Art Architecture category: 42682 books
by Sumanta Deb, Keya Mitra
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 2.5, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology), language: English, abstract: Organized retail formats...
by Dean Hawkes, with Jane McDonald, Koen Steemers
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, but, almost from its origins, has acquired other purposes and meanings. The Selective Environment is an approach to environmentally responsive architectural...
Computing the Environment
Digital Design Tools for Simulation and Visualisation of Sustainable Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Computing the Environment presents practical workflows and guidance for designers to get feedback on their design using digital design tools on environmental performance. Starting with an extensive state-of-the-art survey of what top international offices are currently using in their design projects,...
Sensing Architecture
Essays on the Nature of Architectural Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Sensing Architecture sets out to provide a thoughtful commentary on our lived experience of inhabiting the world from several different and often surprising angles. The essays derive from a symposium of the same name held in March 2014 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, which accompanied the exhibition...
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis
Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability and Multidisciplinary Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally...
Integrating Innovation in Architecture
Design, Methods and Technology for Progressive Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Today’s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts. They need not only to keep in step with rapid technological changes and the current revolution in design and construction processes, but to lead the industry. This means actively seeking to innovate through design research, raising...
The Future of Museum and Gallery Design
Purpose, Process, Perception
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design. Placing a specific emphasis on social responsibility, in its broadest sense, the book emphasises the need for a greater understanding of the impact of museum design in the experiences of visitors, in the manifestation...
The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture
Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with SketchUp Pro and LayOut
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
A guide for leveraging SketchUp for any project size, type, or style. New construction or renovation.
The revised and updated second edition of The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture offers guidelines for taking SketchUp to the next level in order to incorporate it into every phase of the architectural...
Home and Community
Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.
Based on...
by Edith Sichel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art,...
by Anastasia Karandinou
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design space? Why do architects traditionally design, draw and map the visual, as opposed to other types of sensations of space (the sound, the smell, the...
by H. Philip Staats
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Following a devastating earthquake in 1925 that destroyed most of Santa Barbara’s significant buildings, the city became the first in the country to have a controlled building plan that encouraged a unified style using elements of Spanish colonial architecture.
With airy broad patios, thick...
Talking Architecture
Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Talking Architecture is a part of the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent Indian intellectuals. This revised edition presents additional visuals and an extended dialogue between Jahanbegloo and Raj Rewal, one of India’s leading architects. The conversation flows effortlessly...
by Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced.
With a focus on domestic space...