The Monument’s EndPublic Art and the Modern Republic

How today’s questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandt’s time Monuments occupy a controversial place in nations founded on principles of freedom and self-governance. It is no accident that when we think of monuments, we think of statues modeled on legacies of conquest, domination, and violence. The Monument’s End reveals how …

Reforming SuburbiaThe Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands

The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch…

La arquitectura de Baixas & Del RíoSeis proyectos y una silla

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StanzeAbitare il desiderio

Che impatto hanno avuto l'industrializzazione, l'urbanizzazione, la cura dell'igiene, la nascita del design nel codificare le stanze delle case che abitiamo oggi? Cosa implica varcare una soglia, entrare in una camera? Il boudoir, l'antico salottino per signore in cui il Marchese de Sade ambienta uno dei suoi testi di maggior successo, quale significato politico può assumere? E che rapporto c'…

Is Architecture Art?An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Architecture

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature mean they cannot be considered pure works of art? Questions of architecture, art, and aesthetics do not allow for simple answers. But by asking such questions, we can usefully reveal the ways …

Die Täterinnen von MajdanekKZ-Aufseherinnen vor Gericht

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9783910732339

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O Guia de Archvizconhecendo a indústria de 3D para arquitetura

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9786527035367

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Hôtel Waldhaus Sils Maria

L'Hôtel Waldhaus a été bâti de 1905 à 1908 pour un hôtelier expérimenté, Josef Giger-Nigg, selon les plans de l'architecte Karl Koller, qui venait de s'établir en Engadine comme spécialiste des constructions hôtelières. Tant par son aspect extérieur que par son aménagement intérieur, cet hôtel témoigne de la transition entre l'exubérance de la Belle-Époque et les formes plus …

A Lei Machucade incentivo ao planejamento urbano

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9786527036821

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Hotel Waldhaus Sils Maria

Das Hotel Waldhaus Sils Maria entstand 1905–1908 im Auftrag des erfahrenen Hoteliers Josef Giger-Nigg als Entwurf des Architekten Karl Koller, der sich damals im Engadin gerade als Hotelarchitekt etabliert hatte. Sowohl in seiner äusseren Erscheinung als auch bei der Ausstattung offenbart sich im Waldhaus die Weiterentwicklung von der überschwänglichen Formensprache der Belle Epoque zur sc…