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Marrakesh and the Mountains
Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains, Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city’s surrounding landscape provided the principal mode of negotiation between these identities.The contours of medieval Marrakesh were shaped in the twelfth-century transition between the two empires of Berber origin. These dynasties constructed their imperial authority through markedly different approaches to urban space, reflecting their respective concerns in communicating complex identities that fluctuated between paradigmatically Islamic and distinctly local. Using interdisciplinary methodologies to reconstruct this urban environment, Stockstill broadens the analysis of Marrakesh’s medieval architecture to explore the interrelated interactions among the city’s monuments and its highly resonant landscape. Marrakesh and the Mountains integrates Marrakesh into the context of urbanism in the wider Islamic world and grants the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties agency over the creation and instantiation of their imperial capital.Lushly illustrated and erudite, Marrakesh and the Mountains is a vital history of this storied Moroccan city. This is a must-have book for scholars specializing in the Almoravid and Almohad eras and a vital volume for students of medieval urbanism, Islamic architecture, and Mediterranean and African studies.
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A rich visual history of Architectural Digest, published for the magazine’s 100th anniversary Architectural Digest at 100 celebrates the best from the pages of the international design authority. The editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a range of subjects.Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personalspaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama,David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and includes the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe. Also included are stunning images from the magazine’s history by photographers such as Bill Cunningham, Horst P. Horst, Simon Upton, Francois Dischinger, Francois Halard, Julius Shulman, and Oberto Gili.
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”Det går en stark strömning bland moderna konstnärer att göra den förut försummade vardagsvaran vacker, vare sig det gäller bostadshus, möbler eller husgeråd.”
Så skrev konsthistorikern Gregor Paulsson 1919. Den strömning som åsyftades var den stilriktning som senare kom att kallas Swedish Grace. Stilen kom att dominera 1920-talets formgivning och arkitektur.
Antiken, barocken, rokoko, fornnordiska sagor, kinesiska stildrag och precolumbiansk keramik: Swedish Grace uppvisade ett rikt formspråk, som lånade och lät sig inspireras av olika kulturer. Stilen var modern och framåtblickande, samtidigt som tillbakablickandet var dess fundament. Några av Sveriges mest bemärkta byggnader – bland andra Stockholms stadshus, konserthus och stadsbibliotek – är goda exempel på den nyklassicistiska, variationsrika stilen.
Denna bok består av omkring 650 bilder som visar arkitektur och utsmyckningar; möbler, inredningar och utställningar; föremål i tenn, gjutjärn och silver; skulpturer, keramik och textilier, allt präglat av Swedish Grace. I en inledande, utförlig text av designhistorikern och filosofie doktorn Gunnela Ivanov beskrivs och rekonstrueras den värld, de yttringar och uttryck som utgjorde Swedish Grace.
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Pionjäranda accelererar under 1800-talet, från ångkraften och maskinella uppfinningar fram till modernitetens triumf med elektricitet och en helt ny byggnadskonst i natursten, stål och betong, influerad av USA, med de första kontorshusen, varuhusen och de elegantaste privatbostäderna.
1800-talets Norrmalm är den plats i landet där det moderna tydligast samlas och prövas med impulser från utlandet och direktkontakt med vad som sker i Paris och London, Berlin och Wien. De gäller industriella verksamheter och de senaste uppfinningarna, affärslivet och en för Europa gemensam stadskultur. Vi möter här många av landets främsta arkitekturverk, i form, teknik och uttryck, inte sällan förmedlade av invandrade affärsmän med brett ekonomiskt och kulturellt nätverk ute i Europa.
Vi följer medvetna framtidsidsmänniskor, söker deras argument och bevekelsegrunder, så som de kan avläsas i byggnaderna. Modernitetens avigsida träder fram med de många människorna i periferin, de som gör utvecklingen möjlig men själva lever i fattigdom och trångboddhet. Vi ser hur samhället liksom det maskinella arbetet delas och hur man skiljer ut människor från varandra. Nya, från varandra separerade grupper uppstår, bland dem de hemlösa och prostituerade.
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Perioden 1909–1931 blev avgörande för arkitekten Gunnar Asplund. Det var då han lade grunden till sitt livsverk. I den guldålder i svensk arkitektur och formgivning som brukar kallas Swedish Grace gick han i spetsen. Med Stockholms stadsbibliotek, Skogskapellet på Skogskyrkogården, Villa Snellman, Tingshuset i Sölvesborg och Stockholmsutställningen 1930 blev han en föregångare både i Sverige och övriga Norden.
Asplund lämnade ett rikt kulturarv till eftervärlden. Det speglar också en turbulent tid med världskrig, bostadskris, hungerkravaller och spanska sjukan som spreds snabbt i kaserner och trånga lägenheter. Byggnaderna formades i takt med demokratisering och modernitet och spänner över ett brett fält – från nödbostäder och begravningskapell till feststämd biograf i det glada 20-talets tecken.
Detta pionjärarbete är rikt illustrerat med fotografier, ritningar och skisser. Läsaren får följa Gunnar Asplunds arbete med olika projekt utifrån tidens villkor. Fram växer bilden av en mästerlig arkitektur som åskådliggör vår moderna historia.
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A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel’s destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and investigator'Urgent and essential' DAVID WENGROW'Extraordinary' ILAN PAPPÉEyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. As director of the organisation Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers document acts of state crimes and human rights violations around the world. Since 2023, the group has worked to produce evidence for the International Court of Justice’s genocide case against Israel.In Ungrounding, Weizman draws on that research to bring us on an eye-opening journey across time and into the 'deep cartography' of the area extending from Gaza’s subterranean tunnels through to its militarised topography, its unique soil, settlements and barriers. He catalogues, in unflinching and forensic detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unliveable.Taking us through the broader geographic and historical context, from the Nakba in 1948 to the present day, Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.Deeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision, and illustrated with dozens of original images, maps and diagrams, Ungrounding is an essential document of atrocity in our time.
Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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This catalogue presents the first comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt Collection in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, discussing 181 drawings dating from around 1570 to around 1620. Among them are works by Francesco da Volterra, Carlo Maderno and other Roman architects, executed for churches, chapels, palaces, gardens, and fountains—many constituting primary and almost unknown sources for late Mannerist and early Baroque architecture. Also included are plans and architectural details by French draughtsmen, meticulously documenting ancient monuments, as well as buildings by the Renaissance masters Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and Vignola.Italian Architectural Drawings proposes new attributions in the light of recent scholarship, based on close examination of the drawings’ material (paper, medium, technique, mounting). Comparative illustrations and a photographic catalogue of the watermarks complete the volume..
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I år är det 100 år sedan Swedish Grace gjorde succé ute i världen. Med debuten på den första världsutställningen för dekorativ och konstindustriell design i Paris 1925 lovordades svenskt konsthantverk och industriell formgivning. En ikonisk arkitektur spreds med verk av Asplund, Lewerentz, Bergsten och Tengbom med byggnadsverk som Konserthuset, Stadsbiblioteket. Skandiabiografen, Liljevalchs. I Stockholms Swedish Grace och den lite tuffare internationella varianten Art Déco, på hyreshusfasader och i portgångar. Allt lyfts fram med Rikard Larssons briljanta fotografier i en vacker volym njutbar för alla men är ägnad inte minst som aptitretare för den som inte redan vet allt. Rikard Larsson bjuder in till en härlig promenad i huvudstaden.
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The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist and the expressive, the monumental and the picturesque came face to face. From lofty “starchitects” to lesser-known names around the world, this chronological overview takes you to the heart of the ideas, trends, and transitions that defined the 1900s. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Antoni Gaudí, Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in-between, it’s all here. Organized chronologically, the 31 chapters put it all into perspective, illustrated by hundreds of large-format photos as well as a plenitude of drawings and floor plans. The biographical appendix covers all of the century’s greatest architects while celebrating today’s new talents, and the lavish illustrations include some of the best architectural photography in the modern era. For anyone interested in the zeitgeist and building design of the 20th century, this is your be-all-end-all reference work. The collection covers not only the architects but also the groups, the movements, and the styles that defined an era of construction. A must for all lovers of architecture!
Course of Landscape Architecture
A History of our Designs on the Natural World, from Prehistory to the Present
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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In many ways the history of civilization is a history of our relationship with nature and landscape. Christophe Girot sets out to chronicle this intimate connection, drawing on all aspects of mankind’s creativity and ingenuity, and bringing together the key stories that have shaped our manmade landscapes. Starting from the dual inclination to clear land for cultivation and to enclose space for protection there emerges a vital and multifaceted narrative that describes our cultural relationship to, and dependence on, the landscape, right up to the present day. Organized chronologically, the chapters consist of a thematic essay that ties together the central developments, as well as a case study illustrated with specially commissioned photographs and meticulously detailed 3D re-creations showing the featured site in its original context. The result of over two decades of teaching experience and academic research at the world’s leading landscape institutes and universities, this masterful and hugely ambitious new interpretation of human intervention in the landscape will be essential reading for students and professionals worldwide.
