Architecture category: 43274 books
The Architecture of the Roman Triumph
Monuments, Memory, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remembered...
Muslim Architecture of South India
The Sultanate of Ma'bar and the Traditions of Maritime Settlers on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Goa)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book reinterprets the Muslim architecture and urban planning of South India, looking beyond the Deccan to the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala - the historic coasts of Coromandel and Malabar. For the first time a detailed survey of the Muslim monuments of the historic ports and towns demonstrates...
Introducing Urban Design
Interventions and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This...
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time
Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect...
by T. Roger Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
THE history, the features, and the most famous examples of European architecture, during a period extending from the rise of the Gothic, or pointed, style in the twelfth century to the general depression which overtook the Renaissance style at the close of the eighteenth, form the subject of this...
Time, History and Architecture
Essays on Critical Historiograpy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper for architectural history. In a work exploring themes such as time, autonomy and periodization,...
Architect Knows Best
Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and José Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century. Their proposals for functional zoning, multi-level...
by Patrick Malone
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
In order to function, architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural, economic, and political forces. Thus, architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes – which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural...
Reading Architecture
Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments? Why rely on literary techniques and accounts instead of architectural practices and analysis when it...
Architecture Against the Post-Political
Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the "post-political"....
At Home with the Sapa Inca
Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca's reign...
Architecture and Science-Fiction Film
Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of...
Shell Structures for Architecture
Form Finding and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
*** Featuring a foreword by Pritzker Prize Winner Shigeru Ban ***
Bringing together experts from research and practice, Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural...
Architecture allemande de Goethe
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
En novembre 1772, Goethe (1749-1832) fait paraître à Francfort un court texte dont le titre, Architecture allemande, cache le sujet précis : il s’agit d’un hymne à la gloire de la cathédrale de Strasbourg et de son...