This is the first book-length feminist analysis of Eileen Gray's work, "Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In" argues that Gray's ...
The courtyard house is one of the most enduring architectural forms, transcending regional, historical and cultural boundaries. Its balance of simple appropriate construction, environmental ...
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors" explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, ...
Designing UNESCO: Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century represents the first full-length monograph on the genesis, construction and reception of the Paris headquarters ...
The widespread fascination with historic urban environments, which inspired the Venice Charter forty years ago, has since led to a range of practical and ...
Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. ...
Travel, Space, Architecture defines a new theoretical territory in architectural and urban scholarship that frames the processes of spatial production through the notion of ...
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments. Starting ...
Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning. Likewise, planning raises arguably the most ...
Over the past two decades, city economies have restructured in response to the decline of older industries. This has involved new forms of planning ...
In recent years, a formidable gulf has opened up between planning theory and practice. Over the past four decades, planning academics have developed strong ...
Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality, and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, the book presents ...
Using monuments and ruins by way of illustration, this fascinating book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek classical iconography for ...
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings ...
Comparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on ...
This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how ...
