Architecture category: 43274 books
by Simona Mainini
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Voici un guide méthodique tout en couleur destiné à tout public, avec des exemples pour vous aider à sélectionner l’emplacement, à développer le plan et à mettre des couleurs et des matériaux qui sont compatibles avec vous ou votre client. Mme Mainini a fait un travail exemplaire pour garder...
by Deborah K. DIETSCH, Simon TEXIER
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Cimes et bâtiments !
À partir de quand un bâtiment cesse-t-il de n'être qu'un bâtiment, et devient-il de l'art ? Ce guide accessible à tous vous expliquera clairement et sans jargon les bases de l'architecture, et vous révèlera ces incroyables astuces qui donnent vie aux structures....
by Glenda Korporaal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
She was the American woman who changed Australian history. She broke through barriers for women in architecture and spent 15 years working for Chicago architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the formative years of the Prairie School of Architecture. Then she teamed up with Walter Burley Griffin working with...
The LEGO Architecture Idea Book
1001 Ideas for Brickwork, Siding, Windows, Columns, Roofing, and Much, Much More
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Take your creations to the next level with The LEGO Architecture Idea Book! These clever building tips will give you endless inspiration for making your own amazing mansions, castles, houses, spooky shacks, and more.
Every chapter includes ideas for creating architectural elements like columns,...
by Andrew Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them...
Why We Build
Power and Desire in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today.
We are living in the most dramatic...
by Despina Stratigakos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become....
Sustainable Asian House
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
With over 350 vibrant photographs, extensive commentary and architectural plans, this architecture and design book showcases the modern luxury homes of Asia.
The Sustainable Asian House celebrates modern architecture as an expression of environmental, social and cultural sustainability, as...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Baroque is 10th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief guide to the...
by Addison Mizner
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
An architect who excelled at transforming an architectural fantasy into a practical, livable home, Addison Mizner was one of the most original and influential designers America has produced. The houses, clubs, and shops he built for the wealthy of Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Florida, evince a brilliant...
by W.R. Lethaby
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth is an overview of the symbolism in architecture, complete with illustrations.
Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)
How People Are Creating Their Own Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment...
The City Rehearsed
Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.
The...
Interior Urbanism
Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims...