Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia
This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.
Singing for Themselves
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion assesses the visual persuasiveness of art museums. It demonstrates that museums are as capable of influence as speeches or advertisements through their architecture, collections, and exhibition designs.
Housing the Environmental Imagination
For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world’s oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism’s introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
Time for Architecture
Through the lens of time, this book offers a new perspective on modern architecture. It challenges our understanding of modernity, sustainability, and tradition with original theories on longevity, conservation, and collective memory.
This book helps students and professionals understand the language of architecture and civil engineering and improve their linguistic skills. It includes practical exercises, a compilation of technical terms, and is written in an accessible yet rigorous style.
From Martyr to Monument
After the great Abbey of Cluny was destroyed, its memory was resurrected. This study follows the discursive history of the site, investigating the role of memory in constructing the past and the concept of heritage in France.
In the Place of Sound
This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.
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.
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.