mechanism agTable of ContentsIntroduction: Leading QuestionsPart 1 The Case of Musa I Dark Matter Affluence and Sweet Spot Systems Cross-Ecological Delivery Economies Part 2 "The Most Outlying Lands" The Sri Lanka Wealth Rush South Indian Emergence The Central Role of Borneo The Indonesian Seaway The Sub-Himalayan – Yungui Plateau Sweet Spot The East Africa Coastal Sweet Spot The North Sea Lattitude Sweet Spot Part 3 Beyond the Binary Structural Assymetries Institutions Without Institutionality Crossing Chieftain Geographies Part 4 Shrine Landscapes Feast and Dance Great Works Palace Universes Looking and Sounding the Part Coda: Death by a Thousand Cuts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sverre Fehn and the City Rethinking Architectures
Book SynopsisThe urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn's approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban life, with unignorable implications for emergent urban architecture and its address of sociological and ecological crises. Wary of large-scale planning proposals or the erasure of existing urban patterns, Fehn offered an uncommon and profoundly vibrant approach to urbanism at the scale of the single architectural project. His writings, constructed buildings, competition entries, and lectures suggest opportunities for reinvigorating architecture's engagement with the city, and provoke a rethinking of concepts foundational to its theorization. What is the nature of urbanity? What is the relationship of urbanity to the natural worldTrade Review"What if a good urban solution doesn’t involve ‘fitting into existing conditions’ but adding a clear and articulate voice to barely audible communications about ways of living that could be less wasteful, more humane, and just? Read this forward-looking book to discover modern architecture’s positive contribution to the city and the cultures it embodies."David Leatherbarrow, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania"This is a thesis that takes architectural scholarship and criticism to an entirely new level, in part because of the exceptionally sensitive talent and inventive energy of Sverre Fehn, and in part because of Anderson’s comparable sensitivity and profound erudition, influenced as it has been by the architectural phenomenologies of Dalibor Vesely and David Leatherbarrow. This is a truly important work."Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor of Architecture Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Chapter 1 Fehn in the City: “What makes this all so alive”. Chapter 2 Opened Ground. Chapter 3 Sverre Fehn’s Ambient Urbanity. Chapter 4 Sverre Fehn, the City, and the Architecture of Participation. Chapter 5 More Oslo. Afterword. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Index.
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Routledge The Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Seoul
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: city being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while urbanism is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that urbanization is a continuous global process that has produced nebulous conurbations labeled as megacities. These expand beyond the virtual administrative boundary of any said city, producing a discrepancy between an area of administrative control and the real physical condition of human settlement. If there were a better formal understanding of megacities through their typological architectural conditions, then there could be a better assessment of the qualitative state of urbanization. Avant-garde groups from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as Team X, the Situationist, the Structuralist, and the Metabolist
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Routledge Seoul
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Taylor & Francis The Louvre and Versailles
Book SynopsisIn tracing the evolution of the Louvre from fortress to palace and of Versailles from hunting domain to dynastic capital, Dr Tadgellâs detailed architectural analysis of many projects â external and internal, realised and unrealised â is set in the context of the development of the medieval monarchy towards absolutism, of the development of the medieval chÃteau towards precedents for the seat of absolutism, and of the effect of the French monarchyâs financial incontinence on the realisation of royal building ambitions.In particular, Tadgell challenges received opinion on the introduction of Hispano-Burgundian court etiquette to French palace design, relates the court front of Lescotâs Renaissance Louvre to the iconography of apotheosis, revises the current ordering of FranÃois Mansartâs designs for the Louvre and reassesses the subsequent contribution of Claude Perrault to the completion of the east front in respect for the opinion of 17th and 18th century commentators. After surveying the various phases of work for Louis XIV at Versailles, he traces the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabrielâs grand projet for rebuilding the town side of the palace for Louis XV, noting the influence of Bernini on the definitive phase, and he masters the intricacies of the incessant changes to the royal apartments which inhibited rebuilding.Finally, the book looks at the influence of the great French palaces on those seeking to emulate their ambition, from Stockholm in the late-17th century to the deliriously opulent late-19th century palace of Ludwig II of Bavaria at Herrenchiemsee. A wealth of illustrative material and supporting documents bring this comprehensive and authoritative text to life.
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Taylor & Francis Encounters with Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Decoding Luigi Morettis Architettura Parametrica
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Pomegranate Communications THIS AMERICAN HOUSE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTS
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Cambridge University Press Inventing the Opera House
Book SynopsisIn this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell''arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters built to present the new art form of opera in the seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures. Often they were among the most expensive artistic undertakings of a given prince. They were part of an upsurge of theatrical invention in the performing arts. At the same time, the productions that took place within the opera house could threaten the social order, to the point where rulers would raze them. Johnson reconstructs the history of the opera house by bringing together evidence from a variety of disciplines, including music, art, theatre, and politics. Writing in an engaging manner, he sets the history of the opera house within its broader early modern social context.Trade Review'… sprinkled with photographs and illustrations of Italian theatres as well as architectural plans and digital reconstruction of stage interiors. The content is technical throughout, but there's just enough colour to hold the general reader's interest.' BBC Music Magazine'Beautifully presented … an important addition to the bibliography on the topic …' Brian Robins, Opera'This is clearly the definitive study of Renaissance and early Baroque theaters and should be on the reading lists not only of scholars and students in the fields of theater and architecture but also those of musicologists and historians concerned with the role of culture in early modern Italy.' Jonathan Glixon, Renaissance Quarterly'The book is clearly written and profusely illustrated (nearly two hundred images in black-and-white and color). This is clearly the definitive study of Renaissance and early Baroque theaters and should be on the reading lists not only of scholars and students in the fields of theater and architecture but also those of musicologists and historians concerned with the role of culture in early modern Italy.' Jonathan Glixon, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Ferrara and Mantua, 1486–1519; 2. Rome 1480s–1520; 3. Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto; 4. Sixteenth-century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena; 5. Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte; 6. Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio; 7. Drama-Tourney theaters; 8. Ferrara, Parma, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti; 9. Seventeenth-century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house; 10. Seventeenth-century theaters for comedy and opera; 11. Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.
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Cambridge University Press The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
Book SynopsisThe Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. Jean-Claude Poursat''s volume provides a clear path through the rich and varied art and archaeology of Aegean prehistory, from the Neolithic period down to the end of the Bronze Age. Charting the regional differences within the Aegean world, his study covers the full range of material evidence, including architecture, pottery, frescoes, metalwork, stone, and ivory, all lucidly arranged by chapter. With nearly 300 illustrations, this volume is one of the most lavishly illustrated treatments of the subject yet published. Suggestions for further reading provide an up-to-date entry point to the full richness of the subject. Originally published in French, and translated by the author''s collaborator Carl Knappett, this edition makes Poursat''s deep knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age available to an English-language audiTable of ContentsPart I. Aegean Neolithic Art: 1. Artefacts and Contexts; 2. Architectural beginnings; 3. Pottery; 4. Figurines and models; 5. Other arts: ornaments, seals, and stone vases; Part II. The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: 6. Artefacts and Contexts; 7. Architecture; 8. Early Bronze Age Aegean glyptic; 9. Sculpture; 10. Stone vases, metalware, miscellaneous; 11. EBA pottery in the Aegean; Part III. Aegean Art in the Cretan First Palace Period: 12. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 13. Minoan architecture in the First Palace Period; 14. Minoan glyptic in the Protopalatial period; 15. Other Minoan relief arts: stone vases, jewelry, minor arts; 16. Artworks in the round; 17. Minoan pottery; 18. Mainland Greece and the islands in the First Palace Period; Part IV. Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period: Crete and the Aegean Islands: 19. Artworks in context : the historical framework; 20. Aegean architecture in the Second Palace period; 21. Aegean wall painting; 22. Minoan glyptic; 23. Artworks in the round: figures, figurines, and zoomorphic vases; 24. Other artworks (stone, faience, ivory, metal; textile); 25. Pottery production; Part V. Aegean Art in the Cretan Second Palace Period: Mainland Greece: 26. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 27. Funerary architecture; 28. Metalwork; 29. Creto-Mycenaean glyptic; 30. Other Mycenaean relief arts: wood, bone, ivory, stone and faience; 31. Mycenaean pottery of LH I-IIA; 32. General remarks: Aegean art during the Cretan Second Palace period; Part VI. Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos: 33. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 34. Architecture; 35. The frescoes; 36. Metalwork, jewelry and various ornaments; 37. Creto-Mycenaean glyptic in LM II/LH IIB–IIIA1; 38. Other relief arts: ivory and stone; 39. Artworks in the round: figurines and zoomorphic vessels; 40. LM II/LH II-IIIA1 pottery; Part VII. Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period: 41. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 42. Architecture; 43. Mycenaean painting; 44. The end of Aegean glyptic; 45. Mycenaean ivories of LH IIIA2-B; 46. Other relief arts: goldwork, glass, faience, stone; 47. Mycenaean art and 'international art'; Artworks in the round: figurines, figures, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vases; 49. Pottery production: vases and sarcophagi; Part VIII. Aegean Art at the End of the Bronze Age: 50. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 51. Architecture at the end of the Bronze Age; 52. Figures, figurines, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vases; 53. Jewelry and metalwork; 54. Pictorial art and vase painting; 55. Mycenaean art and its legacy; Afterword. Aegean art through forgers' eyes; 56. Fakes and dubitanda.
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Cambridge University Press Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman
Book SynopsisIn Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory''s daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences? How is music remembered and how does it memorialize in a world before recording technology, where sound accumulated differently than it does today? This volume explores music''s role in the discourses of cultural memory, communication, and commemoration in ancient Greek and Roman societies. It reveals the many and varied ways in which musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities, from classical Athens to Ptolemaic Alexandria and ancient Rome. Drawing on the contributors'' interdisciplinary expertise in art history, philology, performance studies, history, and ethnomusicology, eleven original chapters and the editors'' Introduction offer newTable of ContentsPart I. Approaching Music and Memory: Introduction Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss; 1. Music, Memory, and the (Ancient Greek) Imagination Mark Griffith; Part II. Music, Body, and Textual Archives: 2. Musical Memory on Delos: Theseus in the Archive and the Repertoire Sarah Olsen; 3. Remembered but not Recorded: The Strange Case of Rome's Maiden Chorus Lauren Curtis; 4. Incorporating Memory in Roman Song and Dance: The Case of the Arval Cult Zoa Alonso Fernández; Part III. Technologies of Musical Memory: 5. Do Alexandrians Dream of Electric Sound? Recording Music in the Early Ptolemaic Empire Yvona Trnka-Amrhein; 6. Teichoacoustics, or the Wall as Sonic Medium in Antiquity Peter McMurray; Part IV. Audience, Music, and Repertoire: 7. Iacchus Resonatus: Sound, Memory, and Salvation in Aristophanes' Frogs Tim Power; 8. Performance, Memory, and Affect: Animal Choruses in Attic Vase Painting Naomi Weiss; 9. Meter, Music, and Memory in Roman Comedy Timothy J. Moore; Part V. Music and Memorialization: 10. Sirens on the Edge of the Classical Attic Funerary Monument Seth Estrin; 11. Music as Mnēma on Athenian White-Ground Lekythoi Sheramy D. Bundrick.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The East Buddhists Hindus and the Sons of Heaven
Book SynopsisThe East, the second in a series of seven books that describe and illustrate the seminal architectural traditions of the world, is a survey of unparalleled range and depth. The journey starts on the Indian subcontinent with the Vedic and native traditions of the 2nd millennium BCE, modified by the changing demands of worship to produce the characteristic forms of Buddhist and Hindu temples in all their spatial and sculptural variety â which also helped to shape palaces and even towns in a complex line of development.The tradition in its exported forms â in Java, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand among other territories â developed in stupendous buildings, producing monuments as fabulous as Angkor Wat and the Shwe-dagon pagoda in Rangoon.In the second part of the book, the long but conservative traditions of China, Korea and Japan and their spheres of influence are examined, a story of absorption and transformation centred on the walled enclosures of China and the Japanese predilection for informality and artful simplicity.Not simply a profusely illustrated catalogue of buildings, the book also provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts. It functions equally well as a detailed and comprehensive narrative, as a collection of the great buildings of the world, and as an archive of themes across time and place.Trade Review'The East is truly one of those books that change your life and plans. Christopher Tadgell delivers brilliantly in linking context, structures and high ideals, climate and materials, nature and technology. He gives us a powerful but faithful and finely paced compression of complex interlocked traditions. Few historians have related landscape and meaning with such like success. Impressive learning is worn lightly.'– Sir John BoydTable of ContentsPart 1: Buddhist and Brahmanical 1.1. The Indian Subcontinent 1.2. South-East Asia Part 2: Heaven’s Empires 2.1. China and its Orbit 2.2. Japan Glossary Further Reading Index
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Taylor & Francis Architecture Festival and the City
Book SynopsisHistorically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the âdressingâ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city.This book examines how festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition. <Table of ContentsIntroduction Christian Frost, Raymond Lucas, Jemma Browne The Festival in History 1. ‘Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97’ - Italy Susan Janet May 2. A Contemporary Reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to Festival and the Elizabethan Notion of ‘Lost Sense of Sight’- UK Constance Lau 3. Festa della Chinea: Tradition and the 'Exotic' in Roman Festival Design –Italy Nicholas Temple 4. "Honneurs et applaudissements": Celebrating the first Jesuit Saints in 17th Century- France Iara Alejandra Dundas The Festival Through History 5. Script and Score: Revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri- Japan Raymond Lucas 6. The Calcio Storico in Florence: Agonistic Ritual and the Space of Civic Order- Italy Christian Frost 7. The Festal Topography of Andre Breton’s Paris- France Dagmar Motycka Weston 8. The Town of Witches: Triora Transfixed - Italy Grace Alexandra Williams 9. Festival, Ritual and Rhetoric of the Arabian Market Street – Middle East Jasmine Shahin Meaning in the Modern Festival 10. A Better Life For More People: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution for the Festival of Britain -UK Paola Zanotto 11. A Vigorous Corrective: The Ulster ‘71 Festival - Northern Ireland Sarah Anne Lappin and Una Walker 12. The Pope, the Park and the City: Dublin, 1979 -Republic of Ireland Brian Ward and Gary Boyd 13. Urban Fabric: Maria Lai at Ulassai,- Sardinia Italy David Chandler 14. The Social Architecture of Contemporary Cultural Festivals: Connecting People, the Environment and Art in the Setouchi Triennale - Japan Simone Shu-Yeng Chung 15. Tahrir Square’s Festive Imagination- Egypt Hazem Ziada Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture of Defeat
Book SynopsisKengo Kuma, one of Japan's leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over the world, he has written extensively about the history and theory of architecture. Like his built work, his writings also reflect his profound personal philosophy. Architecture of Defeat is no exception. Now available in English for the first time, the book explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated much of the built landscape on Japan's northern shore in a matter of minutes in 2011. Asking if we have been building in a manner that is too self-confident or arrogant, he examines architecture's iTable of ContentsPart 1: Disconnection, Criticism, Form 1. From Disconnection to Connection 2. Field and Object 3. What Was Criticality? 4. The Dreariness of Form versus Freedom Part 2: Transparency, Democracy, Materialism 1. De Stijl: A Melancholic Transparency 2. Rudolf Schindler: A Vision of Democracy 3. Yoshichika Uchida: Postwar Democracy 4. Togo Murano: System and Materialism 5. Place, Building, Image: San'ai Dream Center 6. Give Us Houses, Let Us See TV: Venice Biennale 1995 7. Girls and Yogis: Venice Biennale 2000 Part 3: Brand, Virtuality, Enclosure 1. Public, Brand, Private 2. Houses and the Sex Trade 3. Concrete Time 4. Virtuality and Parasite 5. The End of Beauty 6. Enclosure Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Roman Architecture
Book SynopsisIn this fully updated new edition, Frank Sear offers a thorough overview of the history of architecture in the Roman Empire.Arranged logically in six historical sections interspersed with material on Roman architects and their techniques, the building types found in Roman cities and the different buildings found in the Roman provinces, this volume now contains the latest insights into Roman architecture and takes account of the past 20 years of scholarship. This seminal work covers the architecture of the Republic, the Age of Augustus, the imperial period, Pompeii and Ostia, the eastern and western empire, and the Late Antique period, exploring subjects such as patronage, building techniques and materials, Roman engineering, town planning and imperial propaganda in a concise and readable way.Illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, maps and drawings, Roman Architecture continues to be the clearest introductory account of the development of architecture in the RoTrade Review"Sear’s unrivalled knowledge of Roman architecture allows him to present a vast array of buildings and urban landscapes in enviably clear and concise prose. He sets developments in buildings’ techniques, styles and functions illuminatingly in their wider historical context. Time and again he picks out telling detail to which his sharp eye gives meaning." - Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK."In this extensively rewritten and updated edition of his classic history of Roman architecture, Frank Sear proves both an authoritative and reliable guide and one propelled by his hallmark enthusiasm for all aspects of architecture." - Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Cambridge, UK.'Sear’s unrivalled knowledge of Roman architecture allows him to present a vast array of buildings and urban landscapes in enviably clear and concise prose. He sets developments in buildings’ techniques, styles and functions illuminatingly in their wider historical context. Time and again he picks out telling detail to which his sharp eye gives meaning.' Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK'In this extensively rewritten and updated edition of his classic history of Roman architecture, Frank Sear proves both an authoritative and reliable guide and one propelled by his hallmark enthusiasm for all aspects of architecture.'Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Cambridge, UKTable of Contents1. Republican Rome 2. Roman Building Types 3. The Age of Augustus 4. Roman Architects, Building Techniques and Materials 5. The Julio-Claudians 6. Two Roman Towns: Pompeii and Ostia 7. The Flavians 8. Trajan and Hadrian 9. North Africa 10. The European Provinces 11. The Eastern Provinces 12. The Late Empire
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Taylor & Francis Roman Building
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Healing Spaces Modern Architecture and the Body
Book SynopsisHealing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book's contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and backyards. TTable of ContentsIntroduction by Sarah Schrank and Didem Ekici Part 1: Interior Spaces and Everyday Therapeutic Architecture 1: Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs Sarah Schrank 2: Inputs, Outputs, Flows: The Bio-Architecture of Whole Systems Design, the Energy Pavilion, and the Integral Urban House Sabrina Gabrielle Richard 3: The Physiology of the House: Modern Architecture and the Science of Hygiene Didem Ekici 4: Material Heliotechnics: A Tale of Two Bodies John Stanislav Sadar 5:Isolation, Privacy, Control and Privilege: Psychiatric Architecture and the Single Room Leslie Topp Part 2: Healing Landscapes and the Body Out-of-Doors 6: Freeing Bodies and Prescribing Play in the Humanization of New York City: Richard Dattner’s 1960s Playgrounds Camille Shamble 7: Garden Walks: Physical Mobility and Social Identity and Dumbarton Oaks Robin Veder 8: Shaping Fascist Bodies: Children’s Summer Camps in Fascist Italy Stephanie Pilat 9: Bodies at Work and Leisure: Therapeutic Landscapes of Early Nineteenth-Century New York State Insane Asylums Jennifer L. Thomas Part 3: Public Health and Modern Medical Institutions 10: Designing the Medical Museum Annmarie Adams 11: The Decline of the Hospital as a Healing Machine David Theodore 12: Passive and Active: Public Space at the McMaster Health Sciences Center, 1972 Thomas Strickland Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Architecture of the Facade
Book SynopsisThe Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization, and representation, the facade carries the lion's share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world. And yet, in recent decades, the very question of what exactly a facade is has been raised by the dramatic changes in building technology, advances of parametric design, and the ubiquity of autonomous buildings. The Architecture of the Facade addresses these and other related issues. The book is organized into 12 chapters, with each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of the phenomenon of the facade such as those Table of Contents1. A History of the Facade in Twelve Buildings 2. Notes Towards a Difficult Definition 3. Phenomenology and the Facade 4. The Phenomenon of the Wall 5. The Phenomenon of the Frame 6. The Outside, the Inside and the In-between 7. The Repetitive Bay 8. Representation, Abstraction, and Meaning 9. Transparency, Translucency and Opacity 10. Proportion and the Search for a Cosmic Connection 11. Precedent and Invention 12. The City and the Facade
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Future Cities
Book SynopsisWhat might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideologies for cities. Thinking about what futures are, who they are for, why they are desirable, and how and when they are to be brought into being is central to this book. Through visualisation we are able to experiment in ways that would be impractical and potentially hazardous in the real world, and this book, therefore, aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the power and agency of visualisations for future cities. In this lavishly illustrated text, the authors apply several critical leTrade ReviewImages of future cities are one of the most revealing ways in which hopes, fears and plans about the future are imagined. This wonderful book brings together images of urban futures from a wide range of places, disciplines, histories, media and genres, to dizzying effect. Whether you make images of urban futures, you're interested in studying them, or you're a fascinated spectator, this book is an essential, imaginative, provocative and above all generous resource for thinking about how and why to picture future cities. * Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford, UK *We conceive of the future via the images we make of it. This lavishly illustrated visual history of the city is a powerful reminder of the influence of images on our thinking about the future. It is an asset in times when we need to scan the probable, the possible and the preferable futures that lie ahead. A wonderful and valuable resource. * Maarten Hajer, Professor of Urban Futures, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: futures, imagination, and visions for cities 2. Cities of Vision: a visual history of the future 3. Rendering Tomorrow: the impact of visualisation techniques 4. Technological Futures: optimism, science fiction, and infrastructural systems 5. Social Futures: experiments, ephemerality, and experiences 6. Global Futures: challenges and opportunities for collective life 7. Tomorrow’s Cities Today: conclusions and alternative futures References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cleopatras Needles
Book SynopsisIn the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain that they would work. As the three obelisks, bound for Paris, London and New York, sailed towards their new homes, the world held its breath. Newspapers reported the obelisks' daily progress, complete with dramatic illustrations of the heroic deeds of the engineers and crews struggling under nearly impossible conditions. When the obelisks finally arrived safely in their new homes, bands played Cleopatra's Needle Waltz and silver obelisk pencils dangled from fashionable ladies' necks. This turbulent era, caught up in obeliTrade Review[A] well-researched and amiable account ... If you want to know how to quarry, carve and erect a huge block of granite, then Brier is your man. He meticulously reconstructs the steps taken by the Egyptian stonemasons ... turning then to document the later transportation of obelisks to foreign places. * The Spectator *Obelisks were one of the greatest technical achievements of Ancient Egypt, but they are also a tribute to the skills of the Romans, the Renaissance, and the modern world. Here is a readable and urbane account of both these works of art. * Times Literary Supplement *Mr. Brier tells these stories with panache and with authority. His cast of characters-pharaohs, emperors, popes, engineers, Egyptologists and millionaires-can hardly be beat. And he restores wonder to these enigmatic objects created so long ago. * Wall Street Journal *Brier brings an Egyptologist’s perspective, a fascination with engineering, considerable storytelling skills, and a conversational tone honed by professional broadcasting. Together, this makes for a generally enjoyable read. -- Andrew Robinson * Science *Recaptures obelisk mania anew ... [It is] the unexpected illustrations that ultimately provide this book's captivating originality. * History Today *This work contains much fascinating and obscure detail that makes for an entertaining and informative read. * Ancient Egypt *Deftly navigating a wide range of primary sources, Bob Brier illuminates the terrors and triumphs of everyone involved throughout the history of the ‘obelisks in exile’, allowing a new appreciation of ancient and historical technological hurdles, imperial ambition, and cultural appropriation. * Current World Archaeology *A generous account. * The Literary Review *Cleopatra's Needles is written in Brier's informal, easy-to-read style and will certainly be a welcomed addition to any Egyptophile's library. * KMT Magazine *The book is impressive in its range ... the style is informal and very readable ... this is a fascinating and very informative piece of work. * Classics for All *Bob Brier brilliantly draws the reader’s attention to the adventurous stories of these obelisks in times when the Western World was caught up in obelisk mania. For readers interested in the history of science, this book will be highly welcome. -- Carola Vogel * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This book goes some way towards reigniting the original enthusiasm and appreciation felt for these rare and unique monuments. Accompanied by numerous illustrations throughout, this book is a pleasure to read ... Brier’s account of the needles is well informed and is a successful general interest work on a fascinating subject, providing perhaps for the first time a well-written and approachable introduction to the world of the obelisk. * ASTENE Bulletin *Pointing to the heavens, ancient obelisks proudly display their Egyptian origins to the world. Often embellished with informative royal hieroglyphic inscriptions, many obelisks have now gained an additional historical layer—the fascinating and sometimes controversial narrative of their travels from Egypt to faraway lands. Bob Brier captures these stories with his thorough research and unique storytelling skills. * Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, Harvard University, USA, and Director, Harvard Semitic Museum, USA *A book full of fascinating and obscure details about Egyptian obelisks, this volume by Bob Brier is written in his usual chatty manner. Meticulously researched, it offers an entertaining and informative read for both scholars and the general public. * Rita E. Freed, John F. Cogan Jr. and Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA *Cleopatra’s Needles is a brilliant book, bringing the magic and the mystery of ancient Egypt to all of us. * Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist, Egypt *Brier’s narrative is compelling and at times thrilling. His descriptions of the men and the challenges they overcame to move these beautiful monoliths during the nineteenth century make the technical skills and the artistic genius of their ancient Egyptian creators all the more remarkable. * Classical Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. How to Quarry an Obelisk 2. Rome’s Obelisks 3. God’s Architect 4. Napoleon’s Obelisk 5. Cleopatra’s Needle Sails for London 6. The Oldest Skyscraper in New York 7. Postscript on the Obelisks Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Interior Urbanism
Book SynopsisVast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life on the outside'.Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside and outside, identifying and analysing the concept of interior urbanism and tracing its history back to the works of John Portman and Associates in 1960s and 70s America. Portman increasingly recognised as an influential yet understudied figure was responsible for projects such as Peachtree Center in Atlanta and the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, developments that employed vast internal atriums to define a world of possibilities not just for hotels and commercial spaces, but for the future of the American downtown amid the upheaTrade ReviewCharles Rice's study of the architecture of John Portman raises key questions about the quality of public space in modern cities where multi-use complexes with gleaming towers and soaring atriums remake the relationship between street, square and interior. Rice thus offers a timely analysis for developers and planners in today's international marketplace. * Alice Friedman, Professor of Art, Wellesley College, USA *Despite its wide-ranging influence, the work of the developer-architect John Portman has to date recieved little attention from scholars of architecture. Rice's study of Portman's paradigmatic "interior urbanism" addresses this lacuna, skilfully contextualising its emergence within the ideologies, institutions, politics and technologies of urban development in the USA in the 1960s and 70s. This is an important study for anyone seeking to understand the prehistory of our global urban present. * Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Atrium Effect 1. Transformations in Modern Architecture 2. The Business of Architecture and Development 3. Atlanta, New American City 4. The Geometry of Interior Urbanism 5. Urban Studies on the Street Epilogue: On Hollow Forms Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Oriental Interiors
Book SynopsisSince the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the formation and perception of eastern-inspired interiors from an orientalist perspective. Orientalist spaces in the West have taken numerous forms since the 18th century to the present day, and the fifteen chapters in this collection reflect that diversity, dealing with subjects as varied and engaging as harems, Turkish baths on RMS Titanic, Parisian bachelor quarters, potted palms, and contemporary yoga studios. It explores how furnishings, surface treatments, ornament and music, for example, are deployed to enhance the exoticism and pleasures of oriental spaces, looking across Trade ReviewThis is the first book to fully explore the formation and perception of Eastern-influenced interiors. Potvin (Concordia Univ., Montreal) divides the essays into three parts: "Modes of Display and Representation," "Gendered and Sexual Identities," and "Spaces and Markets of Consumption." Highlighting design influences such as spatial arrangement, visual culture, gender, and design theory, the 13 essays look at furnishings, ornaments, and other components as they assist to create Oriental interiors. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *This engaging collection of fifteen essays breaks new ground in the study of the neglected subject of the interior in relation to Orientalism, covering a range of examples from the 18th century to the present day, by scholars of art, architecture, film, literature, decorative arts and furniture and theatre design. * Louisa Iarocci, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Washington, USA *Oriental Interiors is a splendid collection of essays that take the reader on a journey through the visual, material and ideological aspects of its topic. The book explores the myriad ramifications of the concept of 'oriental interiors' and demonstrates that it is far more than style, being a complex mix of commerce, politics and consumption practices. * Clive Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Design History, Loughborough University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Inside Orientalism: Hybrid Spaces and Modern Interior Design John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada Section I: Modes of Display and Representation Introduction to Section I Chapter 1: The Emptiness of Western Aesthetics Versus the Aesthetics of Eastern Intimacy: A Reading of Interior Spaces and (Colonial) Literary Impressionism in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India Victor Vargas, Cogswell Polytechnic, USA Chapter 2: The Exhibitionary Re-production of ‘Islamic’ Architecture Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive, University of Colorado, USA Chapter 3: Promoting the Colonial Empire through French Interior Design Laura Sextro, University of Dayton, USA Chapter 4: Orientalism and David Hockney’s Male-positive Imaginative Geographies Dennis S. Gouws, Springfield College and the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies, Australia Chapter 5: The Excessive Trompe l’Oeil: The Saturated Interior in Tears of the Black Tiger Mark Taylor, University of Newcastle, Australia and Michael J. Ostwald, University of Newcastle, Australia Section II: Gendered and Sexual Identities Introduction to Section II Chapter 6: On Oriental Interiors in Eighteenth-century British Women Writers’ Novels Marianna D’Ezio, Luspio University for International Studies of Rome, Italy Chapter 7: Bachelor Quarters: The Spaces of Japonisme in Nineteenth-century Paris Christopher Reed, Pennsylvania State University, USA Chapter 8: Coming Out of the China Closet?: Performance, Identity and Sexuality in the House Beautiful Anne Anderson, Hon. Research Fellow Exeter University and Associate MIRC, Kingston University, UK Chapter 9: Orientalism, Collecting and Shame: Inside Rolf de Maré’s Hildesborg Estate John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada Section III: Spaces and Markets of Consumption Introduction to Section III Chapter 10: Paradise in the Parlour: Potted Palms in Western Interiors, 1850 – 1914 Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK Chapter 11: Traveling in Time and Space: The Cinematic Landscape of the Empress Theatre Camille Bédard, McGill University, Canada Chapter 12: Oriental Spaces at Sea: From the Titanic to the Empress of Britain Anne Massey, Middlesex University, UK Chapter 13: Posturing for Authenticity: Embodying Otherness in Contemporary Interiors of Modern Yoga Lauren Bird, Queen’s University, Canada Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Green Wedge Urbanism
