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Bauhaus Issue 4 Photo - The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's Magazine (Paperback): Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Bauhaus Issue 4 Photo - The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's Magazine (Paperback)
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Skyline - The Narcissistic City (Hardcover): Hubert Damisch Skyline - The Narcissistic City (Hardcover)
Hubert Damisch; Translated by John Goodman
R2,740 Discovery Miles 27 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert Damisch--whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of imitation, and the question of representation has emerged as the most important body of critical thought on painting since, perhaps, Meyer Shapiro's collected essays--here engages a subject that has been of continuing interest to him over the last thirty years.
In the field of architecture, this book has been awaited for a long time; in the fields of art history and cultural studies, it will be welcomed as a powerful argument for utilizing in an urban context interpretive approaches developed for the analysis of spatial and visual phenomena. Though architecture has served since Descartes as a structural analogy for philosophical discourse and has played a similar role in literature, contemporary studies on architecture have tended to be very specialized, with little regard for their accessibility to scholars in the humanities and social sciences. This book, however, with its solid grounding in architecture and urban theory and its profoundly humanistic approach, will prove deeply rewarding to specialist and generalist alike.
The book engages a wide range of subjects, including reconstructions of the Egyptian labyrinth, architectural museums, European visions of New World cities, the great spaces and national parks of the American West, and landscape gardening in the United States. These subjects work together to develop a unique way of looking at the city and its architecture, the landscape and its spaces.

The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture - Bucharest, 1949-1964 (Hardcover): Juliana Maxim The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture - Bucharest, 1949-1964 (Hardcover)
Juliana Maxim
R4,475 Discovery Miles 44 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism written in English. It examines the mechanisms through which modern architecture was invested with political meaning and, in reverse, how specific architectural solutions came to define the socialist experience. Each of the book's three parts traces the historical development of one key aspect of Romania's architectural culture between the years 1949-1964: the planning and construction of housing districts in Bucharest; the role of typification of design and standardization of construction in a project of cultural transformation; the production and management of a folk architectural tradition. Going beyond buildings and architects to consider the use of photography, painting, and novels, as well as narrations of history and the formation of an ethnographic architectural heritage, the author explores how buildings came to participate in the cultural imagination of socialism-and became, in fact, a privileged medium of socialism. Part of the growing interest in the significance of Soviet Bloc architecture, this is an important contribution to the fields of architectural history, cultural history, and visual culture.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture (Hardcover): Swati Chattopadhyay, Jeremy White The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture (Hardcover)
Swati Chattopadhyay, Jeremy White
R6,771 Discovery Miles 67 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice.

Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture (Hardcover): Ellen Braae, Henriette Steiner Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)
Ellen Braae, Henriette Steiner
R6,757 Discovery Miles 67 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture's increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical, and practice-related research in landscape architecture - research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called 'nature'. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever. The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themes - History, Sites and Heritage, City and Nature, Ethics and Sustainability, Knowledge and Practice - supplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent as well as up-and-coming contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields including Tom Avermaete, Peter Carl, Gareth Doherty, Ottmar Ette, Matthew Gandy, Christophe Girot, Anne Whiston Spirn, Ian H. Thompson and Jane Wolff seek to widen, fuel, and frame critical discussion in this growing area. A significant contribution to landscape architecture research, this book will be beneficial not only to students and academics in landscape architecture, but also to scholars in related fields such as history, architecture, and social studies.

Riverine - Architecture and Rivers (Paperback): Gerald Adler, Manolo Guerci Riverine - Architecture and Rivers (Paperback)
Gerald Adler, Manolo Guerci
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape. Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography. Riverine explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.

Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture (Hardcover): Anat Geva Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture (Hardcover)
Anat Geva
R4,494 Discovery Miles 44 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing the envelope in the design of houses of worship. Modern architects embraced the challenges of creating sacred spaces that incorporated liturgical changes, evolving congregations, modern architecture, and innovations in building technology. The book describes the unique context and design aspects of the departure from historicism, and the renewal of heritage and traditions with ground-breaking structural features, deliberate optical effects and modern aesthetics. The contributions, from a pre-eminent group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Australia, and Europe are based on original archival research, historical documents, and field visits to the buildings discussed. Investigating how the authority of the divine was communicated through new forms of architectural design, these examinations map the materiality of liturgical change and communal worship during the mid-20th century.

Ils_ Innovative Learning Space (Paperback): Massimo Faiferri, Samanta Bartocci Ils_ Innovative Learning Space (Paperback)
Massimo Faiferri, Samanta Bartocci
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

ILS-Innovative Learning Space is a Summer School organised in 2016 by the Ecourbanlab research facility, founded by Massimo Faiferri within the DADU (Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism) at the University of Sassari. It was formed as a project activity SPIN-APP: Innovative Learning Spaces (Regional Law No. 7 Promotion of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation in Sardinia) in collaboration with the INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) and with contributions from Sardegna Ricerche through the project Scientific School 2015. The general objective of the Scientific School is as an innovative project for learning environments which can serve as a reference and model for the new realisation or adaptation of school education. To intervene on the project of school space means to reflect responsibly on the role that space itself covers in the dynamics of learning processes as well as to think about the renewal of the didactic organisation. The prerequisite is the articulation of a modular and multi-functional space suited to the subjective needs of the individual pathways of pupil skills, and which incorporates principles and material linked to good sustainable practices as their constituent elements, which can accept new technological tools as a form of enhancement of real space.

Spirit and Place - Healing our environment Healing environment (Paperback): Christopher Day Spirit and Place - Healing our environment Healing environment (Paperback)
Christopher Day
R1,845 Discovery Miles 18 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially.Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's unique arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.

Architecture - The Subject is Matter (Paperback, New): Jonathan Hill Architecture - The Subject is Matter (Paperback, New)
Jonathan Hill
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object at its centre: the building. Architectural matter is not always physical or building fabric. It is whatever architecture is made of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds or pixels. The fifteen chapters are divided into three sections - on buildings, spaces and bodies - which each deal with a particular understanding of architecture and architectural matter.
The richness and diversity of subjects and materials discussed in this book locates architecture firmly in the world as a whole, not just the domain of architects. In stating that architecture is far more than the work of architects, this book aims not to deny the importance of architects in the production of architecture but to see their role in more balanced terms and to acknowledge other architectural producers. Architecture can, for example, be found in the incisions of a surgeon, the instructions of a choreographer or the movements of a user. Architecture can be made of anything and by anyone.

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook - Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies (Hardcover): Bryan Bell,... Public Interest Design Education Guidebook - Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies (Hardcover)
Bryan Bell, Lisa Abendroth
R4,509 Discovery Miles 45 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers. The second book in Routledge's Public Interest Design Guidebook series, the editors and contributors feature a range of learning competencies supported by distinct teaching strategies where educational and community-originated goals unite. Written in a guidebook format that includes projects from across design disciplines, this book describes the learning deemed most critical to pursuing an inclusive, informed design practice that meets the diverse needs of both students and community partners. Featured chapter themes include Fundamental Skills, Intercultural Competencies, Engaging the Field Experience, Inclusive Iteration, and Evaluating Student Learning. The book consists of practice-based and applied learning constructs that bridge community-based research with engaged learning and design practice. SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) academic case studies introduce teaching strategies that reinforce project-specific learning objectives where solving social, economic, and environmental issues unites the efforts of communities, student designers, and educators. This comprehensive publication also contains indices devoted to learning objectives cross-referenced from within the book as well as considerations for educational program development in public interest design. Whether you are a student of design, an educator, or a designer, the breadth of projects and teaching strategies provided here will empower you to excel in your pursuit of public interest design.

