Ashgate Studies in Architecture: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
About the Book Series
The discipline of Architecture is undergoing subtle transformation as design awareness permeates our visually dominated culture. Technological change, the search for sustainability and debates around the value of place and meaning of the architectural gesture are aspects which will affect the cities we inhabit. This series seeks to address such topics, both theoretically and in practice, through the publication of high quality original research, written and visual. Topics to be covered include the following: Architectural history and theory and their relationship to the development of the discipline, building conservation, heritage and creative adaptation. The formal and aesthetic values of architectural design, the diversity of its expression of identity, and its representation in other media. The impact of technological innovation on the materialisation of architecture and the questions surrounding environmental sustainability, experimentation and visionary design The social and psychological context of architectural production, its relationship to occupants, clients and to other creative and professional disciplines, and the political situation in which it is commissioned. Proposals will be welcomed which explore or connect aspects of these themes. Subjects which deal with individual architects, with specific buildings or building types, and the critical interpretation of historical and contemporary architecture from a theoretical or philosophical perspective are particularly encouraged. Architecture's embodiment of technical, social, and aesthetic aspects will also be emphasised.
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks
1st Edition
By Jonathan Alfred Noble
October 14, 2024
Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' ...
Architecture and Science-Fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home
1st Edition
By David T. Fortin
October 14, 2024
The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of '...
French Encounters with the American Counterculture 1960-1980
1st Edition
By Caroline Maniaque-Benton
October 14, 2024
French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment ...
Symbolic Houses in Judaism: How Objects and Metaphors Construct Hybrid Places of Belonging
1st Edition
By Mimi Levy Lipis
October 14, 2024
Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house). This unique pairing is ...
Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China
1st Edition
By Mary Padua
December 19, 2022
This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. It questions whether the fusion of international influences with the local Chinese design vocabulary in late 20th century China has created a ...
Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City: The treatise ‘La Construction des villes’ of 1910/11
1st Edition
By Christoph Schnoor
December 19, 2022
Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work available for the first time in English, offering an interpretation as to how much and in what way ...
Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980: Out of the Ordinary
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Ward, Michael Pike, Gary Boyd
August 02, 2021
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet ...
Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil
1st Edition
By Gaia Piccarolo
June 30, 2021
Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ...
The Architecture of Industry: Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and Planning
1st Edition
By Mathew Aitchison
December 18, 2020
From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of...
On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography
1st Edition
By Peta Carlin
March 23, 2020
On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper’s discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, and ...
Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944–1962
1st Edition
By Nicola Pezolet
March 23, 2020
Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944–1962 considers the artistic, architectural and bureaucratic shifts that emerged in the troubled aftermath of World War II and in the first years of the cold war. Focused on the modernist networks surrounding Le Corbusier, the Salon des ...
Provisional Cities: Cautionary Tales for the Anthropocene
1st Edition
By Renata Tyszczuk
March 05, 2019
This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene – the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. ‘Provisional cities’ are explored as ...