Author: VariousPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1895 Two Florentine Pavements
Author: VariousThe Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 05, May 1895 Two Florentine Pavements
Author: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 06, June 1895 Renaissance Panels from Perugia
Author: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 06, June 1895 Renaissance Panels from Perugia
Author: VariousThe Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration
Author: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration
Author: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.
The Venice Variations
Author: Sophia PsarraPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352390
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
Architecture and Modern Literature
Author: David Anton SpurrPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472900803
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of "meaning" in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness.
Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh
Author: James Denholm Van TrumpPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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