The Growth of the English House; A short history of its architectural development from 1100 to 1800
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The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Architecture Thinking across Boundaries
While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted. Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of intellectual history. Eleven original essays explore a variety of themes and contexts, each examining how architectural knowledge has been transferred across social, spatial and disciplinary boundaries - whether through the international circulation of ideas, transdisciplinary exchanges, or transfers from design practice to theory and back again. Dissecting the frictions, transformations and resistances that mark these journeys, the essays in this book reflect upon the myriad routes that architectural knowledge has taken while developing into architectural theory. They critically enquire the interstices - geographical, temporal and epistemological - that lie beyond fixed narratives. They show how unstable, vital and eminently mobile the processes of thinking about architecture have been.
The Word in Stone
The Word in Stone: The Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology by Robert R. Taylor examines how Hitler's regime sought to transform the built environment into a material language of power, identity, and control. Far more than background to political history, architecture stood at the very center of the Nazi project: a means of embodying ideology in stone and concrete, making visible the myths of nation, race, and destiny. Taylor traces how Hitler himself--an aspiring architect before he was a politician--invested architecture with symbolic authority, and how party ideologues and professional architects worked to give "form" to concepts of Volk, community, and health. Architecture became an instrument for forging social order and unity, whether in monumental state buildings, housing projects, or the planning of new cities designed to project a distinctly German future. The book moves from early nationalist views of architecture and their claims of "suppression" and "decadence" in German design since 1850 to the National Socialist redefinition of architectural values as authentically German, healthy, and community-focused. Chapters address the ideological stakes of monumental forms, "community" buildings meant to embody solidarity, structures designed to regulate social life, and architectural programs linked to racial hygiene and physical vitality. Taylor also examines the unrealized vision of the "new German city," as well as the eventual failure of these architectural ambitions to secure widespread legitimacy--when the "word" of stone fell on deaf ears. Thoroughly researched and rigorously argued, The Word in Stone demonstrates how architecture was mobilized as propaganda and practice in service of totalitarian aims. For historians of modern Europe, architecture, and ideology, it is a sobering study of how aesthetics, politics, and power became fused in one of the darkest regimes of the twentieth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Middle Eastern Cities
Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism is an essential exploration of the enduring relationship between urban centers and their surrounding societies throughout the history of the Middle East. This collection emerges from a landmark symposium held at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, which convened leading scholars across disciplines to examine the dynamic roles cities have played in political, cultural, and economic spheres across ancient, Islamic, and modern contexts. Spanning discussions on the interplay between urban and rural areas, demographic transitions, social hierarchies, and the impact of cultural and religious institutions, the volume seeks to weave together disparate strands of research into a cohesive understanding of Middle Eastern urbanism. Central themes include the interdependence between cities and their environments--be it ecological, economic, or cultural--and the internal structures that shape urban societies, from kinship networks and religious institutions to evolving patterns of social stratification and integration. Contributions from renowned scholars such as Professors Oppenheim, Grabar, and Issawi delve into specific facets of urban life, while a concluding essay synthesizes broader methodological and theoretical implications for the study of cities. Enhanced by thoughtful discussions and edited transcripts of conference exchanges, this volume stands as a significant contribution to the study of urbanism, offering a multidimensional lens for understanding the historical and ongoing transformations of Middle Eastern societies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Experiential Learning in Architectural Education
This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content. It will appeal to those within architectural higher education as well as to spatial practitioners, students, civic and governmental organizations engaged in socio-spatial projects.
