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Architecture as Icon

Author : Slobodan Ćurčić
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Architecture as Icon written by Slobodan Ćurčić and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylized physical forms. Previous scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has been largely focused on depictions of holy figures, dismissing representations of architecture as irrelevant space-filling background. Architecture as Icon demonstrates that background representations of architecture are meaningful, active components of compositions, often as significant as the holy figures. The book provides a critical view for understanding the Byzantine conception of architectural forms and space and the corresponding intellectual underpinnings of their representation." "Architecture as Icon features four thought-provoking essays. The catalogue groups the material into four categories: generic, specific, and symbolic representations, culminating in a final grouping entitled "Jerusalem." Handsomely designed and illustrated, this volume addresses various approaches to depicting architecture in Byzantine art that contrast sharply with those of the Renaissance and Western artistic tradition." --Book Jacket.

The Icon Project

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190464186
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Icon Project written by Leslie Sklair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pioneering look at the ways in which contemporary architecture serves the interests of the capitalist class, from global North to South and through to the petro-cities of the Gulf States In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always driven by private interests. In The Icon Project, sociologist Leslie Sklair focuses on ways in which capitalist globalization is produced and represented all over the world, especially in globalizing cities. Sklair traces how the iconic buildings of our era-elaborate shopping malls, spectacular museums and vast urban megaprojects-constitute the triumphal "Icon Project" of contemporary global capitalism, promoting increasing inequality and hyperconsumerism. He sets out to explain how the architecture industry organizes the social production and marketing of iconic structures and how corporations increasingly dominate the built environment and promote the trend towards globalizing, consumerist cities. The Icon Project, Sklair argues, is a weapon in the struggle to solidify capitalist hegemony as well as reinforce transnational capitalist control of where we live, what we consume, and how we think"--

Icons of Sound

Author : Bissera V. Pentcheva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000207366
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Sound written by Bissera V. Pentcheva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and medieval studies.

Mute Icons

Author : Marcelo Spina
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638409498
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Mute Icons written by Marcelo Spina and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and defamiliarization play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet engaging architectural images. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the "shock and awe" of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons. Dwelling in the paradox between silence and sign and aiming to debunk a false dichotomy between critical discourse, a pursue of formal novelty and the attainment of social ethics, “Mute Icons” reaffirms the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image, suggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity. Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.

The sensual icon

Author : Bissera V
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271035846
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The sensual icon written by Bissera V and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.

A Philosophy Of Interior Design

Author : Stanley Abercrombie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982291
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy Of Interior Design written by Stanley Abercrombie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and explains the fundamentals of interior design. Because it does not emphasize current trends and fashion, its value will be long lasting.

Icons of Architecture

Author : Sabine Thiel-Siling
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons of Architecture written by Sabine Thiel-Siling and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of twentieth-century architecture featuring short essays on innovations in design and profiles of architects. Includes photos, drawings, and building plans.

The Los Angeles Central Library

Author : Kenneth A. Breisch
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064908
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Los Angeles Central Library written by Kenneth A. Breisch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library’s early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution’s first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organization ensconced in two rooms in downtown LA into one of the largest public library systems in the United States—with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centerpiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building’s sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library’s murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. “A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon,” wrote Alexander—a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue’s architectural gem. Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings of the twentieth century and illuminates the formation of an indispensible modern public institution: the American public library.

Taking Things Seriously

Author : Joshua Glenn
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568986906
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Taking Things Seriously written by Joshua Glenn and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about the things that inspire all of us, from the sacred to the profane, from everyday objects like a marble or a rubber stamp, to the more surprising such as a dirt pile or a turtle tail. Artists, writers, designers, among many others, contribute their objects and ruminations that encourage, motivate, and energize their own creativity."--Provided by publisher.

Hip-Hop Architecture

Author : Sekou Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350116173
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop Architecture written by Sekou Cooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion, oppression, and domination rather than expression, aspiration, and inspiration. This book is not for conformists-Black, White, or other.” As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifesto-the voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop's cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas. Examining the present and the future of Hip-Hop Architecture, the book also explores its historical antecedents and its theory, placing it in a wider context both within architecture and within Black and African American movements. Throughout, the work is illustrated with inspirational case studies of architectural projects and creative practices, and interspersed with interludes and interviews with key architects, designers, and academics in the field. This is a vital and provocative work that will appeal to architects, designers, students, theorists, and anyone interested in a fresh view of architecture, design, race and culture. Includes Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

Icons of American Architecture [2 volumes]

Author : Donald Langmead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313342083
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Icons of American Architecture [2 volumes] written by Donald Langmead and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and world, popular culture? Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide. Approximately twenty five images are included in the set, along with sidebars featuring additional structures.

