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Author : Indra McEwen
Publisher : materialverlag
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783938158036
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058334577
Author : Nikos Angelos Salingaros
Publisher : UMBAU-VERLAG Harald Püschel
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architectural criticism
ISBN : 9783937954011
Author : Thomas Mical
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415325196
Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Civil society
ISBN : OXFORD:590358119
Author : Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393005992
Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.
Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473389021
The Architecture of Humanism offers a brilliant analysis of the theories and ideas behind much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. It discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given the human body in that tradition. It is recommended reading for all architecture students, and essential for those interested in the revival of classical architecture.
Author : Stylianos Giamarelos
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781800081338
Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.
Author : Korydon Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136190308
This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a set of reflective questions so that you can hone your own theory, which is essential to both your success in the studio and your adaptability in the profession. These primary source texts, which are central to your understanding of the discipline, were written by such architects as Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, and Adrian Forty. The appendices also have guides to aid your reading comprehension; to help you write descriptively, analytically, and disputationally; and to show you citation styles and how to do library-based research. More than any other architectural theory book about the great thinkers, Introducing Architectural Theory teaches you to think as well.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226550275
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author : David Gissen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568989518
We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today's discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the direct result of human habitation, these 'subnatural forces' are nothing new. In fact, our ability to manage these forces has long defined the limits of civilized life. From its origins, architecture has been engaged in both fighting and embracing these so-called destructive forces. In Subnature, David Gissen, author of our critically acclaimed Big and Green, examines experimental work by today's leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature. Each chapter provides an examination of a particular form of subnature and its actualization in contemporary design practice. The exhilarating and at times unsettling work featured in Subnature suggests an alternative view of natural processes and ecosystems and their relationships to human society and architecture. R&Sie(n)'s Mosquito Bottleneck house in Trinidad uses a skin that actually attracts mosquitoes and moves them through the building, while keeping them separate from the occupants. In his building designs the architect Philippe Rahm draws the dank air from the earth and the gasses and moisture from our breath to define new forms of spatial experience. In his Underground House, Mollier House, and Omnisport Hall, Rahm forces us to consider the odor of soil and the emissions from our body as the natural context of a future architecture. [Cero 9]'s design for the Magic Mountain captures excess heat emitted from a power generator in Ames, Iowa, to fuel a rose garden that embellishes the industrial site and creates a natural mountain rising above the city's skyline. Subnature looks beyond LEED ratings, green roofs, and solar panels toward a progressive architecture based on a radical new conception of nature.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674639766
This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.
Author : Otto G. Ocvirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951000939629B
Author : William W. Braham,Jonathan A. Hale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134279340
This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of architectural technology reveals the discipline's long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, and provides a broad picture of the shift from the 'age of tools' to the 'age of systems'. Chronological arrangement and cross-referencing of the articles enable both a thematic and historically contextual understanding of the topic and highlight important thematic connections across time. With the ever increasing pace of technological change, this Reader presents a clear understanding of the context in which it has and does affect architecture.
Author : Peter Fane-Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316419090
The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. This book describes, for the first time, how the passages were interpreted from around 1430 to 1580, that is, from Alberti to Palladio. Chapters are arranged chronologically within three interrelated sections - antiquarianism; architectural writings; drawings and built monuments - thereby making it possible for the reader to follow the changing attitudes to Pliny over the period. The resulting study establishes the Naturalis historia as the single most important literary source after Vitruvius's De architectura.