Laughing At Architecture

Author : Michela Rosso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350022751

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Laughing at Architecture by Michela Rosso Pdf

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From William Hogarth and George Cruikshank to Osbert Lancaster, Adolf Loos' satire, and Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoons of New York City, graphic and descriptive humour is shown to be an enormously fruitful, yet largely unexplored terrain of investigation for the architectural and urban historian.

Author : Paul Emmons,Marcia F. Feuerstein,Carolina Dayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317162285

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Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture by Paul Emmons,Marcia F. Feuerstein,Carolina Dayer Pdf

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception, memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic ideas, objects, and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions with dreams, fantasies, and hypotheticals. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practiced by the distinguished thinker, architect, and professor Dr. Marco Frascari, who thought deeply about the role of storytelling in architecture. Bringing together a collection of 24 essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars, this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal, geographic, and cultural range. Beginning with an introduction framing the topic, the book is organized along a continuous thread structured around four key areas: architecture of stories, stories of architecture, stories of theory and practice of stories. Beautifully illustrated throughout and including a 64-page full colour section, Confabulations is an insightful investigation into architectural narratives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004008836

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World Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Architecture
ISBN : COLUMBIA:AR52254097

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Chinese Architecture by Joseph Edkins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : UOM:39015033751226

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Architecture + Design by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard T. Bynum, Jr.
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0470854065

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Archi-Toons by Richard T. Bynum, Jr. Pdf

These original cartoons explore the lighter side of architecture, design and the construction industry. From the Far Side to Dilbert and from lawyer jokes to political humour, we have always been able to have a laugh at each other, ourselves and our professions. However, the design community has never really had a cartoon to call its own....until now! The cartoons cover all members of the construction industry and the book is irreverent in its wit. Clearly composed by someone who has been in the business for many years Bynum's observations demonstrate an extensive understanding of the entire business, without being one sided or vitriolic.

Author : Alex Duval,Kjersti Monson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985223

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306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism by Alex Duval,Kjersti Monson Pdf

Now in its fourth year, this bi-annual journal gains more and more momentum with each new issue. Dedicated to addressing architectural issues from perspectives stretching across the theoretical spectrum, 306090 gives voice to young, up-and-coming architects, designers, and academics looking to push the envelope of architectural theory. Much of architectural theory and criticism evaluates a project's success based on how it engages the surrounding environment and how it operates formally and aesthetically. But there are other forces at play in architecture. 306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism focuses on how legislation, financing, politics, and other indirect influences affect architectural strategies. How do architects and urbanists generate design methods that are conscious of law, financing, politics, and the market? 306090 08 investigates different design strategies focused on harnessing these forces and utilizing them to a purposeful end.

Author : Alberto Pérez Gómez,Stephen Parcell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0773514074

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Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture by Alberto Pérez Gómez,Stephen Parcell Pdf

In this second volume in the Chora series, contributing authors explore critical questions for the theory and practice of architecture. They take an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and other cultural concerns, challenging readers to consider alternatives to conventional aesthetic and technological reductions.

Author : Jayne Joso
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847715111

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Perfect Architect by Jayne Joso Pdf

Gaia's husband Charles was an architect. Having discovered love letters after Charles' sudden death, Gaia is knocked back hard. She sets about organising a competition to design her perfect home, choosing the competitors from among her husband's former adversaries. The process gains her new friends and hard but rewarding lessons on the nature of erotic and artistic obsession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033429096

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Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Landscape architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015065056221

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Landscape Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Emmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1472469321

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Confabulations by Paul Emmons Pdf

Bringing together a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars, this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal, geographic and cultural range. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practiced by the distinguished thinker, architect and professor Dr. Marco Frascari, who thought deeply about the role of storytelling in architecture.

Author : William J. Lillyman,Marilyn F. Moriarty,David J. Neuman
Publisher : University of California Humanities Research Institute
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 9780195078190

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Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture by William J. Lillyman,Marilyn F. Moriarty,David J. Neuman Pdf

This volume, evolving from a recent symposium, brings together a group of prominent literary theorists and architects to discuss the entente between postmodernism and architecture.

Author : Kirstine Helboe Johansen,Ulla Schmidt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110743791

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Practice, Practice Theory and Theology by Kirstine Helboe Johansen,Ulla Schmidt Pdf

How might practice theories and engagement with practice contribute to and advance theological study of religion and religious life and practices? This volume explores and discusses how theological engagement with practice, theoretically as well as empirically, might profit from theories of practice developed in disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, education and organisational studies during the recent decades, but so far scarcely employed within theology. In part I, the volume unfolds key components of practice theory, especially as they have more recently been developed within sociological practice theories, reflect on their significance and potential with regard to theology. In part II, these perspectives are employed in the study of concrete religious practices - established as well as experimental religious practices, and collective as well as individual ones. By unfolding connections between theology and practice theories, and reflecting on practice theories' analytical and theoretical potential for theological study of religion, the book will be of interest for any scholar in the study of contemporary religion and practical theology.

Author : Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1964-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680025

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Experiencing Architecture, second edition by Steen Eiler Rasmussen Pdf

A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace—Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in “a remarkably suitable comeliness.” While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time—its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered “what instrument the architect plays on.”