Individual Architect category: 202 books
The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor
Montreal's Square Mile and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects. In The Architecture of...
by Deborah Lewittes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called ‘revolutionary’. Three years later, Lubetkin completed a companion design. Yet Highpoint II felt very different, and the sense that the ideals...
Archipendium 2014
architects calendar Architektenkalender
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Archipendium 2014 shows 365 days full of modern architecture. 365 projets are explained by a photograph, a drawing and a text. Studios from around the world have sent in projetcs. Archipendium therefore is an overview of the latest production of modern architecture. Small creative office as well as...
by Paolo Portoghesi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Di formazione napoletana, attivo in molte regioni italiane, dalla Lombardia all'Emilia, alla Toscana, al Lazio, combattente nella seconda guerra d'Indipendenza, Antonio Cipolla, nato nel 1823 e morto nel 1875, quattro anni dopo la conquista di Roma, si può a buon diritto considerare un tipico frutto...
Anjalendran
Architect of Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This beautifully illustrated book showcases the works of one of Sri Landa's most influential architects—Anjaledran, an ethnic Tamil and visionary artist.
During the past 25 years of civil war in Sri Lanka, Anjalendran has stayed on, creating architecture that has attracted interest across...
California Contemporary
The Houses of Grant C. Kirkpatrick and KAA Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The stunning houses of Grant Kirkpatrick and his firm, KAA Design, exemplify why so many of us look to Southern California as the pinnacle of sophisticated modern living. Two dozen magnificent custom homes,modern in style, are built of sensuous materials and sited to make the most of nature, views,...
Will Alsop
The Noise
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The design process of Will Alsop acts as a conduit for the dreams and aspirations of others. Moving from public consultation to the privacy of his painting studio – here ideas are born in the liquidity of paint, the serendipity of collage and the flourish of line, resulting in the avant-garde and...
Building Material Estimates and Rates Build Up
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
The script is entitled Building Estimates and Rates Build Up .and aims at empowering Technical educators, Technical, Brigades and Community colleges students, Apprentices and individuals in the building profession with the necessary skill and knowledge. As an experienced professional in the building...
Bramante et l'architecture renaissante
L’art de ressusciter le classicisme antique
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Décryptez l'art de Bramante en moins d'une heure!
by Philip Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built.
These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits,...
MORI Building
The Making of Vertical Garden Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
From building office blocks in the charred ruins of post-war Tokyo to creating Japan's largest ever urban development, Mori Building Co. has revolutionized how cities are made.
In the late 1960s, after the success of its early 'number buildings', the company changed its focus from individual...
by Fiona McLachlan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
How do architects use color? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual color palettes, which develop alongside their body of built work? Do they utilize, or are they aware of, the body of theoretical work that underpins the use of...
American Dreamer
Bucky Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Synergetics can be defined as the exploratory strategy of starting with the whole. It was in the 1940s that Buckminster Fuller developed a series of spherical models which embodied the synergetic theory within geometry. This study of Fuller's sacred geometry describes with vigour and in detail how...
Marco Frascari's Dream House
A Theory of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to...