12071 Results
Form:
books
books
Price:
$95.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of(...)
$95.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of(...)
Title:
Securing the past: conservation in art, architecture and literature
Actions:
Price:
$95.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of recent crises in each of these areas, this publication shows how their underlying justifications relate closely to one another.
Securing the past: conservation in art, architecture and literature
Actions:
Price:
$95.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book examines together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of recent crises in each of these areas, this publication shows how their underlying justifications relate closely to one another.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
March 2010
March 2010
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$52.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume, which presents work from the 1950’s and early 1960’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1962. In an age dominated by a few great architect-designers noted for their intensely personal art, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for twenty-five years has been a unique force in the building of the modern city. This book is the first study of SOM’s(...)
$52.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume, which presents work from the 1950’s and early 1960’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1962. In an age dominated by a few great architect-designers noted for their intensely personal art, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for twenty-five years has been a unique force in the building of the modern city. This book is the first study of SOM’s(...)
Title:
SOM architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1950-1962)
Actions:
Price:
$52.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume, which presents work from the 1950’s and early 1960’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1962. In an age dominated by a few great architect-designers noted for their intensely personal art, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for twenty-five years has been a unique force in the building of the modern city. This book is the first study of SOM’s unified but far-flung operations, of the architecture created by its remarkable complex of designers and engineers working in all corners of the world
SOM architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1950-1962)
Actions:
Price:
$52.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume, which presents work from the 1950’s and early 1960’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1962. In an age dominated by a few great architect-designers noted for their intensely personal art, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for twenty-five years has been a unique force in the building of the modern city. This book is the first study of SOM’s unified but far-flung operations, of the architecture created by its remarkable complex of designers and engineers working in all corners of the world
Form:
books
books
Publication:
November 2009
November 2009
Subject:
Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, reproduces a(...)
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, reproduces a(...)
Title:
SOM, architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1963-1973)
Actions:
Price:
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1974. Since the early 1950’s, SOM has ranked among the leading architectural offices in the United States.
SOM, architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1963-1973)
Actions:
Price:
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for a collaborative approach that extends to all aspects of the design and construction processes. This volume, which presents work from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, reproduces a monograph first published in 1974. Since the early 1950’s, SOM has ranked among the leading architectural offices in the United States.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
November 2009
November 2009
Subject:
Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
Form:
books
books
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In the years 1984–1996, SOM continued to develop the skills for which it had become known—high standards of design, imaginative structural solutions, exceptional detailing, city making on a grand scale, expertise in managing large and complex sites—and also addressed new areas of design and practice. A contextual modernism—one attentive to climate, topography, and the(...)
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In the years 1984–1996, SOM continued to develop the skills for which it had become known—high standards of design, imaginative structural solutions, exceptional detailing, city making on a grand scale, expertise in managing large and complex sites—and also addressed new areas of design and practice. A contextual modernism—one attentive to climate, topography, and the(...)
Title:
SOM: Architecture of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrell (1984-1996)
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In the years 1984–1996, SOM continued to develop the skills for which it had become known—high standards of design, imaginative structural solutions, exceptional detailing, city making on a grand scale, expertise in managing large and complex sites—and also addressed new areas of design and practice. A contextual modernism—one attentive to climate, topography, and the regional vernacular—a focus on restoration and reuse, and an expansion of international work came to the fore in a time of great social and economic change. In his introduction, Detlef Mertins traces the firm’s history in parallel with this restructuring, a growth in real estate development and financial markets that fundamentally changed how buildings were commissioned and built.
SOM: Architecture of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrell (1984-1996)
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In the years 1984–1996, SOM continued to develop the skills for which it had become known—high standards of design, imaginative structural solutions, exceptional detailing, city making on a grand scale, expertise in managing large and complex sites—and also addressed new areas of design and practice. A contextual modernism—one attentive to climate, topography, and the regional vernacular—a focus on restoration and reuse, and an expansion of international work came to the fore in a time of great social and economic change. In his introduction, Detlef Mertins traces the firm’s history in parallel with this restructuring, a growth in real estate development and financial markets that fundamentally changed how buildings were commissioned and built.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
November 2009
November 2009
Subject:
Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume presents work from the late 1990s and 2000s. In an era of true globalization in design and commerce, SOM has come to occupy a unique place in American and international architecture. Recognized for the exceptional quality of its architectural design and urban planning, the firm is also renowned for its clients, an eminent group of businesses and institutions.(...)
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume presents work from the late 1990s and 2000s. In an era of true globalization in design and commerce, SOM has come to occupy a unique place in American and international architecture. Recognized for the exceptional quality of its architectural design and urban planning, the firm is also renowned for its clients, an eminent group of businesses and institutions.(...)
Title:
SOM, architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1997-2008)
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume presents work from the late 1990s and 2000s. In an era of true globalization in design and commerce, SOM has come to occupy a unique place in American and international architecture. Recognized for the exceptional quality of its architectural design and urban planning, the firm is also renowned for its clients, an eminent group of businesses and institutions. In the years 1997–2008, the period represented in this monograph, SOM’s steadfast dedication to a modern expression has produced an important series of works at all scales, in a variety of typologies, in countries around the world.