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Här får vi en illustrerad introduktion till stadsbyggnad, arkitektur och husbyggnad. I boken beskrivs hur en stad kan ha vuxit fram och hur livet där har förändrats under de senaste 150 åren. I ett stilhistoriskt avsnitt presenteras byggnader, möbler och föremål som är typiska för olika stilepoker från 1880 till 2020-talets början. Kopplingen mellan arkitektur och design blir tydlig. Att bygga ett hus är en komplicerad process som vi lotsas igenom steg för steg, från den första idéskissen till husets byggande, inredning, förvaltning och underhåll. Olika typer av bostadshus och deras konstruktion beskrivs. Pedagogiska fotografier och teckningar löper parallellt med texten och underlättar förståelsen. Cecilia Björk, arkitekt SAR/MSA, Lars Nordling arkitekt AIS, KTH och Laila Reppen arkitekt SAR/MSA har stor erfarenhet av praktisk samhällsplanering. De står också för de flesta av bokens illustrationer
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First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city’s most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese entryways, until now hidden away behind often restrained façades, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian modernism, mediating public and private space with vivid configurations of color and form, from floors of juxtaposed stones to murals of minimalist geometry.The collection spans buildings from 1920 to 1970 and showcases the work of some of the city’s most illustrious architects and designers, including Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, and Luigi Caccia Dominioni, as well as non-pedigreed architecture of equal impact and interest. The photographs for the publication were exclusively shot by Delfino Sisto Legnani, Paola Pansini, and Matthew Billings, each evoking the entryways with individual sensibility and a stylistic interplay of detail shots—such as stones, door handles, and handrails—with larger architectural views.The images are accompanied by concise contributions from Penny Sparke, Fabrizio Ballabio, Lisa Hockemeyer, Daniel Sherer, Brian Kish, and Grazia Signori, together bringing a wealth of architecture, design, and natural stone expertise to guide the reader through the applied materials and fittings as well as the art-historical and social implications of each of the ingressi. As much an architectural city guide as an aesthetic study, the book provides the exact address and an annotated Milan map for all featured entryways, as well as the architect name and date of construction.In the well-documented realm of 20th-century Italian design, Kolbitz has stepped over the threshold and delivered a brand new area of inquiry in Milanese modernism. With the rigor of its multifaceted research, poised photography, and breadth of its featured hallways, this is an invigorating new reference work and an inside look at the city’s design DNA across high to low architecture.
Brutalist Berlin
A Photographic and Architectural Survey of Berlin's Brutalist Buildings
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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Forgotten Churches
Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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The Sunday Times bestsellerDiscover England’s Most Beautiful and Overlooked Churches with Forgotten Churches: Exploring England’s Hidden Treasures For centuries, England’s churches have stood as quiet witnesses to history, filled with remarkable craftsmanship, untold stories, and layers of cultural heritage. Yet many of these extraordinary buildings remain overlooked – until now. Luke Sherlock, or @englishpilgrim, has spent years travelling the length and breadth of England, uncovering hidden architectural gems and sharing their beauty with thousands online. In Forgotten Churches, he invites you on a journey through 70 of the country’s most atmospheric churches, from thousand-year-old Saxon chapels and striking Gothic landmarks to hidden Romanesque sanctuaries and ornate Victorian treasures. From the remote landscapes of Cornwall to the Norfolk fens, the Derbyshire dales and the Somerset hills, Sherlock reveals the forgotten stories of these extraordinary places – of local communities, master builders, and the shifting tides of history – while capturing the magic of stepping into these timeless spaces. Whether you love history, architecture, or simply the charm of England’s rural landscapes, this book is your guide to discovering some of the nation’s best-kept secrets. Forgotten Churches is the perfect compendium for history enthusiasts, architecture lovers, and anyone who finds inspiration in England’s vivid and storied past.
