Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European society confronted rapid monetization, a process that has been examined in depth by ...
Continue Reading →Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated ...
Continue Reading →The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is ...
Continue Reading →Every day Roman urbanites took to the street for myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping local deities to simply loitering and socializing. ...
Continue Reading →States have long been active in commissioning architecture, which affords one way to embed political projects within socially meaningful cultural forms. Such state-led ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers’ City Metaphors juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of ...
Continue Reading →One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote ...
Continue Reading →Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an ...
Continue Reading →Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ‘forgetting’, and how modern society ...
Continue Reading →Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ‘forgetting’, and how modern society ...
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