Architecture category: 43274 books
Women, Practice, Architecture
‘Resigned accommodation’ and ‘Usurpatory Practice’
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The image of the architect is undeniably gendered. While the male architect might be celebrated as the ideal man in Hollywood romantic comedies, blessed with practicality and creativity in equal measure to impeccable taste and an enviable lifestyle, the image of the woman architect is not so clear...
Modern Playhouses
An Architectural History of Britain's New Theatres, 1945 — 1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Modern Playhouses is the first detailed study of the major programme of theatre-building which took place in Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s. Drawing on a vast range of archival material - much of which had never previously been studied by historians - it sets architecture in a wide social...
Mysticism and Architecture
Wittgenstein and the Meanings of the Palais Stonborough
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that supposedly...
Dictionnaire des Idées & Notions en Arts et en Architecture
(Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Idées & Notions : joli titre pour une collection consacrée au savoir. Mais comment se relient les deux faces de ce diptyque ? Il est possible de le dire en peu de mots. Le volet « idées » traite des courants de pensée. Il passe en revue les théories, manifestes, écoles, doctrines. Mais...
by Russell Sturgis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
IN trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture, one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder one’s growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. The student of art who is much under the influence of one teacher, one writer, or one body of fellow-students, is hampered...
Histoire de l'architecture
« Que sais-je ? » n° 18
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Après avoir été pendant longtemps au service de la pratique architecturale, l’histoire de l’architecture est devenue récemment un enjeu dans la légitimation culturelle d’une profession. Cette histoire elle-même, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle, n’a cessé de gagner en autonomie : problématiques...
The West
From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution...
by Natasha Dhillon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Architecture is far more than the construction of buildings. Architects marry form and function to create structures that are particularly suited to a purpose while adding visual drama to landscapes and skylines. For millennia, architects have fashioned homes, religious shrines, governmental spaces,...
by Tatjana Schneider, Tor Lindstrand, Petra Pferdmenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different...
by Carl Bovill
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design will help you understand the nature of the sustainability problem and show you how to implement your design for a sustainable future. Organized in six parts, the problem, the environment, the residential scale, the commercial scale, the urban scale,...
Ageless Adobe
History and Preservation in Southwestern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The American Southwest possesses an extraordinary depth of cultural heritage and much of its history is preserved in its architecture. Particularly prominent in the region’s man-made landscape are the historic structures made from the earth itself—adobe. Attention has turned to ways of preserving...
by Richard Coyne
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of building users, architecture as a practice, the practical...
Ugliness and Judgment
On Architecture in the Public Eye
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment
When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates...
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today’s architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly...