Books in the Ashgate Studies in Architecture series

Focusing on England between 1935 and 1959, this book examines a selected group of innovative buildings and environments that were designed for children or addressed their needs, such as playgrounds, schools, community centres, hospitals, dwellings and neighbourhoods.

Through a series of case studies, this book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia.

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 an account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank.

The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated.

At the end of the Second World War, Italian architects began to pay increasing attention to examples imported from the United States, with the "American model" becoming a reference for many Italian designers, planners, and critics. This book questions how effective the circulation of US-originated knowledge was.

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Robert Stern, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Cappriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a historical context, but moreover.

Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today.

In 1964, Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a hospital in the San Giobbe neighbourhood of Venice. While he died the following year and so his design was not built.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s. The examples chosen, located in England.

Provides a detailed exploration of the relationships between individual architects, educators, artists and designers that laid the foundation and shaped the approach to designing new school buildings in postwar Britain.

Describes the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. This book also examines what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.

When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. The story of Aberdeen is just such as example. This book examines the development and design of Aberdeen city.

Bringing together case studies from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book provides an exploration of the relationship between architecture and nationalism. It includes essays grouped together in three thematic sections: Revisiting Nationalism, Interpreting Nationalism and Questioning Nationalism.

Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - this book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain 1900-1939.

In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical. This book focuses on this unique programme in postmodern design and also on the debates which were taking place with the Socialist government.

The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In particular, it shows the full impact upon Wright of his contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright's.

Edited version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013) under the title: Spectacles plastiques: reconstruction and the debates on the 'synthesis of the arts' in France, 1944-1962.

How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design space? Why do architects traditionally design, draw and map the visual, as opposed to other types of sensations of space (the sound, the smell, the texture, etc.).

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture. This book examines a range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings.

Focusing on various contexts within Western Europe, Latin America and the United States, this book traces the myths and application of luxury within architecture, interiors and designed landscapes. Spanning from antiquity to the modern era, it sets out six historical categories of luxury - and relates these to the built and unbuilt environment.