Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

Reality Bytes ist eine Sammlung von Essays von Bart Lootsma, geschrieben in den Jahren 1998 bis 2009. "Bytes" - nicht zu verwechseln mit "Bites" (Bisse) - bezieht sich auf den Mengenbegriff der Digitaltechnik. Reality Bytes ist auch gleichzeitig der Titel eines Essays von Bart Lootsma, in dem er das Verhaltnis der Gesellschaft zu Architekten und Stadtplanern untersucht.

Every society builds, and many, if not all, utilize architectural structures as markers to define place, patron, or experience. Often we consider these architectural markers as "monuments" or "monumental" buildings. Ancient Rome, in particular, is a society recognized for the monumentality of its buildings. While few would deny that the term "monumental" is appropriate for ancient Roman architecture, the nature of this characterization and its development in pre-Roman Italy is rarely considered carefully. What is "monumental" about Etruscan and early Roman architecture?

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Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and rocky, almost untillable land. The green forests, rich loam, red clay, and sandy soil attracted waves of immigrants, newcomers almost as varied as the landscape. They came first to explore and trade and then to work, often to overwork, the land. The result in architecture is one of conservatism and rebellion, a region supremely proud of its history and, all too often, neglectful of its...

Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an important locus of modernist architectural thought and practice. Under the mantle of modernism, the merchandising problems and possibilities of main streets, cities, and suburbs became legitimate--if also conflicted--responsibilities of the architectural profession.

In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley...

Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an important locus of modernist architectural thought and practice. Under the mantle of modernism, the merchandising problems and possibilities of main streets, cities, and suburbs became legitimate--if also conflicted--responsibilities of the architectural profession.

In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley...

The middle Georgia area including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek Revival, and Victorian styles, and beyond.

John Linley s descriptions of the diverse structures of the Oconee area are illustrated with more than three hundred photographs and representative floor plans. Fine architecture, as Linley shows, is greatly influenced by climate and geography, by...

Das Buch versammelt ausgewahlte Texte von Francois Burckhardt und erzahlt damit die Geschichte eines kulturellen Abenteuers im Ubergang von der Moderne zur Postmoderne. Berichtet wird von Erfahrungen und Tendenzen im Kulturbetrieb im Bereich von Architektur, Design und Kunsthandwerk in Frankreich, Osterreich, der Tschechischen Republik, Deutschland und Italien.

Themen sind das Verhaltnis von Geschichte zu Natur und den menschlichen Bedurfnissen; die Dialektik zwischen Globalisierung und Regionalismus; die Situation des Kunsthandwerks und die Aussichten fur dessen Aufschwung; die...

Country houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930, assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the Empire upon the British metropolis by showing both the geographical variations and the different cultural manifestations of that impact. The first half of the book concentrates on economic issues, as it lists the more than a thousand houses that were purchased using imperial wealth and analyses the...

This volume presents various ways to put construction works out to tender. In addition, it explains in practical terms how to describe construction work and how to prepare all of the documentation required for a complete invitation to tender.

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.

Architects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms. These methods make it possible to break free of the traditional canon of forms and established paradigms. This volume focuses in depth on the design methods that have decisively shaped current architectural practice.

Basics Architekturfotografie erklart die wichtigsten Grundlagen der Fotografie, der Bildanalyse und der Bildbearbeitung und gibt Tipps und Hinweise fur die eigene Arbeit.