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Through a series of case studies, this book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia.

Le Carmel de la Paix, set on a hillside near Cluny is a convent designed by Jose Luis Sert, which is virtually unknown and little visited This book sets out the reasons for its neglect and in doing so, not only offers valuable and important new insights into Sert's architecture.

Historians and critics of Adolf Loos have repeatedly noted the influence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had on the Austrian architect and, indeed, Loos himself made a direct reference to the importance of the German architect for the development of contemporary architecture and education. Rather than focussing on Loos's relation to Schinkel through a systematic analysis of projects, this book places the relation between the two master architects within a larger-frame comparative approach. It makes a parallel examination of Schinkel and Loos's strategies in regard to the metropolis or GroAYstadt. Referring to theories of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Camillo Sitte, Schmarsow and Merleau's Ponty, sets the two architects within their urban context - in Schinkel's case, it is a city on the verge on becoming the industrial metropolis; in the case of Loos, it is the fin-de-siecle world metropolis marked by Wagner, Kokoshska, and Freud. The book is divided into two sections, each consisting of two essays about Schinkel and two essays about Loos. The first section examines their concern for the city at large and their views on the Baroque and the classical and their ideas for the transformations of the modern, bourgeois city. The second section of the book analyses Schinkel's and Loos's works in light of the traditional conflict between the individual and the collective that characterize the large city and the metropolis in particular.

Edited version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013) under the title: Spectacles plastiques: reconstruction and the debates on the 'synthesis of the arts' in France, 1944-1962.

Investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives an account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank.

The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated.

Focusing on various contexts within Western Europe, Latin America and the United States, this book traces the myths and application of luxury within architecture, interiors and designed landscapes. Spanning from antiquity to the modern era, it sets out six historical categories of luxury - and relates these to the built and unbuilt environment.

In 1964, Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a hospital in the San Giobbe neighbourhood of Venice. While he died the following year and so his design was not built.

At the end of the Second World War, Italian architects began to pay increasing attention to examples imported from the United States, with the "American model" becoming a reference for many Italian designers, planners, and critics. This book questions how effective the circulation of US-originated knowledge was.

Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today.

How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design space? Why do architects traditionally design, draw and map the visual, as opposed to other types of sensations of space (the sound, the smell, the texture, etc.).

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s. The examples chosen, located in England.

The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In particular, it shows the full impact upon Wright of his contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright's.

Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - this book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain 1900-1939.

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture. This book examines a range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings.

Provides a detailed exploration of the relationships between individual architects, educators, artists and designers that laid the foundation and shaped the approach to designing new school buildings in postwar Britain.

Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. This book examines these modest Modernist houses within the context of the Modern Movement in Europe, as well as the inter-war building boom in suburban Britain.

Describes the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. This book also examines what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.