Architecture and the Welfare State
In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare s…
The companions to the history of architecture
Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book focuses on the relationship and interdependence between design…
Architectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished. Basile Baudez argues that colors appeared on paper when architects adapted the…
Contemporary Japanese Architecture presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural framework that informs the work of all Japanese architects, as an introduction to an in-depth investigation of the challenges now occupying the contemporary designers wh…
This publication presents an in-depth study of collective housing through ten masterworks from the 20th century. For the first time, a+t research group has carried out a graphic architectural analysis, which includes 3D models of the buildings and highlights the most important c…
"Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s.?This book?is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and…
The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern misconceptions about tradition only r…
The living tradition of architecture
by Rykwert, Joseph, Frampton, Kenneth, Libeskind, Daniel, Oechslin, Werner, Lynch, Patrick, Pérez Gómez, Alberto, Harries, Karsten, Middleton, Robin, Leatherbarrow, David, Frost, Christian, Weston, Dagmar, Bryant, Gabriele, Hvattum, Mari, Witherford, Stephen, Parry, Eric
Adaptive reuse - the process of repairing and restoring existing buildings for new or continued use - is becoming an essential part of architectural practice. As mounting demographic, economic, and ecological challenges limit opportunities for new construction, architects increa…
