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Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015 - From Colonial to Global (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Charlie Q.L. Xue Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015 - From Colonial to Global (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Charlie Q.L. Xue
R4,378 Discovery Miles 43 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Handbook for Architects and Builders; 10 (Hardcover): Illinois Society of Architects Handbook for Architects and Builders; 10 (Hardcover)
Illinois Society of Architects
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
What is Architectural History? (Hardcover): A Leach What is Architectural History? (Hardcover)
A Leach
R1,812 Discovery Miles 18 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 - Restoration, Preservation & Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects & Engineers... Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings - Restoration, Preservation & Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects & Engineers (Hardcover)
JS Rabun
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.
Reading Ruskin’s Cultural Heritage - Conservation and Transformation (Hardcover): Gill Chitty Reading Ruskin’s Cultural Heritage - Conservation and Transformation (Hardcover)
Gill Chitty
R4,169 Discovery Miles 41 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

British Architecture 1760-1914 - Volume I: 1760-1830 (Hardcover): Geoffrey Tyack British Architecture 1760-1914 - Volume I: 1760-1830 (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Tyack
R3,865 Discovery Miles 38 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

British Architecture 1760-1914 - Volume II: 1830-1914 (Hardcover): Geoffrey Tyack British Architecture 1760-1914 - Volume II: 1830-1914 (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Tyack
R3,872 Discovery Miles 38 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Brownsville Architecture - A Visual History: Pino Shah and Eileen Mattei (Hardcover): Pino Shah, Eileen Mattei Brownsville Architecture - A Visual History: Pino Shah and Eileen Mattei (Hardcover)
Pino Shah, Eileen Mattei; Designed by Carrie Rood
R1,715 Discovery Miles 17 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Hardcover): Katharine Scherff, Lane Sobehrad Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Hardcover)
Katharine Scherff, Lane Sobehrad
R4,013 Discovery Miles 40 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Media Houses - Architecture, Media, and the Production of Centrality (Paperback, New edition): Staffan Ericson, Kristina Riegert Media Houses - Architecture, Media, and the Production of Centrality (Paperback, New edition)
Staffan Ericson, Kristina Riegert
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Athens (Hardcover): James H. S. McGregor Athens (Hardcover)
James H. S. McGregor
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Amanda Holmes Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Amanda Holmes
R2,909 Discovery Miles 29 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Sensory Affect, Learning Spaces and Design Education - Strategies for Reflective Teaching and Student Engagement in Higher... Sensory Affect, Learning Spaces and Design Education - Strategies for Reflective Teaching and Student Engagement in Higher Education (Hardcover)
Lorraine Marshalsey
R4,007 Discovery Miles 40 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Renaissance - The Cultural Rebirth of Europe (Hardcover): John D. Wright The Renaissance - The Cultural Rebirth of Europe (Hardcover)
John D. Wright
R646 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Kuwait Transformed - A History of Oil and Urban Life (Paperback): Farah Al-Nakib Kuwait Transformed - A History of Oil and Urban Life (Paperback)
Farah Al-Nakib
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Life Cycle Assessment on Green Building Implementation (Hardcover, 1. 2016 ed.): Vivian  W. Y. Tam, Khoa N Le, Li Yin Shen Life Cycle Assessment on Green Building Implementation (Hardcover, 1. 2016 ed.)
Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N Le, Li Yin Shen
R2,078 R1,743 Discovery Miles 17 430 Save R335 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Ocean as a Creative Experience - Architecture, Art, and Music (Hardcover): Juergen Claus The Ocean as a Creative Experience - Architecture, Art, and Music (Hardcover)
Juergen Claus
R2,433 Discovery Miles 24 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Gifts of Language - Multilingualism and Turkish-Sephardic Culture (Hardcover): Bension Varon Gifts of Language - Multilingualism and Turkish-Sephardic Culture (Hardcover)
Bension Varon
R638 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R99 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Paperback): Katharine Scherff, Lane Sobehrad Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Paperback)
Katharine Scherff, Lane Sobehrad
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Shaping of Northern Ireland - A Historical Perspective (Hardcover): Alan R. Acheson The Shaping of Northern Ireland - A Historical Perspective (Hardcover)
Alan R. Acheson
R1,026 Discovery Miles 10 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Civil Engineering and Urban Research, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Architecture and... Civil Engineering and Urban Research, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Urban Engineering (ICCAUE 2022), Xining, China, 24-26 June 2022 (Hardcover)
Hazem Samih Mohamed, Jinfang Hou
R3,756 Discovery Miles 37 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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, Volume 2 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Architecture and... Civil Engineering and Urban Research, Volume 2 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Urban Engineering (ICCAUE 2022), Xining, China, 24-26 June 2022 (Hardcover)
Hazem Samih Mohamed, Jinfang Hou
R3,756 Discovery Miles 37 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Appearance of the Form - Four Essays on the Position Designing takes between People and Things (Paperback): N.J. Habraken The Appearance of the Form - Four Essays on the Position Designing takes between People and Things (Paperback)
N.J. Habraken
R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Temple of Venus and Rome and Santa Francesca Romana at the Roman Forum - Preservation and Transformation (Paperback):... The Temple of Venus and Rome and Santa Francesca Romana at the Roman Forum - Preservation and Transformation (Paperback)
Cristina Gonzalez-Longo
R1,316 Discovery Miles 13 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the influence of architectural design in the conservation of historic buildings by discussing in detail an important building complex in Rome: the Temple of Venus and Rome, the monastery of Santa Maria Nova and the church of Santa Francesca Romana. As the most complete site in the Roman Forum that has reached our times with a rich architectural stratification almost intact, it is a clear product of continuous preservation and transformation and it has not been studied in its complexity until now. The Temple of Venus and Rome and Santa Francesca Romana at the Roman Forum unravels the original designs and the subsequent interventions, including Giacomo Boni's pioneering conservation of the monastery, carried out while excavating the Roman Forum in the early twentieth century. The projects are discussed in context to show their significance and the relationships between architects and patrons. Through its interdisciplinary focus on architectural design, conservation, archaeology, history and construction, this study is an ideal example for scholars, students and architects of how to carry out research in architectural conservation.

Pemba - Spontaneous Living Spaces (Paperback): Corinna Del Bianco Pemba - Spontaneous Living Spaces (Paperback)
Corinna Del Bianco
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique. Self-built houses born from need, in haste and with limited economical resources are often considered to be temporary structures but frequently become an integral part of the urban fabric, representative of a local culture of living. The study is part of the Spontaneous Living Spaces research project, and through a variety of documentation tools, it investigates the evolution of the architectural and urban elements that characterize self-built dwellings in Pemba. The evolution of the spontaneous living culture creates new forms of living in the city connected to local cultural expressions and the environment. These are placed in relation to the traditional and contemporary living cultures, settlement trends and the natural environment. Covering a history of housing in Mozambique and unpacking four settlement types in Pemba, this book is written for academics, professionals and researchers in architecture and planning with a particular interest in African architecture and urbanism.

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