Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world's largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious currents of Asia coalesced and flourished. Despite these and many other traits that make Kyoto a place of both Japanese and world historical significance, the physical appearance of the premodern city remains largely unknown. Through a synthesis of textual, pictorial, and archeological sources,...

"This is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down, the justification for which is that the hut was the setting in which Martin Heidegger wrote phenomenological texts that became touchstones for late-twentieth-century architectural theory." -- from the foreword by Simon Sadler

Beginning in the summer of 1922, philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) occupied a small, three-room cabin in the Black Forest Mountains of southern Germany. He called it "die Hutte" ("the hut"). Over the years, Heidegger worked on many of his most famous writings in this cabin, from his...

Stephen C. Jett and Virginia E. Spencer have devoted years of fieldwork to studying the origin, evolution, and construction of Navajo buildings: not only hogans, houses, and summer dwellings, but also numerous other structures related to activities such as food preparation,...

This memoir recalls his traumatic experiences under the genocidal regime, which unfold like scenes of a fast-paced thriller.

Dr. Chea is now retired and lives with his family in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He can be reached via email at 1seihachea@gmail.com.

Historische Bauwerke erlauben uns Einsichten in das Wesen an sich bereits verfluchtigter, auf andere Weise nicht mehr erfahrbarer Zeitabschnitte. Doch wie authentisch sind diese Relikte und was meint diese Frage eigentlich? Anhand der Betrachtung dieses hochaktuellen Begriffs Authentizitat zeigt das Buch auf, wie stark sich die Werke der Vergangenheit und damit auch unsere Erkenntnisse uber sie verandern und wie unstet unsere Sprache ist, mit der wir uns daruber verstandigen. Schillernde Unscharfe verknupft spannende philosophische Gedanken mit konkreten Beobachtungen und entwirft...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for...

This substantive yet easy-to-use guide to selected French gothic churches and cathedrals provides profiles of fourteen important religious buildings. They are located in different parts of France, were constructed at different times and in different styles, and include both well-known and less well-known churches and cathedrals. They range from the tiny church of Saint Maclou in Rouen--perhaps the best example of flamboyant design--to the world's most visited Gothic cathedral, Notre Dame in Paris. A second section of the book considers what a Gothic cathedral is as well as their medieval...

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras's refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues.

In Banaras Reconstructed, Madhuri Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that...

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras's refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues.

In Banaras Reconstructed, Madhuri Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that...

Trotz Miasmen-Angst und Sittenstrenge war das Bad stets ein fester Bestandteil der fruhneuzeitlichen Hofkultur, der bislang nicht umfassend untersucht wurde. Die Beitrage widmen sich Architektur, Ausstattung und Funktion von Schlossbadern seit der italienischen Renaissance bis zur Franzosischen Revolution. Komplexe ikonographische Deutungen und vielfaltige Antikenbezuge in Architektur und Ausstattung veranschaulichen den hohen Anspruch des hofischen Bades. Neben noch bestehenden oder rekonstruierbaren Raumen geht es ebenso um Badedarstellungen in den Bildkunsten, wie etwa in den Gemalden...