ARCHITECTURE / History

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The city of Yaoundé embodies a dialogue between memory, modernity, and cultural diversity. Yet rapid urbanization and real estate speculation threaten its architectural heritage and collective memory. This paper explores how narrative architecture can mediate and revive the city’s memory through the design of the Yaoundé Urban History Museum on the Municipal Lake. A mixed-methods approach combining field observation…

Reference · Wikidata

field of history focused on architecture

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings of all these traditions is thought to be humans satisfying the very basic need of shelter and protection. The term "architecture" generally refers to buildings, but in its essence is much broader, including fields we now consider specialized forms of practice, su…

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture. Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as wel…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

[Includes one book jacket from 1931 (#32) and one of 1918 (#55)]