Book SynopsisAs towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models the green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world. Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regionaTrade ReviewGreen Wedge Urbanism provides an original and potentially impactful contribution to urban theory, history and practice. The narrative of the book surfaces the concept of the Green Wedge historically and geographically, acting both as an archaeology of its meaning and a critical examination of its contemporary practice. * Simon Guy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK *This fascinating and historically informed account sheds new light on the urban landscape, reminding us of the benefits of linear open space, whether as an alternative to encompassing green belts or (even better) in combination with them. * Michael Hebbert, Professor of Town Planning at University College London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Green wedge: definitions Interdisciplinarity, locality, temporality and scale The structure Methods and sources Part 1 – Green Wedges in History Chapter 1 – Urban planning with nature The Enlightenment and the pursuit of nature The industrial revolution and the disintegration of open spaces The rise of town planning Ring vs. radial growth Park systems Chapter 2 – The emergence and diffusion of the green wedge idea Radial planning, radial parks and green wedges Intrinsic opposition: belts vs. wedges Opposition resolved: belts and wedges as elements of the same park system The socialist city Chapter 3 – Towards a bright future: green-wedge visions for the post-war period London: the green-wedge metropolis Diagraming the future The County of London Plan 1943 The Greater London Plan 1944 Other British cities New towns and green spaces Planning new beginnings Chapter 4 – Polycentrism and regional planning Organising the territory: the Nordic experience The 1947 Finger Plan Other Scandinavian capitals The corridor-wedge model: the Nordic influence Planning the metropolis: the case of São Paulo Corridor-wedge in the United States Visions for South East England The case of Melbourne Other cases The Green Heart and wedges of Randstad in the Netherlands Part 2 – Green Wedges Today Chapter 5 – Green spaces, networks and contemporary challenges The benefits of green spaces The birth of Urban Design and the ‘Star City’ Green infrastructures Landscape Ecology Landscape Urbanism Sustainability and resilience in face of climate change Chapter 6 – Towards sustainable and resilient city-regions Stockholm: towards blue and green wedges The development of a model: the Copenhagen Finger Plan The green fingers of Helsinki Randstad: from Green Heart to Green-Blue Delta Melbourne towards 2030 Freiburg: the green wedge and the mountain-valley systems Chapter 7 – Green wedges: from the city-region to the neighbourhood Hamburg green network plan The Raggi Verdi of Milan Songzhuang Arts and Agriculture City: a new form of urban-rural relationship Green wedges at multiple scales: Viikki Rieselfeld Vauban The Neighbourhood scale: Dunsfold Park, UK The green wedge as a typology: La Sagrera Linear Park, Spain Green Wedge Urbanism: Past, Present and Future The green wedge idea: from the city scale to the polycentric region Towards a theory of green wedge urbanism Index Bibliography Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Single People and Mass Housing in Germany
Book SynopsisTrade 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 PLC Touring and Publicizing Englands Country Houses
Book SynopsisOver the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities. Increasingly accessible to tourists, and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. Touring and Publicizing England''s Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions.Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuouTrade ReviewFor anyone who has ever wondered how Chatsworth, Pemberley, or Downton Abbey could belong so emphatically to the public—how English country houses (both real and imagined) have, as cultural treasures, come to be possessed by the nation—this book is essential reading. With an extraordinary range of primary sources, Anderson engagingly demonstrates the importance of English country houses as crucial tourist destinations in the 18th century, underscoring the importance of these houses for all sorts of things: not only the history of country house architecture, but also ‘heritage’ more broadly, collections generally, art collections in particular, and—perhaps most importantly—British conceptions of elite property as extending into the public realm of ownership. It is an immensely satisfying account of a fascinating story. * Craig Ashley Hanson, Associate Professor of Art History, Calvin College, USA, and author of The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism (2009) *Drawing on extensive primary research, Jocelyn Anderson explores the culture around country house visiting as it developed over the course of the eighteenth century. Bringing a broad range of literary and visual material together, her study examines how guidebooks, travel accounts, pictures, and plans, not only helped promote the growth of domestic tourism to such sites, but also served to condition a visitor’s experience of a house and grounds. With the massive road-building campaigns of the mid-eighteenth century, and the development of an associated infrastructure of coach inns and taverns, opening up the country and easing travel, there was a ready commercial market among the polite classes eager to explore the nation’s architectural landmarks and heritage in person and on paper. By highlighting these concerted efforts to encourage, stage and shape the phenomenon, Anderson’s account effectively calls into question a number of scholarly assumptions about the origins of the public consumption of private property; not least as such often shrewd and sophisticated attempts to market and package the country house and its landscape to the tourist have been conventionally dated a good deal later. But it is a survey that prompts the reconsideration of wider concerns too, especially regarding a tendency to treat the cultural history of urban and rural areas discretely. Yet, while Anderson provides a valuable overview and astute interrogation of such issues, they never overwhelm the text. Well-informed and learned as it is, the book is accessible, deftly assembled, and eminently readable. It is an impressive piece of scholarship that makes an invaluable contribution to the study of the eighteenth-century country house and its legacies. * John Bonehill, Professor of Art History, University of Glasgow, Scotland *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: ‘Come Here for Entertainment and Instruction’: Country Houses Exhibited to the Public 1. ‘For the Numerous Strangers Who Visit’: Tourists’ Itineraries and Practices 2. ‘A Sumptuous Pile of Building’: Remaking the Sights and Spaces of the House 3. ‘Eminent in Public Estimation’: The Transformation of Country Houses’ Paintings and Sculptures 4. ‘A Degree of Taste and Elegance’: Commenting on Country Houses’ Interiors 5. ‘The Beauties of Nature’: Descriptions of Country-House Gardens and Parks Conclusion: ‘The Visitor of Today’: Legacies of 18th-Century Country-House Tourism Appendix: Country-house Guidebooks Bibliography Index
