Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. ...
Continue Reading →The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, ...
Continue Reading →Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism is an indispensable anthology of writing by one of the most important voices in architectural theory of the ...
Continue Reading →Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power by Stijn Bussels is certainly a valuable, praiseworthy contribution to the growing literature on Netherlandish festivals. It offers a ...
Continue Reading →A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most ...
Continue Reading →More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or ...
Continue Reading →A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of ...
Continue Reading →De statua is not – as the title suggests – “treatise on sculpture or sculpture, but a proposal to solve some problems, such ...
Continue Reading →Schopenhauer’s account of the artistic process is an early contribution to the study of creativity. This account extends his analysis of art beyond ...
Continue Reading →Using key texts by the German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper, Mari Hvattum offers a reinterpretation of historicism, viewed as a philosophical outlook ...
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