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The first full-length publication in English on influential modernist landscape designer Mien Ruys, this book offers rich insight into her character and the timeless lessons which can still be learnt from her work.From 1923 until 1980, Mien Ruys created over 3,000 gardens and landscapes. While most of these are in her native Netherlands, the influence of her designs and approaches spread far wider: many of us will have a little bit of Mien in our gardens, be it a railway sleeper, a diagonal line, a Phlomis russeliana or a water ball. Her work was extraordinary in combining two exceptional elements. Firstly, Mien was one of the leading proponents of modernist design: having trained and collaborated with architects such as Ben Merkelbach, Charles Karsten, Aldo van Eyck, Jan Piet Kloos, Hein Salomonson and Gerrit Rietveld, she introduced clean lines, geometric shapes and innovative materials into garden and landscape design. One of the few women members of CIAM, she was also one of the first to call for architects and landscape architects to collaborate fully from initial design onwards. She did so regularly, often on much needed social housing schemes, but also on schools, hospitals and nursing homes. All her projects shared a desire to offer users a better quality of life. One of her most well-known collaborations was with Gerrit Rietveld in Bergeijk on the Ploeg factory and Park, which has since been listed as a historic monument.Uniquely, Mien Ruys combined this modernist design approach with an extensive knowledge of plants and planting, which she learnt from a very early age in her father’s Royal Moerheim Nursery in Dedemsvaart. Her father had close links with international gardeners, such as Gertrude Jekyll, who greatly influenced Mien as she developed her own loose, natural style of planting. Her book on perennials, published in 1950, was internationally influential and, in seeking deeper understanding about plants and planting, Mien created more than 20 experimental gardens at Dedemsvaart, many of which are now also historic monuments.
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The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern homes that could be both easily replicated and readily affordable to the average American.Concentrated on the Los Angeles area, the Case Study Houses included 36 model homes commissioned from such major architects of the day as Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones, and Ralph Rapson. Their criteria included “using, as far as is practicable, many war-born techniques and materials best suited to the expression of man’s life in the modern world.”The results of the program would redefine the modern home and extend influence not only across the United States but around the world. This compact guide includes all of the Case Study Houses with over 150 photos and plans, as well as a map showing locations of all sites, including those that no longer exist.
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Featuring striking photography by an expert in the field, this exploration of Japanese Brutalist architecture celebrates the surprising beauty and grace of buildings forged in concrete.Emerging in the devastating aftermath of World War II, Brutalist architecture in Japan is characterized by its geometric shapes, functionality, and unconventional use of concrete-which is often left unfinished to showcase the material's inherent textures and imperfections.Japanese Brutalism represented a radical departure from traditional Japanese architecture, drawing inspiration from the global Brutalist movement but incorporating unique elements that reflect Japan's culture and history. A leading expert on Japanese Brutalism, Paul Tulett has traveled throughout the country to photograph extraordinary examples of this aesthetic. In over 200 dynamic and impeccable photographs he captures the elements and paradoxes inherent in the buildings themselves: the rawness of concrete juxtaposed with elegant design; a harmonious integration into urban landscapes; and a global, modernist approach that maintains traditional Japanese elements.Highlighting the work of architects such as Kenzo Tange, Tadao Ando, and Kazuo Shinohara, this unique volume shows how a blend of global influences and Japanese sensibilities has left an indelible mark on the architectural landscape of Japan, making Japanese Brutalism an intensely captivating and enduring style.
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A major exploration of the work of American architect Bruce Goff, including the paintings, objects, and ephemera often overshadowed by his architectural legacy Celebrated as one of the most innovative American architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) practiced an unbounded modernism that was deeply embedded in the Midwest and Great Plains. He is best known for idiosyncratic single-family homes in suburban and rural areas across the United States that explode with color and texture—as well as cellophane, coal, goose feathers, and sequins. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of kitsch,” Goff rejected the minimalist aesthetics of his midcentury contemporaries and forged an architecture of fantastical, yet real, invention.Expanding out from his distinctive architectural drawings, this groundbreaking study presents new research on the full breadth of Goff’s creative practice, from his wide-ranging personal collections and work in mixed-media bricolage to his lifelong engagement with painting and music. Thematic essays by curators and scholars explore Goff’s diverse influences including Native American art, science fiction, queer modernism, and East and Southeast Asian art and music. This richly illustrated book features many previously unpublished works by Goff as well as a new portfolio of architectural photography by artist Janna Ireland. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago(December 20, 2025–March 29, 2026)
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Gumshoe is new series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architectural discourse back onto buildings, in a style and form that is original and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. It emulates the detective novel – a form of writing beloved by many, but also one that has enjoyed a parallel academic life in disciplines and by writers as diverse as psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud), film (Sigfried Kracauer), and art history (Carlo Ginzburg) — but, significantly, not yet by architecture. Each volume will investigate a singular building as if it were a mystery waiting to be solved.Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot, the first case — The House of Doctor Koolhaas — is about the Villa dall’Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks, explains and interprets the very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas, who is universally regarded as the world’s most celebrated architect, and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
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Point and Line to Plane can be seen as a continuation of Wassily Kandinsky’s seminal treatise On the Spiritual in Art. Kandinsky’s thesis is that different constellations of point, line and surface have different emotional effects on the viewer. Starting from the point (which represents the most concentrated and minimal graphic form), he understands all painterly forms as being a play of forces and counterforces: of contrasts.
