Art Architecture category: 42682 books
L’illusorietà della materia
Opere di Fiamma Dinelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Catalogo mostra presso la Facoltà di Architettura - Sapienza Università di Roma - dal 10 novembre - 4 dicembre 2011 La Facoltà di Architettura ha tra i suoi obiettivi anche quello di diffondere l’arte in tutte le sue forme: è quindi con particolare piacere che ospitiamo, nei locali della Facoltà...
by Yuriko Damiani
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Figlia d’arte, nasce a Roma nel 1972 da mamma giapponese, pittrice ed insegnante di decorazione su porcellana, e papà italiano, profondo conoscitore della cultura del Sol Levante. Frequenta la facoltà di architettura dimostrando, però, sempre una propensione per l’arte e il disegno a mano libera...
L’utopia praticabile
Ipertesti metropolitani
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Collana ESTETICA URBANA. Arte, architettura, urbanistica e spazio pubblico diretta da Patrizia Ferri L’Utopia Praticabile è un progetto itinerante all’insegna delle interazioni disciplinari, che si addentra nelle problematiche e nella complessità relazionale del variegato ambito metropolitano...
Undesign
Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over aesthetic or other non-functional considerations....
by Léon Palustre
Language: French
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Le mouvement scientifique, artistique et littéraire qui marque, pour l’Europe occidentale, la fin du moyen âge et le commencement de l’ère moderne, s’est manifesté tout d’abord au delà des Alpes, c’est-à-dire là où existaient des raisons plus pressantes non seulement de chercher...
Second Skin
Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne...
The Venus Fixers
The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II.
In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a...
The Perfect House
A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident...
Stream 03
Inhabiting the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Stream 03 focuses on the phenomenon of rapid urbanization of the planet, now synonymous with globalization. We live in a time of mutation: the population boom concentrates humanity to major global cities, making them the main venue for problem resolution - between environmental awareness and the constant...
by Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schöbe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over the growth of the movement: Walter Gropius, from...
by A J Blakemont
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
“If you are looking for a clear and concise guide to all aspects of The Gothic, ranging from literature to architecture, history to visual arts, music to fashion, horror to fantasy, subculture to philosophy, and more besides, then this is for you.” John Nicholls, University of Hull What...
by Judith Gura, John Pile
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This classic reference presents the history of interior design from prehistory to the present. Exploring a broad range of design styles and movements, this revised and expanded edition includes coverage of non-Western design and vernacular interior architecture and features 665 photographs and drawings...
The Architecture of Neoliberalism
How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive....
Sanctioning Modernism
Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction—and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture...