As head of the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, he remodeled, with Peter Bruder and Ed Aviles, the historic Cooper Union building, displaying great skill in the creation of new spaces within a landmark structure.
The first exhibition in the United States of the work of the Soviet architect Ivan Leonidov (1902–59), one of the most radical talents of the early years of the Russian Revolution, can be seen until February 21 at the Institute for ...
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The role of phenomenology in architectural theory and practice, the relation of architecture to other arts, and the role of architecture in urban and suburban design are examined within the context of modern architecture.
This volume gathers the few essays written by the quirky Austrian architect Loos (d. 1933) as well as student notes of his lectures.
In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions.
On Architecture
De Architectura is considered as the first book on architectural theory and as a major source on the canon of classical architecture as as it is the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity.