Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Architecture as Cultural and Political Discourse
Case studies of conceptual norms and aesthetic practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture. It examines how these discursive mechanisms and technologies combine to normalise and aestheticise everyday practices. It queries the means by which buildings are appropriated to give shape and...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Buddhist temples are some of the most beautiful and awe inspiring examples of religious architecture ever created. This helpful handbook is a guide to the finest examples from around the world. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce...
The Birth of Bourbon
A Photographic Tour of Early Distilleries
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Whiskey making has been an integral part of American history since frontier times. In Kentucky, early settlers brought stills to preserve grain, and they soon found that the limestone-filtered water and the unique climate of the scenic Bluegrass region made it an ideal place for the production of...
by Graham Bizley
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Following on from Graham Bizley’s successful Architecture in Detail, Architecture in Detail II presents 40 case studies of detailing on recent construction projects. Over 150 full colour drawings and photos provide a reference compendium for the professional architect seeking detailing inspiration.
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Creativity: Technology and Music
In collaboration with Susan Schmidt Horning
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Creativity, by which something new, original, and valuable is formed, has positive connotations. This volume features essays on creative processes in technological invention, engineering design, architecture, music composition, improvisation, sound recording, authenticity in music, and computer music....
Constructing Place
Mind and the Matter of Place-Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is...
by William Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
“The most sensible book and the most exempt from prejudice that ever was written in that science.” — Horace Walpole.Born in Stockholm to Scottish parents, taken to London at the age of two and then on to India, William Chambers (1723-96) later studied architecture in Italy and France before...
Constructing a Sense of Place
Architecture and the Zionist Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an architectural ideology and the production of national space and place has so far been neglected. Focusing on the Zionist ideology, this book brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This inspiring and thought-provoking book explores how recent innovations in landscape architecture have uniquely positioned the practice to address complex issues and technologies that affect our built environment. The changing and expanding nature of "landscape" make it more important...
Building Socialism
Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture...
Sacred Architecture in a Secular Age
Anamnesis of Durham Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Having won more than one recent poll as Britain’s best-loved building, the appeal of Durham Cathedral appears abiding, which begs the question whether an iconic sacred building can retain meaning and affective pertinence for contemporary, secular visitors. Using the example of Durham Cathedral,...
An Aesthetic Occupation
The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate...
Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals
Politicizing the Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare...
English Parish Churches and Chapels
Art, Architecture and People
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
There are over 40,000 churches and chapels in the United Kingdom. The earliest were built by the first Anglo-Saxon Christians and about 10,000 were built before the Reformation in the sixteenth century. This beautifully illustrated book features photographic portraits and descriptions of 26 English...