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Modern Architecture

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232539
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.

The Architecture of Happiness

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993872
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Happiness written by Alain De Botton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.

The Architectural Novel

Author : Nicola Minott-Ahl
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802071717
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Architectural Novel written by Nicola Minott-Ahl and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in disciplines from architecture and the fine arts, to the various branches of history and social studies, will find this study timely given contemporary European controversies over what constitutes national identity and what parts are played by race, philosophy and religion, economics, immigration, and invasion. Many major European national identities barely predate the nineteenth century and were shaped not just by wars, philosophies, industrial change, and governmental policies, but also by artistic manipulation of how people perceived public spaces: landscapes, cityscapes, religious and cultural structures, museums, and monuments commemorating conflict. Among the most masterful manipulators of the day were popular nineteenth-century French and British novelists, who gave famous buildings a special prominence in their writing. Some, like Victor Hugo are still read and respected by scholars. Others, like Alexandre Dumas, though still widely read, are undervalued by contemporary critics. Still others, like William Harrison Ainsworth, a prolific English writer, are all but forgotten. These three writers authored architectural novels which gave major ancient Gothic buildings a new and portable cultural presence well beyond their physical location. During these revolutionary times, when national symbolism was being questioned and challenged, the threatened rupture with the past was admirably addressed through their art.

The Building in the Text

Author : Roy Eriksen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038799
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Building in the Text written by Roy Eriksen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach opens the way to wide-ranging discussions of the structure and meaning of a variety of literary texts and also provides new insights into the famed architectural ekphrases of Alberti and Vasari. Analyzing such words as &"plot,&" &"topos,&" &"fabrica,&" and &"stanza,&" Eriksen discloses the fundamental spatial symmetries and complexities in the writings of Ariosto, Shakespeare, and Milton, among other major figures. Ultimately, his book uncovers and clarifies a tradition of literary architecture that is rooted in antiquity and based on correspondences regarded as ordering principles of the cosmos. Eriksen&’s book will be of interest to art historians, historians of literature, and those concerned with the classical heritage, rhetoric, music, and architecture.

The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Architecture

Author : Louisa Caroline Tuthill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book History of Architecture written by Louisa Caroline Tuthill and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Catholic Cabinet, and Chronicle of Religious Intelligence

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Cabinet, and Chronicle of Religious Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520405560
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages written by Paul Binski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between late antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion.

The Architect

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Realm of the Hapsburgs

Author : Sidney Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Realm of the Hapsburgs written by Sidney Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

10 Books that Screwed Up the World

Author : Benjamin Wiker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159698063X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book 10 Books that Screwed Up the World written by Benjamin Wiker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, the breakdown of the family, and disastrous social experiments. And yet the toxic ideas peddled in these books are more popular and pervasive than ever. In fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Fortunately, Professor Benjamin Wiker is ready with an antidote, exposing the beguiling errors in each of these evil books. Witty, learned, and provocative, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World provides a quick education in the worst ideas in human history and explains how we can avoid them in the future.

History of Architecture From the Earliest Times

Author : L. C. Tuthill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429602634
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book History of Architecture From the Earliest Times written by L. C. Tuthill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1848, according to the author, ‘every person has an individual interest in Architecture as a useful art, and all who cultivate a taste of the Fine Arts must give it a high place among them.’ The chapters include examinations of many types of architecture such as Egyptian, Persian and Chinese, as well as considering the principles of architectre, the qualifications for an architect and the conteporary state of the art in America.

Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Wend Graf Kalnein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300060130
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century written by Wend Graf Kalnein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century Wend von Kalnein French architecture of the eighteenth century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe. This handsome book is a survey of the French architecture of the period. It begins with the origins of the 'style moderne' under the last years of Louis XIV, discusses the end of Rococo and the return to antiquity, and concludes with the Revolutionary architecture and the house of Madame Récamier. Kalnein describes the development of palace and hôtel architecture by the two great architects de Cotte and Boffrand, discussing such large urban projects as the reconstruction of Rennes and the Places Royales. He traces the return to antiquity (which began when the scholars of the Académie d'Architecture were sent to Rome), the revolutionary architecture with its grand, but never executed, projects, and the shift from neoclassicism to early romanticism. Kalnein also examines the decorative arts of the period, which became even more important than architecture in the Rococo period. Focusing on such architects as Boffrand, Gabriel, and Redoux, he shows how a study of their building decoration illuminates the evolution of 'style moderne,' the battle between Rococo and Neoclassicism, and the dissemination of French styles throughout Europe.

The Realm of the Habsburgs

Author : Sidney Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Realm of the Habsburgs written by Sidney Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Architect

Author : Rosemary Hill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155751
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book God's Architect written by Rosemary Hill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's Architect is the first modern biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), one of Britain's greatest architects. The author draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate Pugin's life and work as architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer, as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years, and his sudden death at forty. -- Inside cover.

Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent

Author : Rumiko Handa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317563301
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent written by Rumiko Handa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as unintended effects or the results of degeneration. The ideal is for a piece of architecture to remain permanently perfect and complete. This contrasts sharply with reality where changes take place as people move in, requirements change, events happen, and building materials are subject to wear and tear. Rumiko Handa argues it is time to correct this imbalance. Using examples ranging from the Roman Coliseum to Japanese tea rooms, she draws attention to an area that is usually ignored: the allure of incomplete, imperfect and impermanent architecture. By focusing on what happens to buildings after they are ‘complete’, she shows that the ‘afterlife’ is in fact the very ‘life’ of a building. However, the book goes beyond theoretical debate. Addressing professionals as well as architecture students and educators, it persuades architects of the necessity to anticipate possible future changes and to incorporate these into their original designs.

Luigi Moretti

Author : Roberto Podda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040091032
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Luigi Moretti written by Roberto Podda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906–1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as editor-in-chief of the magazine SPAZIO, as well as a further essay on parametric architecture, published in 1971–1972, in the first issue of the magazine MOEBIUS, directed by his friend Giulio Roisecco. This book rediscovers Moretti's personal impact on international architectural theory through thoughtful comments that shed light on the architect's modernity and original approach. Although Moretti is an architect renowned for his projects and buildings, his theoretical essays are less well-known. The aim of this book is therefore to explore Moretti's theoretical work, which covers many topics, including pictorial art, sculpture, architecture, urban planning, music, cinema, poetry, mathematics, computer science, parametricity. In addition to the translation from Italian to English, the book contains reproductions of the original articles, accompanied by a series of essays of critical commentary and updated interpretations that show new ways of approaching, reading, and understanding the foundations of current architectural theory and its progress over the last 50 years. This book approaches Moretti's thought from a new perspective, with the aim of reconsidering the originality of this brilliant and visionary architect who was intellectually ostracised for many years due to political and ideological contingencies, even though he personified the ideal of the 'Renaissance man' in modern times. A re-reading of Moretti's work is more justified today than has ever been before, both to reconnect the threads with contemporaneity and to make his intensity and farsightedness of vision known to researchers, teachers, and students working in the areas of architecture and design theory, technology, and art today.