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Ahrends Burton and Koralek
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ISBN: 0856709271 0856709298 0312061919 0312061927 9780856709296 9780856709272 9780312061913 9780312061920 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Academy Editions

Hans Scharoun : a monograph.
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ISBN: 0900406577 9780900406577 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Gordon Fraser

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Hans Scharoun.
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ISBN: 0714828777 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Phaidon


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Dialogues in time : new Graz architecture.
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ISBN: 3901174362 Year: 1998 Publisher: Graz Haus der Architektur

Gunnar Asplund
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ISBN: 0714839760 9780714839769 Year: 2006 Publisher: London New York : Phaidon,

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Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) produced buildings of extraordinary grace and poetry in his native Sweden. Among his best known works are the pavilions at the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, the Stockholm Library (1928) and the Woodland Chapel (1920). This book celebrates the life and work of Asplund, a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, who was recognized for his unique blend of Classical, Modernist and Vernacular architecture. Asplund's achievements are amply demonstrated through masterpieces that lasted throughout his career, such as the Gothenburg Law Courts (1913-1937) and the Enskede Cemetery (1915-1940), a collaboration with Sigurd Lewerentz. As a result of detailed and specialist research, each project is examined through a comprehensive survey of original and archival drawings from Asplund's office, offering a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his oeuvre. In addition to major buildings, smaller built and unbuilt projects are also explored, such as the architect's own summer house at Stennäs (1938) and the crematoria at Kviberg and Skövde (1940). Peter Blundell Jones' study provides an expert overview of Asplund and his legacy of Scandinavian Modernism. Generously illustrated throughout with key plans, sketches, archival drawings and unseen special photography, this book presents a unique and essential evaluation of Asplund for anyone interested in the subject of architecture during the first half of the twentieth century.


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Architecture and ritual : how buildings shape society
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ISBN: 1472577493 1472577507 9781472577498 9781472577504 9781472577474 Year: 2020 Publisher: London, England : London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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"Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever."--


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Hans Scharoun
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Year: 1995 Publisher: London: Phaidon,

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Peter Hübner : Bauen als ein sozialer Prozess
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ISBN: 9783932565021 Year: 2007 Publisher: Stuttgart : Menges,

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