Architecture is a Verb

Author : Sarah Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000342654
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Architecture is a Verb written by Sarah Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second, it understands human action in terms of radical embodiment—grounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, remembering—in the body. Third, it asks what a building does—that is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action. Finally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions. Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generation of designers.

A Concise History of American Architecture

Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of American Architecture written by Leland M. Roth and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the factors and influences that have enriched American architecture throughout its development from colonial times to the present, covering houses, apartments, factories, and office buildings and the architects who designed them.

Pure Hardcore Icons

Author : Cruz Garcia
Publisher : Artifice Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781908967398
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Pure Hardcore Icons written by Cruz Garcia and published by Artifice Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the kingdom of architecture the shape reigns supreme. Ever since the beginning of history, pure geometric form has been one of architecture's recurrent obsessions. A genealogy of buildings shaped as pyramids, spheres, and cubes can be traced back to ancient times, while contemporary projects, either as poured concrete or virtual bytes, often resemble stacked boxes and looping skyscrapers. Despite torrents of pure shapes flooding with evidence magazine pages and computer screens around the world, architecture lacks a written work to declare its intentions. Pure Hardcore Icons is the first manifesto on pure form in architecture. WAI Architecture Think Tank, directed by authors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia, have created a vade mecum with provocative collages, essays and an interview that promise to bring form--a persistent taboo in the theoretical discourse--to the forefront of the architectural discussion. Through a mixture of perspicacity, conviction and humour, Pure Hardcore Icons aims to raise awareness about the dialectic of pure form and architecture, hoping that its potential and limitations could be fully grasped either in practice, academia, or as a cultural and intellectual exercise.

The Feeling of Things

Author : Adam Caruso
Publisher : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
ISBN 13 : 9788434311862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Feeling of Things written by Adam Caruso and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Caruso is not only a member, together with Peter St John, of the London-based architecture office Caruso St John but also a prolific author who has focused his thoughts on the practice of architecture and who has taken a new look at some of the leading figures of the so-called “other tradition” in the Modern Movement. In “Sigurd Lewerentz and a material basis for form” (1997), “The Tyranny of the New” (1998), “The Feeling of Things” (1999), “The Emotional City” (2000), and “Towards an Ontology of Construction” (2002), we find a new perception of the radical approach adopted in modern and contemporary architecture.

Strange Details

Author : Mike Cadwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Strange Details written by Mike Cadwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the work of four canonical architects who "made strange" with the most resistant aspect of architecture - construction. This title explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies' Farnsworth House, and more.

Icons of World Architecture

Author : Werner Blaser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787212079727
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Icons of World Architecture written by Werner Blaser and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What constitutes good architecture?" is a question Werner Blaser was always asked by friends, readers, companions and students. In this comprehensive work the author of many publications sets out on a search for the answer to that question. By analyzing special buildings, different aspects and interconnections become clear, which by themselves or in combination define an architectural quality. Drawing on photographs from his impressive archive, which he accompanies with short explanatory texts, Werner Blaser vividly demonstrates the basic foundations of architecture and perception. He describes the relation between the Finnish landscape and the works of Alvar Aalto or he shows how natural principles are found in the architecture of Santiago Calatravas or how Renzo Piano works with light. The borrowing of local construction traditions and the utilization of regional materials in the structures of Jørn Utzon, Frank Lloyd Wright or in traditional Chinese and Indian architecture are also elucidated. Photographs of the works of Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster or Helmut Jahn - often juxtaposed with the author's own buildings and projects - illustrate the passing on of time-honored construction principles. The last chapter of the book focuses on the relation between archetype and image and the element of silence in construction. During the course of his studies the Swiss architect and author Werner Blaser came into contact with Alvar Aalto and Mies van der Rohe, whose structural philosophy influenced him. In his many publications he detects the basic similarities between the western classical Modern and the traditional architecture of the Middle East and Asia.