Architecture category: 43274 books
Digital Archetypes
Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from...
9781849280174 Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide
A Pocket Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This pocket guide offers you an invaluable introduction to this business-critical subject. It explains the function of enterprise architecture within the organisation, looks at the skills needed within the enterprise architecture team and provides an overview of the most common enterprise architecture...
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II
From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and...
For the Record
The First Women in Canadian Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
When Marjorie Hill graduated in 1920 as Canada’s "first girl architect," she was entering a profession that had been established in Canada just 30 years earlier. For the Record, the first history of women architects in Canada, provides a fascinating introduction to early women architects,...
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper...
The Meaning of Modern Architecture
Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of...
Adolf Loos
The Art of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth....
by Fred Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this exciting text looks at the common practices of building alteration, reconsidering established ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design.
Fred Scott examines in-depth case...
Years with Frank Lloyd Wright
Apprentice to Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
From the special vantage point of a former apprentice who for nine years lived and worked under "the fury and wrath of genius," Edgar Tafel presents a wonderfully revealing portrait of America's greatest architect. Unpredictable, cantankerous, a striking figure with white hair, cape and...
Architecture and Adaptation
From Cybernetics to Tangible Computing
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents...
Bleak Houses
Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.
The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal...
Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in...
by Sarah Schrank, Didem Ekici
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The...
Housing and Dwelling
Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture,...