The Architecture of Ruins by Jonathan Hill

The Architecture of Ruins by Jonathan Hill

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The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin.

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The Architecture of Ruins by Jonathan Hill

The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin.

Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme. He is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006), Weather Architecture (2012) and A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (2016); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture—the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).

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ISBN 13 9781138367784
ISBN 10 1138367788
Title The Architecture of Ruins
Author Jonathan Hill
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2019-04-24
Number of pages 358
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