Art and Visual Culture

Ornament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright

Daniel E. Snyder, Independent Practitioner, USA Through a close reading of their buildings and their writings, this book explores how both Sullivan and Wright worked to solve the problem of late 19thcentury ornamentation. It shows how, while their solutions differed widely, they nonetheless shared something in common: for both men, ornament involved sentimentality. Examining ornament through the lens of sentimentality explains much about how these two architects understood and used ornament, and it brings important new insights into the nature of ornament itself, the value of affect, and the agency and ontology of objects.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 304 pages • 70 bw illus PB 9781350236714 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350099616 ePub 9781350099630 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350099623 • £67.50 / $83.76 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Digital Architecture Beyond Computers

Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design

Roberto Bottazzi, University of Westminster, UK Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have emerged, and allows designers to deepen their understanding of the digital tools they use every day.

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 256 pages • 21 bw illus PB 9781474258128 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781474258135 ePub 9781474258166 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781474258142 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Material theory and the architectural specifi cation

Katie Lloyd Thomas Architectural specifi cations are a core component of architectural practice, and an essential part of the design and realization of buildings. Yet they have been almost entirely neglected as an object of historical study, analysis, and interpretation. Drawing on rare archival material from the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, Building Materials offers a radical rethink of how materials are specifi ed and used in architectural practice, and how they are themselves constructed.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350176225 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350176249 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350176232 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Landscape and Infrastructure

Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century

Margaret Birney Vickery, University of Massachussetts Amherst, USA Examining the relationship between infrastructure, nature and culture from the 17th century to the present. Landscape and Infrastructure looks at the ways in which infrastructure in the urban and rural landscape has been both celebrated and reviled, and provides powerful lessons for architects and landscape designers who are once more seeking to remarry nature, community, sustainability, and infrastructure.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 216 pages • 45 color illus PB 9781350216310 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781350071087 ePub 9781350071100 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350071094 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Architecture and Ugliness

Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture

Edited by Wouter Van Acker, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium & Thomas Mical, University of South Australia, Australia Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – either overlooked, vilifi ed, or appropriated to shock or subvert conventions. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in postmodern architecture and design. Chapters address broad theoretical questions as well as specifi c case studies – together addressing the relation between the aesthetics of ugliness and concepts such as brutalism, kitsch, the formless, the monstrous, and the grotesque.

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 304 pages • 32 bw illus PB 9781350236707 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350068230 ePub 9781350068254 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350068247 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Serial Drawing

Space, Time and the Art Object

Joe Graham, Kadir Has University, Istanbul Offering a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form, this book looks at serial drawings in fresh, contemporary terms, with a novel philosophical approach, emphasizing the way that this unique form of visual art exists in the world and how it is encountered by the beholder. Inspired by the framework of Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology, Joe Graham explores a variety of serial drawings in relation to three tensions – space, time and seriality – building on current discussions around art and philosophy to establish what serial drawing ‘is’ and how it functions as a form of art.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 240 pages • 21 bw illus HB 9781350166653 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350166660 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350166677 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Drawing In • Bloomsbury Visual Arts