Architecture category: 43274 books
Architecture at the End of the Earth
Photographing the Russian North
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and...
The Edifice Complex
How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
A provocative look at architecture-"exceptionally intelligent and original" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World)
Deyan Sudjic-"probably the most influential figure in architecture you've never heard of" - argues that architecture, far from being auteur art,...
by Hal Foster
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style...
Architecture and the Historical Imagination
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern...
Architecture and Armed Conflict
The Politics of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. By bringing together specialists from a range of relevant fields, and with knowledge of case studies across time and space, it provides the first synthetic...
by Amos Ih Tiao Chang
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new...
Violence Taking Place
The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former...
Golf Architecture
Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In Golf Architecture, famed architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie details the strict methods and philosophies that led him to design such world-renowned masterpieces as Augusta National, Cypress Point, and Royal Melbourne. Written in 1920 during the height of his career, Golf Architecture provides rare...
by Jack Reigle
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
An essential guide for a firm of any size to effectively position itself in the marketplace
For an architecture or design firm to survive and prosper in the new economy, it needs to redefine and reinvigorate its position in the marketplace. With dozens of how-to cases, examples, and guidelines,...
by Lawrence Vale
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design...
The Icon Project
Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service...
Feminist Practices
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Women continue to be extremely under-represented in the architectural profession. Despite equal numbers of male and female students entering architectural studies, there is at least 17-25% attrition of female students and not all remaining become practicing architects. In both the academic and the...
Adaptive Architecture
Changing Parameters and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions...
by Gordana Fontana-Giusti
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have...