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.
Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Hannah Malone
September 18, 2018
In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in the 1740s, a radical reform across Europe ...
Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture
1st Edition
By Davina Jackson
September 18, 2018
Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916–85) was one of Britain’s significant emigré architects and designers. Born in Kent and educated in New Zealand, he became one of Australia’s leading mid-century architects, of luxury residences and commercial buildings, and a trend-setting designer of furniture, ...
On Discomfort: Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By David Ellison, Andrew Leach
May 04, 2018
Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and ...
Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination
1st Edition
By Renée Tobe
April 09, 2018
Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a ...
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body
1st Edition
By Sarah Schrank, Didem Ekici
April 09, 2018
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The ...
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 ...