Art Architecture category: 42682 books
The Architecture of the Screen
Essays in Cinematographic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architecture...
Performing Architectures
Projects, Practices, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates...
Altering Practices
Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts,...
by Karen Cordes Spence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics...
The Space Within
Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn’t what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary starting...
Camera Constructs
Photography, Architecture and the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced. Camera Constructs is the first book to...
When Ivory Towers Were Black
A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race, urban development, and higher education. It tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from a world-class university. The story takes place in New York City at Columbia University’s...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Born in the Industrial Revolution, the factory has long been considered like a monster of iron, subjugating the individual to the collective in an act of mass dehumanisation.Turning away from the pure functionality for which it was built, the factory is evolving into an aesthetic space, sometimes...
The Interface
IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM’s corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What...
Commemoration in America
Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution of the city. Addressing the complex ways that monuments in the United States have been imagined, created, and perceived from the colonial...
by Rebecca Deck Visser, Renee Ciminillo Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Historic Woodlawn Cemetery and Arboretum, founded in 1876, has provided a final resting place for thousands of individuals. The story of the cemetery and arboretum provides an in-depth look at Toledo as it developed from a small port on the Great Lakes to a major manufacturing center during the first...
Lincoln Memorial
The Story and Design of an American Monument
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Though Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most beloved figures in American history and millions of people visit the Lincoln Memorial each year, few are familiar with the intriguing stories behind this national monument. In authoritative yet friendly text and handsome watercolor illustrations, this...
The Material Imagination
Reveries on Architecture and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating...
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.