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Xlibris Conspiracies and Atrocities in Afghanistan
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Manchester University Press No More Giants: J. M. Richards, Modernism and
Book SynopsisArchitecture is more than buildings and architects. It also involves photographers, writers, advertisers and broadcasters, as well as the people who finance and live in the buildings. Using the career of the critic J. M. Richards as a lens, this book takes a new perspective on modern architecture. Richards served as editor of The Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971, during which time he consistently argued that modernism was integrally linked to vernacular architecture, not through style but through the principle of being an anonymous expression of a time and public spirit. Exploring the continuities in Richards’s ideas throughout his career disrupts the existing canon of architectural history, which has focused on abrupt changes linked to individual ‘pioneers’, encouraging us to think again about who is studied in architectural history and how they are researched.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Critical connections: Jim Richards’ network 1924–382 What is wrong with architecture? The Architectural Press, the profession and the architectural public3 ‘Cranks and laymen’: Propaganda for modern architecture 1935–414 The Castles on the Ground: Reconstruction, public participation and the future of modernism, 1941–51 5 Stocktaking: The contesting voices of architectural criticism, 1951–61 6 ‘Life is Right, the Architect is Wrong’: Public participation and architectural criticism 1962–73PostscriptBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Ideal Homes: Uncovering the History and Design of
Book SynopsisIdeal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a period when homeownership was becoming the norm, these communities sought out varieties of architecture and design that were both nostalgic and modern, reflecting longings for ‘Old England’ on the one hand and technological convenience on the other. The book draws on exhibitions, memoirs, advertisements and films, as well as surviving examples of suburban architecture and interiors, to identify a distinctively suburban modernism, embodied by the Tudorbethan semi. Arguing that the ‘ideal’ home of the period was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation, it concludes by considering how such houses are lived in today. This new edition also features an introductory chapter on researching the history of your own home.Trade Review‘A wonderful tour through the interwar suburban house: from the appearance and decoration of our houses through to innovations in appliances and the creation of the modern "ideal home".’ Melanie Backe-Hansen, author of House Histories: The Secrets Behind Your Front Door'Ideal Homes is a superb evocation of interwar living as expressed in its homes and furnishings. Deborah Sugg Ryan's book skilfully interweaves social and design history and beautifully melds the academic and personal. Her exploration of “suburban modernity” and its idiosyncratic blend of tradition and novelty, home and empire, challenges the intellectual condescension of critics to find meaning and value in the lived experience of consumers and the messy, sometimes contradictory, choices they made. Along the way, it charts both the apparently rigid boundaries of gender and seemingly more fluid divisions of class. It's that rare thing – a book that will appeal to academic specialists and the general reader.'John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams (2018)‘Deborah brings to life the history of typical 1930s British houses using stories from the archives of the real families for whom such houses were home. For anyone who wants to research the history of their own house, her new introduction gives away some key tricks of the trade.’Professor David Olusoga OBE, presenter of A House Through Time'Deborah Ryan’s fascinating new book explores the ideas and emotions that lay behind the rise of interwar suburban homes. Ryan takes a design history approach to the study of the home – exploring design, style, and objects in depth – but situates this in a broader social and cultural narrative that explains the wider social meaning of domestic space and its value for its owners.'Cultural and Social History ‘Sugg Ryan succeeds in evoking the material culture of a past era which, in certain ways, resonates strongly with our own.' Professor Penny Sparke, author of The Modern Interior and The Genius of Design 'Deborah Sugg Ryan's book begins with the personal and then develops into a fascinating and detailed study of housing design and the meanings of home in interwar Britain. These interesting intersections between the subjective, design history and a social history of the home makes for a gratifyingly fresh take on the history of housing design and domesticity during the years 1918 to 1939. The book is well-written, convincingly argued and successfully merges design history, social and gender history in what is undoubtedly an important new contribution to twentieth-century British history.'Cercles‘Grounding her discussion in the discipline of design history, Sugg Ryan explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in England during the interwar period. Four individual stories of home ownership and homemaking reveal different aspects of emotional investment in domestic design and the drive for individuality. The author investigates how the design and decoration of these domestic spaces forged gender identities and a new suburban class.'CHOICE'Deborah Sugg Ryan's book makes an important contribution to the history of design as it was experienced by lower-middle-class and middle-class consumers in Great Britain in between the two world wars. Weaving a narrative out of such varied sources as the Daily Mail's Ideal Home exhibitions, period advertisements for new housing developments, women's domestic advice literature and the individual histories captured in the Mass Observation Archive, she presents a history of the architectural style and interior design practices of new suburban developments in the 1920s and 1930s.'Journal of Design History'Throughout Ideal Homes, 1918–1930, Sugg Ryan brings together a wealth of information and ideas showing a deep knowledge of domestic design during the interwar period. Through the experiences of individual homeowners, as well as in the attention paid to specific design objects, we get a close reading of how “suburban modernism” was mediated and consumed. Sugg Ryan invites the reader to see the suburban home and its objects as an inherent part of British modernism between the World Wars, offering a core reference point for further research into the domestic interiors of interwar Britain.'Vanessa Vanden Berghe, Journal of British Studies 'With an introduction on researching your house history, the book provides a capsule of the information you need to begin metaphorically peeling back the wallpaper and uncovering the history of your (or your parents' or grandparents') interwar home.'Family Tree Magazine -- .Table of ContentsNew introduction: researching your house history1 The interwar house: ideal homes and domestic design2 Suburban: class, gender and homeownership3 Modernisms: 'good' design and 'bad' design4 Efficiency: labour-saving and the professional housewife5 Nostalgia: the Tudorbethan semi and the detritus of empire6 Afterword: modernising the interwar ideal homeIndex
