Architecture category: 43274 books
Designing the British Post-War Home
Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood’s firm is representative of a geographically distinct category...
The Suburban Church
Modernism and Community in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a...
Beauty's Rigor
Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Per Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came...
Modernism in Scandinavia
Art, Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places...
Les Hôtels historiques de Paris
Histoire, architecture
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Extrait : "Aucun art n'éprouve plus que l'architecture l'influence des mœurs, c'est un miroir où elles se réfléchissent pour se transmettre aux générations futures. Si donc les édifices publics élevés par une nation sont appelés à faire connaître les grands traits de son histoire,...
Georgian Gothic
Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Frank Lloyd Wright firmly believed that "life could be formed anew if new form could be brought to its setting, architecture." His revolt against customary architectural design was shared by rugged individualist Fred C. Robie, who chose Wright to build his dream house in 1908. In this painstakingly...
by Mark Anthony Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings on the West Coast have not been thoroughly covered in print until now. Between 1909 and 1959, Wright designed a total of 38 structures up and down the West Coast, from Seattle to Southern California. These include well-known structures such as the Marin County Civic...
Bali Living
Innovative Tropical Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
This comprehensive interior design book showcases the best in Balinese architecture with over 280 photographs and insightful commentary.
Bali Living showcases 21 cutting-edge tropical designs from a creative new generation of architects and interior designers working in Bali. Their work is...
American Country Houses of the Thirties
With Photographs and Floor Plans
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
About 1912, a renaissance of interest in early American architecture occurred that claimed the attention of a broad cross-section of the culture. It was demonstrated not only by being a popular topic in books and magazines, but also by the public's passion for collecting American antique furniture, and...
by Chicago Architecture Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
The Chicago Bungalow is more than a housing style indigenous to the city. It epitomizes Chicago's work ethic and its rewards for successive waves of ethnic newcomers to the city since the early 20th century. In this book, the Chicago Architecture Foundation interprets both the design and the meaning...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture...
renovatio urbis
Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each chapter focuses on a particular project, from the Palazzo dei Tribunali to the Stanza della Segnatura,...
by Alan Colquhoun
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding...