An Architecture of Ineloquence

J K Birksted

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Ca... Lees meer

The City Crown by Bruno Taut

Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Wri... Lees meer

Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories

Mrinalini Rajagopalan

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism ... Lees meer

A City's Architecture

William Alvis Brogden

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The diffuse town/region is typical of our time. The story of Aberdeen is just such an example. Not only are the materials for its long history present... Lees meer

Neo-Historical East Berlin

Florian Urban

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultane... Lees meer

Douglas Snelling

Davina Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916-85) was one of Britain's significant emigré architects and designers. Born in Kent and educated in New Zealand, he beca... Lees meer

The Architectures of Childhood

Roy Kozlovsky

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Between 1935 and 1959, the architecture of childhood was at the centre of architectural discourse in a way that is unique in architectural history. So... Lees meer

The Dissolution of Place

Shelton Waldrep

• Hardcover | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has been seen as a critical and popular ano... Lees meer

The Architecture of Industry

Mathew Aitchison

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of arc... Lees meer

The Architecture of Pleasure

Josephine Kane

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combini... Lees meer

Architect Knows Best

Simon Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of pe... Lees meer

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body

Sarah Schrank, Didem Ekici

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, ... Lees meer

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

David T Fortin

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while simila... Lees meer

On Emulation in Art and Architecture

David Mayernik

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as mode... Lees meer

Nationalism and Architecture

Darren Deane, Sarah Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and und... Lees meer

Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari

Sam Ridgway

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.... Lees meer

The Architecture of Industry

Mathew Aitchison

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of arc... Lees meer

Le Corbusier's Practical Aesthetic of the City

Christoph Schnoor

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. ... Lees meer

Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959

Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national exp... Lees meer

Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil

Gaia Piccarolo

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots,... Lees meer

In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions

Hooman Koliji

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible... Lees meer

Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959

Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national exp... Lees meer

The Architectural Capriccio

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leo... Lees meer

On Emulation in Art and Architecture

David Mayernik

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as mode... Lees meer