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Von der Bebauung der RegionAufsätze zur architekturhistorischen Moderne an R…
Mit einem Titelverweis auf Rudolf Schwarz' umfassende architekturtheoretische Reflexion »Von der Bebauung der Erde« versammelt der Jubiläumsband Aufsätze von Jürgen Wiener zur Ausstellungs-, Institutionen- und Sakralbaugeschichte an Rhein und Ruhr. In sechs Beiträgen geht der Kunst- und Architekturhistoriker Fragen der Baugeschichte in der Region an Rhein und Ruhr vom 19. bis zum 20. Jahr…
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Das BüroZur Rationalisierung des Interieurs, 1880-1960
Mit der zweiten industriellen Revolution beginnt der Dienstleistungssektor signifikant zu wachsen. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts steigt die Zahl der Angestellten in Banken, Handel, Industrien und Versicherungen. Die Rationalisierung dieser Unternehmen richtet einen spezialisierten und zugleich universalen Raum ein, der zum operativen Zentrum sowohl der Privatwirtschaft als auch der öffentlichen Ve…
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Vertical LivingThe Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington
In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realize their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre furthered education, published…
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MontroseLife in a Garden
Something is blooming every day of the year in the renowned gardens at Montrose, Nancy Goodwin's nineteenth-century property in historic Hillsborough, North Carolina. Since moving to Montrose with her husband Craufurd in 1977, Goodwin has transformed more than twenty acres into an extraordinary complex of interlocking gardens that come in and out of focus as the seasons overlap and change. Bea…
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Architecture at the End of the EarthPhotographing the Russian North
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and brick churches and homes in the region's ancient villages and towns still stand. Featuring nearly t…
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An Aesthetic OccupationThe Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict
In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era—the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palesti…
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Architecture in TranslationGermany, Turkey, and the Modern House
In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking architects to oversee much of the design of modern cities. Focusing on the period from the 1…
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Cairo CosmopolitanPolitics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradict…
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Creating Medieval CairoEmpire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Ni…
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historia…
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Egypt Visual SourcebookFor Artists, Architects, and Designers
An essential reference to Egypt's architectural heritage. This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers-from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors, and painters. It utilizes color photographs to illustrate a wide range of locations and styles of architecture throughout Egypt, par…
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