Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Germain Boffrand
Book of Architecture Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations and Sections of some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This title was first published in 2003. Germain Boffrand was one of the great French architects of the early eighteenth century. His work encompassed not only the design of town and country houses for the wealthy but also mines, bridges and hospitals. His Livre d’Architecture is one of the most...
by Albert Jaquemart
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Du Moyen Âge à l'Époque contemporaine, l'art décoratif peut être défini par les matériaux, le design et les objets artistiques utilisés à la fois en architecture urbaine et en architecture d'intérieur. Comme beaucoup d'autres formes d'art, l'art décoratif continue à se développer, ajoutant...
Art Deco
A Mode of Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book argues that mobility is the central theme of the interwar mode of design known today as Art Deco. It is present on the very surfaces of Art Deco objects and architecture – in iconography and general formal qualities (whether the zigzag rectilinear forms popular in the 1920s or curvilinear...
Italian Renaissance Art
Understanding its Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
A smart, elegant, and jargon-free...
by Hal Box
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public...
Nikolaus Pevsner
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedicated scholar who pursued a promising career as an academic in Dresden and Göttingen. When, in 1933 Jews were no longer permitted to teach in German universities, he lost his job and looked for employment...
by David Lowe, Simon Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
The poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to wait many years before he was able to travel south to Italy, "the land where the lemon trees bloom." He had gained success in several fields, but he had a sense of being trapped and confined and felt a need for light. Italy...
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge. This intellectual...
Feng Shui for Architecture
How to Design, Build and Remodel to Create a Healthy and Serene Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Feng Shui for Architecture is an easy-to-use manual to incorporate Scientific Feng Shui into the design, renovation, and decorating of your home. The final goal is to support your well-being, as well as your family's, in all aspects of life. It is also particularly useful during a real estate pre-acquisition...
François Blondel
Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today.
Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated...
The Architecture of Art Museums
A Decade of Design: 2000 - 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
As a building type, art museums are unparalleled for the opportunities they provide for architectural investigation and experimentation. They are frequently key components of urban revitalization and often push the limits of building technology. Art museums are places of pleasure, education and contemplation....
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.
Each...
Built upon Love
Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society.
The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing...
by María Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of...