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Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire
Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king's monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines Philip's architectural and artistic projects, placing them within t…
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Precious MetalGerman Steel, Modernity, and Ecology
With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel's incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world. Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist m…
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The Accidental PalaceThe Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This book tells the story of Y?ld?z Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Y?ld?z was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus. Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 190…
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Palaces of ReasonThe Royal Residences of Bourbon Naples
Palaces of Reason traces the fascinating history of three royal residences built outside of Naples in the eighteenth century at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta. Commissioned by King Charles of Bourbon and Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony, who reigned over the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, these buildings were far more than residences for the monarchs. They were designed to help reshape the economi…
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IsfahanArchitecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran
A vibrant urban settlement from medieval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during the seventeenth century. Using key sources, this book reconstructs the spaces and senses of this dynamic city. Focusing on nuances of urban experience, Farshid Emami expands our understanding of Isfahan in a global context. He takes the reader on an…
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Marrakesh and the MountainsLandscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Med…
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains, Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city's surrounding landscap…
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Architettare, verboLa nuova lingua del costruire
Che cosa intendono realmente gli architetti quando parlano di «eccellenza», «sostenibilità», «benessere», «vivibilità», «creatività», «bellezza» e «innovazione»? E cosa ci dice tutto ciò sul futuro delle nostre case e del nostro pianeta? Reinier de Graaf analizza con acutezza e ironia i continui incroci fra architettura, politica, finanza e potere, approfondendo come la loro i…
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La piazza europea
Elemento caratterizzante la città europea, la piazza appartiene alla nostra cultura da secoli. In varie declinazioni - monumentale, del mercato, conventuale, principale - la piazza, fin dalla sua comparsa in Europa, nel XII secolo, ha legato le sue trasformazioni all'evolvere delle condizioni di vita e dei modelli politici. Marco Romano, che da sempre si occupa della città, fornisce al lettor…
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MovementHow to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives
"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…
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Watch This SpaceExploring Cinematic Intersections Between the Body, Architect…
This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary between spatial design disciplines, such as architecture, interior and urban design, and film and moving image studies more broadly. The collection is an exploration of the evolving interdisciplinary rhetoric connecting spatial design discipl…
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