Architecture category: 43274 books
Context
Architecture and the Genius of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Demonstrates how a building's setting should inform and inspire rather than constrain architectural design
Context-Architecture and the Genius of Place is a highly engaging, informative discussion of context in architectural theory and practice. Eric Parry, one of the UK's most highly regarded...
The Architecture of Pleasure
British Amusement Parks 1900–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing...
by Peter Rich, Yvonne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The construction of buildings is learnt through experience and the inheritance of a tradition in forming buildings over several thousand years. Successful construction learns from this experience which becomes embodied in principles of application. Though materials and techniques change, various elements...
by Colin Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The New Eco-Architecture builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of architectural insight and experimentation aimed at twenty-first century environmental needs and priorities....
Architecture and the Modern Hospital
Nosokomeion to Hygeia
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about...
50 Architects 50 Buildings
The buildings that inspire architects
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The most inspirational buildings in the world, as chosen by well-known contemporary architects. In this book, published in conjunction with the Twentieth Century Society, 50 contemporary architects choose the buildings from around the world that have inspired them and made an impact on their own work....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space investigates how strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes. Ranging across the modern period from the eighteenth century to the present day, the book presents a series of case-studies which operate in and between a number of settings...
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
A History of Ecological Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly...
by The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The International Architecture Yearbook series is an invaluable and cutting edge resource featuring work that has been selected by a highly experienced panel of guest editors from across the world. All projects featured are illustrated with stunning photographs, informative plans and detailed text,...
Inflection 01 : Inflection
Journal of the Melbourne School of Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What is Inflection? On a prosaic level, Inflection is the new student-run journal of architecture and the built environment from the Melbourne School of Design and published by AADR – Art Architecture Design Research. Inflection is a themed journal, to be published annually and features work from...
Italian Modernisms
Architecture and construction in the twentieth century. Collana Architettura e Costruzione /6 diretta dal Prof. Sergio Poretti
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The studies in this book focus on Italian twentieth-century architecture, in particular design and construction techniques. The descriptions of the worksites and building processes provide a much better and clearer picture of the different modernist styles that existed in Italy; they also reveal the...
by Razak Basri
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, course: BSc. in Architecture, language: English, abstract: The case for System Building Method and aesthetics is often compelling. Building owners are often dissatisfied...
The Pantheon
From Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and engineering....
Migrant Housing
Architecture, Dwelling, Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Migrant Housing, the latest book by author Mirjana Lozanovska, examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Housing is pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant participation in the adaptation or building of houses provides symbolic materiality...