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Das DiaphaneArchitektur und ihre Bildlichkeit
Das Medium, das sichtbar macht – so bezeichnete Aristoteles einst das Diaphane (to diaphanês, das Durchscheinende). 1927 verwendet Hans Jantzen den Begriff für die gotische Kathedrale und seitdem flottiert er durch die Philosophie, die Medienwissenschaft, die Architekturtheorie, die Kunstgeschichte und die Filmwissenschaft. Die Beiträger*innen dieses Bandes bringen die Disziplinen zusammen…
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Monospace and MultiverseExploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the S…
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Schulen weiterbauenStrategische Entwicklung von Schulgebäudebeständen
Unterrichtspraktiken und soziale Beziehungen in den Schulen werden nicht zuletzt durch die vorherrschenden Gebäudestrukturen geprägt. Das stabile sozio-technische Regime der Schule, das auf dem Prinzip des Klassenzimmers und dem System Lehrer-Klasse beruht, kann nur langfristig und mithilfe einer Gesamtstrategie verändert werden. Dieser Aspekt ist besonders relevant, wenn es um die Modernisi…
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The Royal Opera House Guidebook
The Royal Opera House receives over 1 million visitors a year. Published jointly by the ROH and Oberon Books, this is the first ever guide to the magnificently rebuilt theatre. The guide covers the fascinating and turbulent history of the theatre at Covent Garden since the early 18th century, its recent redevelopment, the majestic auditorium and Linbury Studio, rehearsal studios, and world-clas…
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Henry Ives Cobb's ChicagoArchitecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Mode…
When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects—Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859–1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city's turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer…
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Plotting Gothic
A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the c…
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Small Houses of the FortiesWith Illustrations and Floor Plans
Designed for the 1940s family with a "limited budget but unlimited good taste," this fascinating volume presents 56 floor plans and elevations of lovely small homes that originally cost less than {dollar}15,000 to build. Each home, bearing the honorable designation of House-of-the-Month by the era's Monthly Small House Club, Inc., was designed to give prospective homeowners an exceptionally wel…
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Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details
This vintage volume offers a treasure trove of floor plans, elevations, and details of residences and public buildings. Artists, architects, and historians alike will find it an endless source of inspiration. Featured buildings include villas, cottages, and farm houses as well as churches, schools, banks, and many other structures. Eighty-one remarkably detailed illustrations capture the elabor…
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My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright
"An anecdotal reminiscence of Americas chief living genius by his son short, unconventional, amusing and on the whole revealing." Book Week. Frank Lloyd Wright is widely regarded as the twentieth centurys greatest architect an unconventional genius who transformed both residential and commercial building design with his concept of organic architecture. During a long and productive life, Wrig…
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Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details734 Scale Drawings of Doorw…
Victorian architecture, with its quirky diversity, eclectic origins, and exuberant ornamentation, continues to exert a strong attraction on today's architects, builders, and homeowners. For those interested in restoring, preserving, or even re-creating Victorian homes, authentic plans and designs are invaluable. This volume, meticulously reproduced from a rare nineteenth-century publication, of…
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