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Author | : Nadia Alaily-Mattar |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 303023925X |
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Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image internationally. This book shifts the attention from star architects to star architecture, arguing that the process of deciding about and implementing relevant architectural and urban projects is not the product of any single actor. Star architecture can, in fact, be better studied and understood as assembled by multiple actors and in its relationship with urban transformation. In its 18 chapters, the book presents a multidisciplinary collection of expert contributions in the fields of urban planning, architecture, media studies, urban economics, geography, and sociology, consistently brought together for the first time to deal with this topic. Through a vast array of case studies and analytical techniques touching over 20 cities in Europe, the book shows the positive and more problematic impacts of star architecture with reference to the preservation of built heritage, tourism and media. The book will be of interest to architects, sociologists, urban planners, and public administrators.
Author | : Blair Kamin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2011-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0226423123 |
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Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.
Author | : Davide Ponzini |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1351847236 |
Download Transnational Architecture and Urbanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional planning and design disciplines have proven to have limited comprehension of, and little grip on, such transformations. Public and scholarly discussions argue that these projects and transformations derive from socioeconomic, political, cultural trends or conditions of globalization. The author suggests that general urban theories are relevant as background, but of limited efficacy when dealing with such context-bound projects and policies. This book critically investigates emerging problematic issues such as the spectacularization of the urban environment, the decontextualization of design practice, and the global circulation of plans and projects. The book portends new conceptualizations, evidence-based explanations, and practical understanding for architects, planners, and policy makers to critically learn from practice, to cope with these transnational issues, and to put better planning in place.
Author | : Blair Kamin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226423227 |
Download Why Architecture Matters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text collects the best of architecture critic Blair Kamin's columns. Using Chicago as a barometer of national design trends, the book sheds light on the state of American architecture during 'the Nervous Nineties'.
Author | : Francesc Zamora Mola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Earthworks (Art) |
ISBN | : 9789812458490 |
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This book explores interventions that are noteable for their creative and sensitive design, planning or management of the landscape. The featured projects aim to promote interaction between people and the environment by responding to a broad range of human habitats and natural ecosystems in diverse social, cultural and ecolological contexts. In their response to context these projects evolve into Land Art, which is to be understood as a fusion between sculpture, architecture, and landscape architecture. The goal is to draw out the emotions of the spectator who is confronted by these determined, composed enviironments. The structure of this book is inspired by the poet's journey in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, from which we borrow the narrative structure and symbolic landscape imagery: the circles of Hell, the terraces of Mount Purgatory and the celestial spheres of Heaven.
Author | : Julia McMorrough |
Publisher | : Rockport |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 163159379X |
Download The Architecture Reference & Specification Book Updated & Revised Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details, overwhelmingly more than architects need to know to know on any given day. The updated and revised edition of Architecture Reference & Specification contains vital information that's essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes, all in a format that is small enough to carry anywhere. It distills the data provided in standard architectural volumes and is an easy-to-use reference for the most indispensable--and most requested--types of architectural information.
Author | : Lawrence Vale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134729219 |
Download Architecture, Power and National Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Andrzej Piotrowski |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0816673047 |
Download Architecture of Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An innovative examination of how material practices and constructed environments have shaped cultures.
Author | : Bruno Zevi |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993-08-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780306805370 |
Download Architecture As Space Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This classic work (first published in Italian in 1948, translated in 1957, and revised in 1974) examines the history of architecture in light of its essence as space, animating and illuminating architectural creations so that their beauty—or indifference—is exposed. Along with commercial and dwelling units, temples, palaces, and cathedrals, Zevi treats structures such as fountains, columns, and monuments, subjecting them all to aesthetic, cultural, and functional criteria and explaining them in easily understood terms. Beautifully illustrated with examples from the entire history of the art, this is one of the most stimulating and provocative books ever written on the history and purpose of architecture.
Author | : Bernard Tschumi |
Publisher | : Columbia Books of Architecture S. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781580931342 |
Download The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world's leading architectural designers and theorists for a conference at Columbia University. The State of Architecture brings together manifestos, musings, and meditations to capture the key polemics raised by this extraordinary convocation of thinkers.