Design Review - Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994): Brenda C.... Design Review - Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Brenda C. Scheer, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser
R4,692 Discovery Miles 46 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

That the topic ofdesign review is somehow trou My biases are clearfrom the start: I am among blesome is probably one thing all readers can those who believe that, despite all signals to the contrary, the physical structure of our environ agree on. Beyond this, however, I suspect pros pects of consensus are dim. Differing opinions ment can be managed, and that controlling it is on the subject likely range from those desiring the key to the ameliorationofnumerous problems control tothosedesiringfreedom. Saysonecamp: confronting society today. I believe that design our physical and natural environments are going can solve a host ofproblems, and that the design to hell in a hand basket. Says the other: design of the physical environment does influence be review boards are only as good as their members; havior. more often than not their interventions produce Clearly, this is a perspective that encompasses mediocre architecture. more than one building at a time and demands As a town planner and architect, I am sympa that each building understand its place in a larger thetic to the full range of sentiment. Perhaps a context-the city. Indeed, anyone proposing discussion of these two concepts-control and physical solutions to urban problems is designing freedom-and their differences would now be or, as may seem more often the case, destroying useful. But let me instead suggest that both posi the city."

Design, History and Time - New Temporalities in a Digital Age (Paperback): Zoe Hendon, Anne Massey Design, History and Time - New Temporalities in a Digital Age (Paperback)
Zoe Hendon, Anne Massey
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasizes schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality for design practice and history. Contributors address how designers, design historians and design thinkers might respond to the global challenges of time, the rhythms of work, and the increasing speed of life and communication between different communities. They consider how the past informs the present and the future in terms of design, the importance of time-based design practices such as rapid prototyping and slow design, time in relation to memory and forgetting, and artefacts such as the archive for which time is key, and they also ponder the design of time itself. Showcasing the work of 15 design scholars from a range of international contexts, this book provides an essential text for thinking about changing attitudes to the temporal.

Biophilic Design - The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life (Hardcover): Sr Kellert Biophilic Design - The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life (Hardcover)
Sr Kellert
R2,310 Discovery Miles 23 100 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"When nature inspires our architecture-not just how it looks but how buildings and communities actually function-we will have made great strides as a society. Biophilic Design provides us with tremendous insight into the 'why, ' then builds us a road map for what is sure to be the next great design journey of our times."
-Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chairman, U.S. Green Building Council
"Having seen firsthand in my company the power of biomimicry to stimulate a wellspring of profitable innovation, I can say unequivocably that biophilic design is the real deal. Kellert, Heerwagen, and Mador have compiled the wisdom of world-renowned experts to produce this exquisite book; it is must reading for scientists, philosophers, engineers, architects and designers, and-most especially-businesspeople. Anyone looking for the key to a new type of prosperity that respects the earth should start here."
-Ray C. Anderson, founder and Chair, Interface, Inc.
The groundbreaking guide to the emerging practice of biophilic design
This book offers a paradigm shift in how we design and build our buildings and our communities, one that recognizes that the positive experience of natural systems and processes in our buildings and constructed landscapes is critical to human health, performance, and well-being. Biophilic design is about humanity's place in nature and the natural world's place in human society, where mutuality, respect, and enriching relationships can and should exist at all levels and should emerge as the norm rather than the exception.
Written for architects, landscape architects, planners, developers, environmental designers, as well as building owners, Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life is a guide to the theory, science, and practice of biophilic design. Twenty-three original and timely essays by world-renowned scientists, designers, and practitioners, including Edward O. Wilson, Howard Frumkin, David Orr, Grant Hildebrand, Stephen Kieran, Tim Beatley, Jonathan Rose, Janine Benyus, Roger Ulrich, Bert Gregory, Robert Berkebile, William Browning, and Vivian Loftness, among others, address:
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The basic concepts of biophilia, its expression in the built environment, and how biophilic design connects to human biology, evolution, and development.
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The science and benefits of biophilic design on human health, childhood development, healthcare, and more.
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The practice of biophilic design-how to implement biophilic design strategies to create buildings that connect people with nature and provide comfortable and productive places for people, in which they can live, work, and study.
Biophilic design at any scale-from buildings to cities-begins with a few simple questions: How does the built environment affect the natural environment? How will nature affect human experience and aspiration? Most of all, how can we achieve sustained and reciprocal benefits between the two?
This prescient, groundbreaking book provides the answers.

