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Architecture : a visual history
Explores the details, principal elements, and decorative features of every architectural style, from China's Temple of Heaven and the Great Mosque of Damascus, to the Guggenheim Museum and the London Olympic Velodrome.
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Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence
The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres—free people of color—in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property.Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley re-creates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.
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Function follows strategy : architects' strategies from the fifties to the present
In past years, architects have been confronted with a changed market, changed sets of tasks and also new requirements. Which strategies can they adopt to get commissions or spark interest in their projects? With selected examples, the author analyses the processes of individual architects since the 1950s. Beginning with the commencement of marketing in the North American post-war era he proceeds to then cast his view to contemporary times. Transformations in society and politics, the changed requirements of clients, and also the crisis in the economy and financial circles all influence the professional existence of architects. While pure construction itself was the focus in previous times, today's architects must adopt a wide variety of roles in relation to clients - ranging from consultant to mediator and brand designer. The book is intended to inspire architects to consider new options and unusual paths.
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Modelscapes of Nationalism
Modelscapes are clusters of miniature architectural models that represent entire environments. They're frequently found in museums as representations of heritage, architecture, and collective identity. This book offers a critical analysis of modelscapes, using case studies from Israel, to show how miniature representations of contested physical space participate in the construction of a sense of national identity and appropriation of the land and its history. What, Yael Padan asks, is the meaning of such models, and what role do they play within the context of an ongoing violent conflict over territory and history?
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Digital architecture beyond computers : fragments of a cultural history of computational design
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today.
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The ABC of styles
Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral? Or why your offi ce building looks so different from its neighbouring counterparts? The ABC of Styles invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles from their ancient origins to the 1940s. Take a journey through history to see how the French aristocracy styled their palaces and castles to the simple designs of the Dominican monastic churches during the middle ages. Often, political changes implicate a stylistic transformation. Thus, the different European styles were frequently named after a sovereign or a historical period (Renaissance style, Medieval style). Until the end of the nineteenth century, the stylistic mutations of the time were generally based on the tastes of the royalty. Stylistic expression was, therefore, an affirmation of power.
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Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220
This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia. A much-needed overview of the political history of the dynasty provides the context for the study of the built environment which follows. The book addresses the most significant monuments from across the region: a palace, a minaret and a hospital are studied in detail, along with an overview of the decorative portals attached to a wide array of different building types. The case studies are used to demonstrate the key themes and processes of architectural synthesis and development that were under way at the time, and how they reflect the broader society.
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British architectural theory 1540-1750 : an anthology of texts
Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude such easy classification, such as the prolonged (but hardly studied) discussions on church architecture, which are both in form and content very different from the way that theme was handled in Italian Renaissance treatises. This collection of English writing on architecture from 1540 to 1750 offers a large selection of fragments, some of them never published before. They discuss the nature of architecture, the practicalities of building, the sense of the past, religious architecture and classicism.
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Architectural Revolution on the Ottoman Frontier
In the early nineteenth century, the most consequential
developments in Ottoman architecture were taking place not in
Istanbul but in the farthest reaches of imperial territory. Emily
Neumeier investigates this wider phenomenon through a consideration
of the architecture of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, one of the most
prolific patrons in the history of the Ottoman Empire, who
undertook a building program so ambitious that it ultimately got
him killed.
Ali Pasha is still a household name in present-day Greece and
Albania, where he served as Ottoman governor from 1788 to 1822. To
consolidate his rule over an incredibly diverse population, the
governor set out on a sweeping building program that included
mosques, palaces, military fortifications, dervish lodges, and even
Orthodox Christian monasteries. Drawing upon a wealth of primary
sources, Neumeier reveals how Ali Pasha's buildings shifted the
sociopolitical order by testing the standards of patronage
established by the imperial court and relocating administrative
authority from center to province. To reconstruct the world that
Ali Pasha built, Neumeier draws from both extensive fieldwork and
abundant archival material, whose far-flung nature-from Istanbul to
London-reflects the impressively wide scope of Ali Pasha's
influence.
Rigorously researched and packed with fascinating stories, this
book presents an innovative spatial history of the Ottoman frontier
during the age of revolutions, a pivotal period in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when there was no obvious
blueprint for power. It will be of interest to specialists in art
and architectural history, the Ottoman Empire, and Mediterranean,
Islamic, and Modern Greek studies.
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