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Author : Ken Charlton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Federal Capital Architecture written by Ken Charlton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Minkenberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782380108
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Power and Architecture written by Michael Minkenberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
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Publisher : Royal Australian Institute of Architects
ISBN 13 : 9780909724382
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Canberra written by and published by Royal Australian Institute of Architects. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Growth, Efficiency and Modernism written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Z. Wise
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Capital Dilemma: written by Michael Z. Wise and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision to move Germany's government seat from Bonn to Berlin by the year 2000 poses an epic architectural challenge and has fostered an international debate on which building styles are appropriate to represent German national identity. Capital Dilemma investigates the political decisions and historical events behind the redesign of Berlin's official architecture. It tells a complex and exciting drama of politics, memory, cultural values, and architecture, in which Helmut Kohl, Albert Speer, Sir Norman Foster, and I. M. Pei all figure as players. If capital city design projects are symbols of national identity and historical consciousness, Berlin is the supreme example. In fact, architecture has played a pivotal role throughout Germany's turbulent twentieth-century history. After the fall of the monarchy, Germany gave birth to the Bauhaus, whose founders argued that their own revolutionary designs could shape human destiny. The century's warring ideologies, Nazism and Communism, also used architecture for their own political ends. In its latest incarnation, Berlin will become the capital of the fifth German state in this century to be ruled from that city. How will the official architecture of reunified Berlin, a democratic capital being built amid totalitarian remains, be different this time around? Th e Federal Republic of Germany, a highly stable democracy in stark contrast to its predecessors, has been struggling with burdensome architectural legacies. In the process, it has considered remedies as varied as outright destruction, refurbishment, and, in the case of the former Nazi Central Bank now being converted into the new Foreign Ministry, physical concealment.
Author : Lawrence Vale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134729219
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Power and National Identity written by Lawrence Vale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Author : United States. Executive Office of the President. Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Report to the President by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space written by United States. Executive Office of the President. Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Debora Wood
Publisher : Block Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Marion Mahony Griffin written by Debora Wood and published by Block Museum. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings by Marion Mahony Griffin with articles about the artist by Deborah Wood, David Van Zanten, Christopher Vernon, and Alison Fisher.
Author : James Holston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226349799
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Modernist City written by James Holston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-09-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The utopian design and organization of Brasília—the modernist new capital of Brazil—were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.
Author : Michael Curtis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625859716
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.: A History & Guide written by Michael Curtis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For architecture aficinados and historians, this comprehensive view of the statues, monuments and architectural plans of Washington DC provides an exciting insight into our federal city. Author Michael Curtis guides this tour of the heart of the District of Columbia's buildings, statues, and monuments. Classical design formed our nation's capital. The soaring Washington Monument, the columns of the Lincoln Memorial and the spectacular dome of the Capitol Building speak to the founders' expansive vision of our federal city. Learn about the L'Enfant and McMillan plans for Washington, D.C., and how those designs are reflected in two hundred years of monuments, museums and representative government. View the statues of our Founding Fathers with the eye of a sculptor and gain insight into the criticism and controversies of modern additions to Washington's monumental structure.
Author : Jane C. Loeffler
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981383
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Diplomacy written by Jane C. Loeffler and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Diplomacy reveals the complex interplay of architecture, politics, and power in the history of America's embassy-building program. Through colorful personalities, bizarre episodes, and high drama this compelling story takes readers from scandalous "inspection" junkets by members of Congress to bugged offices at the Moscow embassy to the daring rescue of American personnel in Somalia by Marines and Navy Seals. Rigorously researched and lucidly written, The Architecture of Diplomacy focuses on the embassy-building program during the Cold War years, when the United States initiated a massive construction campaign that would demonstrate its commitment to its allies and assert its presence as a superpower.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Labor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Capitol Architecture and Planning written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Kapsch
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421424886
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Building Washington written by Robert J. Kapsch and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of how the nation’s capital was built. In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot halfway between the northern and southern states, had few resources or inhabitants. Almost everything needed to build the federal city would have to be brought in, including materials, skilled workers, architects, and engineers. It was a daunting task, and these American Founding Fathers intended to do it without congressional appropriation. Robert J. Kapsch’s beautifully illustrated book chronicles the early planning and construction of our nation’s capital. It shows how Washington, DC, was meant to be not only a government center but a great commercial hub for the receipt and transshipment of goods arriving through the Potomac Canal, then under construction. Picturesque plans would not be enough; the endeavor would require extensive engineering and the work of skilled builders. By studying an extensive library of original documents—from cost estimates to worker time logs to layout plans—Kapsch has assembled a detailed account of the hurdles that complicated this massive project. While there have been many books on the architecture and planning of this iconic city, Building Washington explains the engineering and construction behind it.
Author : Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801872324
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Capital Drawings written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.
Author : Anne Jeanette Watson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 1863170685
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Beyond Architecture written by Anne Jeanette Watson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134463375
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities written by David Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the plans for sixteen important capital cities around the world, each with its own fully illustrated chapter written by an expert on the urban development of that city
Author : Stephen A. Mouzon
Publisher : New Urban Guild Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781931871112
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Original Green written by Stephen A. Mouzon and published by New Urban Guild Foundation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
