Describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural influences and personalities have brought it to its present state. For professional and student architects and engineers...
Describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural influences and personalities have brought it to its present state. For professional and student architects and engineers...
This book seeks to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century...
This book seeks to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century...
With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory...
With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory...
Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s Britain...
Using detailed analyses of individual buildings as a point of departure, Professor Buchwald here examines various approaches to Byzantine architectural forms, and raises questions concerning the use of stylistic and other forms of analysis. One group of articles focuses on stylistic currents in Asia..
A scholarly discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sacred architecture, this book is supplemented by 170 drawings and photographs. These sacred architecture projects represent different periods of Wright’s career (from 1886 to 1958), innovative building technologies, and various applications of his desi..
In this book, Tsiambaos redefines the groundbreaking theory of Greek architect and town planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis (The Structure of Space in Greek Urbanism) and moves his thesis away from antiquity and ancient architecture, instead arguing that it can only be understood as a theory founded in..
This book illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded widely held beliefts about the power of architecture to influence society...