Architecture category: 43274 books
by Tom Alphin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!
by Yasmin Shariff, Jane Tankard
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world--all too often without enough clear advice to make sure that their first step is in the right direction.
Towards a New...
Future Practice
Conversations from the Edge of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of...
by Colin Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
From sash windows and ceramic tiles to barracks and warehouses, industrialized building has thrived since the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Yet architects have neglected this area of practical construction in favor of historical, theoretical, and artistic analyses, resulting in the emergence...
Kirtland Cutter
Architect in the Land of Promise
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889. Major credit for the city's distinctive character was extended to Kirtland Kelsey Cutter for his...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the...
American Architectural History
A Contemporary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn...
by Kenneth Hafertepe
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Winner, 2019 San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation Book Award, sponsored by the San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation
German immigrants of the nineteenth century left a distinctive mark on the lifestyles and vernacular architecture of Texas. In this first comprehensive survey of...
The Groundbreakers
Architects in American History - Their Places and Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive. In The Groundbreakers, Charles E. Dagit, Jr. examines pioneering American architects and the historical...
Frank Furness
Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together...
by Edward R. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 and 2), numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there are two questions...
American Country Houses of the Gilded Age
(Sheldon's "Artistic Country-Seats")
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The "Gilded Age," the three decades following the Civil War, were years of astounding economic growth. Vast empires in oil, shipping, mining, banking, lumber, transportation, and related industries were formed. It was an era in which fortunes were made and lost quickly, almost easily; a period that encouraged...
Japan Houses
Ideas for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This Japanese architecture and design book is a wonderful source of new styles and ideas for those looking to add a distinctively Zen flair to their home.
Limited spaces, unlimited technology, a tradition of innovation, and sheer Japanese panache have combined to inspire the 26 stunning homes...
Storming the Old Boys' Citadel
Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a connection even exists between the two words. Some women didn’t agree. Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1823-1902) is credited...