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This innovative book interprets architectural spaces in the light
of the underlying tensions between 18th-century Dublin as a
fashionable resort and the attempts by the authorities to deal with
some of the results of its apparent profligacy. These include the
creation of new institutions as well as other measures designed to
remove ugly realities from the street and purify urban space. Based
mainly on 18th- and 19th-century archival material from the Rotunda
Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for
Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dublin
as an ideal Protestant city by investigating the hidden world
behind its wide streets and magnificent Georgian facades. The
decision to establish the British Isles first maternity hospital on
the northern edge of Sackville Street (today s O Connell Street)
was grounded in a series of imperatives where obstetrics and
medicine were only part of the overall story. The adjacent Pleasure
Gardens, created ostensibly to provide funds for the hospital,
introduced new types of social engagement and an increase of
commodified forms of entertainment to the city. The Gardens,
characterised by acts of spectacle and display, soon acquired an
additional reputation as a site of sexual adventure and louche
behaviour, one which ultimately would be extended to the city.
In den letzten Jahren hat der Werkstoff Beton eine grosse
Renaissance erlebt und geniesst ob seiner skulpturalen
Eigenschaften und seiner Plastizitat gerade bei jungeren
Architekten grosse Wertschatzung. Auch hat das Material sich weiter
entwickelt; es gibt Beton heute in feinporigen, durchpigmentierten
Qualitaten, die den naturlichen Alterungsprozess durch
Witterungseinflusse ebenso gut wie Naturstein verkraften. Dieses
Buch gibt einen Uberblick zu den Anwendungsmoglichkeiten des
Baustoffs. Eine Auswahl von 22 internationalen Projekten wird
ausfuhrlich dokumentiert und gibt eine Fulle von Anregungen fur
Entwurf und Baupraxis. Dazu gehoren David Chipperfields Rowing
Museum in Henley bei London, Ben van Berkels Moebius Haus bei
Amsterdam, die Schule in Morella von Carme Pinos/Enric Miralles,
das Krematorium Berlin-Treptow von Axel Schultes und das Social
Science Centre in Oxford von Norman Foster. Der in der Nahe von
London lebende David Bennett ist Bauingenieur und als Berater im
Betonbau tatig."
Designed by architects Jan Duiker and Bernard Bijvoet in 1925, the
former Zonnestraal Sanatorium is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen
style, the Dutch branch of the International Style of modernism: as
one of the genuine highlights of twentieth-century architecture, it
has been considered for the UNESCO World Heritage List. The
complex, whose name means "ray of sunshine," was originally created
as a treatment center for tuberculosis patients. By the early
1960s, the buildings, which had been constructed for limited use in
concrete, steel and glass, were in ruin. After four decades of
research and planning, its restoration is nearing completion under
the supervision of the architects Hubert-Jan Henket and Wessel de
Jonge. This publication traces the former sanatorium's past,
emphasizing the battle for recognition of the Zonnestraal site's
importance, its complex restoration process and providing a
critical dossier on the general management of modern monuments.
The biennal of outstanding public spaces
By the year 2050 there will be nine billion people living on Earth.
Seventy-five percent of them will be living in cities. If the world
population continues to grow at this rate, it will take several
extra planets just to produce the food that will be needed to feed
it. While putting food on the table today seems to entail no more
than a visit to the market for the average city dweller, a
worldwide network of food producers and supermarket chains lies
hidden behind our meals. It is a network of convenience, but one
that poses new problems in that fewer people than ever decide what
more people than ever eat. The result of a multi-year
interdisciplinary program called "Foodprint," "Food for the City"
offers 13 visions from experts across the world: a politician, an
activist, an economist, a philosopher, a chef, an architect and a
farmer, among others. From the visionary to the practical, their
essays and proposals examine the influence food can have on the
culture, shape and functioning of the city, addressing issues of
urban farming and laboratory engineering, and weighing the choices
to be made between altering our food production systems or our
consumption patterns. The book comes with a timeline from 2050 BCE
to 2050 CE and a rich pictorial essay that demonstrates how feeding
a city has been a preoccupation as old as the city itself.
The Canterbury Quadrangle at St. John's College is one of the most
famous and beautiful of Oxford's historic buildings. It was built
in 1631-6 at the expense of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury,
as a gift to his old college and to celebrate his own rise to power
as Chancellor of the University and one of the greatest men in
Charles I's England. This book describes how the quadrangle was
built, investigates the sources of the design and the iconography
of the sculptural decoration, and puts forward some new ideas about
the place of the Canterbury Quadrangle in English architectural
history. The author also investigates the complicated history of
the library which occupies two of its sides, and discusses the
changing attitudes towards the conservation of the quadrangle that
have prevailed during the last hundred years.
The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide
series takes readers on a tour of Illinois Institute of Technology,
one of the landmarks of modern American architecture. With a master
plan and twenty renowned buildings by Mies van der Rohe, IIT has
long been a pilgrimage site for architects and students of design.
Thousands of visitors arrive each year to see International Style
masterpieces such as S. R. Crown Hall, home of IIT's College of
Architecture and one of Mies's greatest works.
Today, IIT is in the midst of an exciting new chapter in its design
history. A new student center designed by Rem Koolhaas and his
Office for Metropolitan Architecture has once again put IIT at the
forefront of the design world. Meanwhile, a new master plan for the
campus, new landscaping, and a residence-hall complex by Helmut
Jahn have reinvigorated student life and revitalized the
surrounding community of Chicago's South Side.
Featuring archival images of the Mies buildings as well as newly
commissioned photographs of IIT's latest additions, this
beautifully produced guide presents a comprehensive architectural
walk through America's most distinguished modern campus.
The American Porch, featured on NPR Weekend Edition, CBS Sunday
Morning, USA Today, and in the Chicago Tribune, relates the
colorful and surprising history of the porch in a lively journey
through architecture, literature, film, photography, and pop
culture, from ancient Greece to modern day.
Solidly researched and engagingly written, The American Porch
weaves many narratives into its larger story-how the word "stoic"
originated, how James Ives got Nathaniel Currier to begin
chronicling ordinary American life, how the "front porch campaign"
became a staple of American politics, why filmmakers and novelists
love the porch, and how the porch, after vanishing from American
domestic architecture after World War II, has made a comeback
thanks to preservationists and the New Urbanist movement in town
planning and domestic architecture.
The book begins with the renovation of Dolan's own porch, which led
him on a journey of inquiry that took unexpected directions.
According to Dolan, "When my wife and I rebuilt our porch, I felt a
very deep emotion, as if I was reconnecting with something. I
hadn't grown up in houses with front porches-my folks had a brick
colonial and later a Cape Cod, then a rambler. I started wondering
why I felt such a powerful connection to the experience of being on
a front porch."
Readers of The American Porch will understand and celebrate that
connection-in the evening hours on their front porches, if they are
lucky.
The book begins with the renovation of Dolan's own porch, which led
him on a journey of inquiry that took unexpected directions.
According to Dolan, "When my wife and I rebuilt our porch, I felt a
very deep emotion, as if I was reconnectingwith something. I hadn't
grown up in houses with front porches--my folks had a brick
colonial and later a Cape Cod, then a rambler. I started wondering
why I felt such a powerful connection to the experience of being on
a front porch."
Readers of THE AMERICAN PORCH will understand and celebrate that
connection--in the evening hours on their front porches, if they
are lucky.
This comparative analysis of global shopping centers provides a
greater understanding of their influence on urban architecture and
infrastructure. The volume identifies the essential characteristics
of an efficient shopping center and their adaptation to different
geographical locations, drawing a complete portrait of the shopping
center sector from the perspective of architecture and urban
development.
