Architecture category: 43274 books
Space and Muslim Urban Life
At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
This book develops academic understanding of Muslim urban space by pursuing the structural logic of the premodern Arab-Muslim city, or medina. With particular reference to The Book of Walls, an historical discourse of Islamic law whose primary subject is the wall, the book determines the meaning of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dissent within the architectural field. It expands the notion of dissidence to other similar practices and strategies of resistance, in a variety of historical...
La Città Universitaria di Roma, le due modernità si conciliano: tre anni d’oro dell’architettura italiana del ‘900. The University City of Rome. Reconciliation between two modernities: the three golden years of twentieth-century Italian architecture
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 52/2016. 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
Il contributo ripropone la Lectio magistralis pronunciata il 21 gennaio 2016 in occasione della inaugurazione dell’Anno Accademico 2015-2016 della Sapienza Università di Roma e ha come tema la realizzazione della Città Universitaria. Essa nacque in un clima di contrapposizioni generazionali, con...
Design e innovazione tecnologica
Modelli d’innovazione per l’impresa e l’ambiente
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Collana STUDI E RICERCHE DI ARCHITETTURA del Dipartimento di Architettura Università degli Studi G. d’ Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, diretta da Paolo Fusero La sezione Design e progettazione tecnologica, Dept, del Dipartimento d’architettura di Pescara ha promosso, in questi anni, specifiche attività...
Empire Building
Orientalism and Victorian Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten...
Tecniche tradizionali e artigianato nella Scuola di Stoccarda - Traditional techniques and crafts in the Stuttgart School of Architecture
La Baukunst nell'insegnamento di Paul Schmitthenner - The Baukunst in the teaching of Paul Schmitthenner
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2017
73 Archinauti | monografie Collana di Architettura del Politecnico di Bari diretta da Claudio D'Amato 73 Archinauti series | monographs Architecture Series - Polytechnic of Bari edited by Claudio D'Amato Questo libro si colloca all'interno di un'ampia ricerca messa in campo dalla Facoltà di Architettura...
Landscape Analysis
Investigating the potentials of space and place
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality. Landscape Analysis provides an introduction to the field both in theory and in practice....
Arts and Crafts Architecture
History and Heritage in New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has...
by David Leatherbarrow, Richard Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture. It reveals how selected works of two modern architects, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, embraced environmental and cultural conditions as reciprocal and complementary. A basic premise of this book’s arguments is that...
Beyond Pompeii
Archaeology and urban renewal for the vesuvian cultural & tourist district - Archeologia e recupero urbano per il distretto turistico/culturale vesuviano
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Between the Vesuvio slopes and the front coastline, there are several archaeological sites of significant cultural and landscape interest, far less popular than Pompei but not less fascinating. These sites, including the ancient towns of Stabiae and Oplontis up until the coastal city of Sorrento,...
by T. Francis Bumpus
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
An excellent resource for anyone interested in religious architecture, The Cathedrals of England and Wales examines the architecture of nine stately sanctuaries. An introductory essay discusses the history of religious architecture and its ancillary arts, such as stone and wood-carving, precious and coarser metals, needlework, and mural and vitreous decoration.
by Kiel Moe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, architects should maximize energy intake, maximize energy use, and maximize energy feedback and reinforcement. This presumes...
Inside Smartgeometry
Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Smartgeometry (SG) is a key influence on the architectural community who explore creative computational methods for the design of buildings. An informal international network of practitioners and researchers, the group meets annually to experiment with new technologies and collaborate to develop digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Designing buildings and physical environments depends on social structure, social needs, economic data, environment, and technological development. Planning these environments is heavily influenced by cultural and regional need, the existing environment, and the materials available. Reusable and Sustainable...