When Heinrich Hübsch published In What Style Should We Build? in 1828, German Neoclassicism―like its counterpart in France―was in rapid descent, thereby opening ...
Continue Reading →Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious ...
Continue Reading →Following the invention of the daguerreotype and calotype processes in 1839, views of ruins, classical statuary, and the antiquities of the Mediterranean and ...
Continue Reading →From ancient forts in New Zealand to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., Earth Architecture ranges across the globe, covering more than ...
Continue Reading →Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of ...
Continue Reading →The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and ...
Continue Reading →What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in ...
Continue Reading →Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays ...
Continue Reading →The Australian Ugliness is a 1960 book by Australian architect Robin Boyd. Boyd investigates visual pollution in Australian aesthetic, in relation to architecture ...
Continue Reading →Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? ...
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