Middle Eastern Cities
Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism is an essential exploration of the enduring relationship between urban centers and their surrounding societies throughout the history of the Middle East. This collection emerges from a landmark symposium held at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, which convened leading scholars across disciplines to examine the dynamic roles cities have played in political, cultural, and economic spheres across ancient, Islamic, and modern contexts. Spanning discussions on the interplay between urban and rural areas, demographic transitions, social hierarchies, and the impact of cultural and religious institutions, the volume seeks to weave together disparate strands of research into a cohesive understanding of Middle Eastern urbanism. Central themes include the interdependence between cities and their environments--be it ecological, economic, or cultural--and the internal structures that shape urban societies, from kinship networks and religious institutions to evolving patterns of social stratification and integration. Contributions from renowned scholars such as Professors Oppenheim, Grabar, and Issawi delve into specific facets of urban life, while a concluding essay synthesizes broader methodological and theoretical implications for the study of cities. Enhanced by thoughtful discussions and edited transcripts of conference exchanges, this volume stands as a significant contribution to the study of urbanism, offering a multidimensional lens for understanding the historical and ongoing transformations of Middle Eastern societies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Spatial Transparency in Architecture
This volume explores the concept of "spatial transparency"; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable, layered, or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present. Although transparency is a concept largely associated with the modern movement, the use of glazed components, and twentieth-century architectural discourse, spatial transparency is a form of depth awareness through intermediate domains, takes place through the interstitial fabric of a structure, and occurs when several consecutive domains are spatially and visually connected. These immersive environments invite active participation, not as one-way communication but as a series of visual and experiential exchanges, interdependencies, and relationships. Divided into four parts, the book examines spatial transparency in massive opaque constructions, light constructions, glass assemblies, and hybrid systems. It analyzes both the phenomenon of visual connectivity and continuity through intermediate spaces, and spatial transparency's capacity for promoting and enabling graded, interflowing environmental transactions. Using historical and contemporary examples, it catalogs some of the most common and recurring configurations that manifest these characteristics. Over 20 international case studies from the Americas to Japan are presented to argue that environments exist in porous mediums and that by studying the openings, voids, light, and materials of layered and/or permeable organizations, important insights about space making can be revealed. Written for students and academics, this book explores various expressions of spatial transparency in architecture and helps connect their abstract ideas with significant built works, analytical drawings, and comparison charts.
The City Is an Ecosystem
This book maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live.
The Word in Stone
The Word in Stone: The Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology by Robert R. Taylor examines how Hitler's regime sought to transform the built environment into a material language of power, identity, and control. Far more than background to political history, architecture stood at the very center of the Nazi project: a means of embodying ideology in stone and concrete, making visible the myths of nation, race, and destiny. Taylor traces how Hitler himself--an aspiring architect before he was a politician--invested architecture with symbolic authority, and how party ideologues and professional architects worked to give "form" to concepts of Volk, community, and health. Architecture became an instrument for forging social order and unity, whether in monumental state buildings, housing projects, or the planning of new cities designed to project a distinctly German future. The book moves from early nationalist views of architecture and their claims of "suppression" and "decadence" in German design since 1850 to the National Socialist redefinition of architectural values as authentically German, healthy, and community-focused. Chapters address the ideological stakes of monumental forms, "community" buildings meant to embody solidarity, structures designed to regulate social life, and architectural programs linked to racial hygiene and physical vitality. Taylor also examines the unrealized vision of the "new German city," as well as the eventual failure of these architectural ambitions to secure widespread legitimacy--when the "word" of stone fell on deaf ears. Thoroughly researched and rigorously argued, The Word in Stone demonstrates how architecture was mobilized as propaganda and practice in service of totalitarian aims. For historians of modern Europe, architecture, and ideology, it is a sobering study of how aesthetics, politics, and power became fused in one of the darkest regimes of the twentieth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
The City on Display
This book attempts to thematise Architecture festival's relationship with the city and interrogate its potential as a forum for global debate about the emergencies of the urban condition.
Clean, Declutter and Organise Your Home
How relaxing is it to come home and find an orderly environment? And how convenient is it to find what you were looking for right away and at your fingertips?If you think it is complicated to reorganize spaces, especially if they are very small, then here you will find the solution for you... Less is more! Minimalism is a real art that can make your life easier. The wabi-sabi opens you mournfully.If you want to get rid of the superfluous and relive the environments in the name of harmony, this book is all you need to make room and reorganize your daily life. Minimalism is not simply the art of furnishing, but a real philosophy of life. The focus lies in the search for what makes us happy to eliminate everything else. A conscious search to lighten life which translates into greater freedom and more time available. On the other hand, you too know that feeling of well-being that you experience when you find everything in order: you feel relaxed, because everything is in its place. You can experience that relaxing state every day with minimalism.Author Noelle Gill has condensed the three books into a single volume to let you experience the peace and tranquility that only decluttering, the philosophy of wabi-sabi and the minimalist approach and can give.Here's what you will learn in detail: The minimalist philosophyThe philosophy of Wabi-Sabi: finding beauty in imperfectionMeditation to clear and clear the mindWhole-home declutteringValuable tips for arranging the wardrobe and freeing the bookcaseMuch more!Your life can change with 1 click ... Add the book to your cart to immediately start living your home with more lightness ... and your mind!
