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This book explores how the museum concept has expanded beyond the
boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself
through musealization. Articulating the musealization of historic
cities as a specific urban process, the book here presents a study
of the transformation of the Sultanahmet district on Istanbul's
historic peninsula, which has been the major focus of planning,
conservation and museological studies in Turkey since the 19th
century as the public face of the city. The author aims to offer
empirically grounded and context-specific insight into the role of
museums in the regeneration of historic cities. Musealization as an
urban process varies in different geographical, cultural and
ideological contexts, and across different time periods. By
discussing the Sultanahmet district as a specific context of yet
another city subjected to the musealization process, this book
provides further insights into this important global phenomenon.
Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided Building Design promotes
occupants as a focal point for the design process. This resource
for established and emerging building designers and researchers
provides theoretical and practical means to restore occupants and
their needs to the heart of the design process. Helmed by leaders
of the International Energy Agency Annex 79, this edited volume
features contributions from a multi-disciplinary, globally
recognized team of scholars and practitioners. Chapters on the
indoor environment and human factors introduce the principles of
occupant-centric design while chapters on selecting and applying
models provide a thorough grounding in simulation-aided building
design practice. A final chapter assembling detailed case studies
puts the lessons of the preceding chapters into real world context.
In fulfilment of the International Energy Agency's mission of
disseminating research on secure and sustainable energy to all,
Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided Building Design is available as
an Open Access Gold title. With a balance of fundamentals and
design process guidelines, Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided
Building Design reorients the building design community towards
buildings that recognize and serve diverse occupant needs, while
aiming for superior environmental performance, based on the latest
science and methods.
What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems
posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline
in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture
organise past time and relate it to the present? How does
historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should
architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so,
how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an
open question, moving between three key approaches to historical
knowledge of architecture: within art history, as an historical
specialisation and, most prominently, within architecture. He
suggests that the confusions around this question have been
productive, ensuring a rich variety of approaches to the project of
exploring architecture historically. Read alongside introductory
surveys of western and global architectural history, this book will
open up questions of perspective, frame, and intent for students of
architecture, art history, and history. Graduate students and
established architectural historians will find much in this book to
fuel discussions over the current state of the field in which they
work.
Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings offers the most’ complete, detailed, and authentic data available on the materials, calculation methods, and design techniques used by architects and engineers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It provides today’s building professionals with information needed to analyze, modify, and certify historic buildings for modern use. Among the many important features of this book not available in any other single volume are: - More than 350 line drawings and diagrams taken directly from original sources such as the Carnegie Steele Company’s Pocket Companion (1893) and Frank Kidder’s The Architect’s and Builder’s Pocketbook (1902)
- Hard-to-find data on period structural components, such as cast-iron columns and beams, wrought-iron columns and beams, and fireproof terra cotta floor arches
- Methods for determining what kind of loads structural components were originally designed to bear and methods to determine if they are still capable of performing as intended
- Extensive coverage of historical foundation systems and empirical design methods for load-bearing masonry buildings
For any building professional involved in the rapidly growing field of restoring, preserving, and adapting historic buildings, Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings is an invaluable structural handbook.
This book Explores John Ruskin’s passionate responses to the
environmental and social changes of his day, with contemporary
ideas on themes like sustainability, ethical production, and
environmentalism. presents six stimulating essays on Ruskin’s
readership and reception, his transformative perceptions of
heritage futures, and provocative writing on cultural landscapes
and the arts and crafts. Has extracts from both well-known and
lesser-known works in each chapter to reflect the distinctive
vocality of his texts, from his writing on architecture and
buildings, to landscape and cultural heritage. offers a richer
description of cultural context and meaning than usually afforded
to Ruskin’s work in conservation and critical heritage studies
finding its resonance and relevance. is written for an academic
& professional audience in heritage studies and historic
building conservation and particularly relevant for cultural
heritage management, this is a core text and reference work for
undergraduate and postgraduate students in history of art and
architecture, heritage studies, and architectural/building
conservation, also central to interests of cultural historians and
scholars of nineteenth-century / Victorian history and literature.
This volume of primary sources examine British architectural
history from 1760 to 1830. It contains a mixture of architectural
treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different
types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual
buildings and will be of great interest to students of Art History
and Architecture.
This volume of primary sources examine British architectural
history from 1830-1914. The collection contains a mixture of
architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works
on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of
individual buildings. This title will be of great interest to
students of Art History and Architecture.
Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book
explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early
modern studies. Divided into two parts, the book examines how
people, medieval and modern, engage with medieval media and
technology through an exploration of the theory underpinning
audience interactions with historical materials in the past and the
real-world engagement of a twenty-first century audience with
medieval and early modern studies through the multimodal lens of a
vast digital landscape. Each case study reveals the diversity of
medieval media and technology and challenges readers to consider
new types of literacy competencies as scholarly, rigorous methods
of engaging in pre-modern investigations of materiality. Essays in
the first section engage in the examination of medieval media,
mediation, and technology from a theoretical framework, while the
second section explores how digitization, smart-technologies,
digital mapping, and the internet have shaped medieval and early
modern studies today. The book will be of interest to students in
undergraduate or graduate intermediate or advanced courses as well
as scholars, in medieval studies, art history, architectural
history, medieval history, literary history, and religious history.
In much recent theory, the media are described as ephemeral,
ubiquitous, and de-localized. Yet the activity of modern media can
be traced to spatial centers that are tangible enough - some even
monumental. This book offers multidisciplinary and historical
perspectives on the buildings of some of the world's major media
institutions. Paradoxically, as material and aesthetic
manifestations of "mediated centers" of power, they provide sites
to the siteless and solidity to the immaterial. The authors analyse
the ways that architectural form and organization reflect different
eras, media technologies, ideologies, and relations with the public
in media houses from New York and Silicon Valley to London, Moscow,
and Beijing.
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Athens
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James H. S. McGregor
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R955
Discovery Miles 9 550
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Revered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens
is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling
monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from
the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing
a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined
time and again. Although the Acropolis remains the city's anchor,
Athens' vibrant culture extends far beyond the Greek city's antique
boundaries. James H. S. McGregor points out how the cityscape
preserves signs of the many actors who have crossed its historical
stage. Alexander the Great incorporated Athens into his empire, as
did the Romans. Byzantine Christians repurposed Greek temples, the
Parthenon included, into churches. From the thirteenth to fifteenth
centuries, the city's language changed from French to Spanish to
Italian, as Crusaders and adventurers from different parts of
Western Europe took turns sacking and administering the city. An
Islamic Athens took root following the Ottoman conquest of 1456 and
remained in place for nearly four hundred years, until Greek
patriots finally won independence in a blood-drenched revolution.
Since then, Athenians have endured many hardships, from Nazi
occupation and military coups to famine and economic crisis. Yet,
as McGregor shows, the history of Athens is closer to a heroic epic
than a Greek tragedy. Richly supplemented with maps and
illustrations, Athens paints a portrait of one of the world's great
cities, designed for travelers as well as armchair students of
urban history.
This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings
and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in
contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk
to the Hilton International Hotel, the shopping center to the cafe
and the Le Corbusier-designed Curutchet House to the gated
community, architecture in these films evokes the political.
Tracing architecture's expression through six films produced since
the 1990s-Pizza birra faso, Mundo grua, Nueve reinas, La nina
santa, La antena and El hombre de al lado-Amanda Holmes studies how
architecture in cinema elicits political memory, underscores
marginalization and class discrepancies, creates nostalgia for
neighborhoods and re-evaluates existing communities. Generously
illustrated and carefully researched, the book offers an in-depth
reading of key contemporary Argentine films and a fresh
architectural approach to film analysis.
Through the lens of sensory affect, this book offers a new way of
thinking about day-to-day teaching and student engagement within
learning spaces in design education. The book examines the
definitions, concepts, ideas and overlaps of a repertoire of
learning spaces prevalent in higher education and addresses the
pedagogical gap that exists between broader learning structures and
spaces, and the requirements of specialist design education.
Recognising that mainstream teaching environments impact upon
design studio learning and student engagement, the book positions
creative learning spaces at the heart of practice-based learning.
It defines the underlying pedagogical philosophy of a creative
learning space in design education and reports on how practical
strategies incorporating sensory affect may be implemented by
educators to foster better student engagement in these spaces
within higher education. Bringing much needed attention to
specialist design teaching and learning spaces in higher education,
this book will be of interest to educators, researchers and post
graduate students immersed in design education, pedagogy and
learning spaces more broadly.
Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of
fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck.
Or architecture could spring to mind and you might think of St
Peter's in Rome and the Doge's Palace in Venice. Or you might
consider scientists like Galileo and Copernicus. But then let's not
forget the contribution of thinkers like Machiavelli, Thomas More
or Erasmus. Someone else, though, might plump for music or poets
and dramatists - after all, there was Dante and Shakespeare.
Because when it comes to the Renaissance, there's an embarrassment
of riches to choose from. From art to architecture, music to
literature, science to medicine, political thought to religion, The
Renaissance expertly guides the reader through the cultural and
intellectual flowering that Europe witnessed from the 14th to the
17th centuries. Ranging from the origins of the Renaissance in
medieval Florence to the Counter- Reformation, the book explains
how a revival in the study in Antiquity was able to flourish across
the Italian states, before spreading to Iberia and north across
Europe. Nimbly moving from perspective in paintings to Copernicus's
understanding of the Universe, from Martin Luther's challenge to
the Roman Catholic Church to the foundations of modern school
education, The Renaissance is a highly accessible and colourful
journey along the cultural contours of Europe from the Late Middle
Ages to the early modern period.
As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait
City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a
now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of
mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed
into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and
wide highways. In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the
city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the
twenty-first century, through the bridge of oil discovery. She
traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and
practices of everyday life, and social behaviors and relations in
Kuwait. The history that emerges reveals how decades of urban
planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded an open,
tolerant society and given rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and
divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti social relations today. The
book makes a call for a restoration of the city that modern
planning eliminated. But this is not simply a case of nostalgia for
a lost landscape, lifestyle, or community. It is a claim for a
"right to the city"-the right of all inhabitants to shape and use
the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires.
This book from Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books
dedicated to the planet sea A knowledgeable overview of marine
architectures from both the Pacific and Atlantic regions Discusses
the seascape as a fluid studio for visual artists
Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book
explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early
modern studies. Divided into two parts, the book examines how
people, medieval and modern, engage with medieval media and
technology through an exploration of the theory underpinning
audience interactions with historical materials in the past and the
real-world engagement of a twenty-first century audience with
medieval and early modern studies through the multimodal lens of a
vast digital landscape. Each case study reveals the diversity of
medieval media and technology and challenges readers to consider
new types of literacy competencies as scholarly, rigorous methods
of engaging in pre-modern investigations of materiality. Essays in
the first section engage in the examination of medieval media,
mediation, and technology from a theoretical framework, while the
second section explores how digitization, smart-technologies,
digital mapping, and the internet have shaped medieval and early
modern studies today. The book will be of interest to students in
undergraduate or graduate intermediate or advanced courses as well
as scholars, in medieval studies, art history, architectural
history, medieval history, literary history, and religious history.
Civil Engineering and Urban Research collects papers resulting from
the conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Engineering (ICCAUE
2022), Xining, China, 24-26 June, 2022. The primary goal is to
promote research and developmental activities in civil engineering,
architecture and urban research. Moreover, it aims to promote
scientific information interchange between scholars from the top
universities, business associations, research centers and high-tech
enterprises working all around the world. The conference conducts
in-depth exchanges and discussions on relevant topics such as civil
engineering and architecture, aiming to provide an academic and
technical communication platform for scholars and engineers engaged
in scientific research and engineering practice in the field of
urban engineering, civil engineering and architecture design. By
sharing the research status of scientific research achievements and
cutting-edge technologies, it helps scholars and engineers all over
the world comprehend the academic development trend and broaden
research ideas. So as to strengthen international academic
research, academic topics exchange and discussion, and promote the
industrialization cooperation of academic achievements.
Civil Engineering and Urban Research collects papers resulting from
the conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Engineering (ICCAUE
2022), Xining, China, 24-26 June, 2022. The primary goal is to
promote research and developmental activities in civil engineering,
architecture and urban research. Moreover, it aims to promote
scientific information interchange between scholars from the top
universities, business associations, research centers and high-tech
enterprises working all around the world. The conference conducts
in-depth exchanges and discussions on relevant topics such as civil
engineering and architecture, aiming to provide an academic and
technical communication platform for scholars and engineers engaged
in scientific research and engineering practice in the field of
urban engineering, civil engineering and architecture design. By
sharing the research status of scientific research achievements and
cutting-edge technologies, it helps scholars and engineers all over
the world comprehend the academic development trend and broaden
research ideas. So as to strengthen international academic
research, academic topics exchange and discussion, and promote the
industrialization cooperation of academic achievements.
Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven
essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the
place that professional designing takes in this interaction.
Together, the essays touch on a number of ideas: the idea that our
position in space relative to the thing we are designing determines
the methods we apply when designing it; the idea that designing is
about making proposals, and is therefore a social act first of all;
and the idea that agreements, consensus and above all conventions
shape the act of designing things independent of their creative
qualities.
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