The Aesthetics of Contemporary Architecture
Title | The Aesthetics of Contemporary Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Ragon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN |
The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design
Title | The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Treib |
Publisher | Oro Editions |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-07-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781954081154 |
Planting design is, rather obviously, a complex topic, spanning as it does art, science, social need, and morality--especially during these days of increasing planetary environmental threat. Although certainly not denying the importance of scientifically appropriate practices, the symposium "The Aesthetics of [Contemporary] Planting Design" addressed planting design today, proposing a renewed concern for the cultural and aesthetic aspects of the landscapes that result. This book, which has been developed from the original presentations at the symposium, presents the thoughts of a select international group of landscape architects and historians who discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work as well as the work of others, both contemporary and historical. They suggest that, as in real estate, the most important factor in selecting plants is "location, location, location." Certainly the Californian situation is far more forgiving than the aridity and other restrictive environmental conditions endemic to the Sonoran desert, or the frost and short growing seasons of Nordic lands that direct Scandinavian landscape architects to rely on native birches, pines, rowan, and moss. Most of us would agree that there are plants sensible for each climatic zone. Addressing environmental conditions is but the first step in the equation, however. There are also the issues of combination and composition.
The Aesthetics of Architecture
Title | The Aesthetics of Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2013-04-21 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0691158339 |
"Paperback reissue, with a new introduction by the author."
Modern Architecture
Title | Modern Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Wagner |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0226869393 |
In 1896, Otto Wagner's "Modern Architecture" shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a "modern" style suited to contemporary needs and ideals, utilizing the nascent constructional technologies and materials. Through the combined forces of his polemical, pedagogical, and professional efforts, this determined, newly appointed professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts emerged in the late 1890s - along with such contemporaries as Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Louis Sullivan in Chicago - as one of the leaders of the revolution soon to be identified as the "Modern Movement." Wagner's historic manifesto is now presented in a new English translation - the first in almost ninety years - based on the expanded 1902 text and noting emendations made to the 1896, 1898, and 1914 editions. In his introduction, Dr. Harry Mallgrave examines Wagner's tract against the backdrop of nineteenth-century theory, critically exploring the affinities of Wagner's revolutionary élan with the German eclectic debate of the 1840s, the materialistic tendencies of the 1870s and 1880s, and the emerging cultural ideology of modernity. Modern Architecture is one of those rare works in the literature of architecture that not only proclaimed the dawning of a new era, but also perspicaciously and cogently shaped the issues and the course of its development; it defined less the personal aspirations of one individual and more the collective hopes and dreams of a generation facing the sanguine promise of a new century
Aesthetics and Architecture
Title | Aesthetics and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Winters |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2007-08-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
A sophisticated but engaging look at the debates and ideas involved in the aesthetics of architecture - part of a major new series from Continuum's philosophy list.
Reality Modeled After Images
Title | Reality Modeled After Images PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Young |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2021-08-30 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 100040210X |
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary concepts and produce political effects. Through both historical and contemporary examples, it focuses on how conventions of representation are established, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Critical investigations are conjoined with inquiries into aesthetics and technology in the hope that the tensions between them can aid an exploration into how architectural images are produced, disseminated, and valued; how images alter assumptions regarding the appearances of architecture and the environment. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book shows how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.
The Aesthetics of Architecture
Title | The Aesthetics of Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |