On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

Donald Leslie Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks ... Lees meer

The Architectural Capriccio

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leo... Lees meer

No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture

Anastasia Karandinou

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design... Lees meer

An Architecture of Ineloquence

J K Birksted

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Ca... Lees meer

Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the globe reached fever pitch. In both well-established centers of... Lees meer

Neo-Historical East Berlin

Florian Urban

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultane... Lees meer

Le Corbusier's Practical Aesthetic of the City

Christoph Schnoor

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. ... Lees meer

Memories of Cities

Jonathan Charley

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment.... Lees meer

The Collaborators: Interactions in the Architectural Design Process

Gilbert Herbert, Mark Donchin

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and ... Lees meer

French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980

Caroline Maniaque-Benton

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French arch... Lees meer

African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture

Jonathan Alfred Noble

• Hardcover | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types o... Lees meer

On Discomfort

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cu... Lees meer

Provisional Cities

Renata Tyszczuk

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene - the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the E... Lees meer

Modernist Semis and Terraces in England

Finn Jensen

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. While only a small percentage... Lees meer

Building the Modern Church

Robert Proctor

• Hardcover | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of t... Lees meer

The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels After 1968

Isabelle Doucet

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such amb... Lees meer

Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil

Gaia Piccarolo

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots,... Lees meer

The City Crown by Bruno Taut

Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Wri... Lees meer

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

David T Fortin

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while simila... Lees meer

Nationalism and Architecture

Darren Deane, Sarah Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and und... Lees meer

The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India

Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new... Lees meer

The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a... Lees meer

On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

Donald Leslie Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks ... Lees meer

Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Renée Tobe

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by... Lees meer