Architecture category: 43274 books
by Professor Lorraine Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Basics Architecture 02: Construction & Materiality is an in-depth exploration of the key materials used in modern architecture. The book covers materials including stone and brick, concrete, timber, glass, steel and composites. It examines their history, development and practical application in...
The Architecture of Wales
From the First to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole,...
Eloquent Spaces
Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture.
Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture...
Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970
Building the Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s. This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and its associated...
by W. R. Lethaby
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This classic explores the symbolism of classical architecture. A milestone in relating mysticism to design, it shows the correlation between mythology and the design of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Versailles, and other architectural masterpieces. This delightful book describes...
by Bjørn N. Sandaker, Arne P. Eggen, Mark R. Cruvellier
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
This is a book that shows how to "see" structures as being integral to architecture. It engages a subject that is both about understanding the mechanical aspects of structure as well as being able to relate this to the space, form, and conceptual design ideas that are inherent to the art...
Lo studio della Storia dell’Architettura fra tradizione e high-tech | A study of the History of Architecture: tradition and high-tech
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 51/2015. Rivista semestrale del Dipartimento di Storia, Disegno e Restauro dell’Architettura “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Biannual Magazine of the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Anziché costituire un fondamentale corredo di un testo scientifico, la costruzione del modello 3D di un’architettura, antica, contemporanea o futura, costituisce oggi un vero e proprio metodo di studio. Si può finalmente indagare non soltanto la forma architettonica in ogni sua componente, ma...
by Francine Couture, France Vanlaethem
Language: French
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: October 19, 2010
La pérennité de l’art contemporain et des arts médiatiques tout comme celle du patrimoine architectural moderne posent des problèmes semblables du fait de la fragilité de bien des œuvres, de l’indétermination formelle de certaines, voire de leur nature éphémère, ou de l’obsolescence...
by Razak Basri
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, Atlantic International University, course: Doctorate in Architecture (PhD), language: English, abstract: China is transforming in terms of economy, social, culture and physical development....
by Leon van Schaik
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Integrate poetics into real-world spaces by bringing theory down to earth
Practical Poetics in Architecture takes poetics out of the theory class and into the design studio, showing architects how the atmospheric and experiential qualities of built structures can be intentionally considered...
Architecture's Odd Couple
Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built...
Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson
Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant...
by Alain De Botton
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our...
by Thomas Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Anyone who examines the Zen arts is immediately struck by how modern they seem. The ceramics of 16th-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement; ancient calligraphies suggest the monochromes of Franz Kline or Willem de Kooning; the apparent...