Bathroom Remodeling
LOOKING FOR BATHROOM DESIGN IDEAS? Of course you are, that's why you're here! (TM)DESIGNING YOUR PERFECT BATHROOM WITH AN ARCHITECT! Discover inspiration for your bathroom remodel, including colors, storage, layouts, and organization.Improvements to Consider for Your Next Bathroom Remodel! (c)A renovated bathroom adds value to your home, updates its style, and makes it better adapted to your current needs. Renovations are the best time to introduce improvements that will serve you and your family for years to come.If you're spending money for a bathroom remodel this year, consider making one or several of these essential changes to improve the functionality, storage, and comfort of your bathroom.We all want a bathroom that would be a reflection of our personal style and be able to deliver the comfort we need at the same time. However, aside from that, it's also important that it has the right fixtures and amenities that are capable of providing function and value as well. Fortunately, through careful planning, finding the right contractors, and choosing the right design, you can have it all. In this book: BATHROOM REMODELING(c) by Amy Landry, you will find some of the best tips that could turn your bathroom remodeling dream into reality.I this book BATHROOM REMODELING(R) by Amy Landry, you will learn: THE REAL PROBLEMS YOU WILL HAVE TO TACKLE IN A BATHROOM RENOVATIONIS IT POSSIBLE TO RENEW A BATHROOM BY YOURSELF WITHOUT RESORTING TO WORKERS?How to furnish a small bathroom: little tricksShower or bath?The correct method vs the practical methodBATHROOM CLADDING HEIGHT: HINTS AND IDEASHow to decorate the bathroom ceilingHOW TO REMOVE MOLD IN THE BATHROOMHOW TO CHOOSE A BATHROOM FLOORBATHROOM MIRROR LIGHTING: CREATE THE IDEAL LIGHT IN THE WASHBASIN AREATHINGS TO KNOW TO CHOOSE THE PAINT FOR THE BATHROOMHOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST SHOWER ENCLOSURESmall bathroom? Here are the most suitable and functional space-saving shower enclosuresWALK-IN SHOWER: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGESMOVING DRAINS - ALL THE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOWHOW TO REPLACE THE TOILET YOURSELFTHE 5 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE CHOOSING BATHROOM FIXTURESAnd much more!It's important to look beyond the space of the bathroom. Think about the entire look of your house.What kind of layout would best match the design?Does your preferred bathroom layout blend well with the rest of your home?A common adage is "add, not change". There is also a matter of "functional zoning." This is a good way for you to plan your bathroom layout around the idea of what's functional. Instead of remodeling from a design perspective, instead, think of things from a user perspective. Planning an effective space has everything to do with your lifestyle and how you best use the space.Make sure you incorporate this in your bathroom remodeling.
The Story of Howsham Mill
Howsham Mill sits on a small island in the River Derwent near Malton in North Yorkshire. It was built in 1755 to impress, an eye-catcher, by the new heir to the Howsham Estate. It served the farmers of the area until its closure in 1947, grinding corn for both flour and livestock feed. The building fell into disrepair as the woodland grew up around it. A chance discovery in 2003 resulted in the formation of the Renewable Heritage Trust and a project to restore this beautiful mock-Gothic building, to give it a new lease of life fit for the 21st century. The waterwheel and two Archimedes Screw turbines now generate hydro-electricity and the mill is an education centre. This is its story.
History Of The Black Man-Joseph Julius Jackson
Joseph Julius Jackson was an African-American preacher who published The History of the Black Man (1921). The book discusses the influence of African civilization upon ancient history, and covers the black kingdoms of Ghana, Sudan, Melle, Hausa, Songhay, as well as the Moorish dynasty of Spain in some detail. The bulk of the work is devoted to the history of the American negro from 1619 to the early decades of the 20th century. Jackson argues that the lack of knowledge about their origins and past has undermined the pride of the African-American community.
Trip 1964
1964, Spring. Two young men, John Turner and Leon van Schaik, school friends, still in their teens, set off from England to cycle to Rome, their "Trip64". Leon wrote a daily journal, John drew and photographed. That journal structures this account, and the timelines are derived from it. Leon's first Trip64 night on 6 May (Day 1) was spent in Ostend Youth Hostel and John's first night on 27 May (Day 22) was under canvas in a field close to Maassluis. They met up on 31 May (Day 26) in Amsterdam and remained together until arriving back in England in early August. When the trip ended, they were home in Buckinghamshire, preparing for university. An unremarkable 'gap-year' activity you might think, yet that journey cut through a world barely recognisable today. The Second World War still formed a bell jar over everything, colouring our perceptions. Even in the early 1970s the wearing of a leather coat evoked sinister associations. The Iron Curtain hung across Europe, limiting the horizon. A veil of fascism hung over Spain and was soon to occlude Greece. 1984 lay in the unimaginably distant future. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was mounting its marches from Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square. The lives of adults were framed by reconstruction. Although British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had announced "you've never had it so good" on 20 July 1957, the full force of the post war economy lay ahead, and Jean Baudrillard's book 'The Consumer Society' was to be published in 1970. Cars did not yet dominate roads. In England, traffic jams hardly happened except in The New Forest on August Bank Holiday. Travel was an adventure for the young, and a 1957 book explaining how to do 'Europe on Five Dollars a Day' when six dollars equalled 20 shillings seemed targeted on wealthy Americans. That many shillings would last a week, as the soon to be students would discover. And most alien to how we live now, life was lived in analogue. The internet lay fifty years ahead. The boys had planned their journey in advance, plotting routes using a guide to the location of Youth Hostels, and having no guarantee that there would be a place in one until they arrived and knocked on the door. Contact with home was by post to a few pre-planned collection sites. Each photograph taken had to be carefully considered as film was so expensive. The past is a different world.We, the septuagenarians that those young men now are, have been haunted by vivid memories of how things were, when we were there. That is why we have now marshalled and cross-referenced the journal written by one of the cyclers, the photos, surviving artefacts and drawings of both, into as accurate a recollection as we can conjure. Framed by independent introductions and concluding reflections, a three-part timeline for the trip structures the material. Part 1 documents solo journeys through the lowlands and concludes with our meeting in Amsterdam. Part 2 covers the journey to Venice; Part 3 carries through to Rome. There are mysteries. Some days seem to have gone missing. No amount of trawling resurrects a shared account of the journey home from Rome. Maybe that is apt for what was a pilgrimage through a little of west European culture, a journey towards adulthood, spiritual only in that sense. Even then, the weight of the future pressed on what was said and recorded. We were 'such stuff as dreams are made on', and our 'little lives' beckoned. There are delights here. See for yourself!
Architectural Documentation
Against the backdrop of building a new country, this study explores and evaluates the documentation culture in early republican Turkey. Having fought the Turkish War of Independence (1919-22) against the Allied Powers, the revolutionaries led by legendary leader Mustafa Kemal Atat羹rk (1881-1938) came to engage with the idea of the West and its cultural origin. With the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the constitution abolished the 600-year-old Ottoman Empire including the dynastic cultural, economic, educational, and governmental institutions. In the redemption of the nation within the modern history of civilizations, cultural Westernization and technical modernization became the model for the newly found nation-state. While the new country became the subject of reformation, historic architecture was called upon to grant the aura of a glorious past to the Turks. Through the materialization of 'Türk Tarih Tezi' (the Turkish History Thesis), the founding leaders focused on the origin of Turks and the everlasting spirit of the Turkish state. In this pursuit, architectural heritage signified the formative power to represent the past. Supported by state-agencies, scholars, with supreme patriotic zeal and diligence, travelled across the remotest corners of the country to document and study the historic architecture of the nation. To date, the complicated question of a national identity embodied in the built environment has dominated the contemporary scholarship on early republican historiography. Akboy-İlk's study, however, distinguishes itself with its focus on architectural documentation, which became an agent of history-writing in the early years of the nation state. Curated by the ideologies of the state, the formal documentation findings extensively informed the republican plot of the modern progress of Turks. For scholars interested in a closer reading of the crossing boundaries between architectural heritage and nation-building in the case of the modernization of Turkey, this book is revealing and provocative in bringing forward architectural documentation, a remarkably overlooked subject in studies of the area.
Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge
罈Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge竄 is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attentiveness to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.Issue 1, 罈Research Perspectives in Architecture竄, explores different lines of enquiry with specific focus on their methodology. Design-based, reflexive, qualitative, experience-based, archival and interdisciplinary perspectives are investigated.
Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in Civic Space
Projects and dialogues in homage to the influential New York architect and educator Diane LewisCombining civic architecture projects with contributions by writers, historians and artists ranging from Dan Graham to Fran Lebowitz, Conceiving the Plan constructs a dialogue with the legacy of the late architect and longtime Cooper Union professor Diane Lewis (1951-2017).Lewis' pedagogy defined Cooper Union's architecture departure from the 1970s to the mid-2000s. Here, architectural historians Barry Bergdoll and Daniel Sherer converse about the themes and approach in her pedagogical style and thinking. Architects, former students, colleagues and friends generate projects as a continuous discourse with Lewis' pedagogy, carrying her legacy into contemporary dialogues.Conceiving the Plan includes more than 250 images and diagrams of projects pertaining to Lewis' legacy by Georg Windeck, Preston Scott Cohen, Dorian Wiszniewski, Pippo Ciorra and Peter Lynch.
Journey in His Shadow
Journey in His Shadow is inspirational poetry that has been inspired over years. Ellen truly believes that even before she came to know and understand Christ's amazing hope and salvation, she was living beneath His shadow. So many times she was rescued and brought to her senses by the spirit who knew, one day, she would be His. This book is for the lonely and those seeking a true path. We are all journeying in His shadow, and His is awaiting our union with Him.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
"Studied as one system, springing from a common experience, and similar wants, and under institutions of the same general character, [forms of aboriginal architecture] are seen to indicate a plan of life at once novel, original, and distinctive."-Lewis H. Morgan, Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines (1881)Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines (1881) by Lewis Morgan is the fourth volume in a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). In this book, sourced from North and Central American texts and illustrations, Morgan attempted to explain some of the ways domestic architecture reflects the development of kinship and property relations and helped anthropologists and archaeologists understand indigenous social organization. It can be considered a sequel to Morgan's book Ancient Society (also available from Cosimo Classics). This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of Native American history.
Journey in His Shadow
Journey in His Shadow is inspirational poetry that has been inspired over years. Ellen truly believes that even before she came to know and understand Christ's amazing hope and salvation, she was living beneath His shadow. So many times she was rescued and brought to her senses by the spirit who knew, one day, she would be His. This book is for the lonely and those seeking a true path. We are all journeying in His shadow, and His is awaiting our union with Him.
The Styleprint Design System
There are so many reasons to update your living space. The exciting, creative process can quickly get out of hand if you are not ready for it. The Styleprint(R) Design System simplifies everything and helps you each step of the way. The Styleprint brings your unique design preferences to life by evaluating your space, identifying what exactly is not working for you, and then setting goals to improve it. With the help of the Decor&You Styleprint Design system, you can create the living space of your dreams.
The Story of Utopias
This survey of utopias, which spans from Plato to the twentieth century, was Lewis Mumford's first success. He was particularly interested in what he calls utopias of reconstruction, models for reshaping an imperfect world. Beginning with a survey of famous utopian ideas and writings, he moves from Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Andre疆's Christianopolis, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun, Fourier's phalanxes, Cabet's Icaria, Bellamy's Looking Backward, Morris's News from Nowhere, and finally on to H.G. Wells's utopian fiction. He then produces the essence of a checklist for assessing how closely a society comes to utopian ideals, looking at work and standards of living, housing, democratic (or not) governance, sex and marriage, the raising of children, our relationship with nature, and the importance of the arts and creativity. A century later, the book stands not only as an introduction to the work of a maverick scholar who had worldwide influence, but also suggests ways to approach a future even more challenging than that faced by Mumford's post-war generation. Mumford delves into issues that remain relevant today: social equity in his chapter on the country house, for example, and the relationship between science and the arts in his concluding chapter about how we can find, or build, utopia.Mumford was thinking, as many of us are, about the practical lessons offered by imagined utopias. He posits that there are utopias of escape and utopias of "reconstruction," and was particularly interested in these utopias of reconstruction, models for reshaping an imperfect world: The utopia of reconstruction is what its name implies: a vision of a reconstituted environment which is better adapted to the nature and aims of the human beings who dwell within it than the actual one; and not merely better adapted to their actual nature, but better fitted to their possible developments. If the first utopia [of escape] leads backward into the utopian's ego, the second leads outward-outward into the world.In contrast with The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, also published in 1922 by Boni & Liveright and republished by Berkshire Publishing Group in 2022, The Story of Utopias is largely about this idea of reconstruction, rather than the disillusion that Eliot's poem so powerfully captures.
Communicative Cities and Urban Space
Communicative Cities and Urban Space addresses major changes occurring across both cities and communication studies. It seeks to understand the situatedness of contemporary communication practices in diverse contexts of urban life, and to explore digitized urban space as an historically specific communicative environment.
Mark Foster Gage
In the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient Nabatean civilization located on the Arabian Peninsula to propose the first Saudi resort in the modern era that would be open for international tourists. Isolated in a vast desert, with little infrastructure and virtually no visitors, lie the ancient ruins of Mada'in Saleh, and the site for the project.With five-hundred pages and over 1,500 images this is a book that documents the design process of this project, complete with all of its ideas, misdirections, failures, restarts, breakthroughs, and everything in-between. Of interest to architects and non-architects alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques and design technologies that promise to redefine how we think of the past, present and future of the built environment in the 21st century and beyond. With contributions by: Karel Klein, David Ruy, Mitch McEwen, Amina Blacksher, Ferda Kolatan, Tom Wiscombe, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure, Michael Young, Jimenez Lai, Kristy Balliet, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita
Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the world, contextualizing them within economic geographies of national development, the geopolitics of the Cold War, the legacies of colonialism, and the international dynamics of decolonization.
