Architecture category: 43274 books
The History and Architecture of Cardiff Civic Centre
Black Gold, White City
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Cardiff’s civic centre in Cathays Park, described as the finest civic centre in the British Isles, is an impressive planned group of public buildings, begun largely with wealth created by the coal industry in the south Wales coalfield. This book covers the Cardiff site’s earlier evolution as a...
Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration
Studies in Honor of Slobodan Curcic
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture and its decoration, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. The variety is also a reflection of Professor Curcic’s wide interests, which he shares...
Pamphlet Architecture 30
Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Participants in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition were asked to respond to the theme "Investigations in Infrastructure," and propose new directions for architecture, transportation, energy, cities, and agriculture at a continental scale. The winning entry, Coupling, imagined six daring...
Proportion
Science, Philosophy, Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of...
by Janos Fedak, Frederick Winter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Studies in Hellenistic Architecture is a detailed analysis of the development of the major building-types of the Hellenistic age – the mid-fourth century B.C. to the time of the Roman conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean. In this meticulous work, Frederick E. Winter reveals how the architects...
by Roderick Kemsley, Christopher Platt
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.
This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a...
The American Idea of Home
Conversations about Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a constellation...
Five Ways to Make Architecture Political
An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative pragmatist agenda that will inspire new thinking about the politics of design and architectural practice. Moving beyond conventional conversations about design and politics, the book shows how recent developments in political philosophy...
Spatial Design Education
New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future. In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes, underpinning theories, contents, methods, tools,...
by Kay Bea Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Franco Albini’s works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics of the Modern Movement. A chorus of Italian voices has sung his praises, none more eloquently than...
by Peter F Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology.
Including new material on wind generation, domestic water...
Beyond Patronage
Reconsidering Models of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Essays, projects, and interviews will examine emerging forms of sponsorship, new forms of connectivity - technological or social - that produce innovative modes of collaboration, and strategies for cultivating relationships that allow us to rethink typical hierarchies between those in power and those...
A House in the Sun
Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
A House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the beginning of World War II until the late 1950s. Houses were built across the Midwest, Northeast, and Southwestern United States,...
The Beauty of Holiness
Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing...