Modern Architecture and ClimateDesign before Air Conditioning

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fos…

Lateness

A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theorists Conceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or "spirit of the age," an attitude toward architectural form that is embedded in a belief in progressive time. Lateness explores how architecture can work against these linear currents in startling and co…

The Shell BuildersTabby Architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea…

A comprehensive study of the oyster shell building material of the South Carolina Lowcountry Beaufort, South Carolina,is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberi…

Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art TreasuresSecond Edition

This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel has updated the commentary in the light of new material, and the bibliography that she has prepared reflects the scholarship on St.-Denis in the last three decades. She has obtained some additional and more recent photographs, and the illustratio…

Affordable Housing in New YorkThe People, Places, and Policies That Transform…

A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to today A colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and …

Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

In the history of planning, the design of an entire community prior to its construction is among the oldest traditions. Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change explores the twenty-first-century fortunes of planned communities around the world. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the editors and contributors examine what happened to planned communities after their glory day…

Urbanistica e azione pubblica

In un contesto di continua ridefinizione del senso e delle possibilità del fare urbanistica in Italia, questo volume intende esaminare le molte variazioni e i numerosi cambiamenti entro cui prende vita l'azione pubblica che interessa direttamente e indirettamente l'urbanistica, il governo del territorio, la pianificazione urbana territoriale, la trasformazione delle città e dei luoghi del viv…

Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks and WorkshopsArchitectural Terracottas and Deco…

Temples are the most prestigious buildings in the urban landscape of ancient Italy, emerging within a network of centres of the then-known Mediterranean world. Notwithstanding the fragmentary condition of the buildings' remains, these monuments – and especially their richly decorated roofs – are crucial sources of information on the constitution of political, social and craft identities, ac…

Saving The Tsar's Palaces

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AustraliaModern Architectures in History

This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Australian life and to express an emerging, distinctive, and, eventually, confident Australian iden…