Mass HousingModern Architecture and State Power – a Global History

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) "It will become the standard work on the subject." Literary Review This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of ma…

Designing the CentennialA History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Phi…

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Modern ArchitectureA Critical History

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and…

Lotte Cohn. Eine schreibende Architektin in IsraelBd. 1: Ausgewählte Schrift…

Lotte Cohn (1893–1983) gehört zu den wenigen Architekturpionierinnen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, die neben einem umfangreichen baulichen Œuvre auch schriftliche Zeugnisse über ihr Leben und ihre Berufspraxis hinterlassen haben. Seit ihrer Einwanderung 1921 in das damalige britische Mandatsgebiet Palästina reflektierte sie in Briefen, Artikeln, Vorträgen und Manuskripten über ihre Ar…

A City Is Not a ComputerOther Urban Intelligences

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how…

Lotte Cohn. Eine schreibende Architektin in IsraelBd. 2: Ausgewählte Briefe …

Lotte Cohn (1893–1983) gehört zu den wenigen Architekturpionierinnen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, die neben einem umfangreichen baulichen Œuvre auch schriftliche Zeugnisse über ihr Leben und ihre Berufspraxis hinterlassen haben. Seit ihrer Einwanderung 1921 in das damalige britische Mandatsgebiet Palästina reflektierte sie in Briefen, Artikeln, Vorträgen und Manuskripten über ihre Ar…

Die neue (Echtzeit-)Ordnung der StädteWie digitale Anwendungen den Stadtraum…

Eine neue Echtzeit-Ordnung schreibt sich mit großer Geschwindigkeit in unsere Städte ein und beginnt, sie zu re-organisieren. Sie ist die Konsequenz einer neuen, sublimen Form von Dienstleistungslandschaft, wird in digitalen Protokollen strukturiert und durch mobile Applikationen vertrieben. In bisher ungekannter Weise werden räumliche Strukturen geplant, definiert und verfügbar gemacht –…

Style and SeductionJewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle…

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims o…

Arts and Crafts ArchitectureHistory and Heritage in New England

This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-ni…

Porches of North America

The porch, whether simple or grand, evokes feelings of welcome, comfort, and nostalgia in all of us, yet there has been little published on the history of this omnipresent architectural feature. This book examines how porches in their many forms have evolved in the United States and Canada through innovations, adaptations, and revivals. Covering formal porches and verandas, as well as the many …