Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

From the 2006 Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV and Grace La of UWM present the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form. This highly investigative studio pushed the physical and conceptual limits of given definitions of city, circulation, and program. Tested in two scenarios (one real in Tianjin, China and the other purely...

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor - in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows:

• what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image
• how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth...

Am Bevolkerungsruckgang in Deutschland besteht kein Zweifel. Leerstande, Baulucken, groere Brachen werden tief in das bestehende Stadtgefuge eingreifen. Die Stadte mussen umgebaut werden - aber wie? Namhafte Fachleute aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen untersuchen die Rahmenbedingungen, die in Zukunft die Stadtentwicklung pragen werden.

A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.

A series of portraits examines the minority quarters of six Mediterranean cities: Fez, Marrakesh, Trani, Tangier, Palermo, and Istanbul. Each chapter documents the architectural reminders of minority presence: the houses, churches, synagogues, shrines, legations, and other public spaces that have been abandoned or converted to other uses. Authors also examine the everyday experiences...