Narrative Theory in Conservation - Change and Living Buildings (Hardcover): Nigel Walter Narrative Theory in Conservation - Change and Living Buildings (Hardcover)
Nigel Walter
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Narrative Theory in Conservation engages with conservation, heritage studies, and architectural approaches to historic buildings, offering a synthesis of the best of each, and demonstrating that conservation is capable of developing a complementary, but distinct, theoretical position of its own. Tracing the ideas behind the development of modern conservation in the West, and considering the challenges presented by non-Western practice, the book engages with the premodern understanding of innovation within tradition, and frames historic buildings as intergenerational, communal, ongoing narratives. Redefining the appropriate object of conservation, it suggests a practice of conserving the questions that animate and energize local cultures, rather than only those instantiated answers that expert opinion has declared canonical. Proposing a narrative approach to historic buildings, the book provides a distinctive new theoretical foundation for conservation, and a basis for a more equal dialogue with other disciplines concerned with the historic environment. Narrative Theory in Conservation articulates a coherent theoretical position for conservation that addresses the urgent question of how historic buildings that remain in use should respond to change. As such, the book should be of great interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students from the fields of conservation, heritage studies, and architecture.

Victorian Contexts - Literature and the Visual Arts (Paperback, 1st ed. 1996): Murray Roston Victorian Contexts - Literature and the Visual Arts (Paperback, 1st ed. 1996)
Murray Roston
R1,516 Discovery Miles 15 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.

Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture (Hardcover): Kim Sexton Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture (Hardcover)
Kim Sexton
R4,486 Discovery Miles 44 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book opens a space for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, architects, and digital humanities professionals to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in premodern and modern cultural contexts. Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture poses one overarching question: How does a period's understanding of bodies as objects of science impinge upon architectural thought and design? The answers are sophisticated, interdisciplinary explorations of theory, technology, symbolism, medicine, violence, psychology, deformity, and salvation, and they have unexpected and fascinating implications for architectural design and history. The new research published in this volume reinvigorates the Western survey-style trajectory from Archaic Greece to post-war Europe with scientifically-framed, body-centred provocations. By adding the third factor-science-to the architecture and body equation, this book presents a nuanced appreciation for architectural creativity and its embeddedness in other sets of social, institutional and political relationships. In so doing, it spatializes body theory and ties it to the experience of the built environment in ways that disturb traditional boundaries between the architectural container and the corporeally contained.

Times of Creative Destruction - Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th (Paperback): Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre Times of Creative Destruction - Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th (Paperback)
Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, 'star' buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated, intractable, irreversible destruction reducing the uniqueness and diversity of cultural, social and ecological peaks and valleys of our world, to a 'desert flatland', environmental inequality and unhappiness. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a selection of shorter key texts by Tzonis and Lefaivre, the product of a rare research and writing partnership. The texts, published between the early 1960s and the present, are significant as documents that inform about the period. They are also important and timely because of their critical and influential role in the debates of this era, both creative and destructive.

The Late Baroque Era: Vol 4. From The 1680s To 1740 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993): George J.... The Late Baroque Era: Vol 4. From The 1680s To 1740 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
George J. Buelow
R3,244 Discovery Miles 32 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts of Italy and Germany. The contributions of Handel and Bach, and their lesser colleagues are set in their historical and sociological context.

