Architecture category: 43274 books
Accommodating Life
An Architect’S View
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
From Accommodating Life, The accommodation of human beings within created space is the true concern of any well-conceived built environment. In architecture, the term modern means an architecture that is acutely responsive to the demands of current accommodation while utilizing the most advanced techniques...
Writing About Architecture
Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Extraordinary architecture addresses so much more than mere practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with...
Understanding Architecture
An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Gothic Architecture is an 8th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Exactly what did Roman architects do for us? Can you identify a voussoir or a vault? What is “architecture of the veil?” Are you able to articulate on Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles? And who was the father of the skyscraper? This set of 50 explanations of the innovations, theories, styles, and...
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Art, Technology, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to...
Cine-scapes
Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this book offers a new perspective....
What happens if we begin to see the city...
American Architecture
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
More than fifteen years after the success of the first edition, this sweeping introduction to the history of architecture in the United States is now a fully revised guide to the major developments that shaped the environment from the first Americans to the present, from the everyday vernacular to...
by Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth,...
Designing Detroit
Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert...
Down Detour Road
An Architect in Search of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.
I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
A society’s culture is a contributing factor to the structure and design of its architecture. As contemporary globalism brings about the evolution of the world, architectural style evolves along with it, which can be observed on an international scale. Cultural Influences on Architecture is a pivotal...
Bricks & Mortals
Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are...
Modern Architecture in Mexico City
History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture,...