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 →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 →In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the ...
Continue Reading →Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the ...
Continue Reading →Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and decoration that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should ...
Continue Reading →One of the most detailed works describing the walls of this renowned city, Alexander Van Milligen’s Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City ...
Continue Reading →Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential ...
Continue Reading →Modern Architecture is a landmark text–the first book in which America’s greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture ...
Continue Reading →Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination ...
Continue Reading →Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of ...
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