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Amancio Guedes
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Theology in Stone
Thinking about church architecture has come to an impasse. Reformers and traditionalists are talking past each other. Statements from both sides are often strident and dogmatic. In Theology in Stone, Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond the standoff toward a fruitful conversation about houses of worship. Drawing on a wide range of historical examples with an eye to their contemporary relevance, he offers new ideas about the meanings and uses of church architecture.
Loving Endeavour
Loving Endeavour highlights the challenges faced by rural communities in Zimbabwe from the 1950s - the days of the federation of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland - through the Unilateral Declaration of Independence years starting in 1965 and further onwards through the years of the liberation struggle in the 1970s. Progress in healthcare and education in a rural part of western Zimbabwe is traced and highlighted with reference to Francis Boatwright and his wife Monica. Boatwright was an exceptional Anglican missionary whose range of skills, interests and abilities ranged from construction work to journalism and administration. He provided much-needed leadership and expertise in the development of an educational institution which also included a clinic.
Tropical Architecture
In the dry and humid zones
matières 9: espace architectural
"Pour la critique et l'histoire de l'architecture, le mot espace a été de plus en plus employé pour décrire les bâtiments à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle; il demeurait jusqu'alors absent du vocabulaire architectural. Mais ses significations sont complexes, et quelquefois floues, notamment lorsque la perception de l'espace implique le déplacement, c'est-à-dire la durée ou le temps. Ses significations peuvent être aussi diverses: l'objectif de cette neuvième livraison de matières est d'approcher la question de l'espace à partir de plusieurs point de vue. Les contributions procèdent à des lectures de dispositifs architecturaux spécifiques, reviennent sur des notions rebattues comme celle d'espace-temps, et émettent des hypothèses susceptibles d'approfondir des connaissances ou de déplacer les lignes d'explication habituelles."-- Présentation, site Web de l'éditeur
The New African
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Architectural Education Through Materiality
What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20th century? And, did new teaching techniques and tools foster pedagogical, institutional and even cultural renewal? Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to exploring the complex processes that transformed architecture’s pedagogies in the 20th century. The last decade has seen a substantial increase in interest in the history of architectural education. This book widens the geographical scope beyond local school histories and sets out to discover...
Designing the Modern City
A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world’s population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating w...
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins – those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and its aftermath. By analyzing in straightforward and jargon-free language the genesis of modernism and the complex reactions to it, the book clarifies a continuing debate. It has been specifically written to connect issues of theory, history and contemporary practice and to allow students to make these connections easily. This is a history of twentieth-century architecture, written with close critical attention to the theories that lie behind the works described. Importantly, unlike other historical...
