Architecture - Criticism

Metropolis 7 provides an overview of projects taken on by the International Building Exhibition, Hamburg. It explores three themes--Cosmopolis, Metrozones, and Cities and Climate Change--as well as celebrating all those whose participation has played a key role in the success of the IBA Hamburg.Author:...

This volume endeavors to identify, classify and distinguish those qualities that characterize effective or inspired residential architecture from the nonfunctional--or those houses that simply exhibit bad taste or judgment. Berlin- based architect Oda Pälmke lends perspective with concrete, nondogmatic commentary.Author: Oda PälmkeISBN-10: 3868590005ISBN-13: 9783868590005Publisher:...

New Architectureal Impulses Towards a New Culture of Responsibility What kind of architecture does Berlin stand for? Architects take a stand. With selected projects that demonstrate the enormous diversity of today's building culture. From a repurposed asphalt square to a stylish penthouse, from a...

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 by His Highness the Aga Khan to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Islamic culture as expressed through architecture. Its method is to seek out and recognize examples of architectural excellence, encompassing concerns as...

In 1994 the French architect Christian de Portzamparc won the Pritzer Architecture Prize--the profession's equivalent to the Nobel Prize--crowning a career that began in 1971. Among the most important of his recent constructions are the Luis Vuitton building in New York, the Crédit Lyonnais...

Author: Christine SmithISBN-10: 2503525814ISBN-13: 9782503525815Publisher: Brepols PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 518Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 237

The fourth book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the sites, exhibition installations, and diverse array of programs that were realized during the Seoul Biennale. Imminent Commons: Live from Seoul is Centered on the Live Projects sections (Production City, Urban Foodshed, Walking the Commons)...

This author analyzes the Renaissance rebuilding of Saint Peter's basilica as a mirror of the political fortunes of the papacy. The project to revitalize the basilica as the center of a resurgent Church proceeded in step with the goal to reassert papal authority across...

In Extremis is a cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the landscapes in which they are situated, illuminating the resonances and contrasts, continuities and discontinuities between new work and the natural or urban environment. With...

The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain. The perennially popular style of Art Deco influenced architecture and design all over the world in the 1920s and 1930s - from elegant Parisian theatres to glamorous Manhattan skyscrapers. The style was also adopted by...

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Victorian Britain's greatest thinkers, the art critic and social reformer John Ruskin, the distinguished Ruskinian Robert Hewison introduces Ruskin's ideas and values through revelatory studies of the people and issues that shaped...

An invaluable guide to lives and work of Frank Gehry, Atoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and other important figures of 20th and 21st century architecture. Martin Filler's "contribution to both architecture criticism and general readers' understanding is invaluable," according to...

A controversial manifesto on the role of classical principles in architecture critically examined for relevance todayFirst published in 1959, The Golden City is a seminal, critical document that developed one of the earliest and most compelling arguments against the then-dominant hegemony of modernism by...

How and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can urban planners, architects, and policymakers learn in order to engage in more successful citymaking?In recent years, media and critical attention has been lavished on famous architects,...

Photographer and sociologist Camilo José Vergara has spent years documenting the decline of the built environment in New York City; Newark and Camden, New Jersey; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Chicago; Gary, Indiana; Detroit; and Los Angeles.Easily the most recognizable architectural style in America, with its brick...

The work of Selldorf Architects is known for its clarity of distribution, elegant proportions, deliberate rendering of light, and integrity of structure. This monograph, the first published on the firm, concentrates on twenty major projects from institutional, commercial, high-end retail, residential, and art-related spaces....

The firm of Patkau Architects, founded in 1978 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has achieved international renown for work that draws on the principles of modern architecture and is simultaneously inspired by the traditions and often spectacular landscape of the Pacific Northwest.The office...

This book offers contributions ranging from studies of hunter-gatherer camp organization to the use of space in Classical and Medieval worlds.Author: Michael Parker PearsonISBN-10: 1138134848ISBN-13: 9781138134843Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2015Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Covers colonial architecture in the two westernmost provinces of the Reino de Guatemala: Audiencia & Capitania General -- a region largely isolated from the rest of Central America & Mexico until recent times. The buildings of this region (known as Chiapas) reflect the soc....

A celebration of new traditional buildings by a renowned classicist. In this monograph, the firm's recent work is showcased, highlighting new residential, cultural, academic, and religious projects. Throughout the work, what stands out is the architectural virtuosity that marries the very best of classical...

The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. In contrast, this...

Loing du Soleil discusses the production of architecture in Quebec City from the 1680s to the 1730s, at a time when Canada was still a French colony. The author examines archival documents such as letters, contracts, account books, drawings, city views and maps in...

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became...

This richly illustrated volume explores the character of pre-1940 domestic and agricultural buildings in the towns and rural landscapes of southern New Jersey, Delaware, and coastal Maryland and Virginia. Winner of the Fred Kniffen Prize from the Pioneer America Society From the eighteenth-century single-room...

The architecture of Los Angeles seems at first sight to be chaotic, individualism apparently being its only rationale. This book vigorously challenges that view, looking beneath the seductive surface to reveal why the architectural scene of this unique city really is so fascinating. Beginning...

Frank Gehry's work has been described as habitable sculpture. He is widely acknowledged as the father of the Los Angeles School. Characterized by their collage-like complexity, their shifts in geometry and frequent use of utilitarian materials, Gehry's buildings blur the fine line that separates...

Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place. The territorial logic traditionally used to underpin architecture and envision our built environment is being radically altered, forcing the adoption of a new method of conceptualizing space/geography and what...

This book is an investigation into the stubborn endurance of tradition in the modern world.Author: Nezar AlsayyadISBN-10: 0415777739ISBN-13: 9780415777735Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2014Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 602

Winner of the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold MedalGlenn Murcutt is an internationally acclaimed Australian architect who for five years taught a series of master studios for graduate architecture students at the University of Washington. This book combines examples of the students' studio...

Revised edition of Regional Development and Planning: A ReaderSince 1964, when Regional Development and Planning: A Reader was first published, the book has become established as perhaps the most useful collection of source material in its field, and it has served as the basis...

The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions...

Author: Lutz WindhöfelISBN-10: 3038213977ISBN-13: 9783038213970Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2014Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Author: Ludger Hovestadt,Vera Bühlmann,Sebastian MichaelISBN-10: 3035614067ISBN-13: 9783035614060Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2017Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Wir kennen die spezifischen Stärken unterschiedlicher Städte, wissen um ihre Position im Qualitäts-Ranking, können etwas über ihre Dichte aussagen und über ihr Wachstum. Aber was haben alle Städte gemeinsam, was wissen wir über ihren kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner? Die Stadt als Gattung, die Gene der...

Candide is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. It is released twice a year in English and German. Each issue of Candide is made up of five distinct sections. This frame- work responds to the diversity of...

Description: The Media House Project is the result of a strategic alliance between the Metapolis Group from Barcelona, the MIT Media Lab, and the Fundacio Politecnica de Catalunya, with the collaboration of the consortium I2Cat and the Elisava Design School. In order to build...

This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries--such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polónyi of Hungary, and Radovan Niksic of Yugoslavia. This new term allows...

Investigations of people in transit across the informal hubs, terminals, and nodes that crisscross Eastern Europe and Vienna.Stop and Go is a research project by architect and artist Michael Hieslmair and cultural historian Michael Zinganel that focuses on the transformation of the informal hubs,...

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China. Three case studies, realized in...

In the eighteenth century the idea of the landscape garden spread all over Europe. At the same time the garden became the land of illusion: Chinese pagodas, Egyptian tombs and Turkish mosques, along with Gothic stables and Greek and Roman temples, formed a miniature...

The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand years old; today's challenge is to integrate this heritage into contemporary life in a sustainable way. The examples presented in this book all demonstrate a desire to be considered as local projects...

Sandra Giraudi and Felix Wettstein, another architect couple from Lugano, became renowned with the construction of a residential building in Cadro (1997), the laboratory building on the university campus in Lugano (2002) and the new concourse in Basel station (2003, with Cruz-Ortis, Sevilla). Sharply...

Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning, or Precisions as the book is commonly known, originated from a series of ten lectures presented by Le Corbusier in Buenos Aires in 1929. Concise summations of the Swiss-born French architect's pioneering philosophy, the...

The House of Switzerland is a mobile building that serves as the official visitors' center for Switzerland at major international events. Following its debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the building went on to serve events in Zurich, Milan, and Rio de...

The region surrounding Lake Lucerne is not only the geographical center of Switzerland, but also the core of its national identity. The lake itself is picturesque, and the mountainous countryside around it is famous for its pristine beauty. But central Switzerland's architecture has often...

Performing Matter inquires about the material constitution of interiors as sites of political protest and ethical exchange. By forwarding feminist agency and a concern for the emancipation of interiors and their surfaces, this work oscillates between practical aspects of building construction, material properties, making...

More than half of the world's population is now living in cities, and this number is predicted to rise. This means that more people than ever before will share the same urban infrastructure, and city governments around the world are heavily investing in smart...

The latest issue of Perspectives in Metropolitan Research examines the culture of hybridity in urban planning, asking, "What happens when artists act as developers or architects act as social workers?"Author: Hilke Marit BergeISBN-10: 3868594876ISBN-13: 9783868594874Publisher: Jovis VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.40h x...

Cafés, restaurants and hotels are some of the core spaces of modernity. These spaces of taste and leisure have long provided the settings for public performance and image cultivation for city-dwellers in the emerging metropolises of the world. This is where modernity is felt...

When describing a proposal to send the world's first 3D-printed satellite into space by 2020, scientists from the European Space Agency pointed out that composite materials are now predominant in the sciences. Although the capabilities of multi-materials have been recognized in the sciences for...