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Coverage includes: The meaning of 'classical' architecture, The influence of mythology and religious beliefs, Design features, classical architecture as political statement and Examples from around the globe.

Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more difficult to discuss, but more necessary, because it is what makes things work. Architects have to think about flow the flow of people through buildings, t...

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This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exo...

This is the first concise text to explore the collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari specifically for architects and architecture students. Deleuze and Guattari's work has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and students.

Original essays in this book written by an international range of recognised theorists investigate how the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture.

Architectures: Modernism and After "surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment. Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to n...

A new critical biography of prominent 19th-century art and architecture critic John Ruskin, which shows how Ruskin's ideas gave a clear moral character to art, architecture and the picturesque and reveals why and how his reputation still endures today.

Provides an introduction for students of architecture in design studio at all levels, students of architecture pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in architectural theory, academics and interested architectural practitioners.

Architectures: Modernism and After "surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment. Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to n...