Architecture category: 43274 books
Building the Modern Church
Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship,...
by John Shannon Hendrix
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Cet ouvrage est l’occasion d’expliquer et de célébrer la richesse de ces églises et cathédrales qui occupant une place majeure au sein de l’architecture médiévale occidentale. Le style gothique anglais s’est développé un peu plus tardivement qu’en France et a rapidement élaboré...
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics.
The Architecture of Ethics helps...
Architecture in Abjection
Bodies, Spaces and their Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.
Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture – which presents the body as subject and space as object – it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages...
by Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Architect enterprise-grade, Microservice-based solutions using Microsoft Azure Service Fabric.
About This Book
Explore architectural patterns for building modern day Microservice-based systems
Learn about Microsoft Service Fabric as a platform to host distributed Microservices
Discover multiple...
The Changing Shape of Architecture
Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research...
Soft Living Architecture
An Alternative View of Bio-informed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Soft Living Architecture exploresthe invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences.
This is the first...
Metaphor
an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three...
Creative Ecologies
Theorizing the Practice of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects – to iconic buildings and big-name architects – she instead explores the background of architectural...
by Adam Sharr
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval...
Advances in Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure
Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, July 24-28, 2019, Washington D.C., USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, architecture as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
The Production Sites of Architecture examines the intimate link between material sites and meaning. It explores questions such as: how do spatial configurations produce meaning? What are alternative modes of knowledge production? How do these change our understanding of architectural knowledge?
Featuring...
The Seven Periods of English Architecture
Defined & Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
To present at a single glance a comprehensive view of the History of English Church Architecture from the Heptarchy to the Reformation, and to do this in a manner, which, without taxing too seriously the memory of the student, may enable him to fix in his mind the limits, and the general outline of...
L'architettura italiana per la città cinese
Italian Architecture for chinese City
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Sin dalla loro nascita, le Esposizioni Universali sono state lo specchio della visione di progresso del sistema economico mondiale. In origine, tale obiettivo veniva esplicitato attraverso rappresentazioni tese a celebrare la capacità dell'ingegno umano nel superare ogni vincolo che la natura gli...