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 →From the first treatise on architecture in antiquity, wholeness and finality were among the chief aspirations of architects, both in individual designs and ...
Continue Reading →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 →This 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 →This 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 →The 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 →Few 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 →For Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of “austerity chic” is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting ...
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