Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas
Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas

Author: Lara Schrijver

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2021-10-31

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 3839457599

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Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly in the United States, this period focused on the autonomy of architecture as a correction to the social orientation of the 1960s. Yet, these two architects pioneered a more situated autonomy, initiating an intellectual discourse on architecture that was inherently design-based. Their work provides room for interpreting social conditions and disciplinary formal developments, thus constructing a `plausible' relationship between the two that allows the life within to flourish and adapt. In doing so, they provide a foundation for recalibrating architecture today.

Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art
Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art

Author: Nikolaus Dietrich

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 311046957X

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How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman materials have proved instrumental in shaping modern assumptions. On the other hand, those ideologies are fundamentally removed from ancient ideas: an ancient perspective can therefore shed light on larger aesthetic debates about what images are – or indeed what they should be. This anthology of specially commissioned essays explores a variety of case studies (both literary and art historical alike): it discusses materials from across the ancient Mediterranean, and from Geometric art all the way through to late antiquity; the book also tackles questions of ‘figure’ and ‘ornament’ in relation to different media – including painting, free-standing statues, relief sculpture, mosaics and architecture. A particular feature of the volume lies in bringing together different national academic traditions, building a bridge between formalist approaches and broader cultural historical perspectives.

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models

Author: Federica Goffi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-30

Total Pages: 869

ISBN-13: 100055032X

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Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and their ownership, placement, and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings, this book fills a lacuna in current scholarship, questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. Including emerging, well-known, and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices, the thirty-five contributions define recent research in four key areas: drawing sites/sites of knowledge construction: drawing, office, construction site; the afterlife of drawings and models: archiving, collecting, displaying, and exhibiting; tools of making: architectural representations and their apparatus over time; and the ethical responsibilities of collecting and archiving: authorship, ownership, copyrights, and rights to copy. The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane, Superstudio, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wajiro Kon, Germán Samper Gnecco, A+PS, Mies van der Rohe, and Renzo Piano.

A Companion to Roman Art
A Companion to Roman Art

Author: Barbara E. Borg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-09-09

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 1118886046

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A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art. Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman art Contributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled expertise covering a broad range of international approaches Focuses on the socio-historical aspects of Roman art, covering several topics that have not been presented in any detail in English Includes both close readings of individual art works and general discussions Provides an overview of main aspects of the subject and an introduction to current debates in the field

Museums and Biographies
Museums and Biographies

Author: Kate Hill

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 184383961X

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Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.

Kosmos der Architektur
Kosmos der Architektur

Author: Andres Lepik

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Oswald Mathias Ungers is one of Germany's most influential architects as well as one of the 20th century's most influential architectural theorists. This volume uses his collection of art and architectural models, his buildings and library, to shed light on the different aspects of his theoretical approach.

7. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung
7. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung

Author: René Preys

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9783447058193

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Building a temple implies the mastering of different technicalities such as the commissioning and payment of the building process, procuring and transporting building material, the organization of work and the practical execution of building and decoration projects. But building a temple is also translating a religious idea into stone. From the design to the consecration of the temple, every stage in the process answers to a set of rules that enables the building to function as a temple. The aim of the 7th Tempeltagung was to examine the relation between the technical and the theological demands of temple building. How was architecture infl uencing the ritual, how did ritual texts refl ect the act of construction? What was the relation between the mythical temple and the actual temple? Who made the decisions and who executed them? What technical and theological considerations lay at the base of the choice of material and of form? In other words, how did the technical aspects of building influence the theological ideas, how was building a temple "structuring religion"?

More than Mere Spectacle
More than Mere Spectacle

Author: Klaas Van Gelder

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1789208785

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Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance—an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time.