Die Tektonik der Hellenen
Title | Die Tektonik der Hellenen PDF eBook |
Author | Hartmut Mayer |
Publisher | Edition Axel Menges |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3930698811 |
Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description
Title | Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description PDF eBook |
Author | A. A. Donohue |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-06-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521840842 |
This book examines how interpretation and examination of Greek sculpture are intertwined.
Architectural Theory of Modernism
Title | Architectural Theory of Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Ute Poerschke |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2016-04-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 131724561X |
Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, to its peak in High Modernism. Functionalist thinking and its postmodern criticism during the second half of the twentieth century is explored, as well as today's functionalism in the context of systems theory, sustainability, digital design, and the information society. The book covers, among others, the theories of Carlo Lodoli, Gottfried Semper, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannes Meyer, Adolf Behne, CIAM, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Charles Jencks, William Mitchell, and Manuel Castells.
The Archaeological Journal
Title | The Archaeological Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Archaeology |
ISBN |
Otto Wagner
Title | Otto Wagner PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Mallgrave |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1996-07-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892362588 |
These essays explore the parameters of Wagner's rich literary and architectural creations.
In What Style Should We Build?
Title | In What Style Should We Build? PDF eBook |
Author | Heinrich Hubsch |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1996-07-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0892361999 |
Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
Antiquity on Display
Title | Antiquity on Display PDF eBook |
Author | Can Bilsel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2012-07-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0199570558 |
"Antiquity on Display" offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the 19th century to the present.