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Best Buildings Britain' is the third title in the 'Best Buildings' series, following 'Best Buildings Belgium' (2018) and 'Best Buildings Holland' (spring 2019). In this guide, Matthew Freedman presents 75 buildings completed after 1918 in Great Britain, each accompanied by a photo and a short text. The selection is based on the top ten lists of renowned British architects and architecture critics, including great names like Norman Foster, Piers Gough, Charles Holland, Jonathan Meades, Alice Rawsthorn and Richard Rogers. From their lists comes a surprising mix of 'best' buildings, from applauded contemporary projects such as the London Aquatics Centre, to impressive must-sees such as Highpoint in Highgate (London) or Marine Court in St Leonards-on-Sea, up to brutalist gems such as Preston bus station and the National Theatre. The book also features the full lists with all of each contributor's ten favourite buildings.
Architecture --- Buildings --- 72.03(410) --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture, British --- 721 --- gebouwen --- Groot-Brittannië --- Built environment
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Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture is the acknowledged classic reference work for architectural history. It has been essential reading for generations of architects and students since the first edition was published in 1896 - and this tradition continues today as the new 21st edition provides the most up-to-date, authoritative and detailed account of the global history of architecture available in any form. Thousands of major buildings from around the world are described and explained, accompanied by over 2,200 photographs, plans, and drawings. Architectural styles and traditions are placed within a clear framework, and the chronological and geographical arrangement of the work's 102 chapters allows for easy comparative analysis of cultural contexts, resources, and technologies. Published for the first time in full colour, and entirely rewritten throughout by over 80 leading international architectural historians, this is a landmark new edition of a classic work - one which reflects the very latest scholarship and brings a thoroughly contemporary understanding to over 5,500 years of global architectural history. [Publisher]
Architecture --- History. --- Histoire. --- History --- Histoire de l'architecture --- 72 --- 72.03 --- Architectuur --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Histoire --- architectural history
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Brussel (gewest) --- Brussel --- 008 --- 72.03 --- 711.61 --- Erfgoed --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Openbare ruimte --- Environmental planning --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- streets --- Brussels --- Architecture in art. --- Art in the environment
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This architectural guide brings together 100 of the most original structures built in New York City since 1999. Vladimir Belogolovsky pairs them with such nicknames as Guillotine, Peacock, Shark's Fin, Turtle Shell, and Woodpecker. The New York-based author's selection covers buildings realized by the world's most renowned architects, in a period when their creations were celebrated as art, and personal styles were encouraged by the media, critics, and clients. The featured time span begins with the rise of the starchitect in the late 1990s, and ends in the present day. But the mission of the book is not only to document; it is also to celebrate New York's transformative energy. Many of the buildings were designed either by foreign architects or those who settled in the city and now call it home. Through witty, incisive commentary, catchy nicknames, quotes from the author's interviews with the architects, and detailed maps, this singular guide allows readers to see many of New York's contemporary icons in a new way.
Architecture --- Guide d'architecture --- Gratte-ciel --- Architecture contemporaine --- New york --- New York --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- 379.85 --- 72.03 --- 72.037 --- Architectuurgidsen --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Eenentwintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 21ste eeuw (architectuur)
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Beton is niet alleen een technisch materiaal dat dankzij zijn structurele kenmerken innoverende constructies en bouwwijzen mogelijk maakt. Ook wanneer het zichtbaar blijft, valt het uitzicht van dit materiaal in de smaak. Dit themanummer besteedt aandacht aan de meest uiteenlopende toepassingen van beton, zoals Franki-heipalen, dakgebinten van kerken of glasramen met betonvoegen. Het dossier is opgebouwd vanuit drie invalshoeken: de geschiedenis van de betontechnieken, enkele merkwaardige realisaties uit beton en, tot slot, de ingrepen met het oog op betonconservatie.
Brussel (gewest) --- Brussel --- 008 --- 747 --- 72.025 --- 691.3 --- 72.03 --- Erfgoed --- Interieurarchitectuur / Interieurinrichting / Interieruvormgeving --- Monumentenzorg --- Beton --- Betonconstructies --- Gewapend beton --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Building materials. Building technology --- Architecture --- architecture [object genre] --- concrete --- Brussels --- Concrete construction --- History
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"As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life. 'Michelangelo, God's Architect' is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter's Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter's project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering. Assessing the situation with his uncompromising eye and razor-sharp intellect, Michelangelo overcame the furious resistance of Church officials to persuade the Pope that it was time to start over. In this richly illustrated book, leading Michelangelo expert William Wallace sheds new light on this least familiar part of Michelangelo's biography, revealing a creative genius who was also a skilled engineer and enterprising businessman. The challenge of building St. Peter's deepened Michelangelo's faith, Wallace shows. Fighting the intrigues of Church politics and his own declining health, Michelangelo became convinced that he was destined to build the largest and most magnificent church ever conceived. And he was determined to live long enough that no other architect could alter his design."--
Religious architecture --- Rome, Sint-Pietersbasiliek --- Michelangelo --- Architecture, Renaissance --- Michelangelo Buonarroti, --- Michelangelo Buonarroti --- Buonarroti, Michelangelo --- Mikelandzhelo Buonarroti --- Mikelʹ-Andzhelo --- Michael Angelo --- Miguel Angel --- Mīkilānjilū --- Michelangiolo --- Michel-Ange --- Michał Anioł --- Buonarroti, Michel Angelo --- Miguel Angelo --- Michelagniolo Buonarroti --- Buonarroti, Michelagniolo --- Michelangiolo Buonarroti --- Michaelangelo --- Michelagnolo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni --- di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Michelangelo --- Микеланджело Буонарроти --- מיכאל־אנג׳לו בואונארוטי, --- Last years. --- 72.03 <45> --- 72.03 <45> Bouwstijlen. Architectuurscholen. Architectuurstromingen. Bouwkunst: periodenen invloeden--Italië --- Bouwstijlen. Architectuurscholen. Architectuurstromingen. Bouwkunst: periodenen invloeden--Italië --- Bouwstijlen. Architectuurscholen. Architectuurstromingen. Bouwkunst: periodenen invloeden--Italië --- Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. --- architectuur, Italië
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For centuries, architecture has been one of the most publicly discussed subjects, by architects and users or inhabitants, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an overview of these discussions in the Western world, by means of four thematic trajectories, focused on housing, society, history, and art. Each of these four chronological paths starts in the 19th century, traverses the 20th century, and ends as closely as possible to the contemporary moment. The stepping stones are historical documents - texts, books, essays, and articles - that are analyzed, interpreted, criticized, and compared. The aim of this book is to show that architecture remains a vital subject matter for anyone interested in our contemporary world and its recent history. Reading, inquiring, and thinking are essential for making substantiated choices, with architecture as a starting point. The writings discussed in this book, both canonical and virtually unknown, are condensed into little pearls of knowledge, attached unto a string, and put together to form a kind of necklace - a talisman that can help us understand and face the present condition.
Architecture --- Criticism and interpretation --- History --- Theory --- 72.01 --- Architectuurtheorie ; 19de en 20ste eeuw --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architecture, Modern --- Modern architecture --- History and criticism --- 72.03 --- Architectuur (kritiek) --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurkritiek --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Histoire de l'architecture
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Brussel (gewest) --- Brussel --- 008 --- 747 --- 72.025 --- 72.03 --- 581 Monumentenbescherming, cultureel erfgoed --- 360 Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest --- 620 Kunst --- Erfgoed --- Interieurarchitectuur / Interieurinrichting / Interieruvormgeving --- Monumentenzorg --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Environmental planning --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- bouwkundig erfgoed --- monumentenzorg --- Brussels --- Architecture in art. --- Art in the environment
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For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as Matthew Mindrup shows, the uses of physical architectural models extend beyond mere representation. An architectural model can also simulate, instruct, inspire, and generate architectural designs. It can be, among other things, sign, souvenir, toy, funerary object, didactic tool, medium, or muse. In this book, Mindrup surveys the history of architectural models by investigating their uses, both theoretical and practical. Tracing the architectural model's development from antiquity to the present, Mindrup also offers an interpretive framework for understanding each of its applications in the context of time and place. He first examines models meant to portray extant, fantastic, or proposed structures, describing their use in ancient funerary or dedicatory practices, in which models are endowed with magical power; as a medium for architectural reverie and inspiration; and as prototypes for twentieth-century experimental designs. Mindrup then considers models that exemplify certain architectural uses, exploring the influence of Leon Battista Alberti's dictum that models be simple, lest they distract from the architect's ideas; analyzing the model as a generative tool; and investigating allegorical, analogical, and anagogical interpretations of models. Mindrup's histories show how the model can be a surrogate for the architectural structure itself, or for the experience of its formal, tactile, and sensory complexity; and beyond that, that the manipulation, play, experimentation, and dreaming enabled by models allow us to imagine architecture in new ways.
Architectural models --- 741:72 --- Architectuur ; maquettes ; schaalmodellen --- Architectuurmodellen --- Buildings --- Models, Architectural --- Architectural casts --- Artists' preparatory studies --- Communication in architectural design --- Miniature objects --- Models and modelmaking --- History --- Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen --- Models --- 72.02 --- 72.01 --- 72.03 --- Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen ; maquettes ; bouwkundige schaalmodellen --- Maquettes (architectuur) --- Architectuurtekenen --- Architectuurmaquettes --- Modellen (architectuur) --- Architectuurtekeningen --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Architectural models. --- History. --- Modèle en architecture --- Maquette --- Prototype --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Architectural models - History
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