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Built upon love :architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections …
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- 9780262281409
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- 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
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Body and building :essays on the changing relation of body and architecture
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human bo…
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- 9780262271813
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- 1 online resource (427 pages) :illustrations
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Architecture, ceremonial, and power :the Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and …
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1986.Glru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic …
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- 0262368056
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- 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The architecture machine
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368064
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- 1 online resource (153 pages)illustrations
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Architecture in the Scandinavian countries
The most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today. From Viking structures to Renaissance housing projects, Medieval stave churches to modern crematoriums, Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries presents the most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today. Its more than 400 illustrations provide a visual introduction to nearly 10,000 years of building in the region,…
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- 0262368072
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- 1 online resource (401 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Architectural space in Ancient Greece
Translation of the author's thesis, prepared at the Berlin Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule and published in 1937 under title: Raumordnung im griechischen St?adtebau.Doxiadis is best known as an architect-planner, as a consultant with an international clientele, as something of a prophet whose outlook is focused on man's worldwide future. But here, in his first major study, originally publi…
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- 0262368080
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- 1 online resource (xxxvii, 184 pages)illustrations
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Architecture, poetry, and number in the royal palace at Caserta
Although Vanvitelli was one of the most notable architects of his century, as Caserta was one of its major buildings, this study by a leading scholar of Baroque and Neapolitan architecture is the first book in English on the architect and his masterpiece.The great palace of Caserta, near Naples, probably the largest building erected in Europe in the eighteenth century, became an archetypal expr…
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- 0262368110
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- 1 online resource (318 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Survey of architectural history in Cambridge.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a rich mixture of closely mingled examples of architectural periods; 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century, with the 21st century already near the drawing board and before the planning board. Yet implicit in the city is a continuity overruling what might be chaos. The Cambridge Historical Commission was established not to piously preserve a static past, but to make mani…
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- 9780262368032
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- 1 online resource (volumes <1->) :illustrations, maps.
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The education of the architect :historiography, urbanism, and the growth of a…
The authors of these eighteen essays have all been deeply influenced by the philosophy of architecture developed by Stanford Anderson, through his writings and through the teaching program of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, which he and Henry Millon founded at MIT over twenty years ago. This "school" of architectural thought views architecture as a world of inqu…
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- 0262367998
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- 1 online resource (xv, 478 pages :illustrations
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Le Corbusier, the noble savage :toward an archaeology of modernism
This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of Le Corbusier scholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, taking aim at such fundamental riddles as "Where did his design vocabulary come from?" and "How was his aesthetic sense formed?"Vogt's investigation of LC's early lif…
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- 0262367955
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- 1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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