PAGON
Stephen Kite, Cardiff University, UK
Espen Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway
Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840-2000
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 336 pages • 114 bw illus PB 9781350320659 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350320666 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350320680 • £24.29 / $34.34 ePdf 9781350320673 • £24.29 / $34.34 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, this book tells the story of PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) for the first time, offering a definitive account of the group’s projects, buildings, and approach. Despite its individual members achieving international recognition, PAGON has been overlooked in the history of modern architecture. This book demonstrates how PAGON’s architecture constitutes a unique continuity between late 1930s Scandinavian functionalism and the modern movement in the US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 304 pages • 75 bw & 33 color illus PB 9781350352889 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350067981 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350068001 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350067998 • £72.00 / $100.29 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Social Life of Streets in India
Making the Arctic City
Edited by Sadan Jha, Centre for Social Studies, Surat & Gauri Bharat
Peter Hemmersam, Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway
Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities
The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North
This volume endeavors to understand the complexities of social dynamics of streets in relation to spatiality and materiality in the Indian milieu. It draws from a diverse body of scholarship and varied disciplinary leanings and engages with three broad strands —historical aspects of streets; physicality or street as a built environment; and social science discourse, mediated through anthropology, urban geography, social theory and urban studies.
Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic – and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 300 pages HB 9789354356858 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353970 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789394701618 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781350235861 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350235854 ePub 9781350235885 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350235878 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
– Architecture / Art & Visual Culture
Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through its ongoing fascination with surface, materiality and decoration. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface through to the modern era, it explores how and why surface and materiality have featured so heavily in recent architectural tradition, examining the history of British architecture through a selection of key cultural moments and movements. The book serves both as a thematic introduction to modern British architectural history and as a deep critique and meditation on the central importance of surface and materiality for architects, designers, and historians.
Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956
VISUAL ARTS
Shaping the Surface
The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images Constructing Wonders
Edited by Stijn Bussels, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Caroline van Eck, University of Cambridge, UK & Bram Van Oostveldt, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands This book investigates the splendour and architectural scale of the Amsterdam Town Hall, inaugurated in 1655 and portrayed by contemporaries as the ultimate representation of the power, position, and wonder. To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to the most impressing buildings of the same period and their visual and textual representations. It provides new international insights in the agency of magnificent buildings, clarifying how artists and writers all over Europe presented buildings as wonders of the world. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages • 70 bw illus PB 9781350205376 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350205338 ePub 9781350205352 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350205345 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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