Architecture - Criticism

How is social media reshaping architecture? What can platforms like Instagram, Twitch, Pinterest, and TikTok tell us about the spaces we inhabit? The Interiors of Social Media is the first book to explore the relationship between architecture, interiors, and social media, guiding us through...

A compilation of the designer and architectural theorist's writings on the interstices of art, architecture and cities from the past 30 yearsIn this comprehensive survey of his writing to date, Los Angeles-based designer and architectural theorist Joe Day (born 1967), who leads Deegan-Day Design...

Has architectural criticism disappeared for good or has it adapted to the pressures, exigencies, and fashions of the present? Its demise may be due to fibrillation or asthenia, to excessive sharp judgment, condemnation, and critique, or, conversely, to a resigned acceptance of reality. But...

The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900-1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism. Drawing on his pioneering expertise in the relationship between graphic satire and architecture, Gabriele Neri retraces Alan Dunn's path...

This issue of OASE proactively confronts a disturbing trend: the encroaching standardization of interiors as civilization moves inwards. Rather than simply identifying the issue, the editors single out projects for interiors that derive their significance from a specific approach and show a recognizable element...

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered...

Author: Ila BekaISBN-13: 9791092194067Publisher: Beka & PartnersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2026Pages: 224Format: Paperback

A two-volume compendium of Josef Frank's culturally critical, often witty and biting texts on modernism and architecture, offered for the first time in a complete edition alongside many of the original illustrations.For more than five decades, from the 1910s to the early 1960s, Josef...

A reflection on the dynamic interplay between spatial experience and its representations in cinema and photography. Space in the Image focuses on cinematic and photographic portrayals of the built environment, from individual buildings to entire cities. It addresses a timely and relevant topic, reflecting...

This book has been designed to present several Ipostudio architecture projects produced in different periods that feature assonances and shared conceptual characteristics and principles. Ipostudio is a working group that was founded in Florence 40 years ago. It carries out architectural design in the...

In early June 2006, a group of over one hundred artists and researchers met for a three-day conference in the Architecture Building at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, to discuss-from as many different viewpoints as possible-the varying relationships between sound and space. This conference...

Who was the bona fide architect of the New Houses of Parliament? Charles Barry (1795-1860), the winner of the Parliamentary competition, or Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52), the â ~ghostâ (TM) designer, a young Catholic architect and Gothic specialist? After both men died, the...

Author: Olga ZekiouISBN-10: 1527522296ISBN-13: 9781527522299Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2019Pages: 290Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Housing Histories explores how the study of 20th-century housing has posed specific problems for architectural historians, and how it has - as a result - yielded radically innovative approaches and methodologies of significance for the wider field of architectural history. Global research in architectural...

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity. This book critically examines this enduring phenomenon, exploring...

Considering a life away from the city? "If You're Going to Live in the Country" offers a comprehensive guide to navigating the challenges and joys of rural living. Written by Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley, this historical text explores the practical aspects of...

This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the past twenty-five years. It deals with theAuthor: Dean HawkesISBN-10: 0419199004ISBN-13: 9780419199007Publisher: Taylor & FrancisLanguage:...

This book uniquely brings to bear questions of urgent cultural relevance on critical design decisions. As such, it is of as much importance to architects, planners and students of design, as to students of cultural history, geography and film.Author: Katherine ShonfieldISBN-10: 0415235421ISBN-13: 9780415235426Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Architects must play an important role if American society is to survive climate change and immigration. Defining ourselves as artists limits that role. This book argues for a redefinition of architects as the experts on the relationships between humans and built environments. Architects must...

An Historical Essay on Architecture, Volume 1, by Thomas Hope, presents a comprehensive overview of architectural styles and theories from antiquity to the early 19th century. Published in 1840, this volume explores the evolution of architectural design, examining the influences of various cultures and...

Investigations of Maya architecture have been among the chief vehicles for contemplating a great art tradition, the hieroglyphic writing system, and evaluating issues of comparative sociology. The powerful attraction of Maya architecture as an evocation of lost worlds, as a medium for the carved...

The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years...

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their...

Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details, and...

The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin is a foundational work of architectural criticism published in 1849. In this book, Ruskin presents seven moral principles-Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience-which he calls "lamps" to guide the practice of architecture. Rather than...

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results...

