Arkitekturhistoria
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14 140 produkter
Inbunden, Svenska, 2015
528 kr
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Vinnare av Stora fackbokspriset 2015!I detta verk är det arkitekturen som berättar historien om Sverige. Byggherrar och arkitekter, stilhistoria och byggnadsteknik sammanvävs med social utveckling och ekonomiska konjunkturer, alltifrån kristnande och riksbildning fram till att industrialiseringen förändrar världen. Centrala historiska gestalter framträder i ett land, där Finland ingår som en naturlig del och Skåne och Gotland har sin egen historia fram till mitten av 1600-talet. Katedralbyggande, kungliga Vasaborgar, högadelns slottsbyggande och bruksägarnas samhällsbyggande får en ny belysning, där den engelska parken ger en symbolisk bild av en ny tid. En lysande kavalkad möter läsaren.Samtidigt utges samme författares Den svenska arkitekturens historia 1800-2000. Tillsammans är de två böckerna den första heltäckande översikten över svensk arkitektur genom tiderna.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
262 kr
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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.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
389 kr
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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.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
255 kr
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
191 kr
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A revised and updated edition of Sir John Summerson's classic book. Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the classical style has long dominated the history of western architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Sir John Summerson’s timeless text, as relevant today as it was when first published, distils the visual language of architecture into its core classical elements, and illustrates that building throughout the ages express an awareness of the ‘grammar’ of style and its rules even if they vary, break or poetically contradict them. From the original edifices of Greece and Rome to the recapitulations and innovations of the Renaissance; the explosive rhetoric of the Baroque to the grave statements of Neo-classicism; and finally, the exuberant eclecticism of the Victorians and Edwardians to the 'stripped Neo-classicism' of some of the moderns; Summerson explains how every period has employed classical language to make their statement. With a new introduction by academic and architectural historian Alan Powers, this introduction continues to be one of the defining texts on the subject and is essential reading for all students of architecture.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
336 kr
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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
583 kr
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2023
648 kr
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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
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
307 kr
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DIY YouTuber Alexandra Gater shows you how to creatively, inexpensively, and beautifully decorate your space in this inviting and accessible definitive guide to décor ideas for renters and new homeowners alike."Alexandra Gater represents a new generation of apartment therapists who are teaching people how to make a great home at any size with any budget. Her new book is an absolute gift that is not only beautiful and approachable, it's so comprehensive you'll read it, refer to it and keep it under your pillow at night." —Maxwell Ryan, founder of Apartment TherapyHave you ever wondered what to do about the “Renter Beige” walls in your apartment? Have you ever thought you’d wait to upgrade that sofa from your grandparents’ basement until you had a place of your own—and then found yourself spiraling with questions like, “Will I ever own a house?” Have you bought a new home—but now have little money left over to spruce it up? And how can you make those outdated appliances and cabinets in your kitchen look better without breaking your budget?Alexandra Gater is here to help.Through her online home decorating series, the YouTube star and décor expert has taught millions how to transform their spaces into the homes of their dreams. Whether struggling with the limits of living in a rental—how do you hang things without putting holes in the wall?—or living in a new home—how can you make that outdated backsplash work for you?—Alexandra has the answer. In Own Your Space, she offers tips and tricks covering everything from making your home smell better to essential kitchen utensils. And best of all, you get to know her better along the way.Gorgeously designed, full of practical advice, DIY, and fun anecdotes, and packed with approximately 300 four-color photographs, Own Your Space will help you turn your apartment or starter house into the place you want it to be .
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
192 kr
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In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892–1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow panoramic views over mountains, gardens, palm trees, and pools.Neutra moved to the United States from his native Vienna in 1923 and settled in Los Angeles. He displayed his affinity with architectural settings early on with the Lovell House, set on a landscaped hill with views of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Mountains. Later projects such as the Kaufmann House and Nesbitt House would continue this blend of art, landscape, and living comfort, with Neutra’s clients often receiving detailed questionnaires to define their precise needs.This richly illustrated architect introduction presents the defining projects of Neutra’s career. As crisp structures nestle amid natural wonders, we celebrate a particularly holistic brand of modernism which incorporated the ragged lines and changing colors of nature as much as the pared down geometries of the International Style.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
784 kr
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
209 kr
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Häftad, Svenska, 2024
219 kr
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Kan du räkna upp antikens sju underverk? Listan upprättades redan 140 f.Kr. av Antipatros från Sidon, men inte ens han hade sett dem med egna ögon. Ett av underverken kanske aldrig existerat, ett annat hade raserats långt innan han föddes. Några eldhärjades eller rämnade under senantiken, andra demonterades i senare tider. I dag återstår enbart det äldsta av de sju - Cheopspyramiden. Men antikenkännaren Allan Klynne ger i denna bok nytt liv åt byggnaderna, med text och bild, och med hjälp av de senaste arkeologiska rönen och de äldsta vittnesmålen. Hur byggdes de, och varför, och hur länge bestod de? Varför upprättade man underverkslistor, och varför blev det just dessa sju?
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
291 kr
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A new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city’s supposed “Golden Age” as a period of ruinous culture wars.The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is often described as the Golden Age of Athens. The city witnessed a flowering of philosophy, art, and architecture—including an ambitious building program, with the Parthenon its centerpiece. But as David Stuttard shows in this vivid account, the seemingly triumphant city was in fact riven by conflict and contradiction. Though nominally a democracy, Athens led a tyrannical empire. And for Pericles and his circle, the Parthenon was less a holy place than a propaganda vehicle. Its sculptures carried the message that Athenians, beloved by the gods, were nearly divine in their own right—which to many Greeks smacked of hubris.As long as things went well, Athenian democracy appeared to prosper. But just a year after the Parthenon was finished, Athens was at war with Sparta; a plague killed a third of the population, including Pericles; and earthquakes razed much of the city. In the wake of what seemed like divine retribution, popular outrage against those accused of undermining state religion was so strong that it took the execution of Socrates to lance the boil.Hubris offers dramatic portraits of key figures like Pheidias, who sculpted the monumental statue of Athena yet fell prey to charges of impiety; Themistocles, who built the Athenian navy but died an exile in enemy lands; and Alcibiades, the psychopathic playboy whose mercurial ego hastened his city’s defeat. To understand the Parthenon and the Athens that built it, Stuttard reasons, we must recognize the tensions among the city’s rivalrous families, generations, and social classes, whose visions of their place in the world ultimately proved incompatible.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
192 kr
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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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
215 kr
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**WINNER OF THE BOOK OF THE YEAR – BRITISH BOOK AWARDS****THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen.' –Rachel O’Brien, @foxglove_and_ivyDiscover 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. Forgotten Churches is the perfect compendium for history enthusiasts, architecture lovers, and anyone who finds inspiration in England’s vivid and storied past. ----------------------------------------------------------------'Beautifully done…Whether you're interested in churches or architecture or just English history, it's a great read.' – Steven Moore, antiquary and TV presenter'A really, really beautiful book.' – Charlie Cooper, actor, comedian and writer
Inbunden, Svenska, 2015
924 kr
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Sex århundraden av byggnadsmåleri – från Albertus Pictor till vår egen tid. •Måleri och färgsättning i svensk arkitekturhistoria •Målningstekniker och material under olika perioder •Målarkårens roll vid utformning av miljön Så målade man publicerades första gången 1989 och behandlade då byggnadsmåleriets historia fram till en ”nutid” som idag ligger 25 år tillbaka i tiden. Andra utgåvan kom 1997 och var kompletterad med ett kort appendix. Efter att ha varit slutsåld i flera år kommer boken nu i en uppdaterad nyutgåva. Det sena 1900-talets och det tidiga 2000-talets utveckling presenteras i nyskrivna avsnitt. Även när det gäller äldre perioder har det tillkommit några nya avsnitt som bygger på nytillkomna forskningsrön. Huvuddelen av texten är dock oförändrad från första utgåvan. Författarna Karin Fridell Anter och Henrik Wannfors är arkitekter SAR/MSA med specialinriktning på färg och måleri.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
168 kr
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An essential and handy visual vocabulary of modern architecture.How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide to understanding the architecture of the modern era. This handy book takes you on a guided tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing you how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognise them in the buildings all around. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts, through the International Style and Modernism to today's environmental architecture and the rise and fall of the icon, read all about the major architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day through their classic buildings. By examining the key architectural elements and hidden details of each style, learn what to look out for and where to look for it. Packed with detailed drawings, plans and photographs, this is both a fascinating architectural history and an effective I-spy guide, and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in modern design and architecture.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
170 kr
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The essential companion to discover the styles, architecture, form, significance and historical impact of castles from all over the world.How to Read Castles is a travel-size primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up your vocabulary of castle types, styles and materials, and showing you how these aspects can be recognised across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations. Focusing on the 10th-16th century period, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both an architectural reference and a visitor's guide showing you how to read the stories embedded in every castle’s stones.Castles once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders, passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain fortresses, this book takes you on an international journey of discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive architecture history has ever seen.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
303 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
330 kr
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These photographs of once top-secret institutes reveal both fantastical and futuristic technology, alongside crumbling and decrepit facilities, forming a unique document of the condition and situation of scientific research in the post-Soviet landscape. In Soviet Scientific Institutes photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a journey through time, space and science. Gigantic control panels, monumental telescopes, inexplicable machinery – the facilities he documents might be found in comic book and graphic novel fantasies or the science fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. But why were these institutes built and what purposes do they serve today? The Soviets promoted science as a utopian ideal to replace religion and rapidly modernise the country. 'Big science' projects, primarily for Cold War military purposes, involved thousands of researchers working in complete secrecy. In the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many institutes were left destitute, their sophisticated technology condemned to extinction. But some scientists persevered, adapting to the new landscape. Today, defying the odds, they persist – even in wartime – to continue their work. Lusito gained unique access to sites across former republics and satellites of the USSR – from a cosmic ray research centre in the remote Armenian mountains, to one of the world's largest radars located in Ukraine, which locals believed to be a climate-altering weapon. The first visual account of this once closed world, this awe-inspiring publication bears witness to our never-ending quest for knowledge.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
