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Dominating Moscow’s skyline once again is the recently rebuilt and re-consecrated enormous Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior. The Cathedral replaces the world’s largest outdoor swimming pool, which, in turn, replaced the foundations of the gigantic Palace of Soviets begun in the 1930s. It occupies...

As in other cities, Cleveland has developed through the evolution of its European ethnic neighborhoods and their various religions. Many of these neighborhoods built their own churches, which became the focus of community development and unity. For decades, these churches thrived, but the new millennium...

This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial...

This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture from the perspective of functions of architectures by analyzing the cases of traditional Chinese houses and tombs as well as palaces and places of worship. Houses and tombs, the ‘Yang’ dwellings and ‘Yin’ dwellings of human beings in traditional...

Written as a sketching artist's companion, this guide by a noted author of art instruction manuals attests to the value of sketching as a distinct art form rather than merely a vehicle to achieve more polished works. Artist and author Jasper Salwey details advantages of many drawing media, from pencil...

Des Moines boasts a remarkable architectural portfolio rich in depth and quality. The town drew wide attention in the nineteenth century with structures like the Iowa State Capitol and the Terrace Hill mansion. Des Moines embraced the City Beautiful movement in the twentieth century and became home...

This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork...

The classic introduction to what architecture is; materials employed and definition of distinctive features of the main styles. With 86 drawings it explains in depth: -Egyptian, Asiatic, and early American architecture -Greek architecture -Roman architecture -Early Christian architecture...

This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terracotta elements in various forms, such as regular flat bricks, hollow voussoirs, vaulting tubes, and...

By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics...

This book examines the three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice: the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future. The book integrates an investigation of historical sources...

Vastu -Shastra is a Vast and ancient science of living. The word Vastu is derived from the root ‘Vas’ which means ‘to reside’. It is not an equivalent of the word architecture. Vastu is architecture and much more. While architecture is the science, art or profession of designing and constructing...

Avec force précisions historiques, l'architecte et penseur nous livre un ouvrage richement documenté sur la restauration de Carcassonne. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) demeure un personnage complexe et controversé encore aujourd’hui. Il fait partie de ces artistes et penseurs du début...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 74% entspricht 1,1, Coventry University, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the well-known architects of the 20th century. He was also an influential...