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  • Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe

    Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840

    de E. Bouwers ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    de Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Neoliberalism

    How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

    de Mr Douglas Spencer ...
    The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Oriental Interiors

    Design, Identity, Space

    Edición de John Potvin ...
    Since 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 ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    de Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order

    Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond

    de Carroll William Westfall ...
    This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    de Professor Charles Rice ...
    Vast 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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Sympathy of Things

    Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

    de Lars Spuybroek ...
    'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Architecture and Embodiment

    The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

    de Harry Francis Mallgrave ...
    In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

    de Christopher Hight ...
    A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

    de Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. The major themes of this book are the seven concepts of planning, circulation, 3D, construction, materials, colour and lighting, which covers the entire spectrum of a designer’s activity. Analysing design concepts from the view of the range of possibilities that the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    de Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD