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The secret lives of buildings : from the ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in thirteen stories / by Hollis, Edward.(CARDINAL)496437;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.Introduction: the architect's dream -- The Parthenon, Athens: in which a virgin is ruined -- The Basilica of San Marco, Venice: in which a prince steals four horses and an empire -- Ayasofya, Istanbul: in which a sultan casts a spell and moves the center of the world -- The Santa Casa of Loreto: the wondrous flitting of the Holy House -- Gloucester Cathedral: in which a dead body brings a building to life -- The Alhambra, Granada: in which two cousins marry each other -- The Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini: in which a scholar translates a temple -- Sans Souci, Potsdam : in which nothing happens at all -- Notre Dame de Paris: in which the temple of reason is restored -- The Hulme Crescents, Manchester: in which the prophecies of the future are fulfilled -- The Berlin Wall: in which history comes to an end --The Venetian, Las Vegas: in which history is so, like, over -- The Western Wall, Jerusalem: in which nothing, and everything, has changed.A highly original history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents. Little else made by human hands seems as stable as a building--yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shape-shifters. In a refashioning of architectural history, Edward Hollis recounts more than a dozen stories of such metamorphosis, highlighting the way in which even the most familiar structures all change over time into "something rich and strange." The Parthenon, that epitome of a ruined temple, was for centuries a working church and then a mosque; the cathedral of Notre Dame was "restored" to a design that none of its original makers would have recognized. Altered layer by layer, buildings become eloquent chroniclers of the civilizations they've witnessed. Their stories span the gulf of history--From publisher description.
Subjects: Architecture and history.; Architecture and society.;
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Radical reconstruction / by Woods, Lebbeus.(CARDINAL)194433;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168).
Subjects: Architecture and society.; Architecture;
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Why we build : power and desire in architecture / by Moore, Rowan.(CARDINAL)282613;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-377) and index.Desire shapes space, and space shapes desires -- The fixed and wandering home -- The true fake -- The inconstant horizon or notes on the erotic in architecture -- Power and freedom -- Form follows finance -- The rapacity of 'hope' -- Eternity is overrated -- Life, and the look of life -- Indispensable as bread.In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight in exotic locales or here in the United States. Now, in a bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore former director of the Architecture Foundation, now the architecture critic for The Observer explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment of Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; across the world to assess a software magnate's grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libeskind's failed design for the World Trade Center site; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and society.;
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People and public places / by Zimmerman, Agnes.; Radich, Anthony J.(CARDINAL)196676; National Conference of State Legislatures.Arts, Tourism, and Cultural Resources Committee.(CARDINAL)201127;
Bibliography: pages 42-44.
Subjects: Architecture and society.; Architecture;
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The story of western architecture / by Risebero, Bill,1938-(CARDINAL)506865;
Bibliography: pages 264-265.
Subjects: Architecture and society; Architecture;
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Why architecture matters / by Goldberger, Paul.(CARDINAL)159826;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Meaning, culture, and symbol -- Challenge and comfort -- Architecture as object -- Architecture as space -- Architecture and memory -- Buildings and time -- Buildings and the making of place -- Glossary -- A note on bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.
Subjects: Architecture and society.; Architecture;
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The architecture of happiness / by De Botton, Alain.(CARDINAL)353093;
Subjects: Architecture and society.; Architecture; Architecture;
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Architecture and society in Normandy, 1120-1270 / by Grant, Lindy.(CARDINAL)278105;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.Introduction : Normandy and Gothic architecture -- Normandy : polity, place, and people -- The Norman Church -- Patronage and piety -- The new architecture -- The emergence of Gothic architecture in Normandy circa 1120-circa 1160 -- The 1160s and 1170s : French influence and the patronage of the great churchmen -- Architecture in the last decades of ducal Normandy, circa 1180-1204 -- Rouen Cathedral and architecture in upper Normandy in the earlier thirteenth century -- The South-West -- The architecture of central lower Normandy in the thirteenth century -- The reception of rayonnant in Normandy.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and society; Architecture, Romanesque; Architecture, Gothic; Church architecture; Architecture and state;
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The language of houses : how buildings speak to us / by Lurie, Alison.(CARDINAL)331964; Sung, Karen.(CARDINAL)617542;
Includes bibliographical references.Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and society.; Architecture;
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Why architecture matters / by Goldberger, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)159826;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'"Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads." In Why Architecture Matters, he shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the vast, flowing Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Guggenheim Bilbao. He eloquently describes the Church of Sant'Ivo in Rome as a work that "embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination." In his afterword to this new edition, Goldberger addresses the current climate in architectural history and takes a more nuanced look at projects such as Thomas Jefferson's academical village at the University of Virginia and figures including Philip Johnson, whose controversial status has been the topic of much recent discourse. He argues that the emotional impact of great architecture remains vital, even as he welcomes the shift in the field to an increased emphasis on social justice and sustainability.'--
Subjects: Architecture and society.; Architecture; Architecture;
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