Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 8 of 8
Sort by

Book
Laughing at architecture : architectural histories of humour, satire and wit
Author:
ISBN: 9781350022782 1350022780 9781350022751 9781350022768 1350022764 1350022756 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From William Hogarth and George Cruikshank to Osbert Lancaster, Adolf Loos' satire, and Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoons of New York City, graphic and descriptive humour is shown to be an enormously fruitful, yet largely unexplored terrain of investigation for the architectural and urban historian.


Book
Laughing at architecture : architectural histories of humour, satire and wit
Author:
ISBN: 1350022772 1350022756 1350022764 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From William Hogarth and George Cruikshank to Osbert Lancaster, Adolf Loos' satire, and Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoons of New York City, graphic and descriptive humour is shown to be an enormously fruitful, yet largely unexplored terrain of investigation for the architectural and urban historian."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


Book
Louis Hautecœur et la tradition classique
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 291790271X Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris : Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Cette publication est issue de l'exposition présentée dans la galerie Colbert (Paris IIe, 31 janvier-30 avril 2008). Elle avait pour projet de raconter une histoire de l’architecture (XVIe-XIXe siècle) qui, initiée dès les années 1920 par l’historien de l’art Louis Hautecœur (1884-1973), conduisit à la parution en sept tomes de la monumentale Histoire de l’architecture classique en France (1943-1957). Elle mettait aussi en évidence l’intérêt de Hautecœur pour l’architecture française de l’entre-deux-guerres, période pendant laquelle cet ouvrage majeur fut conçu. Dans cette perspective, elle essayait de montrer comment Hautecœur forgea une notion d’architecture classique sans borne temporelle – ce qui lui permettait d’aborder les débats sur la protection du patrimoine, sur l’architecture et l’urbanisme, et de relier ainsi le passé et le présent de l’architecture française. L’entreprise éditoriale menée par Hautecœur n’est pas la simple expression d’une érudition magistrale. Elle est aussi celle d’un savoir qui reflète la dimension culturelle de son temps. L’exposition, dont la date d’ouverture coïncida avec celle du colloque Le Livre et l’architecte (31 janvier-2 février 2008), fournissait l’occasion d’une réflexion sur le rôle des différents projets éditoriaux de Hautecœur et sur le rapport que le livre lui permettait d’instaurer entre histoire et actualité de l’architecture, entre culture patrimoniale et culture architecturale.


Book
La storia utile : patrimonio e modernit'a nel lavoro di John Summerson e Nikolaus Pevsner : Londra 1928-1955
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 882450616X Year: 2001 Publisher: Torino : Edizioni di Comunità,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Louis Hautecoeur et la tradition classique (exposition Galerie Colbert, 31.01.2008 - 30.04.2008).
Authors: --- ---
Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : Institut national d'histoire de l'art,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Architectural guide Turin
Authors: --- --- --- ---
ISBN: 9783869224114 3869224118 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin : DOM publishers,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Digital
East West Central : Re-building Europe, 1950-1990. . Volume 3, : Re-Framing Identities ; Architecture's Turn to History, 1970-1990

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Architecture


Digital
ReHab : Living, Inhabitants, Houses

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Listing 1 - 8 of 8
Sort by