The Appreciation of Architecture
Author: Russell Sturgis
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 296
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The Appreciation of Architecture
Author: Russell Sturgis
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitecture
Author: Sinclair Gauldie
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to bring about a better understanding and appreciation of architecture. For the general reader.
How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings
Author: Russell Sturgis
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-29
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussell Sturgis in this book covers the various architectural designs from ancient times through generations to date. This book introduces the development of architectural designs from the early Greek designs, through the early, central, and late medieval designs, to the classic and eighteenth and nineteenth-century designs. It contains illustrations of impeccable architectural designs including Theseum Athens, Curvature of Stylobate of Parthenon, and many more.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Author: Stephen Hoban
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780892074907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, asking the architect to design a new building to house Guggenheim's four-year-old Museum of Non-Objective Painting. The project evolved into a complex struggle pitting the architect against his clients, city officials, the art world and public opinion, but the resultant achievement testifies to both Wright's architectural genius and the adventurous spirit of its founders. The Guggenheim Museum is an embodiment of Wright's attempts to render the inherent plasticity of organic forms in architecture. His inverted ziggurat dispensed with the conventional approach to museum design, which led visitors through a series of interconnected rooms and forced them to retrace their steps when exiting. Instead, Wright whisked people to the top of the building via elevator, and led them downward at a leisurely pace on the gentle slope of a continuous ramp. The galleries were divided like the segments of an orange, into self-contained yet interdependent sections. The open rotunda afforded viewers the unique possibility of seeing several bays of work on different levels simultaneously. The spiral design recalled a nautilus shell, with continuous spaces flowing freely one into another. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: An Architectural Appreciation celebrates Wright's crowning achievement with reflections by prominent architects, historians and critics. Paired alongside a half-century of photographs, they convey how, as Paul Goldberger has said, "almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim."
Resisting Postmodern Architecture
Author: Stylianos Giamarelos
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2022-01-10
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1800081332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.
The Wrong House
Author: Steven Jacobs
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 906450637X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitecture plays an important role In the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Jacobs devotes lengthy discussion to a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans made specially for this book.
Drawing on Architecture
Author: Jordan Kauffman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-06-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0262037378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture. Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as a means to an end. But, just as the boundaries of architecture itself were shifting at the end of the twentieth century, the perception of architectural drawings was also shifting; they began to be seen as autonomous objects outside the process of building. In Drawing on Architecture, Jordan Kauffman offers an account of how architectural drawings—promoted by a network of galleries and collectors, exhibitions and events—emerged as aesthetic objects and ultimately attained status as important cultural and historical artifacts, and how this was both emblematic of changes in architecture and a catalyst for these changes. Kauffman traces moments of critical importance to the evolution of the perception of architectural drawings, beginning with exhibitions that featured architectural drawings displayed in ways that did not elucidate buildings but treated them as meaningful objects in their own right. When architectural drawings were seen as having intrinsic value, they became collectible, and Kauffman chronicles early collectors, galleries, and sales. He discusses three key exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York; other galleries around the world that specialized in architectural drawings; the founding of architecture museums that understood and collected drawings as important cultural and historical artifacts; and the effect of the new significance of architectural drawings on architecture and architectural history. Drawing on interviews with more than forty people directly involved with the events described and on extensive archival research, Kauffman shows how architectural drawings became the driving force in architectural debate in an era of change.
Aesthetics and the Environment
Author: Allen Carlson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780415301053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis books presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment and shows how our aesthetic experience encompasses nature rather than art.
How Architecture Works
Author: Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0374211744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores "fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, [the author] takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs"--Dust jacket flap.
