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Original Copies

Author : Bianca Bosker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837835
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Original Copies written by Bianca Bosker and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities from Fuyang to Shenzhen. These examples are but a sampling of China’s most popular and startling architectural movement: the construction of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West. Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and spot-welded to Chinese cities. These copycat constructions are not theme parks but thriving communities where Chinese families raise children, cook dinners, and simulate the experiences of a pseudo-Orange County or Oxford. In recounting the untold and evolving story of China’s predilection for replicating the greatest architectural hits of the West, Bianca Bosker explores what this unprecedented experiment in “duplitecture” implies for the social, political, architectural, and commercial landscape of contemporary China. With her lively, authoritative narrative, the author shows us how, in subtle but important ways, these homes and public spaces shape the behavior of their residents, as they reflect the achievements, dreams, and anxieties of those who inhabit them, as well as those of their developers and designers. From Chinese philosophical perspectives on copying to twenty-first century market forces, Bosker details the factors giving rise to China’s new breed of building. Her analysis draws on insights from the world’s leading architects, critics and city planners, and on interviews with the residents of these developments.

Cheap, Quick, & Easy

Author : Pamela Hemenway Simpson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572330375
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Cheap, Quick, & Easy written by Pamela Hemenway Simpson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Simpson shows in fascinating detail, rockface concrete blocks, pressed metal imitations of stone, linoleum "marble" and "parquet," and embossed wall coverings made available to the masses a host of ornamental effects that only the wealthy could previously have afforded. But, she notes, wherever these new materials appeared, a heated debate over the appropriateness of imitation followed. Were these materials merely tasteless shams?

Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation

Author : Katharina Weiler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319305239
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation written by Katharina Weiler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia. Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local concerns. This volume presents colonial and postcolonial discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based on representative case studies presented by art historians, architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany, Nepal, India, China, and Japan. With more than 180 illustrations and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin, and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity. They also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation, transformation, and, in some cases, refusal.

The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture

Author : Professor David Mayernik
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472407520
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture written by Professor David Mayernik and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.

Architectural Forum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architectural Forum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Architectural Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Origins, Imitation, Conventions

Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262011860
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Origins, Imitation, Conventions written by James S. Ackerman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past—which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus—and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have related to ancestors and to established modes of representation, as well as to contemporary experiences. The "origins" studied here include the earliest art history and criticism; the beginnings of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches for churches, the first in the Renaissance to propose supporting domes on sculpted walls and piers; and the first architectural photographs. "Imitation" refers to artistic achievements that in part depended on the imitation of forms established in practices outside the fine arts, such as ancient Roman rhetoric and print media. "Conventions," like language, facilitate communication between the artist and viewer, but are both more universal (understood across cultures) and more fixed (resisting variation that might diminish their clarity). The three categories are closely linked throughout the book, as most acts of representation partake to some degree of all three.

The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation

Author : Miles Glendinning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136167013
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation written by Miles Glendinning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable? Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a ‘Conservation Movement’, infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of ‘heritage’ and global commercialism has become dominant. Miles Glendinning’s new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of this architectural Conservation Movement, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.

The Art Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Art Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Institutions and Ideologies

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136102345
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Institutions and Ideologies written by David Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.

Romantic Modernism

Author : Wim Denslagen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089641033
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Modernism written by Wim Denslagen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of architectural conservation, there is little tolerance for reconstructing or even protecting historic facades when everything behind is modern, and even less for reconstructing a building that has been completely destroyed. These offenses are considered lies against history. In this thoughtful, revealing work, conservation expert Wim Denslagen traces this predilection for honesty to the legacy of Functionalism, a Romantic-era movement that denounced the building of pseudo-architecture in favor of a new, rational form of building. With detailed analyses of headline-making restoration projects from Bruges to Berlin, Denslagen shows that the adoption of these romantic values by conservationists gave rise to a new wave of modern additions and transformations.

The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

Author : John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135093466
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture written by John Shannon Hendrix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. Here the role of the terms "form" and "function" are analyzed throughout the history of architecture and architectural theory, from Vitruvius to the present, with particular emphasis on twentieth-century functionalism. Historical examples are given from Ancient, Classical, Islamic, Christian, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist, and Neoclassical architecture, and from movements in the twentieth century to the present. In addition philosophical issues such as lineamenti, Vorstellung, différance, dream construction, deep structure and surface structure, topology theory, self-generation, and immanence are explored in relation to the compositions and writings of architects throughout history. This book contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture as a humanistic discipline, to re-establish an emphasis on the expression of ideas, and on the ethical role of architecture to engage the intellect of the observer and to represent human identity.

The Sepulchrum Domini Through the Ages

Author : Justin E. A. Kroesen
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042909526
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Sepulchrum Domini Through the Ages written by Justin E. A. Kroesen and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIII. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLY SEPULCHREIntroduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3A. The Holy Sepulchre as a Separate Church Building. . . . . 71. Constantine the Great's Church of the Holy Sepulchre . 72. Churches of the Holy Sepulchre in Western Europe. 12a. Background . . . . . . . . 12b. The pilgrimage period . . . . . . . . 14c. The period of the Crusades. . . . . . 25B. The Holy Sepulchre in the Interior of the Church 451. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452. Holy Sepulchres Modelled on the Anastasis Tomb in Church Interiors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473. Typology of the Holy Sepulchre in the Late Middle Ages. 53a. Background. . . . . . . . . . 53b. The altar as Holy Sepulchre . . . . . . 55c. The temporary Holy Sepulchre 56d. The moveable wooden Holy Sepulchre . 62e. The Holy Sepulchre in combination with a tabernacle . 68f The Holy Sepulchre in combination with a founder's tomb 77g. The Holy Sepulchre as a canopied monument 83h. The Holy Sepulchre as a separate recess in the wall. 90i. The Holy Sepulchre as a free-standing shrine . 102j. Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084. The Entombment Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 109C. Diversity of Representations of the Holy Sepulchre . 1171. Revival of Holy Sepulchre Buildings. 1172. After the Council of Trent. 1243. The Twentieth Century . . . . . . . 132VI THE SEPULCHRUM DOMINIIl. USE OF THE HOLY SEPULCHREIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . .A. The Liturgy in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem 143B. The Function of the Holy Sepulchre in the Mediaeval Easter Liturgy of Western Europe. . . . . 1471. The ceremonial Easter Liturgy . 147a. Introduction . . . . . . . . . 147b. Adoratio crucis . . . . . . . . 150c. The ritual of depositio and elevatio . 151d Depositio. . . . 153e. Vigilia paschalis 165f Elevatio. . . . . 1672. The Easter Play. . 170C. The Holy Sepulchre as an Andachtsbild . 175D. Use of the Holy Sepulchre from the Middle Ages on 1811. After the Council of Trent . 1812. The Twentieth Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION . 193BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . 197LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . 205INDEX OF PLACES . 207PLATES . . . . . 215.

Three Cities After Hitler

Author : Andrew Demshuk
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988577
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Three Cities After Hitler written by Andrew Demshuk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as “sacred sites” to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold “redemptive reconstruction” after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler—in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents’ spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them.

Architectural Conservation in Asia

Author : John H. Stubbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317406184
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Conservation in Asia written by John H. Stubbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when organized heritage protection in Asia is developing at a rapid pace, Architectural Conservation in Asia provides the first comprehensive overview of architectural conservation practice from Afghanistan to the Philippines. The country-by-country analysis adopted by the book draws out local insights, experiences, best practice and solutions for effective cultural heritage management that will inform study and practice both in Asia and beyond. Whereas architectural conservation in much of the Western world has been extensively documented, this book brings together coverage of many regions where architectural conservation has been understudied. Following on from the highly influential companion volumes on global architectural conservation and architectural conservation in Europe and the Americas, with this book the authors extend their pioneering global examination to the dynamic and evolving field of architectural conservation in Asia. Throughout the book, the authors and regional experts provide local case studies and profile topics that bring depth and insight to this ambitious study. As architectural conservation becomes increasingly global in practice, this book will be of considerable assistance to architectural conservation practitioners, site managers and students of architecture, planning, archaeology and heritage studies worldwide.

Unlocking the Church

Author : William Whyte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192515926
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Unlocking the Church written by William Whyte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of church buildings is almost entirely down to the zeal of Victorians such as John Henry Newman, Henry Wilberforce and Augustus Pugin, and their ideas about the role of architecture in our spiritual life and well-being. In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly changed the ways in which buildings were understood and experienced. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches became active agents in their own rights, capable of conveying theological ideas and designed to shape people's emotions. These church buildings are now a challenge: their maintenance, repair or repurposing are pressing problems for parishes in age of declining attendance and dwindling funds. By understanding their past, unlocking the secrets of their space, there might be answers in how to deal with the legacy of the Victorians now and into the future.

Yeats Annual No 6

Author : Warwick Gould
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349079480
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Yeats Annual No 6 written by Warwick Gould and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research-level publication for current thought and documentation upon the life and work of Yeats, focuses on Yeats at work on various manuscripts and on his tours of America. Two of his poems are published from manuscript for the first time.