Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native ...
Continue Reading →Widely acknowledged as Britain’s leading architectural historian, Sir Howard Colvin has been responsible for fundamental research that has helped to bring about a ...
Continue Reading →Oxford is a place in which we are exceptionally well placed to study this phenomenon, partly because college and university archives have been ...
Continue Reading →Sumptuous plasterwork ornament is a celebrated and distinctive feature of Ireland’s 18th-century domestic architecture. Migrant craftsmen brought the modeling skills and decorative forms ...
Continue Reading →The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early ...
Continue Reading →The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration. Digital technologies have changed architecture– the ...
Continue Reading →“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their ...
Continue Reading →A history of the influence of communication technologies on Western architectural theory. The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and ...
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