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Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland
These essays constitute the first radical reassessment since the nineteenth century of the role of architecture as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.1124–c.1650. These studies of the architectural patronage of particular families or groups explore how the nobility operated socially and economically, as well as politically, in…
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Period Homes - Styles & Original FeaturesAn Easy Reference Guide
Are you ready to step inside the world of period homes? To unlock the secrets of the iconic buildings we see throughout the cities, towns and villages of Britain? Then this is the book for you. Period homes are all around us. Not only are they charming homes for those lucky enough to live in them, but they also give the community in which they're set a distinguished character and a link with …
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- 9781846749209
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The Tower and the BridgeThe New Art of Structural Engineering
An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine…
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Moscheen in BewegungInterdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf muslimische Kultstät…
Noch wird in der wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Beschäftigung mit dem Islam unterschieden zwischen unscheinbaren "Hinterhofmoscheen" und den sichtbaren "Moscheeneubauten". Gemeint sind damit die religiösen Kultstätten der seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert in Deutschland lebenden Muslime. Es wird Zeit, diese architektonische und sozial immer noch wirksame Unterscheidung von unsicht…
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- 9783110669084
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Architektenschmiede ParisDie Karriere des Jakob Ignaz Hittorff
Es wird der unterschlagenen Frage nachgegangen, welche Rolle der Elitismus der französischen Architektenschaft für Frankreichs Wandel zu einem modernen Staatsgebilde spielte. Das Buch zeichnet die Eliteformation der Architekten an der Pariser Kunstschule im 19. Jahrhundert nach und erörtert die Karrierewege zwischen reglementierter Ämterlaufbahn und freiberuflichem Unternehmertum. Dargelegt…
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- 9783110733051
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Neoliberalism on the GroundArchitecture and Transformation from the 1960s to …
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role o…
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Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies to abandon a centuries-long, highly ornamental architectural style in favor of structural technolo…
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A Mighty Capital under ThreatThe Environmental History of London, 1800-2000
Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere.…
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Building CharacterThe Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award | Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award | Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book Prize In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers …
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Race and Modern ArchitectureA Critical History from the Enlightenment to the …
Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of…
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