Architecture category: 43274 books
The Cultural Role of Architecture
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations...
Architecture as Experience
Radical Change in Spatial Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material.
The...
Architecture and Feminisms
Ecologies, Economies, Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Set against the background of a ‘general crisis’ that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories...
From a Cause to a Style
Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations. In From a Cause to...
by Adam Sharr
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists.
The first introduction to Heidegger’s philosophy written specifically...
Classic Thai
Designs* Interiors* Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
With over 350 full-color photographs and in-depth text, Classic Thai showcases the finest interior design art and architecture of the Kingdom of Thailand.
From the glittering chedis of Bangkok's Grand Palace to the rustic simplicity of village dwellings, Thailand offers a rich diversity of...
Designing Tall Buildings
Structure as Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This second edition of Designing Tall Buildings, an accessible reference to guide you through the fundamental principles of designing high-rises, features two new chapters, additional sections, 400 images, project examples, and updated US and international codes. Each chapter focuses on a theme central...
Eugenics in the Garden
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial...
Yin Yu Tang
The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
With hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information Yin Yu Tang tells the history of a traditional Chinese house and the fascinating stories of its occupants.
In the late Qing dynasty, around the year 1800, a prosperous Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a remote...
by Ruth Haag
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The development of cottages at Lakeside, Ohio has created a walkable architectural history museum. Lakeside was organized in 1873 as a camp meeting site and a temperance summer resort; it soon developed as a Chautauqua, a religious summer educational center. Since there were few permanent dwellings...
Ways of Residing in Transformation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban and societal processes behind these changes requires...
The Picturesque
Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture....
by Charles Doidge, Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
The architectural crit, review or jury is a cornerstone of architectural education around the world. The defence of ideas, drawings, and models in an open format before staff and peers is intended to be a foreground for healthy creative debate, but many students view it as hostile confrontation –...