Art Architecture category: 42682 books
The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now
An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design—not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic...
Years with Frank Lloyd Wright
Apprentice to Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
From the special vantage point of a former apprentice who for nine years lived and worked under "the fury and wrath of genius," Edgar Tafel presents a wonderfully revealing portrait of America's greatest architect. Unpredictable, cantankerous, a striking figure with white hair, cape and...
Golden Gate Bridge
History and Design of an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Or that ancient Mayan and Art Deco buildings influenced the design? Current bridge architect Donald MacDonald answers these questions and others in...
by Trevor Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Art Deco exhibition in Paris in 1925 ushered in a new style of architecture based on the latest designs from Europe and American—flat roofs, plain facades, reinforced concrete and white paint inside and out. Streamlining was the watchword and houses, from bungalows to detached family homes,...
Architecture and Adaptation
From Cybernetics to Tangible Computing
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents...
Bleak Houses
Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.
The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal...
Living House
An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.
The main focus...
Abitare la terra n.39/2015 – Dwelling on Earth
Rivista di geoarchitettura
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Editoriale PAOLO PORTOGHESI L’Enciclica Laudato Sì di Papa Francesco Encyclical Letterr Laudato Sì of the Holy Father Francis LUCIA GALLI Vladimir Majakovskij Poesie Poems FRANCESCA GOTTARDO Mario Botta La cittadella delle istituzioni di Treviso The Citadel of the authorities in Treviso MASSIMO...
Eyal Weizman
Forensische Architektur Notizen von Feldern und Foren (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 062)
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Dieses Notizbuch ist eine philosophische und kulturkritische Auseinandersetzung mit israelischer Besatzungspolitik. Der 1970 geborene Architekt Eyal Weizman benützt den Begriff »Forensik«, abgeleitet von dem lateinischen Wort forensis, um die Geschichte von Angriffen und Verletzungen von Gebäuden...
by Sarah Schrank, Didem Ekici
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The...
MIT
An Architectural Tour
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1861 as the cornerstone of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay, then the center of a progressive, proto-globalist Brahmin culture committed to intellectual modernism and educational innovation. MIT founder William Barton Rogers's radical...
by David Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Today, the great cathedrals of Europe stand as beautiful, imposing monuments - the pride of parishioners and the wonder of tourists. It is difficult for us now, even with all our engineering and architectural skills, to imagine the extraordinary ways these medieval houses of worship were constructed....
Architectures of Illusion
From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify and implement new criteria? This profile of the work of the Cambridge University Moving Image Studio...
by John Aplin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, Morris’s first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.