Architecture category: 43274 books
Architecture, modernité, modernisation
Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 21 mai 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 27, 2017
L’histoire de l’architecture ne cesse de conjuguer deux regards : celui, panoramique, portant sur les ensembles urbains, révélant les politiques sociales ou techniques, et celui sur les édifices et leurs intérieurs, vus en gros plan, qui reflète les idéaux et l’engagement de leurs auteurs...
by Edmond A. Boudreaux
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of Mississippian mounds are tested against the archaeological...
Editoriale. La qualità della ricerca nelle Scuole di Architettura italiane
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 55/2017. Rivista semestrale del Dipartimento di Storia, Disegno e Restauro dell'Architettura Sapienza Università di Roma | Biannual Magazine of the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Le Scuole di Architettura italiane stanno attraversando un periodo di notevoli difficoltà, non solo per la forte contrazione del numero degli studenti che si iscrivono, ma anche per gli esiti della VQR dell'ultimo quadriennio 2011-2014 che ha mostrato un inatteso abbassamento dei punteggi attribuiti...
From Doxiadis' Theory to Pikionis' Work
Reflections of Antiquity in Modern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In this book, Tsiambaos redefines the ground-breaking theory of Greek architect and town planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis (The Form of Space in Ancient Greece) and moves his thesis away from antiquity and ancient architecture, instead arguing that it can only be understood as a theory founded in modernity.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the Sochi Winter Olympics. The forms and the circumstances of their...
Annual Dynamics of Daylight Variability and Contrast
A Simulation-Based Approach to Quantifying Visual Effects in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Daylight is a dynamic source of illumination in architectural space, creating diverse and ephemeral configurations of light and shadow within the built environment. Perceptual qualities of daylight, such as contrast and temporal variability, are essential to our understanding of both material and...
by Henry Glassie
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2000
Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie’s Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Design and Visual Communication - Passive Solar Architectural design (Sustainable Architecture):
Extend sustainability practice into the classroom beyond recycling, repurposing, waste management, worm farms, and composting. Introduce sustainable architecture! For children and students...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The model size is 1,0 m x 0.350 m x 0.4 m. The model has many sustainable features and functions. Some are controlled via a remote control (model aircraft system). Ideal for teaching sustainable architecture in Primary and Secondary school. Also useful for Tertiary Education.
This book...
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Applications de la géométrie sacrée et mysticisme des nombres dans les temples égyptiens pour produire de l'énergie cosmique.
Cette édition traduite en français vous révèle la connaissance qu’avaient les anciens Égyptiens de la proportion harmonique, de la géométrie sacrée,...
Choice Architecture
A new approach to behavior, design, and wellness
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
From Vitruvius in the 1st century BCE on, there has been an attempt to understand how architecture works, especially in its poetic aspect but also in its basic functions. Design can encourage us to walk, to experience community, to imagine new ways of being, and can affect countless other...
Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure
Open Building in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices. This calls into question the traditional ways in which these facilities are...
by Sham Tickoo
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Exploring Autodesk Revit 2017 for Architecture is a comprehensive book that has been written to cater to the needs of the students and the professionals who are involved in the AEC profession. Revit 2017 book is a gateway to power, skill, and competence in the field of architecture and interior presentations,...
The University of Alabama
A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus**and Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries.
In 1988 the University of Alabama Press published Robert Oliver...