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‘The art of Shaddowes’

Stephen Kite

Stephen Kite is Professor of Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include Building Ruskin’s Italy: Watching Architecture (2012), Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye (2009), and An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson (2005, co-authored with Sarah Menin). He is an Editor of the journal Architectural Research Quarterly. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shadow-Makers : A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...‘Baroque’ only emerges as a term in art criticism in the 1750s, to label something regarded as strange or weird.On the etymology and history of the term ‘baroque’, see Helen Hills, ‘The Baroque: The Grit in the Oyster of Art History...

Morphing

Roberto Bottazzi

Roberto Bottazzi is an architect, researcher, and educator based in London. He is Research Co-ordinator, Master Tutor, and Master Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Digital Architecture Beyond Computers : Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

Book chapter

...Introduction A discussion on morphing and contouring techniques will bring us to the very core of CAD tools. Not only because most software packages have such or similar commands, but also because contouring and morphing tools have at some...

Parametrics

Roberto Bottazzi

Roberto Bottazzi is an architect, researcher, and educator based in London. He is Research Co-ordinator, Master Tutor, and Master Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Digital Architecture Beyond Computers : Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

Book chapter

...Introduction The notion of parametrics is perhaps the most popular among those discussed in this book. Of all the techniques explored, parametrics is in fact the one that has permeated the vocabulary of digital architects the most...

Introduction

Ken Albala

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Lisa Cooperman

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Food and Architecture : At the Table

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The most familiar and enduring example comparing architecture and cuisine hails from the nineteenth century and the magnificent edible fantasies of Marie-Antonin Carême, king of chefs and chef of kings. Carême is credited with having said...

Russia, 1475–1830

Neil Kent

Neil Kent was formerly a Professor of European Cultural History in St Petersburg, Russia. He is an Academic Fellow of the Cyber Conflict Documentation Project in Washington DC, USA, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and also an Associate Professor at L’Ecole (Special) Militaire de St-Cyr, France. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 2

Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2018

Sir Banister Fletcher chapter

...Russia changed from a small state on Europe’s periphery to a powerful empire stretching from Baltic to Pacific, with few geographical features to protect it. Subjection to Tatars was oppressive, but enabled rulers of Muscovy, from which...

Central Europe (Holy Roman Empire), 1400–1806

Michael Gnehm

Michael Gnehm is a tutor and researcher in architectural history at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, ETH Zurich, and the Université de Neuchâtel, all in Switzerland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 2

Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2018

Sir Banister Fletcher chapter

...The Holy Roman Empire was never a unified entity. It contained broadly present-day Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Savoy and the Spanish Netherlands – while the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland and Hungary were distinct kingdoms. Switzerland...

France, 1450–1830

Jean-François Bédard

Jean-François Bédard is Associate Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture in Syracuse, New York, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 2

Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2018

Sir Banister Fletcher chapter

...From the end of the Hundred Years War in 1453 to the re-establishment of the Bourbon monarchy after Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815, French rulers benefited from the consolidation of the court and the centralization...

Spain and Portugal, 1492–1822

Jorge Correia

Jorge Correia is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minho in Guimarāes, Portugal. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Pablo González Tornel

Pablo González Tornel is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Geography and Art at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana, Spain. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 2

Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2018

Sir Banister Fletcher chapter

...In the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the kingdom of Spain was formed out of the unification of the Castilian and Aragonese crowns, which eventually conquered the resilient Muslim kingdom of Granada in the southern peninsula....

Italian Peninsula, 1400–1815

Francesco Benelli

Francesco Benelli is an architect and architectural historian in the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, Italy, and previously taught in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in New York, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Gian Paolo Consoli

Gian Paolo Consoli is an architect and architectural historian in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 2

Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2018

Sir Banister Fletcher chapter

...At the start of the period, Italy was only a geographical concept referring to a peninsula divided into many city-states, each with its own identity. Frequently changing alliances reflected ongoing and new cultural exchanges. Florence...

The Low Countries, 1450–1830

Maarten Delbeke

Maarten Delbeke holds the Chair for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and previously taught at the universities of Ghent, Belgium and Leiden, The Netherlands. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Eelco Nagelsmit

Eelco Nagelsmit is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and wrote his doctoral thesis on the art and architecture of Counter-Reformation Brussels. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture Volume 2

Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2018

Sir Banister Fletcher chapter

...In the complex history of the Low Countries, the short-lived unification of the northern and southern part between 1815 and 1830 reinstated a political union that had persisted in various forms during the Burgundian and Habsburg periods...