Author: Walter L. ChambersPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Switzerland Builds: Its Native and Modern Architecture, by G.E. Kidder Smith
Author: Walter L. ChambersSwitzerland Builds
Author: George Everard Kidder SmithPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Traces the development of architecture in Switzerland and the country's contribution to the development of modern architecture.
SWITZERLAND BUILDS: ITS NATURE AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE.
Author: GEORGE EVERARD KIDDER. SMITHPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages :
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What is Architectural History?
Author: Andrew LeachPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745673775
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key approaches to historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as an historical specialisation and, most prominently, within architecture. He suggests that the confusions around this question have been productive, ensuring a rich variety of approaches to the project of exploring architecture historically. Read alongside introductory surveys of western and global architectural history, this book will open up questions of perspective, frame, and intent for students of architecture, art history, and history. Graduate students and established architectural historians will find much in this book to fuel discussions over the current state of the field in which they work.
Switzerland builds - its native and modern architecture
Author: G. E. Kidder SmithArchitecture and the Modern Hospital
Author: Julie WillisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429785151
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about health and disease and perceptions of bodily integrity and security. However, the rich and genuinely global architectural history of these hospitals is poorly understood and largely forgotten. This book explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other specialists reimagined the modern hospital. It examines how the vast expansion of medical institutions over the course of the century was enabled by new approaches to architectural design and it highlights the emerging political conviction that physical health would become the cornerstone of human welfare.
The Architect & Building News
Author: Women Architects at Work
Author: Mary Anne HuntingPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206694
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"The first comprehensive history of the role of women architects within the history of American modernism"--
Architectural Character Guidelines
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Typographic Design
Author: Rob CarterPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118129660
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
For more than two decades, the type book of choice for design professionals and students Typographic design has been a field in constant motion since Gutenberg first invented movable type. Staying abreast of recent developments in the field is imperative for both design professionals and students. Thoroughly updated to maintain its relevancy in today's digital world, Typographic Design, Fifth Edition continues to provide a comprehensive overview of every aspect of designing with type. This Fifth Edition of the bestselling text in the field offers detailed coverage of such essential topicsas the anatomy of letters and type families, typographic syntax and communication, design aesthetics, and designing for legibility. Supplementing these essential topics are theoretical and structural problem-solving approaches by some of the leading design educators across the United States. Unwrapping the underlying concepts about typographic form and message, Typographic Design, Fifth Edition includes four pictorial timelines that illustrate the evolution of typography and writing within the context of world events—from the origins of writing more than 5,000 years ago to contemporary typographic applications. Features in this new edition include: A new chapter that analyzes typography on screen New case studies featuring typographic design in books, information graphics, web design, and environmental design New designer profiles that reveal innovative typographic design processes Material presented in full color throughout with many new images