books
Description:
x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1994., ©1994
The "Domostroi" : rules for Russian households in the time of Ivan the Terrible / edited and translated by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
books
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1994., ©1994
books
Description:
xvi, 436 pages ; 32 cm.
London : Routledge, 2006.
The global cities reader / edited by Neil Brenner and Roger Kell.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
xvi, 436 pages ; 32 cm.
books
London : Routledge, 2006.
$76.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The creations(...)
Martial signifiers: fortress complexes by Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Actions:
Price:
$76.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The creations represented in this book have their origins in a particular historic situation: the emergence of firearms in the 14th century and their spread in the 15th century had shifted the balance of warfare in favour of the attacking side, against which the defensive structure had not yet found a remedy.
History until 1900, Italy
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Architect John van de Water set off in 2004 to a China that was modernizing at a furious pace. His intention was to put the European, conceptual way of thinking of NEXT architects into practice in China. Five turbulent years ensued, with projects being built on Chinese soil. A whole range of emotions sprang up in the space between Western and Chinese architectural(...)
John Van de Water : You can't change China, China changes you
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Architect John van de Water set off in 2004 to a China that was modernizing at a furious pace. His intention was to put the European, conceptual way of thinking of NEXT architects into practice in China. Five turbulent years ensued, with projects being built on Chinese soil. A whole range of emotions sprang up in the space between Western and Chinese architectural thinking: incomprehension, confrontation, misunderstanding, acceptance, awareness, understanding and, eventually, advantage. You Can't Change China, China Changes You is a personal reflection of his experience. In it, the development of architectural thinking is described, researched and tested.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
$29.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of(...)
Art is not what you think it is
Actions:
Price:
$29.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of contexts Deals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth Addresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions.
Art Theory
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Eduardo Souto de Moura (b.1952) is one of Portugal's leading architects, but gained wider international recognition when he won the Pritzker Prize in 2011. He collaborated with Álvaro Siza before establishing his own architectural studio in 1980. Since then, he has completed more than 100 projects ranging from private houses to larger projects such as the stadium in Braga(...)
Eduardo Souto de Moura: 30 years, selected projects
Actions:
Price:
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Eduardo Souto de Moura (b.1952) is one of Portugal's leading architects, but gained wider international recognition when he won the Pritzker Prize in 2011. He collaborated with Álvaro Siza before establishing his own architectural studio in 1980. Since then, he has completed more than 100 projects ranging from private houses to larger projects such as the stadium in Braga (2004), the venue for the 2004 European Championships. This volume, coordinated by Camilo Rebelo, presents a set of projects through sketches and drawings. The book includes texts by Nuno Grande, Isabel Clara and Eduardo Souto de Moura himself.
Architecture Monographs
$40.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The ‘Intercalations’ series is an experimental foray exploring the structure of the book as a potential curatorial space. This third instalment, co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, unfolds an itinerant encounter with 19th-century European naturalists in the Malay world, where the theory of evolution by natural selection emerged alongside less celebrated(...)
Reverse hallucinations in the archipelago: intercalations 3
Actions:
Price:
$40.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The ‘Intercalations’ series is an experimental foray exploring the structure of the book as a potential curatorial space. This third instalment, co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, unfolds an itinerant encounter with 19th-century European naturalists in the Malay world, where the theory of evolution by natural selection emerged alongside less celebrated concerns about mass extinction and climate change. By re-considering the condition of colonial science in the tropics, we may find particular relevance for confronting forms of neo-colonisation in the Anthropocene. With contributions by George Beccaloni, Lucy Davis, Paulo Tavares, Rachel Thompson, and several others.
Critical Theory
$49.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings—Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am—but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society(...)
Gropius: the man who built the Bauhaus
Actions:
Price:
$49.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings—Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am—but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society glamor, only to be exiled to the antimodernist United Kingdom during the Nazi years. Later, under the democratizing influence of American universities, Gropius became an advocate of public art and cemented a starring role in twentieth-century architecture and design.
Architecture Monographs
$86.95
(available to order)
Summary:
At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inventions. Featuring 150 exemplary objects ranging from mechanical toys to scientific instruments, timepieces to automata, this(...)
Making marvels: science and splendour at the courts of Europe
Actions:
Price:
$86.95
(available to order)
Summary:
At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inventions. Featuring 150 exemplary objects ranging from mechanical toys to scientific instruments, timepieces to automata, this study brings to life a glorious period when luxury, a quest for knowledge, scientific invention, and political power combined to produce remarkable works of art. More than frivolous playthings, these works inspired technical innovations that influenced a broad spectrum of activities, including astronomy, engineering, and artisanal craftsmanship.
Design, Periods and Styles
$61.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Toshiko Okanoue was active in the 1950s, producing eye-catching collages made from magazine clippings. The parallels between her compositions and aspects of European surrealism was purely coincidental at first, but after meeting Shuzo Takiguchi, the leader of the surrealist movement in Japan, her keen sensitivity to shape and distinct feminine sensibility evolved further.(...)
Toshiko Okanoue: the miracle of silence
Actions:
Price:
$61.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Toshiko Okanoue was active in the 1950s, producing eye-catching collages made from magazine clippings. The parallels between her compositions and aspects of European surrealism was purely coincidental at first, but after meeting Shuzo Takiguchi, the leader of the surrealist movement in Japan, her keen sensitivity to shape and distinct feminine sensibility evolved further. She began to use photos to form backgrounds to her images, in which buildings, landscapes, and other elements combine to create bizarre and mysterious spaces where dramas unfold. Her expressive fragments, mementos of society and fashion which in turn reflect the era, are a major element in her creativity.
Photography monographs