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Architecture - Gothic and Renaissance

By T. Roger Smith

Gothic and Renaissance Architecture

Fully Illustrated

The Classic Publication on Gothic Architecture

THE architecture generally known as Gothic, but often described as Christian Pointed, prevailed throughout Europe to the exclusion of every rival for upwards of three centuries; and it is to be met with, more or less, during two others. Speaking broadly, it may be said that its origin took place in the twelfth century, that the thirteenth was the period of its development, the...

A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics of theory along with subjects associated with theory and how these associations are recognized. In addition, case studies tackle both individual theorists and common approaches to the topic. Aimed at the new student of architectural theory, if you are just beginning to tackle this...

This unpublished work is a must read for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Marco does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places Frascari s text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Marco s sketchbooks are...

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work....

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...

Die Akropolis ist in Le Corbusiers Werk allgegenwartig. Sie war Inspirationsquelle, Prufstein fur die eigene Architektur und Massstab fur die eigenen Anspruche. Sie war aber auch zentraler Bestandteil seiner Selbstinszenierung und trug zur erfolgreichen Grundung des Mythos Le Corbusier bei.

Turit Frobe nimmt eine Neubewertung der Rolle der Akropolis fur Le Corbusiers Werk jenseits seiner eigenen Narration vor. Sie rekonstruiert seine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Monument, stellt dar, welcher Quellen er sich bediente und zeigt, was er daruber hinaus an Erfahrungen ganz anderen...

2016 New editorship

Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Gunther Fischer, Angelika Schnell

Not unjustly referred to as legendary, this series of books on the history and theory of architecture and urban development was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Conrads, who was joined by Peter Neitzke as a co-editor of the series in the early 1980s. Now numbering over 150 titles, it is the most comprehensive German-language book series covering these fields. Following the deaths of the two longtime editors Ulrich Conrads (2013) and Peter Neitzke (2015), a...

Das Dach ist die Urform menschlicher Behausungen, bei dem Holz als Baustoff fur die Verwendung von Dachkonstruktionen - zumindest im Wohnhausbau - nach wie vor eine enorme Bedeutung zukommt. Aufgrund des geringen Gewichts, der schnellen Montage, der Elementierbarkeit und der modernen Verbindungstechnik werden auch in Zukunft Holzdachstuhle in Verwendung sein. Das Buch gibt einen Uberblick uber die gangigen Konstruktionssysteme, die im Altbau und Neubau angewendet werden, bis hin zu Sonderformen, Dachgaupen und modernen Konstruktionen.
In der Neuauflage wurden speziell die Auswirkungen...

In groformatigen, detaillierten isometrischen Zeichnungen stellt die Publikation 16 ausgewahlte Schweizer Betonbauten in den Mastaben 1:10 und 1:1 analytisch vor. Die Gebaude stehen exemplarisch fur die vielfaltigen Methoden, mit Beton zeitgenossische Architektur zu erzeugen. Bildreihen zu den Bauprozessen und Texte zur architektonisch-konstruktiven Methodik sowie eine systematische Ubersicht der Bildungsprinzipien von Gebaudehullen eroffnen dem Leser ein neues, vertieftes Verstandnis.

Das Buch ist Resultat vertiefter Recherche der Autoren am Architekturdepartement der ETH Zurich....

The publication presents an analysis of 16 contemporary Swiss concrete buildings in scales 1:10 and 1:1 using large-scale detailed isometric drawings. The buildings represent examples of the diverse methods available for using concrete to build contemporary architecture. Series of images on the construction processes and texts on the architectural / construction methods, and a systematic overview of the construction principles of building envelopes, provide the reader with a new, deeper understanding.

The book is the result of in-depth research by the authors at the Architecture...