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 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 Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

Donald Leslie Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretica... Lees meer

No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture

Anastasia Karandinou

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design... Lees meer

Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the globe reached fever pitch. In both well-established centers of... 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

Memories of Cities

Jonathan Charley

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment.... Lees meer

French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980

Caroline Maniaque-Benton

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French arch... Lees meer

The Collaborators: Interactions in the Architectural Design Process

Gilbert Herbert, Mark Donchin

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and ... Lees meer

On Discomfort

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cu... Lees meer

The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book thoroughly examines Fry and Drew's highly influential 'Tropical Architecture' in West Africa and India, whilst also discussing their British... Lees meer

Modernist Semis and Terraces in England

Finn Jensen

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. While only a small percentage... Lees meer

Provisional Cities

Renata Tyszczuk

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene - the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the E... 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

The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels After 1968

Isabelle Doucet

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such amb... Lees meer

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

Gaia Piccarolo

• Paperback | 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

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

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

Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Renée Tobe

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by... Lees meer

On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

Donald Leslie Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks ... Lees meer

The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a... Lees meer

Building Transatlantic Italy

Paolo Scrivano

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• At the end of the Second World War, America's newly acquired status of hegemonic power- together with the launch of ambitious international programs s... 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 Architecture of Luxury. by Annette Condello

Annette Condello

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Over the past century, luxury has been increasingly celebrated in the sense that it is no longer a privilege (or attitude) of the European elite or Am... Lees meer