Injustice in Urban Sustainability
This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means and how it can be implemented.
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years.
Daoism and Environmental Philosophy
This book explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. The author explores early Daoism to provide insights for cultivating an expansive ecological ethos and environmental culture of nature.
Carlos Ferrater
The first complete monograph on the career of Carlos Ferrater. Carlos Ferrater's early buildings showed how the expression of modern architecture -- with its abstraction, repetition, transparency and use of industrial materials -- could be brought into line with Mediterranean classicism, with the rigor of the composition. Before setting up in 2006, along with Xavier Mart穩, Luc穩a Ferrater and Borja Ferrater, the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Carlos Ferrater developed an intense and prolonged professional career on his own since 1971, with his advanced project for the Instant City. Now we present this first and therefore complete monograph on the unique career of this Catalan architect, Carlos Ferrater, awarded the 2009 National Architecture Award by the Spanish Ministry of Housing for his overall career and since 2011 member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (International RIBA Fellowship).The book reflects Carlos Ferrater professional practice, having proved his worth in many projects of enormous relevance and distinction.
The Draper Touch
Designer and interior decorator Dorothy Draper's color-filled life story is one of high society, money, gossip, and throughout it all, reinvention. Carleton Varney has owned and directed Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc., for almost 60 years. He worked with Mrs. Draper at the end of her illustrious career, and wrote the only biography of her life, The Draper Touch: The High Life and High Style of Dorothy Draper, in 1988. In the book, Varney sets the scene and defines the milieu that Draper was born into in 1889 and from which she escaped to become one of America's leaders in design--a true visionary entrepreneur. Thirty-three years later, Shannongrove Press is releasing this deluxe edition of The Draper Touch. With a new foreword by Varney, newly found photographs, recently discovered historical documents from a private collection, and archival ephemera from Draper's family, this beautiful tome reveals Draper's fascinating journey and the real stories behind her ground-breaking work.
The Planetary Gentrification Reader
This book follows on from the editors' 2010 volume and provides a more longitudinal (backwards and forwards in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting edge debates.
Building the Classical World
This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung. Written by established and emerging experts in this field, the chapters focus on the architecture of the Classical world and cover a wide variety of topics, such as construction processes, design principles, building traditions, and historical contexts. Despite this diversity, there is a common thread, since all contributors perceive architecture not as piles of dead matter, or as mere bearers of decoration and sculpture, but as dynamic organisms--bodies full of inner tension to defy gravity. Thus, they pursue the common goal to situate architecture in its historical contexts by documenting, reconstructing, and visualizing the structures as well as their spatial settings, technical underpinnings, and ideological symbolism. Throughout this volume, ancient buildings are considered historic documents in their own right, reflecting both the efforts of their designers and builders, as well as the aspirations of their patrons and communities. The collection represents a wide cross-section of approaches brought to bear on ancient Greek and Roman architecture and, thus, serves as an English-language introduction to the technical and historical questions, and the methodologies inherent in Bauforschung.
Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities
This book explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. It provides a planning tool for decision making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences.
Caring for Place
This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.
Smart Villages
This book brings together technical expertise, best practices, case studies and ground-level application of the ideas for empowering the rural population of the world to live economically prosperous, environmentally sustainable, and socially progressive lives, on par or comparable with the quality of life enjoyed by the global urban population. The idea of Smart Villages takes on greater urgency in light of the investments made in this millennium on "Smart Cities", taking advantage of the technological advances, particularly in digital connectivity. These investments have and will continue to expand the urban-rural divide, unless similar investments are made in the villages as well. The book provides a much-needed guide for a holistic development of a Smart Village, by defining the need, developing the framework, and describing the delivery, complete with successful case studies. Contributors to the book, from Canada, USA, Africa and India bring years of academic, industry andgovernmental experience, including organization of several Smart Village conferences. The knowledge base in the book will be of great value to anyone interested in or active in rural planning, including governmental and non-governmental organizations, industrial solution providers, public healthcare professionals, public policy professionals and students, as well as rural communities around the world. Consolidates all the aspects of creating/developing a Smart Village;Delivers an effective tool-kit for practitioners in the area of Smart Villages;Provides a policy-based framework for the development of an ideal Smart Village;Illustrates, through case studies, the fulfillment of key requirements of a Smart Village;Brings together experts from around the world to share their vision of a Smart Village;Highlights the importance of balancing development with social/gender equity and cultural traditions.
