Architecture category: 43274 books
Observations on Urban Aesthetics
London, Paris and New York
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
London, Paris and New York were each designated as 'capital of the world' in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Besides their cultural importance, they were also admired for their beauty. How travellers described these cityscapes is the theme of this book. Why is it interesting...
Persian Kingship and Architecture
Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious. Yet, as Persian Kingship and Architecture argues, the institution of kingship has historically played a pivotal role in articulating...
Habiter Le Corbusier
Pratiques sociales et théorie architecturale
Language: French
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Historiens, architectes, urbanistes ont contribué très largement à la connaissance de Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, dit Le Corbusier, qui, par la place phare qu’il a occupée dans la production architecturale, artistique et urbanistique mondiale, ne laisse personne indifférent. Cependant le bilan...
by Nick Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson's The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It remains one of the few titles written by a practicing landscape architect and educator who is also a horticulturalist...
Pamphlet Architecture 29
Ambiguous Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" and "Nuclear Breeding." These two projects develop alternative urban concepts that address the...
Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall
Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall / Центральный концертный зал Казахстана
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Il progetto rappresenta ciò di cui il luogo manca, un suo possibile completamento. Andando ad Astana e sorvolando la steppa russa, i suoi laghi di sale, la sua terra piatta e deserta, le carcasse pietrificate di alberi contorti, abbiamo sentito la mancanza di un fiore che si apra nel cuore di questa...
Network Practices
New Strategies in Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, architecture's tie to the built world itself have evaporated in the face of our new networked society. Form is now conceptualized...
Ghost Storeys
Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Most studies of modern Gothic media assume that, beyond the 1830s, modern Gothic architecture and literature had very little in common. The work of Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942), America’s most prolific Gothic Revival architect and an author of ghost stories, challenges that assumption. The first...
Rethinking Technology
A Reader in Architectural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.
The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and...
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, ...etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and...
by James Harris, Kevin Li
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This is the first fully comprehensive survey and analysis of masted structures and covers examples that have evolved during the past three decades.
Masted Structures are one of the most interesting developments in post-war architecture resulting from a combination of technology, structural...
Relational Architectural Ecologies
Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the ‘habitats’, ‘natural milieus’,...
Sustainable Architectures
Critical Explorations of Green Building Practice in Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or ecologically responsible, buildings, and being able to assemble the social resources to do so, requires different forms...
The Whole Building Handbook
How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
The Whole Building Handbook is a compendium of all the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The authors move beyond the current definition of sustainability in architecture, which tends to focus on energy-efficiency,...