Architecture category: 43274 books
Architecture and the Turkish City
An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbul's modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gül highlights the dynamics of political and social...
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism
Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today’s world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping – and in return being shaped by – the built environment. The book tackles this task through...
Image, Text, Architecture
The Utopics of the Architectural Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The...
Delirious New Orleans
Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From iconic neighborhoods such as the French Quarter and the Garden District to more economically modest but no less culturally vibrant areas, architecture is a key element that makes New Orleans an extraordinary American city. Delirious New Orleans began as a documentary project to capture the idiosyncratic...
The Architecture of the Screen
Essays in Cinematographic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architecture...
Performing Architectures
Projects, Practices, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates...
by Karen Cordes Spence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics...
The Space Within
Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn’t what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary starting...
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III
From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
An invaluable guide to lives and work of Frank Gehry, Atoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and other important figures of 20th and 21st century architecture.
Martin Filler's "contribution to both architecture criticism and general readers' understanding is invaluable,"...
Camera Constructs
Photography, Architecture and the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced. Camera Constructs is the first book to...
When Ivory Towers Were Black
A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race, urban development, and higher education. It tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from a world-class university. The story takes place in New York City at Columbia University’s...
Architectural Intelligence
How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity.
In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity...
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
***WINNER OF A NAUTILUS 2018 SILVER MEDAL BOOK AWARD***
Innovations in Behavioural Health Architecture is the most comprehensive book written on this topic in more than 40 years. It examines the ways in which healthcare architecture can contribute, as a highly valued informational and reference...
Architecture and Narrative
The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind that arranges, organizes and establishes relationships between the parts and the whole. It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we experience through movement and use. Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental...