Architecture Planning and Preservation - Oxford Bibliographies
Adolf Loos
Christopher Long
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Adolf LoosIntroductionAdolf Loos (b. 1870–d. 1933) was one of the key figures in the early history of modern architecture and design. He was a seminal...
Albert Kahn
Michael Abrahamson
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Albert KahnIntroductionThough he has been marginalized in most mainstream accounts of modern architecture, Albert Kahn (b. 1869–d. 1942) is increasing...
Alhambra
D. Fairchild Ruggles
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
AlhambraIntroductionThe Alhambra (from al-hamra, meaning “red”) is a complex of palaces and gardens that stands on the Sabika Hill overlooking the cit...
Ancient Architecture and Urbanism in Western Europe (pre-Roman, Roman)
James F. D. Frakes
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Ancient Architecture and Urbanism in Western Europe (Pre-Roman, Roman)IntroductionLooking into the architecture and urbanism of a particular geographi...
Ancient Iran
Henry P. Colburn
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Ancient IranIntroductionOne major challenge of the study of ancient Iran is that it does not exist in Western academia as a discrete field of study. P...
Apartments
Matthew Gordon Lasner
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-06-23
ApartmentsIntroductionThe apartment (as housing type) is a set of rooms, including a kitchen, designed as a complete dwelling for occupation by a sing...
Architecture and the Urban Life of Cairo
Yasser Elsheshtawy
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Architecture and the Urban Life of CairoIntroduction: The Architecture and the Urban Life of CairoWhen it comes to Cairo, there is a plethora of writi...
Architecture of Beijing
Shuishan Yu
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Architecture of BeijingIntroductionBeijing (also known as Peking in older romanization of Mandarin Chinese) is the current capital city of the People’...
Architecture of Berlin
Esra Akcan
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Architecture of BerlinIntroductionBerlin grew together out of two walled cites that formed a joint government in 1307; it was re-divided after the end...
Architecture of China - City Planning
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of China - City PlanningIntroductionEvidence of Chinese cities is at least as old as the 6th millennium bce. It survives in the form of g...
Architecture of China-Late (Ming-Qing Dynasties)
Aurelia Campbell
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of China-Late (Ming-Qing Dynasties)IntroductionUntil recently, architecture of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods received...
Architecture of China-Middle (Han - Yuan Dynasties)
Alexandra Harrer
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of China-Middle (Han-Yuan Dynasties)IntroductionMore than fifteen hundred years separate the beginning of the Han dynasty (206 bce to 220...
Architecture of East Asia
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of East AsiaIntroductionEast Asia is a modern geographic designation. Today East Asia comprises China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia, a...
Architecture of Hong Kong
Johnathan Farris
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of Hong KongIntroductionThe architecture of Hong Kong is the built environment contained within the present-day Hong Kong Special Adminis...
Architecture of Japan - Middle (Kofun-Nara)
Akiko Walley
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of Japan—Middle (Kofun-Nara)IntroductionIn present Japanese periodization, the Kofun to Nara periods are bookended by the emergence of mo...
Architecture of Japan—General/Premodern/Modern and Contemporary
Ken Tadashi Oshima
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Architecture of Japan—General/Premodern/Modern and ContemporaryIntroductionJapanese architecture has long had varying expressions and historical inter...
Architecture of Monasteries
Sheila Bonde, Clark Maines
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Architecture of MonasteriesIntroductionThe idea of withdrawal from secular society was central to the notions of monasticism and monastic architecture...
Architecture of Pisa
Neta Bodner
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Architecture of PisaIntroductionThe maritime Republic of Pisa was one of the central cities of Europe in the High Middle Ages. The port of Pisa was a ...
Architecture of Sicily and Magna Graecia
Celemente Marconi
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Architecture of Sicily and Magna GraeciaIntroductionBetween the second half of the 8th and the beginning of the 6th century bce, the Greeks expanded t...
Architecture of South Asia
Pushkar Sohoni
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Architecture of South AsiaIntroduction‘South Asia’ is a term used for the Indian subcontinent after its rearrangement into several independent nations...
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