Architecture category: 43274 books
Reshaping the Built Environment
Ecology, Ethics, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Because of the profound effects of the built environmon the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability.This...
Responsive Landscapes
Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualised. This is the first book to rationalize interactive architecture and responsive technologies through the lens...
Behind the Postcolonial
Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize...
by Nancy Rottle, Ken Yocom
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives...
Architecture 3.0
The Disruptive Design Practice Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book provides a definitive guide for the future direction of the practice and profession of architecture.
In five parts, Cliff Moser provides you with all the tools and know-how to implement changes that will serve you and your practice in the short, medium and long term. Written at a crucial time for the industry, this is essential reading for every architect.
Conflicted Identities
Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and urban plans have a visibility that lends them authority, while their repeated portrayals in the media cement their image...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more difficult...
by Marwa al-Sabouni
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An architect’s gripping account of living and working in war-torn Syria, and the role architecture plays in whether a community crumbles or comes together
Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers...
The Shaping of Us
How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
Author went to Brown University
First edition published in the US
Author owns Space Works Consulting with offices in the Bay Area and the UK
Audience for book includes; Professors, graduate students, undergraduate students in these disciplines in Architecture, design, landscape...
Fabricating Architecture
Selected Readings in Digital Design and Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
In this increasingly digitized world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of fabrication. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, digital design remains a fluid concept, its development and current influence discussed in scattered articles.
Designing for Designers (Routledge Revivals)
Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
First published in 2007, this book examines the designs of seventeen architecture and design schools and answers questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools discernible types of designs and what are their effects on those who experience...
Questioning Architectural Judgment
The Problem of Codes in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of...
Cognitive Architecture
Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
*Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association 2016 Place Research Award!*
In Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the...