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Festival Architecture
With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to contemporary architecture and urban design ideas and theories. Illustrated with a wealth of unusual and rarely-seen images from the European festival tradition, this is a fascinating outline of the history of festival architecture ideal for postgraduate architecture and urban design students.
Architecture and Nature
Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award! The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. Architecture and Nature presents an in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.
Architecture as a Performing Art
How do buildings act with people and among people in the performances of life? This collection of essays reveals a deep alliance between architecture and the performing arts, uncovering its roots in ancient stories, and tracing a continuous tradition of thought that emerges in contemporary practice. With fresh insight, the authors ask how buildings perform with people as partners, rather than how they look as formal compositions. They focus on actions: the door that offers the possibility of making a dramatic entrance, the window that frames a scene, and the city street that is transformed in carnival. The essays also consider the design process as a performance improvised among many players...
Dams
There are over 2.5 million dams in the United States, from the massive federal projects built between the 1930s and the 1970s, such as Hoover Dam or the Grand Coulee, to small, privately owned structures. This wonderfully illustrated book, the newest in the Norton/Library of Congress series, presents a comprehensive picture of North American dams-always emphasizing the unique design and engineering complexities of these impressive structures. Organizing projects by watershed, Macy draws on the rich archives of the Library of Congress, presenting stereoscopic photographs, lithographs from travel brochures, picture postcards, illustrations from newspapers and illustrated journals, and government documentation, to underscore the structural diversity of dams, and their ever-changing role on the American landscape, and in American society.
Common ground
Integration of designing and making are presented here as the common ground between contemporary craft, architecture, and the decorative arts. This perspective offers a nuanced understanding of craft. A photo essay documenting the integration of craft and architecture at the Fuji Pavilion in the Montreal Botanical Garden is also included.
The Picturesque
John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture.
A More Perfect Union
In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides. To counter the use of chemicals--and bombs--the naturalist articulated a holistic vision. She wrote about a "web of life" that connected humans to the world around them and argued that actions taken in one place had consequences elsewhere. Thousands accepted her message, joined environmental groups, flocked to Earth Day celebrations, and lobbied for legislative regulation. Carson was not the only intellectual to offer holistic answers to soc...
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
"A critical translation of the unabridged Italian text of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father, seventeenth-century sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Includes commentary on the author's data and interpretations, contrasting them with other contemporary primary sources and recent scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
Canan Tolon: Loss
Focusing on a single work from the Arter Collection in each title, Arter Close-Up Series offers an in-depth look at Canan Tolon’s work titled Loss (1988–2010), following Sarkis: Çaylak Sokak written by Emre Baykal and David Tudor & Composers Inside Electronics, Inc. (John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein): Rainforest V (variation 3) by Melih Fereli. The publication, which also draws on the display of the installation as part of the group exhibition Precaution (03/06/2021–20/02/2022) curated by Emre Baykal at Arter, features a comprehensive interpretive text written by Erdem Ceylan. In her installation Loss, Tolon gives another chance to her works that were damaged during the San Francisco ...
Architecture as Experience
Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material. The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two alternative historical perspectives, in which recognisable features are shown in different lights. The results are often surprising, inverting the common idea of a historic place as having an enduring meaning. This book shows the insight that can be gained from learning about earlier constructions of meaning which have been derived from the same buildings that stand before us today.
