Architecture category: 43274 books
La controverse Learning from Las Vegas
Un retour sur l'émergence du postmodernisme en architecture
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Manifeste sur le postmodernisme architectural américainLa publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne...
by John Falconer, Elizabeth Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
With over 500 full-color photographs and expert insights provided by leading archaeological authorities, Burmese Design & Architecture is a must-have for serious connoisseurs of architecture, design or Burma itself.
It is the first book to showcase the amazing diversity of architecture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Once regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital fabrication and digital science, the impact of materiality on design and practice is being widely reassessed...
Elemental Architecture
Temperaments of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures, it incorporates a broader framework of considerations, including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental...
An Architecture Manifesto
Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. This is the wrong...
Sustainable Architecture: A Solution to a Sustainable Sleep-out Design Brief. Volume 2.
Sustainable Architecture - Sustainable Sleep-out Design Brief, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Preface
This book is about Design and Visual Communication for secondary school students and teachers. The book consists of 2 volumes. It is also beneficial for primary school teachers and students who are interested in sustainable architecture. Designers and architects could also find it an...
A History of Art for Beginners and Students
Painting—Sculpture —Architecture with Complete “Quoted Indexes” and “Numerous Illustrations”
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
ARCHITECTURE seems to me to be the most wonderful of all the arts. We may not love it as much as others, when we are young perhaps we cannot do so, because it is so great and so grand; but at any time of life one can see that in Architecture some of the most marvellous achievements of men are displayed....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative....
by Penelope Haralambidou
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth century's most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organising the blueprint of desire in the Large Glass, his...
Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
Experiencing Aural Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.
We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house...
by Isabelle Doucet
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency...
USA
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA...
by Donald Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." — New York Times Book Review
Despite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail...
by David Young, Michiko Kimura Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Introduction to Japanese Architecture provides an overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context.
It begins with a discussion of prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of contemporary trends in areas as diverse as country inns, underground malls, and...