Ruin And Redemption In Architecture
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Author |
: Dan Barasch |
Publisher |
: Phaidon Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0714878022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714878027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ruin and Redemption in Architecture by : Dan Barasch
Lost, forgotten, reimagined, and transformed: the compelling beauty of abandoned, reinvented, and rescued architecture This book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life – demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed, and abandoned architecture has the beauty and power to change lives, communities, and cities the world over. The scale and diversity of abandoned buildings is shown through examples from all around the world, demonstrating the extraordinary ingenuity of their transformation by some of the greatest architectural designers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Author |
: Susan Stewart |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2021-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226792200 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022679220X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins Lesson by : Susan Stewart
"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Author |
: Charles Belfoure |
Publisher |
: Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2013-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402284328 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402284322 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Paris Architect by : Charles Belfoure
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A gripping page-turner...a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris. In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it while World War II rages on. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. Soon Lucien is hiding more souls and saving lives. But when one of his hideouts fails horribly, and the problem of where to conceal a Jew becomes much more personal, and he can no longer ignore what's at stake. Book clubs will pore over the questions Charles Belfoure raises about justice, resistance, and just how far we'll go to make things right. Also by Charles Belfoure: The Fallen Architect House of Thieves
Author |
: Marie Cronqvist |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2021-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030842819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030842819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe by : Marie Cronqvist
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what is at stake in preparing, devising, and implementing forms of preparedness, protection, and security that are specifically targeted at societies and citizens. Applying the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to civil defence history, the chapters of this volume cover a range of new themes, from technology and materiality to media, memory, and everyday experience. The book underlines the social embeddedness of civil defence by detailing how it both prompted new forms of social interaction and reflected norms and visions of the ‘good society’ in an age where nuclear technology seemed to hold the key to both doom and salvation.
Author |
: Hendrik Petrus Berlage |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780892363339 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0892363339 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hendrik Petrus Berlage by : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.
Author |
: Robert Pogue Harrison |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2010-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226317922 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226317927 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dominion of the Dead by : Robert Pogue Harrison
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living—the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn. The Dominion of the Dead is a profound meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living. A work of enormous scope, intellect, and imagination, this book will speak to all who have suffered grief and loss.
Author |
: Jane Hall |
Publisher |
: Phaidon Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0714879274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714879277 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Breaking Ground by : Jane Hall
A ground-breaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day 'Would they still call me a diva if I were a man?' asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so more than a century of stereotypes about female architects. In the same spirited approach, Breaking Ground is a pioneering visual manifesto of more than 200 incredible buildings designed by women all over the world. Featuring twentieth-century icons such as Julia Morgan, Eileen Gray and Lina Bo Bardi, and the best contemporary talent, from Kazuyo Sejima to Elizabeth Diller and Grafton Architects, this book is, above all else, a ground-breaking celebration of extraordinary architecture.
Author |
: William Hall |
Publisher |
: Phaidon Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0714879258 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714879253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stone by : William Hall
Stone is a fascinating, fresh and insightful global tour of the world's oldest and most beautiful building material Featuring more than 170 structures, from prehistory through to today, the book includes an incredible range of buildings: awe-inspiring Neolithic monuments and the epic Pyramids of Giza feature alongside the work of twentieth-century icons, from Mies van der Rohe's seminal Barcelona Pavilion to Marcel Breuer's daring Met building in New York. There are also projects by the world's best contemporary architects, from Snøhetta's angular Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo to Kengo Kuma's sculptural Chokkura Plaza in Japan and David Chipperfield's geometric Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, each project includes an extended caption providing a perceptive commentary on the building. An elegant and informative visual exploration, Stone demonstrates the remarkable variety of creative and innovative structures the material has inspired around the world.
Author |
: Phaidon Editors |
Publisher |
: Phaidon Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 071487809X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714878096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Houses by : Phaidon Editors
The world's most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century Throughout history, houses have presented architects the world over with infinite opportunities to experiment with new methods and materials for domestic living. Houses: Extraordinary Living celebrates the incredible diversity and beauty of the house as never before, from Modernist icons to feats of technological, material, and spatial innovation in the 21st century. Explore the creative imaginations of hundreds of internationally renowned architects past and present, as well as dozens of awe-inspiring houses by lesser-known and emerging talents.
Author |
: Tillie Cole |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 2016-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1535296690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781535296694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Deep Redemption by : Tillie Cole
ONLY THROUGH BLOOD CAN THE DEEPEST REDEMPTION BE FOUND...He was born to ascend.He was destined to lead.He was never meant to fail.Prophet Cain lies broken and defeated on the floor of his cell. A cell he has been thrown into by the one person who was supposed to stand by his side until the end. His flesh and blood, his only companion. His beloved twin brother.Cain has sacrificed everything for his people. He left the safety and security of his life of study to infiltrate the infamous Hades Hangmen. He lived with them, rode with them, and then betrayed them. All in the name of a faith he can now feel slipping away from him. Like everything else he once held dear...But then his isolation is broken. Another prisoner is brought to the cell next to his. A woman fighting her own demons and fears. A woman who Cain understands needs him, as he needs her. As the connection between them grows, so does Cain's resolve. He will right the wrongs he has done. He will atone for the evil acts carried out in his name. He will save the one he loves...... Even if the battle takes him to the gates of hell itself. Contemporary Dark Romance. Contains explicit sexual situations, violence, sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, and mature topics. Recommended for age 18 years and up.