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The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

Architecture --- Architecture, Victorian --- Exoticism in architecture --- Architecture, Islamic --- Islamic influences --- Influence --- Islamic architecture --- Islamic influences. --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- Architecture [Modern ] --- Architecture [Victorian ] --- Architecture [Islamic ] --- Middle East --- Architecture - Great Britain - Islamic influences. --- Architecture, Modern - Great Britain - Islamic influences. --- Architecture, Victorian - Great Britain. --- Exoticism in architecture - Great Britain. --- Architecture, Islamic - Middle East - Influence. --- Architecture - Great Britain - Islamic influences --- Architecture, Victorian - Great Britain --- Exoticism in architecture - Great Britain --- Architecture, Islamic - Middle East - Influence

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This multi-authored work considers the increasingly vital concept of urban memory, approaching the issue from different perspectives across art, culture, architecture and human consciousness, with studies on contemporary urban spaces worldwide.

Sociology, Urban. --- Cities and towns --- Architecture and history. --- Historic preservation. --- Memorialization. --- Memory --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural property --- History and architecture --- History --- Urban sociology --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Protection --- Sociology of environment --- Art --- Architecture

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This is the first overview of the career of Alison and Peter Smithson, the most controversial yet most widely-influential of post-war architectural practices. From their first youthful project, the school at Hunstanton, to their final works, they epitomised the idea of the avant-garde architect, and were strongly engaged with artists and critics and with groups and tendencies in Britain and beyond. Structured thematically and chronologically, the book gives a coherent and compact narrative of the Smithsons' work and ideas. As well as all of the major buildings - including the Economist complex, the Garden building at St Hilda's College, and the Robin Hood Gardens estate - the book also discusses unbuilt projects, including substantial work for the British embassy at Brasilia and the Kuwait mat-building. It culminates with the less well-known factory additions, museum and house for Axel Bruchhauser, a furniture manufacturer in Germany. Central to their work, Mark Crinson argues, was a concern with belonging, with how we identify ourselves with places in a context of change. Lavishly illustrated with new colour images as well as original drawings and historic photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students and enthusiasts for modernism wanting to learn more about the Smithsons.

architects --- Smithson, Peter --- Smithson, Alison --- Architects --- Architecture --- Brutalism (Architecture) --- Architecture, Modern --- 72.07 --- Smithson, Alison M. (Margaret Gill) 1928-1993 (°Sheffield, Groot-Brittannië) --- Smithson, Peter 1923-2003 (°Stockton-on-Tees, Groot-Brittannië) --- Architectuur ; vnl. Groot-Brittannië ; 20ste eeuw --- Moderne Beweging --- New Brutalism --- Architectuur ; 20ste eeuw ; A. en P. Smithson --- Brutalist architecture --- New brutalism (Architecture) --- History --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Smithson, Alison, --- Smithson, Peter, --- Smithson, Alison Margaret --- Gill, Alison Margaret, --- Neo-brutalism (Architecture)

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This title was first published in 2003: Modernist architecture claimed to be the 'international style' but the relationship between modernism and the new dispositions of nations and nationalities which have succeeded the old European empires remains obscure. In this, the first book to examine the interactions between modern architecture, imperialism and post-imperialism, Mark Crinson looks at the architecture of the last years of the British Empire, and during its prolonged dissolution and aftermath. Taking a number of case studies from Britain, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iran, India and Malaysia, he investigates the ambitions of the people who commissioned the buildings, the training and role of architects, and the interaction of the architecture and its changing social and cultural contexts. This book raises questions about the nature of modernism and its roles that look far beyond empire and towards the post-imperial.

Architecture, Modern --- Architecture --- Architecture, British colonial. --- Architecture and society. --- Architecture and state. --- British influences. --- Great Britain --- Colonies. --- Architecture, British colonial --- Nationalism and architecture --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Architecture coloniale britannique --- Architecture et société --- Nationalisme et architecture --- Mouvement moderne (Architecture) --- History --- Histoire --- Influence britannique --- Politique gouvernementale --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonies

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Building-Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither object-like or building-like, but somewhere in between - air conditioning; bookshelves; partition walls; table-monuments; TVs; convenience stores; cars - exposing particular political configurations and resonances that otherwise might be occluded. In doing so, they reveal that the definitions we make of objects in opposition to buildings, architecture in opposition to design, are not as fundamental as they seem. This book brings new aspects of the creative and experiential into our understanding of the human environment.

Architecture --- design [discipline] --- architecture [object genre] --- Design --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect social