The Story of an Architect King
The Story of an Architect King

Author: Renata Tyszczuk

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9783039103249

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In this book the author explores the representational strategies of the modern period and their relation to political life through the story of Stanislas Leszczynski, architect king and roi bienfaisant, 'a king that does good'. The ingredients of his story are compelling. They include: an exiled king (who makes a cameo appearance in Voltaire's Candide and corresponds with Rousseau); a collection of writings that include aphorisms, political treatises, and a utopian novel; gardens that include a grotto of eighty-six life-size automata and an experimental village of courtiers; and architecture and landscapes that traverse the contested boundaries of central Europe, imaginary constructions of the orient, and the borderlines between fact and fiction. These come together to make a distinctive account of the transitional period in eighteenth-century culture. Stanislas' architectural and literary works were rooted in an acceptance of the uncertainty of the world more characteristic of the story. His 'hope of a better age' emerges as an endeavour - through the writing and the architecture - to find one's own meaning in history as well as a model for the good life. His story suggests a way of exploring what this struggle still entails today.

Dream Builder
Dream Builder

Author: Kelly Starling Lyons

Publisher: Lee & Low Books

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781620149553

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"A biography of Philip Freelon, whose rich family history and deep understanding of Black culture brought him to the role of lead architect for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture"--

Provisional Cities
Provisional Cities

Author: Renata Tyszczuk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-02

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1317074041

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This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene – the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. ‘Provisional cities’ are explored as exemplary sites for thinking about living in this unsettled time. Each chapter focuses on cities, settlements or proxy urbanisations, including past disaster zones, remote outposts in the present and future urban fossils. The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts. The book argues that these rounder and richer accounts can better equip humanity to think through questions of vulnerability, responsibility and opportunity that are presented by immense processes of planetary change. These are cautionary tales for the Anthropocene. Central to this project is the proposition that living with uncertainty requires that architecture is reframed as a provisional practice. This book would be beneficial to students and academics working in architecture, geography, planning and environmental humanities as well as professionals working to shape the future of cities.

Agency
Agency

Author: Florian Kossak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1135281912

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Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of agency, in particular the role of architectural research as an agency of transformation, the chapters here explore how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs, possibilities and capacities for action.

Cityscapes 2
Cityscapes 2

Author: John King

Publisher: Heyday Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9781597143141

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"Text and images related to particular structures first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle."

A History of Western Architecture
A History of Western Architecture

Author: David Watkin

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 9780823022748

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This highly acclaimed book, now available for the first time in the United States in simultaneous paperback and hardcover editions, is particularly valuable for its unique approach to architectural history: The author explores structures not as separate, neatly labeled museum pieces but as part of a vital, living continuity through the ages. Beginning with the classical origins of Western architecture and coming right up to the new millennium, the book discusses every major milestone in the development of Western architecture in probing detail. Features of the revised edition include expanded chapters on Mesopotamian and Egyptian architecture, made possible by important recent archeological findings; and urban planning sections added throughout the book. The latter will be of special value to the growing numbers of readers who take an active interest in the relationship between a city’s buildings and the community residents who live and work in them.

An Architectural Guidebook to Portland
An Architectural Guidebook to Portland

Author: Bart King

Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Portland, Oregon, is a city widely known for its civic planning, preservation and inviting atmosphere. Within the five-mile downtown district can be found skyscrapers, cast-iron front buildings, a riverfront park, old brick warehouses, breweries and more. Photos.

The Arrogant Architect
The Arrogant Architect

Author: L. K. Collins

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781537581224

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King is arrogant, cocky, and everything your heart tells you to stay away from. Ever is sassy and strong willed. Together these two are explosive...but getting there is a challenge. A challenge King happily accepts no matter how bad Ever fights it. Synopsis- Kingsley Lennox, AKA King, has been dubbed a genius of the architectural world. Anything he touches turns to gold, and being as successful as he is, his work is his number one priority. He doesn't have time to date or deal with the slew of women that gawk at him just because of his perfect face and chiseled body. Plus, no one has interested him enough to give a shit, until the smart mouthed Everly Adams, AKA Ever, wakes to the noise of him restoring the building next door to hers. Ever, like King, doesn't have the time or the desire to date, she's been through so much. So when she meets King, she can't help but want nothing at all to do with the arrogant asshole. For one, they share nothing in common. For another, he's pompous, cocky, and throws his money around as if that will win her heart. Did I mention he's fucking crazy and very controlling? No, thank you! But when King sets his mind to something, he accomplishes it...always has, always will. Ever is the biggest challenge he's faced, but will she be the only person he can't impress? Can King win her over, all while hiding the truth about who he really is? ***This book is an Erotic Romance novel and contains mature subject matter. It is not intended for those under 18 years of age.***

Brunelleschi's Dome
Brunelleschi's Dome

Author: Ross King

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1620401940

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The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it. On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design shunned the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air. Of the many plans submitted, one stood out--a daring and unorthodox solution to vaulting what is still the largest dome in the world. It was offered not by a master mason or carpenter, but by a goldsmith and clockmaker named Filippo Brunelleschi, then forty-one, who would dedicate the next twenty-eight years to solving the puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he reinvented the field of architecture. Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Award-winning, bestselling author Ross King weaves this drama amid a background of the plagues, wars, political feuds, and the intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence to bring the dome's creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance.