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Place and Limit

Søren Tinning

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The Intelligence of Place : Topographies and Poetics

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Limit has many senses. In general, it seems to indicate the ‘line’ along which two domains touch each other: cum-finis. Translators’ note: Cacciari often uses Latin, Greek and German notions. These will, as in the original text...

Underneath it all

Michael Hann

Professor Michael Hann (BA, M.Phil, PhD, FRSA, FTI) holds the Chair of Design Theory at the University of Leeds. He is also Director of the University of Leeds International Textiles Archive (ULITA). He has published across a number of subject areas, has made numerous key-note addresses at international conferences, and is an acknowledged international expert on the geometry of design. Previous publications with Berg are: Structure and Form in Design (2012) and Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Structure and Form in Design : Critical Ideas for Creative Practice

Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

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...Introduction In the context of the designed environment, geometry is a determining constraint. Euclidean geometry is that branch of geometry used to gain knowledge relating to the structural elements, figures, shapes and forms...

Ritualization and the Ethos of Design

Harry Francis Mallgrave

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architect, scholar and editor and distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of over 15 books, the recipient of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, and is an Honorable Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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From Object to Experience : The New Culture of Architectural Design

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

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...Vesely, Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation, p. 373.Restoring the practical nature of situations as a primary vehicle of design enables us to move away from inconclusive play with abstract forms and functions.Several years...

Harbingers of heritage

Miles Glendinning

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. He has published extensively on modernist and contemporary architecture and housing: his books include the award-winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew, and Architecture’s Evil Empire, a polemical evaluation of contemporary ‘iconic modernism’. His current research projects include an in-depth investigation of mass housing in Hong Kong and Singapore. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation : Antiquity to modernity

Routledge, 2013

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... Harbingers of heritage Antiquity, Christendom, Renaissance Some people were talking about the temple and the fine stones and votive offerings with which it was adorned. He said, ‘Those things you are gazing at – the time will come when...

Republican Rome, c. 509–44 BCE

Penelope J.E. Davies

Penelope J.E. Davies is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 1

© the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the University of London, 2019

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...Having expelled the last of their kings, during the fifth century BCE, Romans slowly developed a new system of government, a Republic, administered by elective magistrates and an advisory senate. At first patricians dominated...