Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

This volume describes the various tasks that fall to architects in construction supervision in practical and understandable terms. It addresses construction supervision and quality control in general as well as individual subjects such as quantity survey, account settlement, and cost and supplemental services management.

From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole spectrum of ethnic origins, traditions, and religious practices.

In this book, Akel Ismail Kahera explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950....

Dieser Band stellt internationale Projekte vor, die vom Grundriss uber Erschlieung, Nutzungskonzepte bis hin zum Einsatz wirtschaftlicher Bausysteme die Bandbreite und Komplexitat der Bauaufgabe dokumentieren.

Gunther Fischers revidierte Ubersetzung und Interpretation der theoretischen Kapitel dieses klassischen Textes eroffnet die Chance, die Kolonisierung des Fachs durch den kunstgeschichtlichen Blick ruckgangig zu machen. Sie entdeckt Vitruv wirklich neu: nicht als Kunsttheorie, sondern als genuine Architekturtheorie.

Mies van der Rohe, master of modern architecture, declared that Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison takes a closer look at these bricks, providing an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day.

Travels in the History of Architecture beings its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of...

Following up on his successful "World Architecture Index "(Greenwood Press, 1991), Edward Teague applies his research and organizational skills to provide detailed coverage and easy access to the wealth of architectural landmarks in Italy as illustrated in eighty books widely available in libraries. Citations are provided for illustrations of approximately 1,800 works of architecture, engineering, and planning representing most historic periods and styles from prehistoric times to the present. Included are details on exterior and interior views and plans, sections, and elevations.

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Providing access to over 6,500 house designs published between 1850 and 1915, this work is indexed by architects' or designers' names as well as by the geographic location of each house when given in the periodical. It also includes a geographic index of architects, an annotated bibliography of the periodicals indexed, and an illustrated section with samples of the designs included in the index.

In "Between Garden and City," Dorothee Imbert examines the career of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes (1909-1989), firmly establishing his place in the modernist movement. Canneel's theoretical positions and innovative designs sought to align the emergent landscape profession with architecture and urbanism while demonstrating its potential to address the needs of modern society.

Canneel studied at La Cambre (Belgium's equivalent to the Bauhaus) under landscape urbanist Louis van der Swaelmen and graduated as the school's first landscape architect in 1931. Dedicated to...

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of the Gothic which heralded new, structurally daring architecture. The book ends with the Italian rediscovery of classical ideas and ideals and the emergence of the great Renaissance theorists and architects, including Brunelleschi, Alberti, and Bramante. As well as the palazzos, villas...

In celebration of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, this issue of the Nexus Network Journal is devoted to relationships between astronomy, mathematics and architecture. It looks at how astronomy influenced architecture and urban design.

In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello.

These structures were designed to support the performance of a single task: cooking food; washing clothes; smoking meat; storing last winter's ice; or keeping milk, cheese, and cream fresh. Privies and small...