269 kr
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With more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period spanning the 19th to the 21st century, pioneering architects are featured with a portrait, concise biography, as well as a description of her or his important work.Like a bespoke global architecture tour, you’ll travel from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Gaudí’s Palau Güell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and leisure center in a former factory site in São Paulo. You’ll take in Gio Ponti’s colored geometries, Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, the luminous interiors of SANAA, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s unique blend of Scottish tradition and elegant japonisme. The book’s A to Z entries also cover groups, movements, and styles to position these leading individual architects within broader building trends across time and geography, including International Style, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and much more. Featuring modern architectural photography, this is a comprehensive source book for any architecture professional, student, or devotee.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
255 kr
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The untold story of Michelangelo’s final decades—and his transformation into the master architect of St. Peter’s BasilicaAs he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme Renaissance painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that Michelangelo was given charge of the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life—the design and construction of St. Peter’s Basilica. In this richly illustrated book, William Wallace tells for the first time the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades—and of how the artist transformed himself into one of the greatest architects of the Renaissance.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
269 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2018
749 kr
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Häftad, Svenska, 2019
239 kr
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Att bygga, det är målet, det enda målet, med varje kolonialt krig”, utbrast den franske marskalken Hubert Lyautey i slutet av 1800-talet. De europeiska kolonialmakterna lämnade efter sig ett stort urbant arv: de anlade nya städer och gjorde om gamla på flera kontinenter. Spåren av denna urbanisering syns fortfarande idag, på gott och på ont. Vilket tankegods låg till grund för de koloniala städerna? Och hur ser de nu självständiga länderna på detta arv? Med utgångspunkt i fem forna koloniala städer – Kolkata, Tunis, Harare, Swakopmund och Mogadishu – berättar Pernilla Ståhl om det kolonialt byggda. Pernilla Ståhl är skribent och radioproducent, med en akademisk bakgrund som statsvetare. Hon har rest till, och arbetat och bott i, många städer som planerats av kolonialmakter, t ex Mogadishu, Kolkata, Asmara, Tunis, Singapore och Yangon. För svenska läsare har hon i dagspressen introducerat flera böcker om kolonialismens urbana historia.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
492 kr
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Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for simple but classically informed choices that resonate profoundly today. The book crystallizes what Wharton found to be troubling in Americans’ enthusiasm for ostentation at the turn of the twentieth century—the late Victorian equivalent of the modern "McMansion."This annotated edition includes a comprehensive introduction that provides relevant biographical information on Wharton, as well as her literary work and how her perspectives on homeownership and décor informed her writing. The reproduction of the book’s original illustrations alongside new annotations allows readers to visualize how Wharton’s aesthetic preferences informed her writing, life, and charitable works. Valuable to Wharton scholars as well as students of design, The Decoration of Houses presents a definitive look at the tastes of a literary icon.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
435 kr
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Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. Architecture of Life delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe. Examining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences. Envisioning the built environment as innately connected to social evolution, their methods incorporated aspects of psychoanalysis, personality theory, and studies in spatial perception, all of which were integrated into an ideology that grounded functional design firmly within the attributes of the individual. A comprehensive overview of the ideals that permeated its expanded project, Architecture of Life explicates the underlying impulses that motivated Soviet modernism, highlighting the deep interconnections among the ways in which it viewed all aspects of life, both natural and manufactured..
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
372 kr
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic of the socialist project as a negotiation between utopia and reality, the will for progress and the will for tyranny. It was a comprehensive effort that brought together professional architects and statisticians, theatre directors, managers, housewives, pilots, construction workers… What they had in common was the enthusiasm for defining the “new man”, the ideal citizen of the radiant future, and the settings in which he or she lives.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
522 kr
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This meticulously researched guide explores the rich architectural heritage of the Uzbek capital through the captivating art of mosaics. Delve into the extraordinary legacy of Alexander, Nikolai, and Pyotr Jarsky, artists whose visionary work reshaped Tashkent’s urban landscape after the devastating earthquake of 1966. Their innovative techniques gave rise to breathtaking mosaic-adorned facades, masterfully blending modernist design with intricate Islamic motifs while reflecting the region’s cultural identity.This title offers an in-depth exploration of the artistry behind these vivid mosaics, spotlighting iconic works. Learn how artists like the Jarsky brothers, Vladimir Chub, Yakov Shapiro, Yury Zaitsev, and Irena Lipienė, among others, pioneered cost-effective yet aesthetically profound wall coverings, bas-reliefs, and lighting designs, leaving an enduring imprint on Tashkent’s architectural fabric.As global conversations around heritage preservation and urban development gain momentum, the cultural and historical significance of these mosaic-rich structures is increasingly being recognised. This guide invites readers to celebrate Uzbekistan’s artistic ingenuity and cultural heritage while advocating for their acknowledgement in the UNESCO World Heritage List.