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Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers ...

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied ...

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied ...

VOL. 1 Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction Banister Fletcher: the father, the son, his wife and their books List of Maps and Urban Plans Notes on Transliteration PART ONE [3500 BCE to ...

[An] important text for anyone involved in any form of sound studies. * The Wire (joint-reviewed with Acoustic Territories) * I am pleased to discover at last an English - ...

Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of ...

Islamism in the Modern World is an accessible, student-oriented introduction to the debates surrounding the historic origins of contemporary Islamism. It explores controversies surrounding contemporary Islamists' indebtedness to various European ...

Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewellery, modernism and modernity from the 'jazz age' ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made ...

Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across ...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in ...

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church ...

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the pulsations of multiple and simultaneous styles, ...

Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In ...

In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by 63 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the ...

Louis Sullivan Otto Wagner Adolf Loos Peter Behrens Auguste Perret Frank Lloyd Wright Antonio Sant 'Elia Bruno Taut Eric Mendelsohn Walter Gropius Theo van Doesburg El Lissitzky Konstantin Melnikov Hannes ...

Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought - provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, ...

1. Folds, Scissors and Cleavage in Giovanni Battista Moroni's Il Tagliapanni, Angela Maddock. 2. A Perverted Taste - Italian Depictions of Cloth and Puberty in Mid-19th Century Marble, Dr Claire ...

Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic ...

Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the ...