Art Architecture category: 42682 books
House and Home
Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural...
Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace
Looking at Austen Henry Layard's Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the most...
Architecture of Minoan Crete
Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from...
by Stefanie Schäfer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Art - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,2, University of Toronto (Fine Arts), course: Dada and Neo Dada, language: English, abstract: This paper will deal with his most popular and probably biggest work, the Hannover Merzbau. In about 1920, he began constructing...
Spatial Violence
Studies in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other...
Future Cities
Architecture and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination....
by Emmanouil Kalkanis
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Erwin Panofsky’s Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university reading lists.
Meaning in the Visual Arts...
Interpretation in Architecture
Design as Way of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Drawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural creation, bringing an intellectual and scholarly dimension to real-world architectural design practice. For practising architects as well...
Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China
Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices. In doing so, this book argues that...
A+ArchDesign
Istanbul Aydın University International Journal of Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The international journal A+ArchDesign is expecting manuscripts worldwide, reporting on original theoretical and/or experimental work and tutorial expositions of permanent reference value are welcome. Proposals can be focused on new and timely research topics and innovative issues for sharing knowledge...
The Changing Shape of Architecture
Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research...
by AM Kirkby
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
France was where the Gothic style was invented, and the great cathedrals of Paris and the Ile de France bear witness to the huge changes in art, architecture, and society that happened in the Middle Ages. These self-guided tours take you around a number of French cities - Laon, Chartres, Reims, Bourges,...
Soft Living Architecture
An Alternative View of Bio-informed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Soft Living Architecture exploresthe invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences.
This is the first...
Metaphor
an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three...