Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture
This book shows how architects Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright read Transcendentalists like Emerson and Whitman and transformed their philosophy into physical substance. It is the first to analyze their iconic work from this perspective.
Urban Design
This book defines and analyzes three types of continuity in urban planning and design: urban conservation, cultural tourism, and persistencies of form. It cites international examples from the author’s work, illustrated with numerous original drawings.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
This book re-reads the historiography of early modern architecture through post-war theory. It examines architectural history’s autonomy from art history, offering a critical understanding of the canon established by Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion.
Surface and Deep Histories
This volume positions surface in architecture within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces.
These essays investigate the influences of 20th-century political and social ideologies on the urban development and architecture of various European cities. Written by European professors, researchers, and practitioners for professionals and students alike.
Harbour cities are revitalizing abandoned port districts to create a new “face”. This book explores the opportunities and challenges of waterfront regeneration, from Western Europe to the Mediterranean, through a wide range of international case studies.
PERCEPTION in Architecture
Definitions of space are often simplified, denying access to ‘new spaces’. This volume brings together contributions by academics, artists, and architects to reflect upon new spatial concepts and access ‘new spaces’ of perception in architecture.
Doctoral Education in Architecture
Doctoral Education in Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities deals with a topic on which there is currently little literature available. Containing data from a pilot study and contributions on European schools, this volume provides insight for future challenges.
Unbounded
Technology and diverse cultures are challenging the traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, private and public. This book explores the shifting understanding of the interior through global case studies of real and virtual places.
This book addresses various aspects of tourism development, from sustainability to alternative products. Featuring practical case studies from a wide range of countries, it is useful for academics and practitioners seeking to update their current knowledge.
This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners to share knowledge on growth, new technologies, and the environment. It will appeal to academics, professionals, and students in urban design, planning, architecture, and engineering.
Today We’re Alive
Wilkinson presents an exploration of the multiple narratives embedded in colonial and post-colonial history in Australia. At the heart of this research is a verbatim play, interweaving Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal testimonies about the massacre at Myall Creek in 1838.
This book analyzes joint German-Turkish collaboration in interior architecture. It explores how to strengthen cooperation for research and education, and attract students through integrated studies hosted by both countries.
Planting New Towns in Europe in the Interwar Years
The contributions here concern the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the interwar years, and serve to tease out connections between urban form and social aspirations, highlighting the moral basis of social planning.
Architectural Voices of India
Dutta brings together 17 iconic Indian architects, and, through dialogues, probes into their lives, beliefs and philosophies, and candid opinions. She offers a platform for discussions on the core issues of architecture and the state of architecture both in India and globally.
Representing papers delivered at the EURAU2014 Istanbul “Composite Cities” Conference, this text addresses the importance of research on the complexity of today’s cities, while also shedding light on new models of urbanism discussed together with new decision-making actors.
This book covers the composition, production, testing methods, and application of modern cellulose fibre cement boards (FCB). It explores fabrication, testing procedures, and practical applications illustrated with examples. Valuable for researchers, architects, and engineers.
This book promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
A must-read for professionals and advocates of historic preservation, this volume is a compendium of powerful essays by thought-leaders in the field first presented in 2016 as part of the fiftieth anniversary observation of the US National Historic Preservation Act.
The Transformation of Addis Ababa
Written by Ethiopian and Finnish experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and ethnology, this publication documents for the first time Addis Ababa’s process of radical transformation, and asks how the city’s poorest residents are affected by urban renewal.