This book analyzes the construction of the first Hebrew University, which the author identifies as central to Zionist goals, and details the challenged faced by the well-known architects and planners related to power struggles, donors' wishes, and architectural concerns.
Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century, Americans had developed their own version of ......
Architect Chris Glass and architectural photographer Brian Vanden Brink make a compelling and visually fascinating argument that the quintessential Maine house is one that fits its surroundings, rather than competing with them. Included are renovated and new houses, as well as other buildings redesigned to be homes.
A translation of Polish politician and architect Ignacy Potocki's unpublished treatise Remarks on Architecture. Includes an introduction that places Potocki and the treatise within the political, social, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Poland.
Exotic Buildings of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe
In the eighteenth century the idea of the landscape garden spread all over Europe. At the same time the garden became the land of illusion: Chinese pagodas, Egyptian tombs and Turkish mosques, along with Gothic stables and Greek and Roman temples, formed a miniature world in which distance mingled with the past. The keen interest in a fairy-tale ......
The building of the National Library of Latvia is a landmark of the capital city of Riga, a spatial symbol and architectural icon, created by one of the 20th century renowned modernists-the Latvian-born American architect Gunnar Birkerts. It is one of the largest cultural buildings in Northern Europe in the 21st century and acquired a symbolic and ......
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci proposed a bridge over Istanbuls Golden Horn to the Ottoman Sultan? This publication is a collection of construction project plans during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Examines the crown-sponsored architecture and urbanism of Naples during the reign of King Charles of Bourbon (1734-59). Shows how structures and public spaces helped consolidate royal authority and refashion the city into a royal capital.
Victor Baltard's Central Markets and the Urban Practice of Architecture
Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard’s creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.
