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Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. Buildings Across Time is a diverse sampling of the built environment written in a straightforward but lively style that is rich with detail. The text contains extensive descriptive narrative leavened with focused critical analysis, which allows the book to stand alone and invites lecturers to impose their studied interpretations on the material without the danger of undue ambiguity or conflict. In a world that grows smaller by the day, it presents a global perspective, and in a discipline that concerns built objects that are often beautiful as well as functional, it is copiously illustrated, intelligently designed, and consistently usable.
In its exploration of how spaces become places, The Spaces between Buildings invites readers to see anew the spaces they encounter every day and often take for granted. Poetics of Place: How Ancient Buildings Inspired Great Writing shows students how seminal pieces of architecture across time inspired the works of great writers.
This anthology draws connections between human built environments--spanning from the cave paintings of the Paleolithic Era to the end of the Middle Ages--and the travel accounts, novels, and poetry inspired by these architectural feats.
This collection features readings by Victor Hugo, Nathaniel H. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building.
And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities.
This idea may be radical it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.
Written by a distinguished architectural historian and theorist, this truly remarkable and indispensable study shows how the material culture of our forebears, from building to clothing, food, ritual and dance, was inextricably bound up with the mode of survival obtained in a particular place and time It is a study that will surely become required reading for every student of material culture.
Looking through the lens of both time and geography, the history of early architecture is brought to life with full-color photographs, maps, and drawings. Drawing on the latest research in archaeological and anthropological knowledge, this landmark book also looks at how indigenous societies build today in order to help inform the past.
A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in and translated into half a dozen languages. The chapters on leading contemporary architects have been greatly expanded. There is new material on the later development of Frank Lloyd Wright and the more recent buildings of Walter Gropius, particularly his American Embassy in Athens. In his discussion of Le Corbusier, Mr. There is a section on his relations with his clients and an assessment of his influence on contemporary architecture, including a description of the Le Corbusier Center in Zurich designed just before his death , which houses his works of art.
The chapters on Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto have been brought up to date with examples of their buildings in the sixties. Giedion considers representative of post—World War II architectural concepts. Finally, the conclusion has been enlarged to include a survey of the limits of the organic in architecture.
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