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. ...
Ruedi Baur has chosen seven concepts to describe his conceptual approach: anticipate, question, identify, contextualize, perplex, inscribe, and translate. They serve as the structure ...
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome ...
James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling's reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the ...
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became ...
As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between ...
The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders ...
El nacimiento del Reino de Asturias bajo la España musulmana fue una empresa titánica de resistencia y supervivencia. Resulta inconcebible que un puñado de ...
The book makes visible and comprehensible aspects of the briefing and design process by examining different, overlapping activities that take place: relating, talking, exploring/discovering, ...
