Architecture

This book is a collection of urban research and architectural projects by award-winning architect Nigel Bertram, using observation as a design tool and design as an observational method. Through this process, a position on the making of architecture and on the role of architecture within the wider u..

Geometry and Atmosphere presents unique and valuable insights into the complex process of building for the arts. Of interest to architects, urban designers and those involved in theatre studies, this book will also be useful to other sectors where public money is spent on major building projects...

Hut Pavilion Shrine examines the crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory...

Hut Pavilion Shrine examines the crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory, It concentrates on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by several eminent architects. While focusing primarily on ..

Hypersexual City examines the occupation of urban space through the mediated representation of women’s hypersexualized bodies. A complex transaction proliferates in the commercial urban space of cities and Hypersexual City seeks to address the cause and consequence of the increasing dominance of gen..

At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation. Accordingly, infrastructure became the physical manifestation, the concrete identity of these objectives and architecture formed an integral pa..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focu..

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focu..

In 1964 Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a hospital in the San Giobbe neighbourhood of Venice. He died the following year and so his design was not built. This book offers a detailed study of Le Corbusier's Venice hospital project as a plausible built entity. In addition, it analyses it in th..

In 1964 Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a hospital in the San Giobbe neighbourhood of Venice. He died the following year and so his design was not built. This book offers a detailed study of Le Corbusier's Venice hospital project as a plausible built entity. In addition, it analyses it in th..

Based on a course run by the London Metropolitan University School of Architecture, in which students produce schemes from research undertaken during field trips to India, this title provides a comprehensive review of the course and of the schemes produced since 2002, and argues the value of linking..