Building Black
Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a changing and multicultural city. Building Black, however, proposes the construction of a Black radical position: building islands of resistance against the expanding sea of imperial architecture.In Building Black, Mason reads the racial meaning of current construction projects in England through the histories of race and architecture. Closely reading Immanuel Kant's formulation of the Subject as the creator of space and the development of whiteness in Modernist architecture, Mason finds that Blackness is an ongoing, antecedent island that can never quite be subsumed in the racializing project of modernity. Pushing this further, he positions antiracist architecture on a self-enclosed island de-linked from the city, preserving a sociality that cannot be incorporated into liberal universality.Alongside sustained critiques of architectural theory and Western philosophy, and close engagements with Black Studies and Indigenous thinking, Mason offer a critique of the writing subject as a collaborator in the racialization of urban cartography. In response, Mason turns inwards in this book, opening the impossibility of the writer's position in architecture and philosophy, and setting up an alternative mode of self-critical architectural writing. Elliot C. Mason is a PhD candidate in Black studies and poetry at Uppsala University in Sweden. His essays and poetry have been widely published, including in the Journal of Italian Philosophy, Tribune, 3: AM, Magma, and SPAM. He has written three plays and translated contemporary poetry between English and Spanish, alongside his work on many exhibitions, talks, and performances with his group, Penny Drops Collective. He is the author of The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead Fish (Zer0 Books, 2022), and two collections of poetry: City Embers (Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers Press, 2021), and Materials for Building a City (Marble Books, 2021). A section of Building Black was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize 2020. A full list of publications and a selection of work is available on his website, pennydropscollective.org. Having lived in London for over ten years, in 2021 Mason moved with his partner, Eugenia Lapteva, to Stockholm.
The Affordable Housing Reader
This second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color. The authors highlighted in this updated volume address themes central to housing as an area of social policy and to understanding its particular meaning in the United States. These include the long history of racial exclusion and the role that public policy has played in racializing access to decent housing and well-serviced neighborhoods; the tension between the economic and social goals of housing policy; and the role that housing plays in various aspects of the lives of low- and moderate-income residents. Scholarship and the COVID-19 pandemic are raising awareness of the link between access to adequate housing and other rights and opportunities. This timely reader focuses attention on the results of past efforts and on the urgency of reframing the conversation. It is both an exciting time to teach students about the evolution of United States' housing policy and a challenging time to discuss what policymakers or practitioners can do to effect positive change. This reader is aimed at students, professors, researchers, and professionals of housing policy, public policy, and city planning.
Rural Areas in Transition
This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway. Students and policymakers in local economic development, sociology of population change, business finance, political economy, and geography will find this a useful resource.
Beyond Bold: Inspiration, Collaboration, Evolution
Beyond Bold: Inspiration, Collaboration, Evolution follows the "Next Generation"of leadership at Oehme van Sweden, a landscape architecture firm that's been creating extraordinary outdoor spaces for nearly 50 years. With 320 pages of vibrant photographs, detailed project plans, and first-hand commentary from principals Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace, and Eric Groft, the book is a one-of-a-kind record of OvS' history and evolution. Building upon OvS' reputation for sustainable, client-tailored residential design, the current leaders have developed an ouvre that's as legacy-driven as it is exploratory. From private gardens and pools to the expansive Tippet Rise Art Center in rural Montana to urban oases like the Chicago and New York Botanical Gardens, the projects featured in this book are masterpeices of both horticulture and hardscape. Arranged into thematic chapters - "The House and its Garden," "Gathering Places," "At the Water's Edge," "Urban Retreats" and "Farms and Fields" - Beyond Bold: Inspiration, Collaboration, Evolution is an image-rich study of some of the most geographically and stylistically diverse landscape projects by the top players in the industry.
Scoreboard Your Practice
Are you an architect, engineer, interior designer, landscape architect, planner, or other design professional? Do you currently lead or aspire to lead a small or midsized design firm? Do you want to know just enough about financials to effectively manage your practice-but not much more? Then you'll want to know the unique, and surprisingly simple approach to financials taken in Scoreboard Your Practice.The sole principal of a strong ten-person firm pays herself a salary of $140,000. Her team does outstanding work and they're well paid. She started the practice nine years ago and has no debt. After retentions for the future, profit sharing for the team, and corporate taxes, she receives another $240,000 in pre-tax profits annually. To top it all off, the firm is worth about $2,000,000. Once you've read Scoreboard Your Practice, you'll understand the underlying financials of a firm like the one described above. You'll gain a clear understanding of your own firm's numbers.The book is intentionally brief-information is presented in an accessible, concise format accompanied by infographics. Scoreboard Your Practice will become an essential resource, offering you a shortcut to take control of your financials and guide your firm toward a thriving future.After you've absorbed the lessons in this book, you'll want to determine your firm's sweet spot in terms of size. If you've purchased Scoreboard Your Practice, go to www.strongpracticestrategies.com to receive a free eBook called Goldilocks Your Firm. It offers advice and a scenario planning tool to help you find the size that's just right for your practice.