Choosing Architecture traces the history of arguments about architecture in the West via analyses of key documents to show how vital a subject it is for anyone interested in our contemporary world.For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major...

This book chronicles 25 years of design research at SU11 Architecture + Design, where ideas, concepts, and techniques have both shaped and been shaped by the evolution of digital and post-digital paradigms. The projects presented here reflect an era defined by the rise of...

The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics...

Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical analysis that situates women's roles both in society and architecture specifically, Carmen Espegel examines the transition from...

In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and the widespread production of historical plays. Historical...

Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This...

The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental....

Some of the largest architecture firms have effectively become war corporations. At the same time as designing Olympic parks and world-famous buildings, they have constructed military bases, maintained weaponry, and trained personnel for wars in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed....

A history of the city of Seoul through the lens of architecture and urban life. Seoul Urban Architecture is a powerful and original study of Seoul's urban and architectural evolution, told through the lens of an architect and educator who has lived and worked...

"This volume contains selected papaers presented at the International Conference on Islamic Heritage held at Valencia."--PrefaceAuthor: C. A. BrebbiaISBN-10: 1784662372ISBN-13: 9781784662370Publisher: WitpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2016Pages: 246Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d

This book is an edited collection of seven chapters on the theme of 'people and space interactions in different settings'. Using a variety of problems, it showcases a rich set of solutions to the global challenges of functional, sustainable and responsive habitats in both...

Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the...

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity. This book critically examines this enduring phenomenon, exploring...

A forgotten manual of wonder resurrected Grotesque Architecture returns to print after decades of absence, lovingly restored by Alpha Editions for designers, collectors, and dreamers. Part pattern book, part Romantic imagination, this volume by William Wrighte presents 28 inventive architectural plans, elevations, and sections...

Author: Robert McCarterISBN-10: 303460811XISBN-13: 9783034608114Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2012Pages: 566Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 8.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d

Die heutige Gesellschaft erbringt Höchstleistungen im Streben nach immer mehr und immer spezifischerem Know-how in den unterschiedlichen Fachbereichen, und die Strukturen in heutigen Unternehmen werden immer komplexer. Dabei ergeben sich an den Schnittstellen Probleme, die eines ganzheitlichen Lösungsansatzes bedürfen. Creating Desired Futures definiert Design...

Bricks and Stones from the Past is an informative, handsomely illustrated and skilfully written book of hard facts about Jamaica's rich geo-historical heritage. Weaving his way through many intricate branches of knowledge, including archaeology, building construction, chemistry and geology, the author embarks on a...

DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) is a new biannual journal devoted to residential design. This first issue investigates the emerging trend of semipublic space built around residential buildings. A variety of new (and controversial old) projects are documented through photographs, re-creations of plans...

Josep Lluís Mateo (born 1949) is one of Spain's--and Europe's--most prolific and visible architects, as energetic as a teacher and lecturer as he is an architect. Mateo has designed corporate headquarters, housing units, office blocks and hotels throughout Western Europe, and has also renovated...

No detailed description available for "Berlin - Genova".Author: Klaus Theo BrennerISBN-10: 393631439XISBN-13: 9783936314397Publisher: Jovis VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2006Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 10.02h x 7.86w x 0.47d

A point of artistic intersection between Historicism and Modernism.Author: Peer ZietzISBN-10: 3930698722ISBN-13: 9783930698721Publisher: Axel MengesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/1999Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.39lbsSize: 11.99h x 9.88w x 0.66d

Koolhaas pronounced urbanism dead in 1995. Since then, urban design has struggled to come to terms with this and other losses including environmental stability, affordable housing, design control, and urban amenity. This book explores urban design paradigms transitioning through a misappropriation of Kübler-Ross' "five...

Es sind Konzepte wie Metabolismus, Ökosysteme oder zirkuläre Ökonomie, die gegenwärtig den Diskurs in der Urbanistik herausfordern. Um die externen Effekte unserer urbanen Umwelt zu reduzieren und damit striktere Umweltziele einzuhalten, scheint ein Übergang von linearen zu zirkulären Produktions- und Konsummustern unausweichlich. Für unsere...

Taking postwar Berlin's art scenes as an example, Art City Lab demonstrates how to appropriate urban spaces for the purpose of artistic production. It also highlights the importance of constructing and adapting property in accordance with the identities of the neighborhoods.Author: Jonathan LutesISBN-10: 3868593039ISBN-13:...