Architecture - Criticism

Correcting insidious greenwashing practices in favor of long-term sustainability solutionsWith its reliance on extracted materials and an intense use of resources, the process of construction begs the question whether real sustainability in architecture and planning is possible. For some, a short-term solution is "greenwashing"...

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.Author: Bohdan Cherkes, Jef HernikISBN-10: 1032062584ISBN-13: 9781032062587Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x...

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning. Numerous investigations have attempted to reveal its underlying geometrical principles, without, however,...

Bread and circuses--free food and mass entertainment--was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the common people happy and rebellion-free. Jonathan Glancey, in this personal and passionate essay about the city he loves, suggests that the same unformulated...

Author: Allen W. JacksonISBN-10: 1589639499ISBN-13: 9781589639492Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2002Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

Food and Architecture is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of study and practice. Bringing together leading voices from both food studies and architecture, it provides a ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary analysis of two disciplines which both rely on a combination...

How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity. Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key issues of modern Western societies. In Something Completely Different, Christophe Van Gerrewey uses...

Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his...

Mit Hilfe der Latour'schen Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie verfolgt Urban Design on the Move die transformative Reise eines jungen Planungsteams bei der Umsetzung ihres Europan-4-Gewinnerprojekts an der Uferpromenade entlang der Altstadt von Heraklion auf Kreta, Griechenland. W臧rend des Gestaltungsprozesses gelingt es den Teammitgliedern in mehreren Kontroversen zu...

Richard Joseph Neutra (1892-1970), Austrian architect based in the United States, sought throughout his works to correlate modern, rationalist and industrialized architecture to particular conditions of culture, climate, landscape and technology, as well as to local resources. Richard Neutra's first contact with South America...

Periurban Cartographies looks through the prism of the "almosturban" to consider what a "city" is or could be. In doing so, the bookchallenges assumptions and reconsiders design practices.The research reported upon in this study draws on thickdescription of everyday life and diffuse power in...

Author: Peter ZumthorISBN-10: 9462081077ISBN-13: 9789462081079Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2014Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.37h x 6.54w x 0.47d

An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways. Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and...

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...

The third issue of Verb boogazine is about the changing status of the city in the electronic era. Connection looks at the impact of electronic technology on new forms of urban reality, which are generated by new phenomena that affect all aspects of space...

Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis...

Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to women's public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies...

WHO SAYS SECULAR PEOPLE CAN'T BE SPIRITUAL? What do cities mean to you? Excitement? Dreams and goals? Glamor? Escape? Danger? Romance? Artistically planned parks, zoos and museums? Shopping? Ohmygod skyscrapers and bridges? Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? From Aristotle to Ayn Rand, writers have analyzed...

"For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought--his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are." Nearly sixty years since the martyrdom of Malcolm X, these words from Ossie Davis's eulogy remind us that Malcolm's political...

LA+ WILD explores the concept of WILD and its role in design, large-scale habitat and species conservation, scientific research, the human psyche, and aesthetics. This issue of LA+ includes contributions drawn from disciplines as diverse as evolutionary ecology, biology, visual arts, bioengineering, landscape architecture,...

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he...

This book of three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture includes the projects of Chris T Cornelius focusing on "Decolonizing Indigenous Housing"; Abeer Seikaly "Conscious Skins" on materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon for a concept for a National Slavery...

At the dawn of the new millennium, a group of Latin American young architects found themselves on a pilgrimage to one of the centers of design production of the old world. As pilgrims and migrants have done for thousands of years, they thought they...

Salt Lake City's oldest residential historic district is a neighborhood known as the Avenues. During the late nineteenth century this area was home to many of the most influential citizens of Salt Lake City. Built from 1860 until 1930, it contains a mix of...

""Molding Concrete Bathtubs, Aquariums And Natatoriums"" is a practical guidebook written by Albert Allison Houghton in 1911. The book provides a detailed explanation of the process of molding various styles of bath tubs, laundry trays, aquariums, and natatoriums using concrete. The author provides step-by-step...

An accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housingThis reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its...

Some utopian plans have shaped our cities --from England's New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L'Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner....

THE SIXTH EXPANSE presents 2015-2016 ephemeral actions/encounters by many performers, directed/photographed by Harry Gamboa Jr. during the demolition and erasure of the iconic 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles. The visual elegance of the 6th Street Bridge structure recedes from view during various actions...

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has...

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,...

What will the world of tomorrow be like? What will we wear? What will we eat? What will we be fighting for? This publication offers an eclectic mix of ideas for a new world--a Planet B--from artists, designers, architects, writers and scientists.Author: Alain BieberISBN-10:...

Extant architectural projects offer the key to living in harmony with urban flora and faunaThe follow-up to Making Urban Nature, Building Urban Nature is a plea for nature-inclusive, bioreceptive architecture that inspires designers to give nature a place in their work. Linking ecological theory...

The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his...

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water--and the history of controlling it--is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during...

In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era-the period in the first...

The human body has a fundamental impact on the organization and interpretation of the world, and the built environment has accordingly been conceptualized in terms of the human body since ancient times, in theory and in practice. From Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man to...

The word 'Regency' has long been associated with elegance conjuring up visions of fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen promenading along streets lined with refined terrace houses and villas. Although strictly covering the decade from 1811 when King George III fell ill until his death...

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The houses covered here include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House and Waddesdon Manor, and more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs and estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. The book also covers buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes,...

A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy...

In an era of steel and glass towers, the graceful and distinctive structures of Victorian Ontario which survive are a pleasing and a valuable link with the past. Some of the finest examples of these buildings can still be found in London, Ontario, and...

Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to women's public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies...

Global pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home's evolution over the next ten years. Future Home provides a comprehensive 'horizon scan' of what our homes may be like approximately ten years from...

Author: Deyan SudjicISBN-10: 014303801XISBN-13: 9780143038016Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2006Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.56w x 0.95dReview Citation(s): New York Times 01/07/2007 pg. 28

AA Files is the Architectural Association's (AA) journal of record. Launched in 1981 by the AA's then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association and individual subscribers, and is distributed to a...

The fourth issue of Verb looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. On the one hand, studies of luminosity, sound, atmosphere and temperature expand the range of techniques available to the discipline, allowing the production of...

The Intellectual Versus The City: From Thomas Jefferson To Frank Lloyd Wright is a book written by Morton Gabriel White. The book explores the tension between the intellectual and the city, tracing the history of this conflict from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright....

Examining architecture's foundational role in the repression of democracy Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an array of scholars exploring the troubled relationship between architecture and antidemocratic politics. Comprising detailed case studies throughout the world spanning from the early nineteenth century...

The most comprehensive photographic document of the once-utopian London council estate buildingsThe UK's landmark Housing Act of 1919 catalyzed the rapid development of state-owned public housing in planned council estates. Construction of these estates has largely ceased since the Thatcherist austerity policies of the...

The subject is the human imagination--and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the...