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Provisional Cities
Cautionary Tales for the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2019
774 kr
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This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene – the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. ‘Provisional cities’ are explored as …
Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944–1962
Häftad, 2020
741 kr
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Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944–1962 considers the artistic, architectural and bureaucratic shifts that emerged in the troubled aftermath of World War II and in the first years of the cold war. Focused on the modernist networks surrounding Le Corbusier, the Salon des …
On Surface and Place
Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography
Av Peta Carlin
Häftad, 2020
711 kr
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On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper’s discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, and …
Hybrid Modernity
The Public Park in Late 20th Century China
Av Mary Padua
Häftad, 2023
666 kr
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This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. It questions whether the fusion of international influences with the local Chinese design vocabulary in late 20th century China has created a …
Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City
The treatise ‘La Construction des villes’ of 1910/11
Häftad, 2023
666 kr
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Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work available for the first time in English, offering an interpretation as to how much and in what way …
Architecture of Industry
Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and Planning
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of …
Neo-historical East Berlin
Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990
Inbunden, 2009
2576 kr
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In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments. Drawing from recently released archival …
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture
White Skin, Black Masks
Inbunden, 2011
2582 kr
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Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' …
Architecture of Ineloquence
A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion
Inbunden, 2013
2576 kr
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Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by José Luis Sert, remains tranquilly unvisited and quietly erased from architectural history. Why? This unusual convent …
Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories
Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity
Av inalini Rajagopalan, Madhuri Desai
Inbunden, 2012
2576 kr
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In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism and modernity. Some have argued that newly decolonized nations sought to represent their modernity through the spaces and symbols of their new …
Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination
Av Renée Tobe
Inbunden, 2016
2815 kr
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Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a …
Life in Education and Architecture
Mary Beaumont Medd
Inbunden, 2013
2815 kr
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This book provides a detailed exploration of the relationships between individual architects, educators, artists and designers that laid the foundation and shaped the approach to designing new school buildings in post-war Britain. It explores the life and work of Mary Medd (née Crowley) (1907-2005) …
Modernist Semis and Terraces in England
Av Finn Jensen
Inbunden, 2012
2582 kr
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Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. While only a small percentage of this building took the form of Modernism, there was still a significant number of semis and terraces built for the workers and middle-class …
Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980
Out of the Ordinary
Av Brian Ward, Michael Pike m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet …
Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political …
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture
White Skin, Black Masks
Häftad, 2024
655 kr
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Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' …
Symbolic Houses in Judaism
How Objects and Metaphors Construct Hybrid Places of Belonging
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house). This unique pairing is …
Architecture and Science-Fiction Film
Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of …
French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980
Häftad, 2024
655 kr
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French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment …
Nationalism and Architecture
Av Darren Deane, Sarah Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
882 kr
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Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood. However, the most powerful collective representation of a nation is through its architecture and how that architecture engages the global …
Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India
The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-colonial Society
Häftad, 2017
882 kr
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The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during …
Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980
Out of the Ordinary
Av Brian Ward, Michael Pike m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2208 kr
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This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet …
On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe
Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest
Häftad, 2016
942 kr
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During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ’uniquely molded’, ’woven like a textile fabric’ …
Building the Modern Church
Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975
Häftad, 2016
856 kr
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Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, …
Building Transatlantic Italy
Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America
Häftad, 2016
882 kr
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At the end of the Second World War, America’s newly acquired status of hegemonic power- together with the launch of ambitious international programs such as the Marshall Plan- significantly altered existing transatlantic relations. In this context, Italian and American architectural cultures …
Architectural Capriccio
Memory, Fantasy and Invention
Av Lucien Steil
Häftad, 2016
927 kr
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Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a …
Architectures of Childhood
Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England
Häftad, 2016
882 kr
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Between 1935 and 1959, the architecture of childhood was at the centre of architectural discourse in a way that is unique in architectural history. Some of the seminal projects of the period, such as the Secondary Modern School at Hunstanton by Peter and Alison Smithson, Le Corbusier’s Unité …
Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics
Av Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland
Häftad, 2016
882 kr
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Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, …
Architecture of Ineloquence
A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion
Häftad, 2016
915 kr
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Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by José Luis Sert, remains tranquilly unvisited and quietly erased from architectural history. Why? This unusual convent …
Neo-historical East Berlin
Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990
Häftad, 2016
882 kr
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In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments. Drawing from recently released archival …