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Varje decennium lämnar efter sig byggda spår som kan fortsätta berätta. Det här är tio berättelser skrivna av författare, skribenter och arkitekturhistoriker från ett decennium genom några av dess hus. Här finns vardagsarkitekturens småhus, balkonger och fabriker, liksom helgernas mötesplatser på teatrar, hotell och i kyrkor. Ingen kommer undan arkitekturen. Arkitekturen känns i kroppen. Att kika in i ett decenniums byggnader är att gå sida vid sida med de som levde då.
Essäer om följande byggnadsprojekt ingår i boken:
Brittgården, Tibro av Sven Olov Karlsson
Torslandaverken, Göteborg av Anders Houltz
Östermalms tunnelbana, Stockholm av Ulrika Knutson
Sankt Petri kyrka, Klippan av Claes Caldenby
Sörgården, Tensta och Klöverbladet, Skarpnäck av Dan Hallemar
Metrohuset, Södertälje av Ola Andersson
Medborgarhuset i Örebro av Hanna Höglund
Skärholmen IKEA Kungens kurva av Dan Hallemar
Hotel Terraza, Ljungby av Cecilia Davidsson
Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm av Frida Rosenberg
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Tio byggnader som definierade är en serie böcker som närmar sig ett decennium genom dess byggnader och platser. Här är tio berättelser från 1980-talet genom några av dess hus. 1980-talet var extravagans och grandiosa idéer om den klassiska arkitekturen och staden; det var kitsch, postmodernism och en fastighetsmarknad dopad av slopade kreditregleringar. Men här finns också ett annat 1980-tal, präglat av både hantverk och längtan efter en ny gemenskap, ett postproggigt decennium som ville vara småskaligt och rejält, ett årtionde med trädkramare, husockupanter och visioner om en jämlik skola. Arkitekturen är konstformen som ingen kommer undan, den går inte att välja bort. Att glänta på dörren till ett decenniums byggnader är därför att få inblick i såväl vardagsliv som politik, ana storslagna drömmar och enkla förhoppningar. 1980-talet bar på både och.
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Painting in Stone
Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stoneSpanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
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The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance—a fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt’s mythologizing of Alberti as a "Renaissance or Universal Man." In this book, Martin McLaughlin counters this partial perspective on Alberti, considering him more broadly as a writer dedicated to literature and humanism, a major protagonist and experimentalist in the literary scene of early Renaissance Italy. McLaughlin, a noted authority on Alberti, examines all of Alberti’s major works in Latin and the Italian vernacular and analyzes his vast knowledge of classical texts and culture.McLaughlin begins with what we know of Alberti’s life, comparing the facts laid out in Alberti’s autobiography with the myth created in the nineteenth century by Burckhardt, before moving on to his extraordinarily wide knowledge of classical texts. He then turns to Alberti’s works, tracing his development as a writer through texts that range from an early comedy in Latin successfully passed off as the work of a fictitious ancient author to later philosophical dialogues written in the Italian vernacular (a revolutionary choice at the time); humorous works in Latin, including the first novel in that language since antiquity; and the famous treatises on painting and architecture. McLaughlin also examines the astonishing range of Alberti's ancient sources and how this reading influenced his writing; what the humanist read, he argues, often explains what he wrote, and what he wrote reflected his relentless industry and pursuit of originality.
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A day-by-day celebration and exploration of the greatest architects and designers throughout history Presented in an almanac style, The Architect and Designer Birthday Book is an informative, amusing, and beautifully designed celebration and exploration of the greatest talents to grace the worlds of architecture and design. With an entry for each day of the year, takes the reader through a diverse list of designers throughout history, offering a visual compendium of their extraordinary and sometimes surprising work. Featured profile names include: -Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, playwright, author, activist, clairvoyant born 26 January 1929 -Jingjing Naihan Li, designer born 05 January 1981?? -Mary Bright, artist, milliner, curtain designer born 11 January 1954 -Paul R. Williams, architect born 18 February 1894 -and more The Architect and Designer Birthday Book is a must-have for architects and designers everywhere.