Heavenly Mansions And Other Essays On Architecture

Author : John Summerson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318579
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture written by John Summerson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly written essays on the aesthetic principles and enduring motives of architecture.

Author : Sir John Newenham Summerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Author : John Summerson
Publisher : Ams PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9780404202491
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture written by John Summerson and published by Ams PressInc. This book was released on 1949 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir John Newenham Summerson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Download or read book Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays written by Sir John Newenham Summerson and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300267398
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Architecture Matters written by Paul Goldberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture’s place in the contemporary moment “Architecture begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, “when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.” In Why Architecture Matters, he shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the vast, flowing Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Guggenheim Bilbao. He eloquently describes the Church of Sant’Ivo in Rome as a work that “embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination.” In his afterword to this new edition, Goldberger addresses the current climate in architectural history and takes a more nuanced look at projects such as Thomas Jefferson’s academical village at the University of Virginia and figures including Philip Johnson, whose controversial status has been the topic of much recent discourse. He argues that the emotional impact of great architecture remains vital, even as he welcomes the shift in the field to an increased emphasis on social justice and sustainability.

Author : Frank E. Salmon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summerson and Hitchcock written by Frank E. Salmon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Jean-Pierre Chupin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350343641
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analogical Thinking in Architecture written by Jean-Pierre Chupin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, “design thinking” has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think “outside the box.” This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by “analogical thinking”-an agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar. The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of "analogous cities" as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visual comparisons in architectural discourse. Comparing views on the role of analogies and metaphors by prominent voices in architecture and related disciplines from the 17th century to the present, the book shows how the “analogical world of the project” is revealed as a wide-open field of creative and cognitive interactions. These visual and textual operations are explained through 36 analogical plates which can be read as an inter-text demonstrating how analogy has the power to reconcile design and theories.

Author : Steven J. Gores
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326633
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychosocial Spaces written by Steven J. Gores and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He next examines Sophia Lee's novel The Recess, along with prints and sketches of ruins, to place the monastic ruin at the focus of desire to repress discontinuity in the past, which in turn permitted individuals to conceive of constructing identity based on genealogy. Then, through a study of Henry Fielding's Amelia, he discusses portrait miniatures and silhouettes as fetishized symbols of erotic ties, showing how images of a beloved, with their promises for the future, were used as a basis for constructing individual identity."--Jacket.

Author : Trevor Garnham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134053061
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture Re-assembled written by Trevor Garnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design. This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a ‘history of histories’. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement – Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck – and Post-modernism – such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It shows how Soane, Schinkel and Stirling, amongst others, made a meaningful use of history and contrasts this with how a misreading of Hegel has led to an abuse of history and an uncritical flight to the future. This is not an armchair history but a lively discussion of our place between past and future that promotes thinking for making.

Author : Armando Rabaça
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN 13 : 9892613376
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier, History and Tradition written by Armando Rabaça and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The view of modernism as representing an epistemological break between technology and history and tradition has long been challenged. Le Corbusier’s work has proved to be an inexhaustible reference point in this debate. This is due, on the one hand, to the legacy of nineteenth-century historicism, and on the other to his creative process of creation through destruction which, as John Summerson has noted, is comparable to the processes of avant-garde poets and painters. The contributions to this book explore particular episodes which bring to light both the operative role of the past in the creation of a new abstract synthesis, and Le Corbusier’s modernist historical consciousness. They illustrate how the past participated in the modernist creative process of abstract art, from the 1920s machine aesthetics to the late infatuation with myth. They also shed light on the extent to which the operative quality of the history was framed by a comprehensive historical vision that took the form of metanarrative, which neither the analytical studies on his architecture nor the synthetic approaches to his philosophical thinking should dismiss.