Architecture category: 43274 books
by Robert Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Singapore Houses features top architects and designers with ideas that are stylish, contemporary, and show twenty-first century savvy.
The houses in this book epitomize cutting-edge residential architecture in Singapore. they demonstrate a remarkable surge of design exploration in the city-state....
by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded...
Women Architects in India
Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India. Educated in the 1930s and 1940s, the very first women architects designed...
Tropical Style
Contemporary Dream Houses in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Tropical Style showcases thirty-five contemporary Malaysian homes and resorts that feature the use of indigenous cultural forms and cross-cultural influences in new and exciting ways.
The elegant and often breathtaking houses, apartments and resorts presented here evoke the essence of the modern...
Beyond Zuccotti Park
Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the definition, use, role, and importance of...
Self-Assembly Lab
Experiments in Programming Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab in the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the boundaries between architecture, biology, materials science and the arts, to envision a world where...
by Marc Treib, Luigi Latini
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener. Although he studied agriculture in college, Porcinai’s true interest lay in the landscape architecture practice he founded in 1938. Early projects...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation - but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages. In this new book on representing landscapes, Nadia Amoroso brings together contributions from some of the leading landscape departments...
The Age of Spectacle
Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon
'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren Laverne
In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi...
Pride in Modesty
Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects...
by Thomas A. Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural...
Public Space and Relational Perspectives
New Challenges for Architecture and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going...
by Robert Chitham
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders. The new edition of this successful title now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial measurements to make the orders more accessible and to provide a valuable reference for designers.
The...
Digital Fabrications
Architectural and Material Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according...