Individual Architect category: 202 books
Performalism
Form and Performance in Digital Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the...
François Mansart. Le génie de l'architecture, dir. Jean-Pierre Babelon et Claude Mignot
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Alors que jusqu'ici aucun livre de référence n'existait sur François Mansart (mis à part celui de Allan Braham et Peter Smith publié en 1973 en langue anglaise, depuis longtemps épuisé et jamais traduit). La célébration...
From the Shadows
The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662–1736) is one of English history’s greatest architects, outshone only by Christopher Wren, under whom he served as an apprentice. A major figure in his own time, he was involved in nearly all the grandest architectural projects of his age, and he is best known for his London...
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture
Air, Comfort and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air,...
by Ormonde de Kay Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
From the pedestal supporting the Statue of Liberty, to the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Biltmore, the largest private home ever built in the United States, Richard Morris Hunt's designs dominated the architectural scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hunt, the first...
Auguste Perret (Le Havre - 2002)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Inaugurée au musée André-Malraux du Havre en septembre 2002, puis transportée à la Galleria d'Arte moderna de Turin au printemps 2003, l'exposition Perret, la poétique du béton a été présentée au début de l'année 2004 au palais de la Porte Dorée à Paris (qui accueille provisoirement...
John Soane, le rêve de l'architecte (Paris - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Architecte parmi les plus réputés de son époque en Grande-Bretagne, John Soane (1753-1837) est un des créateurs de formes les plus originaux du néo-classicisme. Ses archives, ses dessins et ses maquettes sont conservés à Londres, par le musée qu'il créa dans sa propre maison...
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At Home in New England
Royal Barry Wills Architects 1925 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The now venerable firm of Royal Barry Wills was founded in a one-room office on Boston's Beacon Street in 1925. Initially fueled by word of mouth and occasional newspaper exposure, the firm gained admiration for Wills’s fresh take on various New England styles, including Georgian, Tudor, French...
by Mauro Parilli
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2013
MAURO PARILLI (mauro.parilli@gmail.com)
Con l’accordo fra INTA (International Urban Development Association) e l’INU (Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica), siglato nella città olandese di Den Haag, sede del governo e tempio della pianificazione territoriale, si è aperta una nuova era nello sviluppo...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1988, this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners, and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial for the way proposals are taken up, modified...
by Hisham Elkadi
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaningful place-making, thereby creating a cultural identity...
Experiments with Life Itself
Radical Domestic Architectures Between 1937 and 1959
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to...
Heirloom Houses
The Architecture of Wade Weissmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
An architectural monograph of lyrical, bespoke homes built to last.
The houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his firm tell the stories of the homeowners. Like beautiful music, a Wade Weissmann house is composed of notes and expressions, rhythm and syncopation, moving forward in time and space...
by William Marlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright captivated the world with his architecture - Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, Taliesin - and his flamboyant, often tumultuous personal life added to his fame. This essay by architecture critic William Marlin paints a vivid portrait of all facets of the architectural genius.