Architecture category: 43274 books
by Tony Monk
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Since its sudden and dramatic formation upon winning the competition to design Paisley Civic Centre in 1963, Hutchison, Locke and Monk (HLM Architects) has consistently served and adapted to the changing requirements of Britain’s welfare state, and has instinctively dedicated its professional services...
La corda come strumento di costruzione: geometria, architettura, forme della natura | The cord as a construction tool: geometry, architecture and forms of nature
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 53/2016. 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: March 8, 2017
L’articolo indaga la rilevanza della corda come strumento di “costruzione”, intendendo per costruzione un ambito che va dalla realizzazione geometrica e poi materiale dell’architettura ad alcune strutture di formazione della materia. In primo luogo viene affrontato il campo che, attraverso...
Il cinema incontra l’architettura: il ruolo dell’image-based practice nel dibattito | The cinema meets architecture: the role of image-based practice in the debate
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 53/2016. 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: March 8, 2017
I rari momenti di incontro tra strategie di ripresa cinematografica e progettazione architettonica sono evoluti da un paradigmatico cambiamento di percezione al cospetto dello spazio urbano verso una prospettiva in movimento. Essi coinvolgono cambiamenti significativi nel modo in cui vediamo e produciamo...
by Alexandra Georgescu Paquin
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Dans la rencontre entre l’architecture contemporaine et le patrimoine bâti, l’actualisation en tant que phénomène culturel se propose comme solution à la polarité conservation-création. L’explosion des formes en architecture contemporaine, parallèlement à la montée d’une prédominance...
by Marcel Reymond
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2016
On désigne sous le nom de Renaissance l’influence exercée, à la fin du moyen âge, sur les civilisations modernes par la littérature, la philosophie et les arts antiques. De la nature de cette influence et de l’époque à laquelle elle s’est manifestée, on a longuement discuté : on l’a...
by Joseph M. Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Nation's Most Influential Sourcebook On Architecture, American Architecture, Ancient Architecture, Adobes Architecture, Art Deco and More!
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
He...
Building Art
The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly...
by Vitruvius
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Vitruvius was not a great literary personage, ambitious as he was to appear in that character. As Professor Morgan has aptly said, "he has all the marks of one unused to composition, to whom writing is a painful task." In his hand the measuring-rod was a far mightier implement than the pen....
by Andrew Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew...
by Daria Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
St. Basil's Cathedral, also called "The Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat," or the "Temple of Saint Basil the Blessed," is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Moscow, Russia. The cathedral is a popular search on Wikipedia not only because it is a marvel of architecture,...
by John Ruskin, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The leading art critic of the Victorian era, John Ruskin created a large body of work, writing influential essays and treatises on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy, to name but a few. This comprehensive eBook presents the...
Toronto Architecture
A City Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Toronto has been hailed as “a city in the making” and “the city that works.” It’s an ongoing project: in recent years Canada’s largest city has experienced transformative, exciting change. But just what does contemporary Toronto look like? This authoritative architectural guide, newly...
The Language of Houses
How Buildings Speak to Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
How do the spaces we inhabit affect us—and reflect us? A Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores architecture, in this insightful, “breezy” read (The Washington Post).
In 1981, Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history,...