Architecture category: 43274 books
Translucent Building Skins
Material Innovations in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems (or skins) in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth century modern architecture, this book examines the tectonics, the history and the influence of translucency as a defining characteristic in architecture....
Architecture of First Societies
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
“This book is the most comprehensively global and critically sensitive synthesis of what we now know of the material and socio-cultural evolution of the so-called First Societies. Written by a distinguished architectural historian and theorist, this truly remarkable and indispensable study shows...
by Barbara D. Hoffstot
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000. Nor is it an old town: the oldest extant building dates from about 1885, and the town itself was not incorporated until after 1900. What has granted Palm Beach its fame is the same combination of elements...
From Castle to Teahouse
Japanese Architecture of the Momoyama Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Momoyama period of Japanese art history, at the turn of the 16th century, is perhaps best known to the West through the resplendent paintings of the Kano masters and their fellow artists. Yet this same period offers such a variety of architectural pleasures that, in at least one of its many facets,...
by Vitruvius
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an...
Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations...
Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution
constructed space conceptualized
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous...
Reading Architecture and Culture
Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details,...
Making Leisure Work
Architecture and the Experience Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Contemporary architecture of theme-based design is examined in this book, leading to a new understanding of architecture's role in the increasingly diversified consumer environment. It explores the ‘Experience Economy’ to reveal how everyday environments strategically and opportunistically blur...
Canada
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Canada is a country of massive size, of diverse geographical features and an equally diverse population—all features that are magnificently reflected in its architecture. In this book, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino offer a richly informative history of Canadian architecture...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest to...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and...
by James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons),...
Tudoresque
In Pursuit of the Ideal Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With its distinctive gables and arches, Tudor-style architecture is recognized around the world as a symbol of British culture; it represents the idea of home to British citizens in the United Kingdom and abroad. Some love it, others hate it, but the Tudoresque is still being built—to give a house...