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Blackheath and Greenwich, in the southeast of London, proved to be an unusually fertile ground for modern architecture in the decades following WWII. Housing in particular became the prime field of work for many architecture firms, who designed a large number of residential buildings of various typologies, using new concepts and trying new solutions, inspired by the spirit and political developments of the time.Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich is based on an extensive research project by architect Ana Francisco Sutherland. It analyzes and celebrates outstanding buildings by well-known architects such as Eric Lyons, Patrick Gwynne, Peter Moro, Walter Greaves, and Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, alongside works by lesser-known firms. A total of 64 individual buildings and housing developments by 38 architects are featured with images, plans, and concise texts. Sutherland also takes a broader look at the evolution of modern English architecture in the context of social and housing policies of the time. Brief biographical portraits reveal personal connections between protagonists that made Blackheath and Greenwich such an extraordinary field of design experimentation over five decades.An enclosed map with suggested routes makes the volume also a guide of extraordinary detail for architects and architecture lovers alike. Bronze medal at the German Photo Book Award 24/25.

A house, a life. Discovering Giovanni Segantini in a spectacular photographic book on the artist's house in Maloja.<BR><BR>Maloja is a small Swiss alpine village at 1817 metres. Here stands Casa Segantini, built in 1886 and still owned by the family, which has preserved numerous period photographs, documents and original furnishings, including the famous Bugatti furniture. In front of the Segantini family chalet there is a small wooden round building, the so-called Atelier Segantini, built in 1898. Here, in fact, the artist never painted, preferring to paint en plein air, immersed in nature and in contact with his beloved mountains. It was rather his studio, in which he kept a valuable library. Designed by the artist himself, the 70-meter in diameter studio is a true-to-scale wooden model of the Engadin Pavilion, constructed for the 1900 Paris World Exhibition. It was designed to display a huge picture of the Bergell and Engadin countryside on its 220-meter long wall, but the work remained unfinished.

SUSEIA is a travelogue based on the journal of Tomas Jose Firme with his 'besfren' Chemari Enage, when they walked the Camino from Valencia, Portugal in the autumn of 2015. Mr. Firme pairs the narrative with a parallel tale of medieval friends, 'Tomasso y Jose Maria,' who travelled across southern Europe from Sicily to 'Santiagu.' Despite the distances and obstacles, the two pairs of Camineros kept going. Firme connects the four characters with the pleasant places and landscapes shared with pilgrims of the 'Way' from as early as the sixteenth century. Tomas Jose unfolds their journeys with naive perpective, personal and third person anecdotes, and scenes with art, architecture, and history in his debut as a storyteller.

Bogen er en guide, der har til formål at få læseren op sofaen og ud i naturen for at opleve et stort og spændende forsvarsværk. Det er Københavns Befæstning, som blev etableret i perioden 1884-1918. Det var og er Danmarkshistoriens hidtil største offentlige investering. Befæstningen omfatter en 15 km lang våd voldgrav, kaldet Vestvolden og derudover en masse svært bevæbnede forter og batterier både til lands og til vands, alt sammen stort set indenfor en afstand på 10 km fra Københavns centrum. Under den historieske redegørelse giver guiden svar på spørgsmålet, som i samtiden blev stillet igen og igen: Kunne det nytte?Guiden beskriver hele 22 forskellige turforslag, som alle giver rigeligt med frisk luft og naturoplevelser - og så er de gratis!

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.<BR><BR>In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, this book presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries.<BR> <BR>These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged—even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.<BR>

A definitive survey of the rich legacy of some 360 Buddhist architectural structures and remains in and around the Kathmandu Valley, including both the urban centers of Kathmandu, Patan and Baktapur, as well as surrounding villages. The study examines, for each site, its history, extant sacred images, details of toräa, caitya and other architectural features, as well as the overall mä¿ala represented in the monastery structure. The author also records a myriad of ethnographic details of Nepalese monastic life, such as daily and annual rituals, initiations, lineage deities, monastic governing structure and economics. First published in 1985 in a local Nepalese imprint, this newly edited volume, including some additional illustrations, benefits from modern scanning technology, revealing for the first time the high quality of the historic photographs.

New England's Connecticut River meanders 410 miles south from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound. After thousands of years of peaceful habitation by Indigenous people came 400 years of development around European settlements, farmsteads, shipping ports, and manufacturing mills. Farmers, boatbuilders, quarrymen, and industrialists benefitted from the river valley's fertile plains, geological resources, and waterpower. Ready access to markets at Boston, New York, the West Indies, and Europe fueled the growth of the valley's towns and major cities such as Hartford and Springfield. The valley has been home to consequential social reformers, authors, and intellectuals. Its bucolic settings attracted artists who came to the renowned colonies at Cornish and Lyme, steamboat tourists, and urban transplants with modern lifestyles. The most important houses they built, many of which are designated national historic landmarks and open to the public, and some newly discovered properties are highlighted here for their architectural significance and rich historical associations.

Mystical Body ist eine Kurzgeschichte des italienischen Architekten Tino Grisi über den Kirchenbau und sein Erforschen der Liturgie. Aus der frohen Botschaft der Gleichnisse über das Teilhaben an der Schöpfung entwickelt Grisi in offenen Bildern und Metaphern das Phänomen einer Architektur in Gleichnissen und stellt seine neue Poetik von Kunst und Architektur der Kirche mit einer kritischen Auswahl von Zeichnungen und Texten aus seinen Projekten und Studien der vergangenen zwanzig Jahre vor.

Kreuz und quer durch Europa zieht sich ein Muster: vermauerte oder blockierte Türen. Ein ebenso beklemmendes wie faszinierendes Sujet, das dem Künstler auf seinen Reisen tagein tagaus begegnet. Radelnd und zu Fuß unterwegs dokumentiert er seine Erlebnisse in Text und Fotos.Diese Fotos speisen die Bildserie "Zu - Du kommst hier nicht rein".

A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales<BR><BR>Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history.<BR><BR>Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time.<BR><BR>As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity.

In the past few years, there has been a rush to topple statues. Across the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Belgium and elsewhere, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced and in some cases hauled down statues of slaveholders, Confederate icons, and imperialists. In Bristol, Edward Colston was knocked off his plinth and hurled into the harbour. Robert E. Lee was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Christopher Columbus was toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. King Leopold II of the Belgians was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill was daubed with the word 'racist' in London. The backlash from conservatives has been fast and intense.Statues are one of the most visible forms of historical storytelling, maybe the most visible. The stories we tell are vital to how we as societies understand our past and make our future. The ultimate question is: 'who controls history?' FALLEN IDOLS tells the story of twelve toppled statues around the world. It will look at why they were put up in the first place; the stories they were intended to tell; the symbolism they came to embody; and the manner and consequences of their removal. History is not erased when statues are pulled down. If anything, it is made.

This book is a labour of love. The author loves travelling in Europe to see the museums, art galleries, castles, churches and palaces. She also enjoys the history and art of the most beautiful European cities. You can join Diana in her travels and her photography or buy a ticket and see Europe for yourself. Enjoy!Also by Diana Lydia Hohlachoff: The Treasure of Blackbeard's Island The Adventures of Mr. Musket, the Parrot Pirate

Wiltshire is particularly lucky in the variety and quality of its chapels, which range from tiny country meeting houses of traditional gable-ended design to large town churches with Classical facades and space for 1000 or more worshippers in their galleried interiors. This book documents them. Introductory chapters describe the development of nonconformity in the county and the way chapel design has evolved in the three centuries since the first were built. These are followed by a gazetteer describing each of the almost 500 chapels still standing, with details of their appearance and history. With over 250 photographs in addition to the authoritative text, this book provides the definitive guide to the history and design of these fascinating buildings.

The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings.<BR><BR>'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way to tell the story of one of the most written-about cities in the world' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY<BR><BR>'Hollis has a fine eye for architecture, and engagingly describes neo-classical marvels as well as the Labour government's dockside folly of the Millennium Dome... Hollis is good company' SPECTATOR<BR><BR>In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic and unexpected history of one of the world's most enigmatic cities.<BR><BR>From the Roman forum to the Gherkin, Regent Street to the East End, the Houses of Parliament to Greenwich Palace, London's buildings are testament to the richness of its past. Behind the facades of these buildings lie the stories of the people, ideas and events that took place within them and that caused their creation. They all have very human stories, of the men and women who dreamed and lived their lives in London, leaving their imprint upon the fabric of the capital.