Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

In architecture, composition refers to the conception of a building according to principles of regularity and hierarchy, or according to the principles of obtaining equilibrium. However, it is not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the notion of composition becomes truly associated with architectural conception, notably under the influence of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and his statement on the Marche a suivre dans la composition d'un project quelconque Procedure to be followed in the composition of any project]. The concept quickly erodes during the twentieth...

Inhalt Vorwort: Zwischen common sense und angewandter Theorie. - Konrad Schroder, Zur Rolle des Worterbuchs in der Fremdsprachendidaktik der fruhen Neuzeit. - Hildegard Schaffler, Worterbucher und Medienwandel aus bibliothekarischer Sicht. - Wolfram Bublitz/Monika Bednarek, Nur im begrenzten Rahmen: Frames im Worterbuch. - Gunter Jehle, Prototype Semantics and Learners' Dictionaries of English. - Ulrike Rothe, Das einsprachige Worterbuch als Produkt von >Kultur

Originally published in 1934, London. The Unique City by Steen Eiler Rasmussen tells the fascinating story of one of the world's most influential metropoles. Rasmussen conducted extensive research on the London's history as well as on the manners and mores of its inhabitants. London. The Unique City is thus a classic work that remains an instructive guide to the city's history and urban forms.

"Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900 1925" is an illustrated catalog with companion essays for an exhibition of the same name at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. "Drawing the Future" explores the creative ferment among Chicago architects in the early twentieth century, coinciding with similar visions around the world.The essays focus on the highlights of the exhibition. David Van Zanten profiles Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Chicago architects who created an influential, prize-winning plan for...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Years: Progressivism: Aesthetics: Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape.

This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put...

Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire. Today, it is everywhere in our roads, bridges, sidewalks, walls, and architecture. For each person on the planet, nearly three tons of concrete are produced every year. Used almost universally in modern construction, concrete has become a polarizing material that provokes intense loathing in some and fervent passion in others.
Focusing on concrete s effects on culture rather than its technical properties, Concrete and Culture examines the ways concrete has changed our understanding of...

These papers illustrate,...