Mega Project Management
Megaprojects of construction would no more be difficult to initiate, understand and carry out practically. A key to all the problems related to Mega Project Management is going to be in your hand. It will be no more complex now. You have been facilitated to solve each and every problem by yourself. The book is going to be a perfect guide for you because it will tell: -What is Megaproject Management? -A Fundamental Conceptualization of Mega Infrastructure Construction -Significant Engineering and Construction of Mega-Infrastructure -Management of Massive Infrastructure Construction -Management of Construction Projects to Mega Infrastructure Construction Management: From Systematisms to Complexity -The Difficulty of Building and Managing Mega Infrastructure -The Good, The Bad, and the Best of Megaprojects -Making Megaprojects Modular -8 Planning and Organizing Best Practices for Megaproject Success -The Causes and Cure for Underperforming Megaprojects -The Increasing Difficulty of Building Mega-Infrastructure -The Possibilities and Hope for the Future
ADA Illustrated
ADA Illustrated is a visualization of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) building code. For many people, building codes are hard to read and understand. The ADA design standards are no different. This book turns boring words into easy to understand 3D illustrations. So you don't have to be an architect or building inspector to easily learn the code. The latest major ADA update to the design standards was done in 2010, this book illustrates all of it! Surprisingly, ADA and other accessibility designs are still done incorrectly. ADA Illustrated helps empower everyday people to know how the design standards should be done. Or to better help clients understand the designs of an architect, interior designer, or contractor. The more people understand the ADA building code, the better!
In the Temple of the Self: The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of Art
From Louis Comfort Tiffany to Kurt Schwitters: an immersive appreciation of the home as artAs locuses of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich--the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life's work of the aristocratic artist Franz von Stuck--this unique volume integrates the artist's house as a category into the international discourse and is the first to assign these buildings the status of major works. About 20 examples bring to life the fascination that these artistic fantasies hold for art lovers, including both existing projects and some which, although they have been lost, were of unique importance in their day and still retain their charisma. Along with paintings, sculptures and photographs, plans and models convey the interrelationship between art and life as well as the harmony of the arts expressed by Richard Wagner's historical concept of the total work of art. Among the houses featured are Sir John Soane's Museum, London; William Morris' Red House, Bexleyheath; Louis Comfort Tiffany's Tiffany House, New York City; Mortimer Menpes' flat, London; the Fernand Khnopff Villa, Brussels; Jacques Majorelle's villa and garden, Marrakesh; Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Hanover; and Max Ernst's house, Arizona.
Chicago
A Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to 2025Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of first-rate buildings in every possible style since late nineteenth-century industrialization. This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism -- under the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today.Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions are supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects, including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.
Designing Our Future
See how the AEC industry is implementing GIS to improve efficiency and transform the way they plan, design, build, and operate in the built and natural environments.
Slicing Spaces
As suggested in the title, Slicing Spaces: Performance of Architecture in Cinema, this project slices through the multifaceted layers of film space. The text investigates how architecture performs as an altruist, proving that environed space is not merely a backdrop in film scenes, but an active performing character. The performance of architecture varies depending on what the filmmakers wish the viewer to feel, whether it is fear, compassion or joy. Considerations take an interdisciplinary approach, not solely observing film and architecture but also studying the likes of urbanism, politics, philosophy, history, psychology, art and design. The substantial spectrum of opinions from contributing authors allows the reader to absorb the diverse relationships of architecture in cinema, inviting the reader to form their own opinions on the topic and inspiring a new way of thinking. Slicing Spaces explores the interconnected relationship between architecture and film via distinct approaches to spaces of the city, confinement, actuality, the psyche and the imagination. Diverse views on cinematic architecture are probed, such as the psychological ramifications of film architecture, the portrayals of the city as a character and the potentials of exploring fantastic places in film. Overall, the book focuses on the authoritative contribution of architecture to the realm of filmmaking. It uncovers a path to look at lived spaces of architectural design from an alternative perspective, be it interiors, buildings or cities. Utilising the architectural ingenuity of drawings and graphics, the collection takes the reader on a visual journey as well as one through narratives.
