Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies – serie
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Marrakesh and the Mountains
Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib
Inbunden, 2024
1244 kr
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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 …
Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
Inbunden, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1539 kr
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Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome “began to resemble one huge construction site,” with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of the city. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the …
Nature of Authority
Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy
Inbunden, 2003
1520 kr
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Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings and gardens framed upon classical ideals of proportion, balance, and the natural. In her interdisciplinary book, Dianne Harris presents …
Cities and Saints
Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia
Inbunden, 2003
1357 kr
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In recent years, Sufism has become all but synonymous with the mystic poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 1273) and the ritual "whirling" of dervishes from Turkey. This branch of Islam does, however, have a long, complex history, and spiritual retreat was only one aspect of its significance. In …
Renaissance Perfected
Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy
Häftad, 2004
855 kr
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Mussolini’s bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation’s medieval and …
Constantinopolis/Istanbul
Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital
Inbunden, 2009
2245 kr
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A symbolic locus embodying myriad meanings, the political center of the eastern Mediterranean, and one of the old world’s largest urban centers, Constantinople was the site of large-scale urban and architectural interventions. Changing visions—the changing political, cultural, and religious …
Making Modern Paris
Victor Baltard's Central Markets and the Urban Practice of Architecture
Inbunden, 2012
1398 kr
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The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1854 and 1874 in the historic heart of the city. Making Modern Paris is the only comprehensive study to address systematically not only the role Baltard …
Architecture and Statecraft
Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 1734–1759
Inbunden, 2013
1398 kr
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The eighteenth century was a golden age of public building. Governments constructed theaters, museums, hospices, asylums, and marketplaces to forge a new type of city, one that is recognizably modern. Yet the dawn of this urban development remains obscure. In Architecture and Statecraft, Robin …
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
Inbunden, 2014
973 kr
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In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper …
Freedom and the Cage
Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914
Av Leslie Topp
Inbunden, 2017
1480 kr
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Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This …
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970
Inbunden, 2021
1657 kr
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Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into …
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970
Häftad, 2022
561 kr
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Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into …
Accidental Palace
The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
Av Deniz Türker
Inbunden, 2023
832 kr
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This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul’s urban memory. At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in miniature and the …
Isfahan
Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran
Inbunden, 2024
1299 kr
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A vibrant urban settlement from medieval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during the seventeenth century. Using key sources, this book reconstructs the spaces and senses of this dynamic city.Focusing on nuances of urban experience, …
Architectural Revolution on the Ottoman Frontier
Greece and Albania in the Age of Ali Pasha
Inbunden, 2025
1362 kr
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In the early nineteenth century, the most consequential developments in Ottoman architecture were taking place not in Istanbul but in the farthest reaches of imperial territory. Emily Neumeier investigates this wider phenomenon through a consideration of the architecture of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, …
Aquatic Metropolis
Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City
Inbunden, 2026
815 kr
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For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later Mexico City, but their responses were about more than just engineering. What might seem like straightforward hydraulic projects emerge, under rigorous examination, as complex …
