Architecture category: 43274 books
by Anthony D'Atri, Vaibhav Bhembre, Karan Singh
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
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A Paradise Lost
The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is amply illustrated with photographs...
Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity
Practice, Representation and Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place. The territorial logic traditionally used to underpin architecture and envision our built environment is being radically altered, forcing the adoption of a new method of conceptualizing space/geography...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators,...
Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building
An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition, Vol. II
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Volume 2 of monumental 3-volume classic offers comprehensive and detailed coverage of architectural terms, individuals and national styles. Total in set: over 100 photographs and more than 1000 illustrations. Bibliography.
Environmental Design
An Introduction for Architects and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Written and edited by a team of specialists at Max Fordham LLP, one of the UK’s leading environmental and building services engineering consultancies, Environmental Design is the result of their extensive experience in designing environmentally-friendly buildings. The principles of their approach,...
Design for Flooding
Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
“Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking…and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places.” —Landscape Architecture Magazine
Beyond Description
Singapore Space Historicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about...
by James David
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Taj Mahal was constructed by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1628 – 1658) in the loving memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. It is located on the side of the Yamuna River. An idle example of the great Mughal architecture, it is included in the list of the Seven Wonders of the World. It has got Persian,...
Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia
The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Featuring over 350 beautiful photographs, Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia captures the architectural heritage of a vibrant community.
The multiple Chinese migrations from southeastern China to Southeast Asia have had important implications for both regions. In Southeast Asia this influence...
by Ghazi Bisheh, Fawzi Zayadine, Mohammad al-Asad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Far from abolishing the freedom of local cults and undermining existing town plans, the Umayyads acknowledged the aesthetic language already in place on their arrival in Jordan (661), and re-invented its forms with an astonishing freedom of expression. Brief as their hegemony was (less than 90 years)...
The Framing of Sacred Space
The Canopy and the Byzantine Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures--typically comprised of four columns and a roof--canopies had a critical role in the modular processes of church design,...
by Abd al-Razzaq Moaz, Yasser Tabbaa, Zina Takieddine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now with Location Index!This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that Syria, a land that witnessed the evolution of civilisation since the beginnings of human history, may soon become a place of...
by Jamila Binous, Naceus Baklouti, Aziza Ben Tanfous
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tunisia offers a synoptic and chronological vision spanning thirteen centuries of Islamic History. After the creation of Kairouan at the rise of the Islamic era during which time local traditions were enriched with the distant souvenir of Samarra successive dynasties embellished the architectural...