Architecture category: 43274 books
Bali Houses
New Wave Asian Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This Balinese design book, containing over 300 beautiful photos and extensive commentary will add a distinctive tropical flair to your interior decorating and architecture.
The phenomenon loosely termed "Bali style" has been the subject matter for countless books on art, architecture,...
Drawing the Unbuildable
Seriality and Reproduction in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not just unbuilt, but cannot be built. This distinct form of architectural project has an important and...
by Christopher Hight
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.
The book examines...
by Julian Davison
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Balinese style villas and resorts are popping up everywhere—from Ibiza to St Barts to Singapore. But what is Balinese architecture? And why is it so popular today?
Traditional Balinese houses, temples and pavilions are designed to allow man to exist in harmony with the natural forces of the...
The Architecture of Control
A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Through six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social control in the twenty-first century. Moving between historical precedents in the east and the west, Vetter's work reveals a hybrid order of architectural...
The Emergence of Modern Architecture
A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture...
London's Contemporary Architecture
An Explorer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
London is a living architectural exhibition. This tried and trusted portable guide will help you to find your way around one of the world’s most exciting cities, offering architectural experiences and insights into London’s finest contemporary architecture.
features more than 400 buildings...
Architecture Re-assembled
The Use (and Abuse) of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day.
It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader...
by Dana Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history...
by Shelia Hollihan-Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
China has a rich artistic tradition extending back thousands of years. Art and Architecture of China surveys the art treasures of this vibrant civilization, from ancient and imperial China to today's People's Republic. The arts of each era are interpreted in the context of the life, culture, and politics...
Understanding Architecture
Its Elements, History, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
The Story of Post-Modernism
Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological...
by Thom Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Philadelphia is a city of Colonial and ghostly architecture with narrow historic streets that open up onto vistas of bold, towering skyscrapers. It is a city of Greek Revival banks, Italian Renaissance, and Second Empire buildings, a city of Beaux-Arts hotels, Byzantine and Gothic churches, and International-style...
by Mark Dudek
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This is the standard design guide on schools architecture, providing vital information on school architecture.
Mark Dudek views school building design as a particularly specialised field encompassing ever changing educational theories, the subtle spatial and psychological requirements of growing...