Architecture category: 43274 books
by Lucy M. Maulsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922*–1943* chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in...
by Martin Aurand
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1994
Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. (1872–1958) was the rare turn-of-the-century American architect who looked to progressive movements such as Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts for inspiration, rather than conventional styles. His fresh house designs and plans for apartment buildings and multifamily “group...
The Architect's Brain
Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory.
Explores various moments of architectural thought over...
Fallout Shelter
Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to...
Building Change
Architecture, Politics and Cultural Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Building Change investigates the shifting relationships between power, space and architecture in a world where a number of subjected people are reasserting their political and cultural agency. To explore these changes, the book describes and analyzes four recent building projects embedded in complex...
by Jacinto Quirarte
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows...
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to...
by Rob Imrie, Emma Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects’ actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building...
Managing Quality in Architecture
Integrating BIM, Risk and Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Completely revised throughout for this second edition, Managing Quality in Architecture addresses the new ISO 9001 standards after the significant 2015 revision. ISO 9001 is the global standard for quality, and firms certified under the 2008 edition have three years to upgrade their quality systems...
Can Architecture Be an Emancipatory Project?
Dialogues On Architecture And The Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Can architectural discourse rethink itself in terms of a radical emancipatory project? And if so, what would be the contours of such a discourse?
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design
The Future of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, McLennan outlines the major ideas and issues that have emerged in the growing movement of green architecture and sustainable design over the last thirty years. This book is intended as a starting point for anyone involved in the building industry on a journey...
Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering
Organisational Readiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
How could the potential of IT be realised to improve business performance in architecture, construction and engineering organisations? How could organisations unleash the potential of IT to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage? How can organisations migrate from technology to IT-enabled business...
Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico...
Urban Revolution Now
Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are...