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.
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 ...
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 ...
Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture
1st Edition
By Henriette Steiner, Maximilian Sternberg
November 22, 2017
Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. Phenomenology has informed debate about the city from social sciences to cultural studies. Within architecture, however, phenomenological inquiry has...
Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration
1st Edition
By Sam Ridgway
October 12, 2017
Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary texts, which explore the intellectual, ...
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War
1st Edition
By Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg
October 12, 2017
This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of ...
In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions
1st Edition
By Hooman Koliji
October 12, 2017
Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer’s imagination. As a result, drawing may...
The City Crown by Bruno Taut
1st Edition
By Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis
October 12, 2017
This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of...
The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968
1st Edition
By Isabelle Doucet
September 12, 2017
What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency ...
Nationalism and Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Quek, Darren Deane, Sarah Butler
May 22, 2017
Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood. However, the most powerful collective representation of a nation is through its architecture and how that architecture engages the global ...