Architecture category: 43274 books
The Material Imagination
Reveries on Architecture and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating...
Hans Hollein and Postmodernism
Art and Architecture in Austria, 1958-1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna to ask how this can inform our broader understanding of architectural Postmodernism.
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by Megan E. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Initially dominated by simple renditions of East Coast architecture, Milwaukee developed from three pioneer settlements, those of Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George Walker�three hubs from which three villages radiated outward into one city. Following the Civil War, Milwaukee�s growth at the...
The Printed and the Built
Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century.
Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly field which has profoundly influenced architectural history in recent years. Yet, while groundbreaking...
Legal Architecture
Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Legal Architecture addresses how the environment of the trial can be seen as a physical expression of our relationship with ideals of justice. It provides an alternative account of the trial, which charts the troubled history of notions of due process and participation. In contrast to visions of judicial...
Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects
Designing and Planning Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book considers two key educational tools for future generations of professionals with a space architecture background in the 21st century: (1) introducing the discipline of space architecture into the space system engineering curricula; and (2) developing space architecture as a distinct, complete...
A Cleveland Legacy
The Architecture of Walker and Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Published in cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society
“Walker and Weeks was the most influential architectural firm in Ohio during the first half of the twentieth century. It transformed the image of Cleveland from that of an overgrown Victorian village into one of a progressive...
by Brian Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Some of the most exciting architecture in the world can be found on university campuses. In Europe, America and the Far East, vice chancellors and their architects have, over several centuries, produced an extraordinary range of innovative buildings. This book has been written to highlight the importance...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
"These beautiful plates feature wonderful aspects of this revolutionary architecture including grand staircases, wrought iron balconies, ornate mantels, and intricate storefronts. Bright colours, floral and insect motifs, and fancy apartment facades are also shown. Anyone interested in art and...
Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction
Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Through photographs, Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate. The architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing...
by Caryn Brause
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration provides practitioners and students with the tools necessary to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of partners in an increasingly socially complex and technology-driven design environment. Beautifully illustrated with color images, the book draws...
The Politics of Architecture
A history of modern architecture in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
The history of British architecture since 1930 has been one of frequently heated controversy between the old idiom and the new and between various social and technological viewpoints. The battle is by no means over; indeed it is spreading to wider issues and outside what was previously a largely professional...
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism,...
Nordic Modernism
Scandinavian Architecture 1890-2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Modernism was instrumental in the development of twentieth and twenty-first century Scandinavian architecture, for it captured a progressive, urbane character that was inextricably associated with, and embraced the social programmes of the Nordic welfare states. Recognized internationally for its...