Harry Mallgrave’s comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere ...
Continue Reading โFrom the first treatise on architecture in antiquity, wholeness and finality were among the chief aspirations of architects, both in individual designs and ...
Continue Reading โArt historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native ...
Continue Reading โThis book has been prepared in conjunction with an Open University course entitled History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939. The book has been ...
Continue Reading โThis collection of essays is the first-ever English anthology of her writings. It includes texts written when she was still living in Italy ...
Continue Reading โThe famous American architect’s fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the “father of ...
Continue Reading โFew twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident ...
Continue Reading โFor Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of โausterity chicโ is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting ...
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