Architecture category: 43274 books
Vitruve et la tradition des traités d'architecture
Frabrica et ratiocinatio
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Les articles et essais qui composent cet ouvrage jalonnent plus de trente années de réflexion sur le De architectura de Vitruve, le seul traité sur l'art de bâtir qui ait échappé au naufrage de la littérature technique grecque et romaine. Dispersés dans diverses revues scientifiques ou actes...
Rappresentazione grafica simultanea degli spazi esterni e interni degli edifici storici | Simultaneous graphic representation of the exteriors and interiors of historical buildings
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 51/2015. 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: April 26, 2015
La rappresentazione simultanea degli spazi esterni e interni degli edifici storici permette agli studenti di architettura di comprendere meglio, più in profondità, l’organismo architettonico e di indagare un metodo di rappresentazione più complesso. Questo contributo si propone di suggerire in...
Identity Matters. Architettura tra individualismo e omologazione. Architecture between individualism and homologation
Architettura tra individualismo e omologazione. Architecture between individualism and homologation
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Attraverso gli interventi di alcuni architetti internazionali, il volume cerca di capire se e come le culture locali ancora influenzino le modalità di produzione dell’architettura.
by Henri Stein
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Les Architectes des cathédrales gothiques est un livre écrit par l'historien et archiviste français Henri Stein (1862 - 1940). Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique....
The Alchemy of Things
Interiors shaped by curious minds
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
If you have read The House that Pinterest Built, Smart Spaces, Iconic Australian Houses, or Elements of Style, you're going to love Karen McCartney's new book The Alchemy of Things.
Karen McCartney's eighteen most fascinating homes in the world: The Alchemy of Things invites you into the homes...
by Léon Palustre
Language: French
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Le mouvement scientifique, artistique et littéraire qui marque, pour l’Europe occidentale, la fin du moyen âge et le commencement de l’ère moderne, s’est manifesté tout d’abord au delà des Alpes, c’est-à-dire là où existaient des raisons plus pressantes non seulement de chercher...
by Jon Krakauer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Here is Jon Krakauer’s portrait of the iconoclastic architect Christopher Alexander, whose revolutionary human-centered approach has shaken the foundations of modern architecture. Krakauer delves into Alexander’s life and career, from his theories on a timeless “pattern language” that could...
Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.
When he got the commission...
by Motoko Jitsukawa, K. K. Cornucopia K. K.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This Japanese interior design and architecture book is filled with fresh ideas for restaurateurs and foodies alike.
The Japanese approach of introducing classical aesthetics to innovative and exciting dinning spaces expresses the fundamentals of Japanese architecture and design. With evocative...
by Lewis Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.
Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The...
by David Joselit
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted...
by Tom Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
After critiquing—and infuriating—the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus.
In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such...
The Perfect House
A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident...
Early American Houses
With A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
An intriguing examination of classic colonial houses, this fact-filled foray explores with remarkable concision the "medieval period" of American architecture. The treatise takes for its examples the first houses built along the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century. While these early structures...