Architecture
Historic architecture from the ancient world to Neoclassical elegance and the Gothic revival, as well as some contemporary gems.
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Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style [Paperback]
Charles L. Davis (Author)
£32.50ISBN: 9780822966821
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
In the 19th-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory ena... .... Learn More -
Building the Countryside: Rural Architecture and Settlement in the Tripolitanian Countryside [Paperback]
Nichole Sheldrick (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781900971775
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
This volume brings together data collected from both previously published surveys and new data collected using satellite imagery on the architecture and construction of over 2,400 rural structures in nine different regions of Tripolitania and dati... .... Learn More -
The Gesamtkunstwerk in Design and Architecture: From Bayreuth to Bauhaus [Hardback]
Anders V. Munch (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9788772193069
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of everyday life and the organisation of modern society, in a process understood as total design o... .... Learn More -
Weaving Body Context [Paperback]
£21.99ISBN: 9788869773327
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Intertwining
Volume: 3
We want to move beyond thinking of architecture as an object. Architecture is not separate from us--it is not something to be judged merely by its formal properties, its satisfaction of programmatic concerns or its performance in terms of technica... .... Learn More -
Temporary Palaces: The Great House in European Prehistory [Paperback]
Richard Bradley (Author)
£16.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789256611
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 7
The Great Houses of the prehistoric and early medieval periods were enormous structures whose forms were modelled on those of domestic dwellings. Most were built of wood rather than stone; they were used over comparatively short periods; they were... .... Learn More -
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present [Hardback]
Kenny Cupers (Editor); Catharina Gabrielsson (Editor); Helena Mattsson (Editor)
£50.50ISBN: 9780822946014
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. R... .... Learn More -
Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America [Hardback]
Joy Knoblauch (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 9780822945734
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desire... .... Learn More -
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present [Paperback]
Irene Cheng (Editor); Charles L Davis (Editor); Mabel O Wilson (Editor)
£34.50ISBN: 9780822966593
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Although race - a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination - has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipl... .... Learn More -
Evoking the New City: Milan from Post-World War II Reconstruction through the Economic Miracle [Paperback]
Scott Joseph Budzynski (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9788869772627
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Architecture
The postwar period in Milan was a time in which the transformational possibilities of the Lombard metropolis were palpable. Architects looked to the future in planning an ideal city onto a pre-existing one heavily damaged in World War II. In doing... .... Learn More -
Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften: Eine Studie zur Entwicklung und Funktion von Burgen im südlichen Jütland (1232–1443) [Paperback]
Stefan Magnussen (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9789088908675
Published by : Sidestone Press
In ganz Europa bestimmten Burgen im hohen und späten Mittelalter die Herrschaftspraxis. Doch während dies in zahlreichen Regionen hinreichend Beachtung findet, wurde das südliche Jütland bislang weder von der Regionalgeschichts- noch von der Burge... .... Learn More
