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...
Alhambra
Fairchild D. 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...
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 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 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 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...
Art Nouveau
Meredith L. Clausen
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Art NouveauIntroductionThough circumscribed in time, art nouveau was a sprawling, diverse movement affecting all the arts, both ideologically and form...
Arts and Crafts Movement
Maureen Meister
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Arts and Crafts MovementIntroductionThe Arts and Crafts movement emerged in 19th-century England in response to the hardships imposed on workers under...
Bauhaus
Anna Vallye
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
BauhausIntroductionThe Bauhaus is a paradigmatic institution of 20th-century art, in some contexts synonymous with the aesthetic and discursive instit...
Bronze-Age Cycladic/Minoan Architecture
John McEnroe
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Bronze-Age Cycladic/Minoan ArchitectureIntroductionThe study of Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades is a relatively new academic discipline. The first s...
Building Materials of Chinese Architecture
Qinghua Guo
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Building Materials of Chinese ArchitectureIntroductionThis bibliography is a summation of our present knowledge of building materials used in China fr...
C. F. A. Voysey
Karen Livingstone
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
C. F. A. VoyseyIntroductionCharles Frances Annesley Voysey (b. 1857–d. 1941) was an architect, designer, and leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Mov...
Canada
David Theodore
Subject: Architecture Planning and Preservation »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
CanadaIntroductionThe study of architecture in Canada focuses on biographical and aesthetic categories. Early 20th-century scholars adopted systematic...
How to Subscribe
Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here.
