Architecture category: 43274 books
by Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
For nearly five decades Barbra Streisand has been one of the singular figures in American entertainment. From the cabaret to the Broadway stage, from television and film stardom to her acclaimed work as a director, from the recording studio to the concert hall, she has demonstrated that the extraordinary...
Topographies of Class
Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous,...
The Sympathy of Things
Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.
Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth...
Spectacular Mexico
Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico’s arrival in the developed...
The Chesapeake House
Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and...
Barns of New York
Rural Architecture of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State—from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country—providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance...
Pamphlet Architecture 31
New Haiti Villages
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Holl attempts to answer these questions with his idea for "Dense-Pack Villages," a type of courtyard housing that could be built with recycled concrete from fallen buildings and steel and would be hurricane- and earthquake-resistant. Each "village" could house approximately 200...
San Francisco Chinatown
A Guide to Its History and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This is the only historical guidebook specifically devoted to SF Chinatown.
Will be of interest to the large Chinese American population in SF and to those interested in Chinatowns throughout the US.
Bay Area historians and those interested in the history of SF's architecture.
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Design Like You Give a Damn [2]
Building Change from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is the indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. Following the success of their first book, Architecture for Humanity brings readers the next edition, with more than 100 projects from around the world. Packed with practical and...
by Andrew Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually...
Writingplace
investigations in Architecture and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Het boek Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature is een nieuwe stap in het groeiende debat over literaire middelen in de architectuur. Het boek richt zich op geschreven taal als een cruciaal aspect van architectonische cultuur en op de potentie van literaire methodes in het architectonisch...
Urban Green
Architecture for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary...
Cut and Paste Urban Landscape
The Work of Gordon Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the discourse and practice of architecture. It was a time where architecture became a mainstream commodity whose products sold through mass media; a time in which Thomas Gordon Cullen came to be one of Britain’s best-known...