This book collects essays by international scholars who engage with Roman-period architecture outside Rome and the Italian Peninsula, looking at the regions that formed part of the Roman Empire over a broad time frame: from the second century BCE to the third century CE. Moving beyond traditional views of 'Roman provincial architecture', the aim is to highlight the multi-faceted features of the…
"This book will—no question—make you think in new ways. Why have we surrendered our cities to cars? What might it be like to inhabit a space designed for people instead? It's exciting and hopeful—this we can do!" —Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon Almost everywhere in the world, streets are designed for travel at the highest speed, giving precedence to…
L’avventura normativa ed edilizia del Superbonus è prossima al termine, ma i suoi reali effetti pratici non sono completamente svelati. Tuttora, infatti, il Superbonus trascina con sé non solo criticità di tipo macroeconomico, ma anche (e soprattutto) una quantità esorbitante di contenziosi, derivanti in primis dai cambiamenti che hanno inte…
Esta obra ofrece un nuevo enfoque de un periodo crucial de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Para ello, el autor se centra en una serie de arquitectos que no han tenido una presencia tan relevante en las historias canónicas del Movimiento Moderno. Cada capítulo ofrece una breve introducción a la vida y obra de cada uno de los diecinueve arquitectos seleccionados y se centra en el análisis porme…
From architecture to landscape, the step was not short, like the jumping in scale in the perspective perception of spaces. For architecture, the view stopped against a wall, to then enter and capture the space through the category of the Alberti concinnitas. This book contains articles developed for conferences and magazine papers, written over the last fi ve years, and reconstructs a theoretic…
A singular architectural landmark bridging western Europe and the American South How did the Belgian Friendship Building, originally constructed for the 1939 New York World’s Fair—and one of only a few surviving buildings from that celebrated exhibition—end up on the campus of an HBCU in Richmond, Virginia? In this richly illustrated book, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherin…
Este libro explora diez edificios de la ciudad de Lima que son representativos para la arquitectura de la segunda mitad del siglo xx en el Perú. A través del análisis crítico y de la lectura en detalle, se puede entender el desarrollo de la forma y de la composición arquitectónica. Para ello, La forma construida cuenta con 200 dibujos entre planimetría, isometrías, esquemas y diagramas …
Klöster werden zu Kindergärten und ein altes Gefängnis zur juristischen Fakultät: In Flandern sind Umnutzungen der Bestandsarchitektur so gewagt wie kaum anderswo. Bestehende Gebäude werden dank sorgfältiger Sanierungen und erfinderischer Anbauten an die aktuellen Bedürfnisse ihrer Nutzer: innen angepasst und erhalten neue Funktionen. Die aktuelle Baukultur Flanderns zeichnet sich als kr…