Architecture - Criticism

"If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing, the town is not worth having."-Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Pevsner's Townscape presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and...

This work studies the conservation of classical monuments in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on a specific method, anastylosis, and its application to classical monuments. The terminology, philosophy, theoretical principles and technical issues of anastylosis are explored within the wider context of cultural heritage...

Wren's "Tracts" on Architecture and Other Writings is the first scholarly examination of the theoretical work of one of the most important architects of early modern Europe. From his study of ancient buildings, he posited a new version of the origins and development of...

Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful results? To answer this question, Dr. Nasar, supported by riveting studies of competitions and Peter Eisenman's competition-winning design for the Wexner...

Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.In the context of growing interest in ideas and practices that cross between architecture, arts practice and performance, it is valuable to understand...

Explore the innovative world of early 20th-century prefabricated housing with "Hodgson Portable Houses." This catalog from the E.F. Hodgson Co. showcases a range of portable buildings, from cozy cottages and bungalows to more elaborate residences, all designed for easy assembly and transport. Discover the...

"Building Construction and Superintendence, Volume 2" by Frank Eugene Kidder, revised and enlarged by Thomas Nolan, offers a comprehensive guide to construction practices and architectural oversight. This volume delves into the intricacies of building methods, providing detailed insights essential for both students and professionals...

The Wood-worker, Volume 17 offers a comprehensive look at the craft of woodworking. This vintage text provides detailed instructions and insights into various woodworking techniques, tools, and projects. While authored anonymously, the book presents a timeless exploration of carpentry, suitable for both beginners and...

Transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today's ecological, political, economic, and social crisesIn architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have defined the discipline and its extended field. However, in recent decades, their frequency and...

Three decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourseHilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist discourse, applying these perspectives to architectural culture. This volume collects her most significant texts from three decades of...

Unbuilding is the other half of building. Buildings, treated as currency, rapidly inflate and deflate in volatile financial markets. Cities expand and shrink; whether through the violence of planning utopias or war, they are also targets of urbicide. Repeatable spatial products quickly make new...

Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons.Author: Brittany UttingISBN-10: 1032283750ISBN-13: 9781032283753Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize:...

The essays selected for this book, presented in chronological order, discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable patterns of technological and cultural change. The first is the Renaissance;...

Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy-based on Saussure's linguistics, Freud's psychoanalysis and Derrida's deconstruction. Her writings have challenged the centrist, post-political ideology of the 1990s and presciently diagnosed the emergence of...

Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural design.Today, the sciences have granted us the...

Charleston's Historic Houses is a comprehensive guide to the architectural and cultural heritage of Charleston, South Carolina. Written by Samuel Gaillard Stoney, a renowned local historian and preservationist, the book offers an in-depth look at the city's most significant and iconic homes, from the...

Explore the timeless art of copperwork with Augustus F. Rose's "Copper Work: A Text Book for Teachers and Students in the Manual Arts." This meticulously reproduced edition offers a comprehensive guide to metalworking, design, and crafts, focusing specifically on the enduring appeal of copper....

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations,...

""An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture"" is a scholarly work written by John Henry Parker in 1861. The book is a comprehensive guide to the history and characteristics of Gothic architecture, with a particular focus on the Gothic style of the Middle...

""A Manual of the Historical Development of Art"" is a comprehensive guide to the evolution of art from prehistoric times to the early Christian era. Written by G.G. Zerffi, the book explores the various forms of art including architecture, sculpture, painting and ornamentation. The...

Retrospecta is the annual journal of student work at the Yale School of Architecture. Part historical record, part monograph, Retrospecta seeks to capture and record the current life of the school. Documenting one academic year, each issue contains exemplary work from both the design...

Author: Vincent Jr. Scully, Catherine Lynn, Eric VogtISBN-10: 0974956503ISBN-13: 9780974956503Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2004Pages: 406Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.93lbsSize: 13.95h x 9.07w x 1.56d

The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments...

