Architecture category: 43274 books
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Functionalism is a 15th 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...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles is a full-color illustrated edition of the classic study of the history of European architecture from ancient world to Frank Lloyd Wright.This handbook has been written by Tatyana Fedulova - Russian art critic, lecturer and popularize of history of...
The Architecture of Phantasmagoria
Specters of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively ‘mediated’ city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and exacerbating the manifold experience...
by Edward Denison
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores China’s encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism – an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving from a variety of sources both from the west...
Building Shanghai
The Story of China's Gateway
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily...
Timber Gridshells
Architecture, Structure and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses and woven fabrics. Over the last fifty years, more sophisticated ‘webs of wood’ have emerged, with timber gridshells in particular becoming a structurally...
Outcast Visionary
Yurii Pavlovich Spegal'skii and the Reconstruction of Pskov
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Outcast Visionary: Yu. P. Spegal'skii and the Reconstruction of Pskov, is the first comprehensive, critical biography in any language of this outstanding man, a native of one of Russia's oldest and most beautiful cities, Pskov. It is the story of one man's love and passion for Pskov's architectural and...
Architecture, Death and Nationhood
Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in the 1740s, a radical reform across Europe prohibited...
The Architecture of William Nichols
Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses--the University...
Digital Design and Computer Architecture
ARM Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition covers the fundamentals of digital logic design and reinforces logic concepts through the design of an ARM microprocessor. Combining an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design, this book takes...
The Creativity Code
The Power of Visual Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
While it might seem like some people are born with it, the fact is anyone can learn to be creative. Half of the human brain is devoted directly or indirectly to vision - that's the power of visual thinking. Companies such as Apple, Air B&B and Tesla, have shown that creativity outperforms entrenched...
by Sumita Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever. Past interactions and interventions between developed and developing countries have often been unequal and inappropriate. We now...
San Antonio Architecture
Traditions and Visions
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
With a history more than 290 years old, San Antonio boasts a diverse, eclectic, and important architectural inventory. From the Spanish Missions of the 17th century to invigorating adaptation and restoration of historic buildings alongside landmark new construction, there is a wide array of culturally...
Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level students and the interested general reader, this book aims to equip the student of Greek architecture...