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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will help all students of architecture and urban design understand how the urban and rural relate.
Taking...
by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which...
Minoru Yamasaki
Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America’s most significant architects
Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover...
Performalism
Form and Performance in Digital Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the...
The Return of Nature
Sustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements? Or are they unintended design replacements? The book is divided into five parts giving you multiple...
Form Follows Fun
Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925–1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s Britain.
Responding to the current interest...
Niche Tactics
Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.
Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
The Renaissance is a 9th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief guide...
Precedents in Architecture
Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis
Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.
Thirty-eight leading...
by T. Irwin Sessions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Spanish colonial missionary settlements established San Antonio as a junction between Mexico and the developing United States in the early 1700s. Because of its remote location amid both countries and its great distance from other cities, San Antonio became a crossroads for commerce, industry, and strategic...
The Architecture of James Stirling and His Partners James Gowan and Michael Wilford
A Study of Architectural Creativity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. This book provides the most comprehensive critical survey of Stirling's work to date, charting the development of his ideas from his formative years, through his partnership with James Gowan, on to his period...
Karnataka's Rich Heritage - Art and Architecture
From Prehistoric Times to the Hoysala Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
You may have a lot of questions about the art and architecture of Karnataka. There may be queries about the various heritage touring circuits. You might like to understand what went into designing, planning and constructing monuments over a thousand year ago. You may still wish to know how art and architecture...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Romanesque is a 7th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief guide to...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Rococo is 11th chapter of the series containing:- Ancient Egypt- Ancient Mesopotamia- Cretan-Mycenaean- Ancient Greece- Ancient Rome- Byzantine architecture- Romanesque- Gothic architecture- The Renaissance- Baroque- Rococo- Classicism- Eclecticism- Modern- FunctionalismBrief guide to the history...