Architecture as Cultural and Political Discourse - Case studies of conceptual norms and aesthetic practices (Paperback): Daniel... Architecture as Cultural and Political Discourse - Case studies of conceptual norms and aesthetic practices (Paperback)
Daniel Grinceri
R1,639 Discovery Miles 16 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture. It examines how these discursive mechanisms and technologies combine to normalise and aestheticise everyday practices. It queries the means by which buildings are appropriated to give shape and form to political aspirations and values. Architecture is not overtly political. It does not coerce people to behave in certain ways. However, architecture is constructed within the same rules and practices whereby people and communities self-govern and regulate themselves to think and act in certain ways. This book seeks to examine these rules through various case studies including: the reconstructed Notre Dame Cathedral, the Nazi era Munich Konigsplatz, Auschwitz concentration camp and the Prora resort, Sydney's suburban race riots, and the Australian Immigration Detention Centre on Christmas Island.

Server Manifesto - Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy (Paperback): Niklas Maak, Francesca Bria Server Manifesto - Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy (Paperback)
Niklas Maak, Francesca Bria; Designed by Neil Holt
R495 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic and Professor for Architecture at Stadelschule Frankfurt, explores this question in his new publication and envisions radical solutions for the future.

Suffragette City - Women, Politics, and the Built Environment (Paperback): Elizabeth Darling, Nathaniel Walker Suffragette City - Women, Politics, and the Built Environment (Paperback)
Elizabeth Darling, Nathaniel Walker
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to exploring and analysing cases in which women have resourcefully leveraged or defied the politics of gender to form and reform architecture and urbanism Draws on nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural case studies from the USA, South Africa, Scotland, India and England Politically-charged and engaging text aimed at academics, researchers and students engaged in architectural history, theory, urbanism, gender studies and social and cultural history.

Minding the City - Field notes on meaning in performative urban space (Paperback): Harrison Fraker, Peter Siostrom, Atanaska... Minding the City - Field notes on meaning in performative urban space (Paperback)
Harrison Fraker, Peter Siostrom, Atanaska Foteva
R895 R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book calls attention to the public space of cities. It proposes that the environmental performance of public space is underdeveloped and is primed to play a more integrated role in combatting the urgency of climate change, while also creating a more meaningful experience of the city. The approach is influenced by recent insights from neuroscience that are generating a growing body of evidence for the underlying bodily basis of mind and meaning imply a reformulation of urban design theory. Minding the City is an effort to refocus the subject of urban design on the tangible and visceral experience of public space, to remind urban designers that our concept of the city is grounded in bodily experience. It discusses emerging insights from neuroscience and their potential impact on urban design in detail, not as a formula for design, but to bring awareness, a new sensibility to the design process. It uses a set of case studies to illustrate how the insights from neuroscience are operative in how we experience and value the built environment. It finishes with an exploration of the sensory and aesthetic potential of sustainable systems and then illustrates, through a series of urban design studies, how they might be used to create better environmental performance while creating more meaningful, even poetic urban spaces.

Architectural Theory - An Anthology from Vitruvius  to 1870 V 1 (Paperback): H.F. Mallgrave Architectural Theory - An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 V 1 (Paperback)
H.F. Mallgrave
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870" is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to the year 1870. The first truly comprehensive anthology that brings together the classic essays in the field, the volume chronicles the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper.


Volume 1 of the first overview of architectural thought from antiquity to the present day; this volume covers 25 B.C. to 1870
Collects over 200 classic essays in the field, organized thematically for the student and scholar, covering Classicism, Neoclassicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Gothic
Includes German, French, and Italian essays appearing in English here for the first time
Features a general introduction and headnotes to each essay written by a renowned expert on architectural theory.

Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production - Material, Representation, and the... Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production - Material, Representation, and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production (Hardcover)
Gail Peter Borden, Michael Meredith
R5,542 Discovery Miles 55 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and architecture. It assembles a range of diverse voices across various institutions, practices, generations, and geographies, through specific case studies that collectively present a broader theoretical intention.

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