Architecture category: 43274 books
Concrete Toronto
A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the glass-and-steel...
by Gunter Bandmann, Hans Böker
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines...
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean
Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such...
Japan Style
Architecture + Interiors + Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Enter the world of the stylish Japanese house, where every object in sight is a work of art.
Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases Japanese design in the stunning beauty of old homes and reveals how they are cared for by their...
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Fourth Edition
A Complete Catalog
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years ago, researchers and enthusiasts are still uncovering...
by Carmen Espegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Heroines of Space looks at four groundbreaking women architects: Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky, and Charlotte Perriand. You'll see the parts they played in the history of modern architecture and get a clearer view of the recent past. The book explains the social and historical...
by J. Alfred Gotch
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Early Renaissance Architecture in England is an illustrated, comprehensive overview.
by Matthew Hansen, James McKee, Edward Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Lincoln�s predecessor, Lancaster, formed in 1863 on the east bank of Salt Creek around a proposed Methodist female seminary. Though a building was erected, the school failed to materialize. When Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, the village of Lancaster was chosen as its first capital, and the...
Architecture / Machine
Programs, Processes, and Performances
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Architektur und Maschine sind zentrale Gegenstände menschlicher Gestaltung. Wie funktioniert ihr Zusammenspiel? In thematischer Breite und historischer Tiefe gehen die Beiträge des Bandes dem vielfältigen Wechselspiel dieser Phänomene nach, vor allem im Hinblick auf drei Aspekte: Maschinen, die...
by G. Martin Moeller Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados alike insights into more than 400 of Washington, D.C.’s, most important landmarks. Organized into 19 discrete tours, this thoroughly redesigned and updated edition includes 45 new entries, encompassing the...
Magnetic City
A Walking Companion to New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
From New York magazine’s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City—a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city
For...
First in the Homes of His Countrymen
George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Over the past two hundred years, Americans have reproduced George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house more often, and in a greater variety of media, than any of their country’s other historic buildings. In this highly original new book, Lydia Mattice Brandt chronicles America’s obsession...
by Allison Lee Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Neoclassicism refers to the revival of classical art and architecture beginning in Europe in the 1750s and lasting until around 1830, with late Neoclassicism lingering through the 1870s. Neoclassicism is a highly complex movement that brought together seemingly disparate issues into a new and culturally...
Atomic Dwelling
Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In the years of reconstruction and economic boom that followed the Second World War, the domestic sphere encountered new expectations regarding social behaviour, modes of living, and forms of dwelling. This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning,...