SOM, architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1997-2008)
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume presents work from the late 1990s and 2000s. In an era of true globalization in design and commerce, SOM has come to occupy a unique place in American and international architecture. Recognized for the exceptional quality of its architectural design and urban planning, the firm is also renowned for its clients, an eminent group of businesses and institutions. In the years 1997–2008, the period represented in this monograph, SOM’s steadfast dedication to a modern expression has produced an important series of works at all scales, in a variety of typologies, in countries around the world.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
November 2009
November 2009
Subject:
Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
Form:
books
books
Price:
$69.90
(available to order)
Summary:
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. "Event-Space" radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s(...)
$69.90
(available to order)
Summary:
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. "Event-Space" radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s(...)
Title:
Event-space: theatre architecture and the historical avant-garde
Actions:
Price:
$69.90
(available to order)
Summary:
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. "Event-Space" radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’.
Event-space: theatre architecture and the historical avant-garde
Actions:
Price:
$69.90
(available to order)
Summary:
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. "Event-Space" radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
July 2018
July 2018
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Form:
books
books
Price:
$118.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic(...)
$118.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic(...)
Title:
Giedion and America: repositioning the history of modern architecture
Actions:
Price:
$118.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic account of modern architecture, turning instead to the less ideological and frequently overlooked facets of Giedion’s oeuvre. The book argues that, although Giedion’s position in between two cultural spheres created discontinuities in his work, it also facilitated a mutual exchange between the architectural impresario and his North American peers and thereby helped to shape the development and reception of the modern project on either side of the Atlantic.
Giedion and America: repositioning the history of modern architecture
Actions:
Price:
$118.00
(available to order)
Summary:
In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic account of modern architecture, turning instead to the less ideological and frequently overlooked facets of Giedion’s oeuvre. The book argues that, although Giedion’s position in between two cultural spheres created discontinuities in his work, it also facilitated a mutual exchange between the architectural impresario and his North American peers and thereby helped to shape the development and reception of the modern project on either side of the Atlantic.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
June 2018
June 2018
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Form:
books
books
Price:
$37.70
(available to order)
Summary:
"Key Modern Architects" provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and(...)
$37.70
(available to order)
Summary:
"Key Modern Architects" provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and(...)
Title:
Key modern architects: 50 short histories of modern architecture
Actions:
Price:
$37.70
(available to order)
Summary:
"Key Modern Architects" provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and historical context.
Key modern architects: 50 short histories of modern architecture
Actions:
Price:
$37.70
(available to order)
Summary:
"Key Modern Architects" provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and historical context.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
May 2018
May 2018
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$47.50
(available to order)
Summary:
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. "Shadow-Makers" tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of(...)
$47.50
(available to order)
Summary:
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. "Shadow-Makers" tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of(...)
Title:
Shadow-makers: a cultural history of shadows in architecture
Actions:
Price:
$47.50
(available to order)
Summary:
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. "Shadow-Makers" tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history – to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context – tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious.
Shadow-makers: a cultural history of shadows in architecture
Actions:
Price:
$47.50
(available to order)
Summary:
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. "Shadow-Makers" tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history – to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context – tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
October 2017
October 2017
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$63.25
(available to order)
Summary:
Inspired by Lewis Mumford’s 1932 challenge enjoining architects to go beyond visual experimentation and create complete human environments, "Environmental Design" details the rise of modernist ideas in the architectural disciplines within the novel context of sociopolitical rather than aesthetic responsibilities. Unlike today’s "starchitects," environmental designers saw(...)
$63.25
(available to order)
Summary:
Inspired by Lewis Mumford’s 1932 challenge enjoining architects to go beyond visual experimentation and create complete human environments, "Environmental Design" details the rise of modernist ideas in the architectural disciplines within the novel context of sociopolitical rather than aesthetic responsibilities. Unlike today’s "starchitects," environmental designers saw(...)
Title:
Environmental design: architecture, politics and science in postwar America
Actions:
Price:
$63.25
(available to order)
Summary:
Inspired by Lewis Mumford’s 1932 challenge enjoining architects to go beyond visual experimentation and create complete human environments, "Environmental Design" details the rise of modernist ideas in the architectural disciplines within the novel context of sociopolitical rather than aesthetic responsibilities. Unlike today’s "starchitects," environmental designers saw themselves as orchestrators of decision making more than auteurs of form and style. Viewing architectural practice as rooted in Progressive Era politics and the democratic process rather than the European avant-garde, Sachs plots how these social concepts spread via influential architecture schools. This rich examination of pedagogy and practice is a map to both the history of environmental design and the contemporary consequences of architecture understood as a pressing social concern.
Environmental design: architecture, politics and science in postwar America
Actions:
Price:
$63.25
(available to order)
Summary:
Inspired by Lewis Mumford’s 1932 challenge enjoining architects to go beyond visual experimentation and create complete human environments, "Environmental Design" details the rise of modernist ideas in the architectural disciplines within the novel context of sociopolitical rather than aesthetic responsibilities. Unlike today’s "starchitects," environmental designers saw themselves as orchestrators of decision making more than auteurs of form and style. Viewing architectural practice as rooted in Progressive Era politics and the democratic process rather than the European avant-garde, Sachs plots how these social concepts spread via influential architecture schools. This rich examination of pedagogy and practice is a map to both the history of environmental design and the contemporary consequences of architecture understood as a pressing social concern.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
July 2018
July 2018
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