The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant. Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler's most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to...

This book looks at architecture history in reverse, so you can follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas can disrupt civilization's flow.Author: Jassen CallenderISBN-10: 1138958190ISBN-13: 9781138958197Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2017Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Using her experience in various government departments and with several successful building conversation projects, Ann Falkner has written this practical handbook for those concerned about preserving heritage structures.Author: Ann FalknerISBN-10: 0802062989ISBN-13: 9780802062987Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1977Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

This book discusses various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge, and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable patterns of technological and cultural change.Author: Mario CarpoISBN-10: 0415402042ISBN-13: 9780415402040Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2007Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.63w...

Author: Sven-Olov WallensteinISBN-10: 9186883208ISBN-13: 9789186883201Publisher: 9605540 Staffan LundgrenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2013Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

Architecture meets agriculture in this "cookbook" that encourages sustainable practices in a desert regionCooking and architecture both start with a set of ingredients that combine to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. This creative catalog for the UAE Pavilion at...

Constellation.s, published to accompany and extend an exhibition at Bordeaux's Arc en Rêve, brings together perspectives from the social sciences, philosophy, architecture and economics to examine how cities are being reorganized to prepare for the challenges of the future. Author: Michel LussaultISBN-10: 2330089279ISBN-13: 9782330089276Publisher:...

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following the recent...

Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world...

Architectural Notices Of The Churches Of The Archdeaconry Of Northampton is a book published in 1849 by the Architectural Society Of Northampton. It is a comprehensive guide to the architecture and design of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Northampton, a historic area in...

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"Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass" by C. W. Whall is a timeless exploration of glass painting and staining techniques. A meticulously prepared republication, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the design and execution of stained glass art....

We experience meaning in architecture when we derive - as observers - impressions from it and when we give - as designers - expressions to it. This implies that meaning in architecture, like in all other fields, is process and result. The related decision...

TRAVEL FORMATWhat landmarks are on your bucket list?The Great Landmark Race is the international competition to design great architecture, world icons and significant memorials. From the Pyramids of ancient Egypt to the Burj Khalifa today, we travel around the world to discover the most...

Urban Intersections: São Paolo documents the collaboration of Edward P. Bass Fellow Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate developer Tishman-Speyer and Yale adjunct professor Deborah Berke, assisted by Noah Biklen, at the Yale School of Architecture. The book features ways...

What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture. Capital's voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of "never enough." The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate...

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs...

Expanded Architecture - Temporal Spatial Practises is devoted to Australian architectural icons of modernism by Harry Seidler, casting current artistic perspectives on Bauhaus ideas and its advocates. Expanded Architecture comprises more than 20 international architects and artists who explore diverse notions of an expanded...

Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which...

Discover the rich history and picturesque countryside of West Suffolk in this engaging travel guide. With detailed information on local landmarks, attractions, and hidden gems, it is the perfect companion for anyone planning a visit to this enchanting region.This work has been selected by...

Experience the cutting edge of architectural innovation with the Yearbook of the Columbia University School of Architecture. This stunning collection showcases the best and brightest of contemporary design, from towering skyscrapers to stunning public spaces.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

From winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of the ways children's playthings and surroundings affect their development-now featuring the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every...

This revised edition of nai010's well-received study includes a decade's worth of new case studies concerning urban-specific climate issuesTen years after its initial publication, Weather in the City is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many stress-related problems, especially...

Through rare archival photos, drawings and essays, an in-depth look at over five decades of James Wines' groundbreaking work in art, architecture and environmental design with his practice SITEThis volume presents more than five decades of visionary work in art, design, environment and education...

Dedicated to emerging voices in contemporary architectural research, Proyector decentralizes Mexico City's cultural scene by fostering a dialogue of integrated disciplinesProyector is a curatorial platform based in Mexico City committed to fostering new strategies and providing critical, theoretical and historical tools for addressing spatial...