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Manchester University Press Building Reputations: Architecture and the
Book SynopsisTaking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology – the eighteenth-century brick terraced house – and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.Trade Review‘This is a fine book about the significant role of artisan house builders as architectural designers in the later Georgian period. When they did not exit their trades to become what earlier historians have ranked as ‘architects’, these artisan builders have remained shadowy figures. Ranging widely and with an even-handed command of material from both sides of the British Atlantic, especially giving Dublin due weight, Conor Lucey illuminates these people and their contributions to architectural design with insight, detail, clarity and humour.’ Peter Guillery, Bartlett School of Architecture, London‘Lucey’s fascinating book explores the role of the artisan in the still somewhat mysterious design processes behind the creation of the urban terraced house. Based on extensive new research it will enable us to place artisan-builders alongside other well-known designer-makers - such as print, furniture or ceramic specialists - in the period. Histories to date have focussed on the tradesman’s role in the construction of town houses but Lucey makes a compelling argument for their contribution to the design and decoration of both exteriors and interiors. In doing so he extends existing scholarship in exciting new directions enabling us more fully to understand the workings of the building trade across the second half of the long eighteenth century. The book’s scope is transatlantic and crucially Ireland for the first time, alongside England and America, is brought into discussions on the inter-connections across the eighteenth-century Atlantic building world.’Elizabeth McKellar, The Open University‘This is the first study of eighteenth-century century building activity which addresses the city house in Britain, Ireland and the American colonies with focus on London, Dublin and Philadelphia. This grand vista of urban domestic builders in the Atlantic world is mirrored in the range of scholarship that is brought to bear on the topic, a rich field of study brilliantly marshalled to provide the reader with a lucid, insightful and hugely stimulating panorama of new directions in architectural history. Lucey argues that the late eighteenth-century townhouse interior owed more to the plasterer and builder as agents of taste than it did to the sensibilities of its occupants and in so doing points up the builder’s facility for design and decoration. This book is an argument, a new apology for the builder, a broadside which asks us not to dumb down creative skill in the operative parts of architectural production. It is a book which will undoubtedly build reputation.’Professor Christine Casey, Trinity College Dublin‘In this book Conor Lucey sets out to rehabilitate the reputations of both the product (the town house) and the producer (the builder) and is concerned with rehabilitating the builder as an agent of taste as well as a figure of building production […] This book is an important addition to the study of the Dublin town house.’David Griffin, Irish Arts Review, Winter 2018/19‘From the middle of the eighteenth century through the 1830s, the brick row house became one of the most common urban building forms in the British Atlantic world. Artisan builders erected thousands of these rows of classically proportioned and ornamented town houses in the new streets, squares, and crescents of expanding cities as well as in smaller market and port towns in Great Britain, Ireland, and America […] In Building Reputations, Conor Lucey argues that this story has been misunderstood or mischaracterized in much of the historical literature on urban architecture, which has emphasized building production at the expense of building design […] In this informative book, he has rehabilitated the reputation of the artisan builder as a significant figure in shaping its decorative articulation.’Carl Lounsbury, caa.reviews, March 29 (2019)‘Building Reputations is a lively exploration of the world of the ‘Georgian’ builder, in particular the makers for the neo-classical townhouse. The book is also a welcome addition to the growing number of architectural investigations of the ‘Atlantic world’ of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the study of how ‘books and ideas’ crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic Ocean together with cargos of timber, bricks, cotton, sugar, furs or spices.’ Victoria Perry, Construction History Vol. 34, no. 1, 2019‘...a powerhouse of a book that finally rehabilitates the builder as a key player in the design and decoration of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century terrace and row houses.’Colin Thom, The Burlington Magazine 'Building Reputations makes an important contribution not only to revisionist architectural history, but also to recent art and design histories that have sought to recuperate the complexity of workshop production and artisanal epistemology, and to acknowledge the critical capacity of craft.3 It adds builders to the orbit of better-known histories of artisanal trades such as cabinetmakers, ceramicists, and silver- and goldsmiths. For these reasons, it deserves to be read widely by anyone interested in the history of the articulation and practice of design in this period.'Stacey Sloboda, Journal of Design History'[This book] is one of the most insightful books on Irish architectural history to have been published in the past decade. Lucey's sophisticated, impressive, well-illustrated and well-written study is not just about Ireland. His study is impressively interdisciplinary, insightfully comparative as it engages in studies of London, Dublin, and Philadelphia and is deeply evidence based. It also pays due regard to previous scholarship and he deploys the appropriate quantum of theory and historiography in respect of aesthetics, architecture and design as well as urban development.' Brendan Twomey, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland'Going beyond the traditional presentation of the builder as solely involved in the production of the building, Lucey reveals how because the speculative builder does not neatly fit into this simplified role, he has been overlooked in the scholarship. […] In his rehabilitation of the speculative builder, Lucey brings together sources from architectural history, social history, and material culture, as well as economic and trade history. He paints a picture of a British Atlantic building world at the end of the 18th century that is nuanced and complex. […] While each chapter could be expanded into its own book, they can be easily read alone, as Lucey incorporates historiographic context throughout. [O]verall the book is very readable and will be useful for scholars of architecture, interior decoration, advertising, labour, material culture, and the British Atlantic world in the long 18th century.'Katherine Wheeler, Architectural Histories -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: a new apology for the builder1 Building reputations: a genteel life in trade2 Designing houses: the façade and the architecture of street and square3 Decorating houses: style, taste and the business of decoration4 Building sales: advertising and the property marketConclusion: the builder rehabilitated?Select BibliographyIndex
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The Monacelli Press The Henry Clay Frick Houses
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