Architecture category: 43274 books
A Field Guide to the Buildings of Ireland
Illustrating the Smaller Buildings of Town and Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1997
The history of building in Ireland spans more than five thousand years. The evidence of these years of building persists thoughout the intricate and richly textured landscape of the island. In the course of an hour's drive or, in some areas, a walk, strange stone monuments from neolithic times, remnants...
Decorative Sketches
Architecture and Design Influenced by Nature in Early 20th-Century Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
At the turn of the 20th century, artists and craftsmen throughout Europe and America were profoundly affected by a new art style that took its inspiration from nature. Generally referred to as Art Nouveau, the trend influenced all manner of creative types, from painters, illustrators, and architects...
Material Strategies
Innovative Applications in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Blaine Brownell s best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of these materials achieve...
by J. Frederick Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Based on personal observation of surviving examples and research into colonial records, this book includes 242 measured diagrams (windows, door frames, construction details, etc.) and 192 photographs of more than 150 homes, 1650 to 1800. Authentic and invaluable. 434 illustrations.
Setting the Scene
Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new approaches to staging and performance, while theatre was often thought to have a reforming role in society. Innovation was accompanied by the revival...
The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture
Between Imitation and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared...
Charleston Fancy
Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A captivating chronicle of building in modern-day Charleston, making a case for architecture based on historical precedent, local context, and the ability to delight
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America’s first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque...
When Movies Were Theater
Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging...
When Architecture Meets Activism
The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban...
Architectural Regionalism
Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented....
Intimate Metropolis
Urban Subjects in the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.
Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic...
by Edward S. Morse
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens, candlesticks,...
by A. Hamilton Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Once a seat of government as well as the private residence of its owners, the medieval castle was also a military base and stronghold for the surrounding geographical area. The development of these sturdy fortifications in England during the Middle Ages is carefully examined in this profusely illustrated...
Masterplanning the Adaptive City
Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism. Practitioners and researchers here discuss ideas from the fields...