Marinčić, Computational Models in Architecture
This scientific work focuses on computer-aided computational models in architecture. The author initially investigates established computational models and then expands these with newer approaches to ...
Continue Reading →Jacquette, Schopenhauer and the Aesthetics of Creativity
Schopenhauer’s account of the artistic process is an early contribution to the study of creativity. This account extends his analysis of art beyond the philosophical ...
Continue Reading →Hvattum, Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism
Using key texts by the German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper, Mari Hvattum offers a reinterpretation of historicism, viewed as a philosophical outlook as well ...
Continue Reading →Kerr, The Gentlemans House
After Scottish architect Robert Kerr (1823-1904) published this book in 1864, he was given a commission to build what would become his best-known work, Bearwood ...
Continue Reading →Jacobi, The Architecture of Banking in Renaissance Italy
Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European society confronted rapid monetization, a process that has been examined in depth by economic historians. ...
Continue Reading →Gothein, A History of Garden Art
Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated into English ...
Continue Reading →Hillier, Hanson, The Social Logic of Space
The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on ...
Continue Reading →Hartnett, The Roman Street
Every day Roman urbanites took to the street for myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping local deities to simply loitering and socializing. Hartnett takes ...
Continue Reading →Jones, The Sociology of Architecture
States have long been active in commissioning architecture, which affords one way to embed political projects within socially meaningful cultural forms. Such state-led architecture is ...
Continue Reading →Ungers, Morphologie City Metaphors
First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers’ City Metaphors juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and ...
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