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Times of Creative Destruction

Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th

By: Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre

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Times of Creative Destruction

Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th

By: Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a ‘Third Ecology’ emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, ‘star’ buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated, intractable, irreversible destruction reducing the uniqueness and diversity of cultural, social and ecological peaks and valleys of our world, to a ‘desert flatland’, environmental inequality and unhappiness. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a selection of shorter key texts by Tzonis and Lefaivre, the product of a rare research and writing partnership. The texts, published between the early 1960s and the present, are significant as documents that inform about the period. They are also important and timely because of their critical and influential role in the debates of this era, both creative and destructive.

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1317010051

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9781317010050

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

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Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

This book remains the definitive introductory text on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization. It addresses issues of identity, diversity, community, inequality, geopolitics, and sustainability. From the authors who coined the concept of Critical Regionalism, this new edition enhances the understanding of the complex evolution of regionalism and its rival, unchecked globalization. Covering a rich selection of the most outstanding examples of design from all over the world, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, who introduced the concept of Critical Regionalism to architecture, present an enlightening, concise historical analysis of the endurance of regionalism and the ceaseless drive for globalization. New case studies include current cutting-edge projects in Japan, Africa, China, and the United States. Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization offers undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, geography, history, environmental studies, and other related fields an accessible, vivid, and scholarly perspective of this major conflict as it relates to the design and to the future of the human-made environment.

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1000221067

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Classical Architecture

The Poetics of Order

By: Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre

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Classical Architecture

The Poetics of Order

By: Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre

This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid. Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle, the theories of classical architecture, music, and poetry since the Renaissance, and the poetics of the Russian formalists, the authors present classical architecture as a coherent system of architectural thinking that is capable of producing a tragic humanistic discourse, a public art with critical, moral, and philosophical meaning.

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MIT Press

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026270031X

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9780262700313

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance

By: Liane Lefaivre

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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance

By: Liane Lefaivre

A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.

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Times of Creative Destruction

Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th

By: Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre

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Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th

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Taylor & Francis

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131701006X

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Classical Architecture

The Poetics of Order

By: Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre

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The Poetics of Order

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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance

By: Liane Lefaivre

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Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance

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A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.

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Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

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Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

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Aldo Van Eyck, Humanist Rebel

Inbetweening [sic] in a Post-war World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Aldo van Eyck,Alexander Tzonis

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Inbetweening [sic] in a Post-war World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Aldo van Eyck,Alexander Tzonis

Inleiding tot het gedachtegoed en oeuvre van de Nederlandse architect (1918-1999).

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144

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9064503915

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9789064503917

The Emergence of Modern Architecture

A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

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The Emergence of Modern Architecture

A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

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0203380517

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Book's by Liane Lefaivre

Times of Creative Destruction

Times of Creative Destruction

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Classical Architecture

Classical Architecture

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Times of Creative Destruction

Times of Creative Destruction

Classical Architecture

Classical Architecture

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Aldo Van Eyck, Humanist Rebel

Aldo Van Eyck, Humanist Rebel

The Emergence of Modern Architecture

The Emergence of Modern Architecture

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