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Author : A. Dudley Gardner
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Pueblo Indians
ISBN : UCSC:32106019004172
More than fifty color photographs present the architecture of the Anasazi, the "ancient ones" of the American Southwest, created as early as 1100 A.D.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : City of Light
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822018920629
Author : Corinna Rossi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107320512
In this fascinating study, architect and Egyptologist Corinna Rossi analyses the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt by exploring the use of numbers and geometrical figures in ancient architectural projects and buildings. While previous architectural studies have searched for abstract 'universal rules' to explain the history of Egyptian architecture, Rossi attempts to reconcile the different approaches of archaeologists, architects and historians of mathematics into a single coherent picture. Using a study of a specific group of monuments, the pyramids, and placing them in the context of their cultural and historical background, Rossi argues that theory and practice of construction must be considered as a continuum, not as two separated fields, in order to allow the original planning process of a building to re-emerge. Highly illustrated with plans, diagrams and figures, this book is essential reading for all scholars of Ancient Egypt and the architecture of ancient cultures.
Author : Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134509980
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.
Author : Paulette Singley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429557453
How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread, closely read, conventionally read, and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process. This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in, from the inside-out, and from the position of out-and-out, or formal, architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design, landscape design, and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir, scenography, criticality, atmosphere, tectonics, inhabitation, type, form, and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents, Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context, addresses its performative exigencies, and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object. Including over 300 images, this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context.
Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429770562
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and a ruin as creative, interdependent and simultaneous themes within a single building dialectic, addressing temporal and environmental questions in poetic, psychological and practical terms, and stimulating questions of personal and national identity, nature and culture, weather and climate, permanence and impermanence and life and death. Conceiving a building as a dialogue between a monument and a ruin intensifies the already blurred relations between the unfinished and the ruined and envisages the past, the present and the future in a single architecture. Structured around a collection of biographies, this book conceives a monument and a ruin as metaphors for a life and means to negotiate between a self and a society. Emphasising the interconnections between designers and the particular ways in which later architects learned from earlier ones, the chapters investigate an evolving, interdisciplinary design practice to show the relevance of historical understanding to design. Like a history, a design is a reinterpretation of the past that is meaningful to the present. Equally, a design is equivalent to a fiction, convincing users to suspend disbelief. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The architect is a ‘physical novelist’ as well as a ‘physical historian’. Like building sites, ruins are full of potential. In revealing not only what is lost, but also what is incomplete, a ruin suggests the future as well as the past. As a stimulus to the imagination, a ruin’s incomplete and broken forms expand architecture’s allegorical and metaphorical capacity, indicating that a building can remain unfinished, literally and in the imagination, focusing attention on the creativity of users as well as architects. Emphasising the symbiotic relations between nature and culture, a building designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin acknowledges the coproduction of multiple authors, whether human, non-human or atmospheric, and is an appropriate model for architecture in an era of increasing climate change.
Author : Nicola Minott-Ahl
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781782847526
Scholars in disciplines from architecture and the fine arts, to the various branches of history and social studies, will find this study timely given contemporary European controversies over what constitutes national identity and what parts are played by race, philosophy and religion, economics, immigration, and invasion. Many major European national identities barely predate the nineteenth century and were shaped not just by wars, philosophies, industrial change, and governmental policies, but also by artistic manipulation of how people perceived public spaces: landscapes, cityscapes, religious and cultural structures, museums, and monuments commemorating conflict. Among the most masterful manipulators of the day were popular nineteenth-century French and British novelists, who gave famous buildings a special prominence in their writing. Some, like Victor Hugo are still read and respected by scholars. Others, like Alexandre Dumas, though still widely read, are undervalued by contemporary critics. Still others, like William Harrison Ainsworth, a prolific English writer, are all but forgotten. These three writers authored architectural novels which gave major ancient Gothic buildings a new and portable cultural presence well beyond their physical location. During these revolutionary times, when national symbolism was being questioned and challenged, the threatened rupture with the past was admirably addressed through their art.
Author : Augustus Pugin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCBK:C032494013
Author : William N. Morgan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0292751591
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mexico. This study presents the most comprehensive architectural survey of the region currently available. Organized in five chronological sections that include 132 professionally rendered site drawings, the book examines architectural evolution from humble pit houses to sophisticated, multistory pueblos. The sections explore concurrent Mogollon, Hohokam, and Anasazi developments, as well as those in the Salado, Sinagua, Virgin River, Kayenta, and other areas, and compare their architecture to contemporary developments in parts of eastern North America and Mesoamerica. The book concludes with a discussion of changes in Native American architecture in response to European influences.
Author : Augustus Charles Pugin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600044211
Author : Thomas Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590840887
Author : Thomas Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCI:31970002436621
Author : George Laurence Gomme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : MINN:31951002118424E
Author : Thomas RICKMAN (F.S.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026360566
Author : Mehrdad Hejazi,Fatemeh Mehdizadeh Saradj
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781784660703
During its long history Persian culture has played a fundamental role in, and has made major contributions to, human civilisation. During the last few decades, scholarly interest in Persian culture, including its history, archaeology, art and architecture, has accelerated research into Persian cultural heritage. Scientific studies have provided information about knowledge on which Persian traditional buildings are based and methodologies used for their preservation. This book gives comprehensive information about Persian architectural heritage for scholars, students and practicing engineers in civil, structural, architectural, hydraulic, and restoration engineering, and other related disciplines.