Power and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Architecture write by Michael Minkenberg. This book was released on 2014-06-01. Power and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
Architecture, Power and National Identity
Architecture, Power and National Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Power and National Identity write by Lawrence Vale. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Architecture, Power and National Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Hortitecture
Hortitecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hortitecture write by Almut Grüntuch-Ernst. This book was released on 2018. Hortitecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. HORTITECTURE explores synergies combining architecture and vital plant material - taking plants off the ground into a new conceptual and spatial context. - WorldCat.
Why We Build
Why We Build - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why We Build write by Rowan Moore. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Why We Build available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight in exotic locales or here in the United States. Now, in a bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore—former director of the Architecture Foundation, now the architecture critic for The Observer—explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment of Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; across the world to assess a software magnate’s grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libeskind’s failed design for the World Trade Center site; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era.
Space and Power
Space and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space and Power write by Paul Hirst. This book was released on 2005-06-24. Space and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This scholarly account of the various ways in which space is configured by power, and in which space becomes a resource for power, combines insights from social theory, politics, history and geography.