George Dance (1741-1825) was a pioneering architect who designed
the first Neo-Classical building in England (All Hallows, London
Wall) as well as the first Indian-style elevation (the City of
London's Guildhall), introduced the circus and crescent to London
town planning, invented the ammonite capital, designed a prototype
art gallery and made early use of structural iron and other
technical innovations. As architect to the City of London and a
founding member of the Royal Academy, Dance was an establishment
figure and yet was considered by his contemporaries as a 'poet
architect' who spoke of an 'Architecture unshackled'. The designs
at the Soane Museum include drawings made during Dance's six years
in Rome, designs for churches, monuments, prisons, a major
hospital, town houses and country houses as well as an art gallery,
bank, law court, library, museum, and anatomy theatre. His
important role as a town planner and structural innovator is well
illustrated and so is his skill as decorator and even garden
designer. Dance's eloquent buildings, which include the strikingly
austere Newgate Prison, as well as his use of daylight, canopy
domes, stripped forms and decoration had a powerful influence on
his protege John Soane, who acquired his master's drawings in 1836.
They remain in Sir John Soane's Museum, an invaluable record of an
exceptional architect. The catalogue also includes the drawings of
the elder George Dance (1695-1768), architect to the City of London
for more than 40 years. His major building, the Mansion House, is
unusually well documented and is catalogued here by Sally Jeffery.
Southend has had more than a dozen hospitals in its history and in
this book the authors have produced a lively narrative, full of
human and medical interest, enlivened by extracts from the diaries
of a former doctor and nurses that throw light on hospital life.
There are also biographical sketches of more than 100 individuals
who have played prominent roles as consultants, nurses and
administrators. It plots the development of clinical and
non-clinical services and the work of nurses, organisations
providing an insight into the state of medicine in earlier years.
Whilst on duty in the cramped confines of Muckle Flugga Lighthouse,
Ian Cassells, took to walking circuits round the lighthouse station
for exercise (12 laps to the mile). With this background, when the
Northern Lighthouse Board celebrated its bicentenary in 1986, he
made the suggestion that in commemoration of the anniversary he
carry out a sponsored walk to raise money for the RNLI, calling at
all the then manned lighthouses on the Scottish mainland. It took
the author 58 days in which he covered at least 1100 miles on foot.
Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United
States, the Library of Congress building (now known as the
Jefferson Building) reached its 100th anniversary in 1997 after an
eighty million dollar restoration that returned it to its original
state. At the turn of the century, Herbert Small, a newspaperman,
wrote a guide to the building and its decoration. His text, edited
by Henry Hope Reed, is reproduced here. It is preceded by
introductory essays by historian and Librarian of Congress Emeritus
Daniel J. Boorstin and noted writer Brendan Gill. The planning and
construction of the building are detailed in John Y. Cole's essay,
followed by an essay on the building as a work of art by Pierce
Rice, and discussions of the decorations, paintings, and sculptures
by Henry Hope Reed, Richard Murray, and Thomas P. Somma. The volume
concludes with a photo essay on the restoration by Barbara Wolanin;
a color "schema" of the building; a glossary of architectural and
decorative terms; and a biographical dictionary of all the artists,
architects, and designers who worked on the building. Throughout,
noted photographer Anne Day's color images enhance this splendid
book.
In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a
passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a
maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying
African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre.
Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African
fetishes were on view under the same roof as the "Mona Lisa," Then,
in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac
presided over the opening of a new museum dedicated to primitive
art in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower: the Musee du Quai Branly.
"Paris Primitive" recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris's
museum world that resulted from Chirac's dream, set against a
backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and
the role of culture in French society. Along with exposing the
machinations that led to the MQB's creation, Sally Price addresses
the thorny questions it raises about the legacy of colonialism, the
balance between aesthetic judgments and ethnographic context, and
the role of institutions of art and culture in an increasingly
diverse France. Anyone with a stake in the myriad political,
cultural, and anthropological issues raised by the MQB will find
Price's account fascinating.
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