Fairground TheoryThe Hidden Life and Architecture of the Travelling Fair

Fairground Theory goes behind the scenes of the travelling fair – exploring its design, its atmosphere, and the people and processes that make it happen – in order to develop the first architectural theory of the fair. Even well-known places can be made strange when the fair arrives in town. As visitors to the fair, we are willingly overtaken by the all-round intensity of the environment: …

Biography of a Tenement House in New York CityAn Architectural History of 97 …

"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants." For Dolkart, his fathers experience o…

Großsiedlung Britz "Gartenstadtsiedlung"Bestandsaufnahme und Dokumentation

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Kunst - Architektur, Baugeschichte, Denkmalpflege, Note: 1, 7, Technische Universität Berlin (Architektur und Gebäudetechnik), Veranstaltung: Baugeschichte, Architekturtheorie und Denkmalpflege II, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bestandsdokumentation befasst sich mit der Großsiedlung Britz "Gartenstadtsiedlung", welche sich in unmit…

Rada PhotographyMid-Century Architecture and Culture in South Florida and the…

The life and work of two photographers who captured the rise of Tropical Modern architecture in Miami and the surrounding region In this first critical biography of the life and work of Annette and Rudi Rada, two photographers working in South Florida and the Caribbean from approximately 1946 to 1975, architectural historian Victor Deupi explores the lasting significance of the Radas in docume…

Architectures of SlaveryRuins and Reconstructions

The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic world Atlantic slavery has bequeathed architectural legacies from the plantation ruins that fill the valleys of Cuba to the servant’s quarters of middle-class apartment housing in Brazil; from picturesque New England waterfronts to the modernist ranch-house suburbs of Savannah; and from the castle-studded coastline of Ghana to steel-fr…

Ariadna, arquitectaUna introducción a la teoría de la arquitectura

El territorio de la teoría de la arquitectura es extenso y de difícil delimitación. Este libro propone una incursión en este campo de conocimiento para enfocar algunos debates que tuvieron lugar, fundamentalmente, desde comienzos del siglo XX, a partir del impacto de las nuevas tecnologías del acero y del hormigón armado sobre la concepción del espacio arquitectónico. El principal aport…

Clandestine parenteleLa cultura del progetto a fine Novecento

Gli ultimi decenni del Novecento sono stati segnati da un'esplosione di temi e direzioni di lavoro divergenti e contraddittori che questo libro ripercorre, inseguendo parole, concetti, metafore; indagando progetti editoriali; ricostruendo polemiche e disaccordi. Rintracciando la cultura del progetto dentro le forme tarde dell'avanguardia e nelle storie dei gruppi femministi e omosessuali degli …

Whole-System Approach to High-Performance Green Buildings

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¿Qué es arquitectura?

¿Qué es arquitectura? Este es un interrogante que nos persigue a los arquitectos desde hace siglos. La arquitectura hace referencia a algo que todos intuimos, pero que no es fácil de consensuar. Este texto indaga sobre esta cuestión y sobre su alcance en el ámbito de la disciplina y de su docencia. Las reflexiones sugeridas surgen de dos convicciones. La primera es la necesidad de explicit…

La Basilique Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, Lausanne

Première église catholique construite à Lausanne depuis la Réforme, la Basilique Notre-Dame de l'Assomption au Valentin, achevée en 1834, est due à l'architecte Henri Perregaux, qui recourt à un style néoclassique sobre et épuré. Un siècle plus tard, l'église est agrandie et transformée par l'architecte Fernand Dumas, membre emblématique du Groupe de Saint-Luc, et devient un témo…