Architecture category: 43274 books

Cover of Festival Architecture
by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods...
Cover of Architecture Technology for Engineers
by Kesorn Pechrach
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

This Architecture Technology for Engineers book is a basic principles for first year architecture students. The benefit to engineers, this book will help to have a better understanding the reason behind the architecture ideas and design. This book consists of 12 chapters cover overall knowledge of...
Cover of Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy
by Tessa Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political...
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Structure As Architecture

A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers

by Andrew Charleson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014

Structure as Architecture presents a comprehensive analysis of the indispensable role of structure in architecture. An exploration, as well as a celebration, of structure, the book draws on a series of design studies and case study examples to illustrate how structure can be employed to realize a...
Cover of Building the Nation

Building the Nation

Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016

Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans...
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The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics

by Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its...
Cover of Weather Architecture
by Jonathan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider...
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Architecture That Speaks

S. C. P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M

by Nancy T. McCoy, David G. Woodcock, Lilia Y. Gonzales
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path,...
Cover of Architecture of Expo 2010 Shanghai
by Multi-authored
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

The stunning architecture unveiled at World Expo 2010 Shanghai brings new atmosphere and style to the appearance of Shanghai. This vital book captures and presents more than 60 examples of architecture and design created and built for World Expo 2010 Shanghai in four chapters with content and design...
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Exercises in Architecture

Learning to Think as an Architect

by Simon Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it... This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop...
Cover of The Hierarchy of Energy in Architecture
by Ravi Srinivasan, Kiel Moe
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

The laws of thermodynamics—and their implications for architecture—have not been fully integrated into architectural design. Architecture and building science too often remain constrained by linear concepts and methodologies regarding energy that occlude significant quantities and qualities of...
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Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies

Re-conceptualising design and making

by Jillian Walliss, Heike Rahmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies explores how digital technologies are reshaping design and making in landscape architecture. While the potentials of digital technologies are well documented within landscape planning and visualisation, their application within design practice is far...
Cover of Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture
by Peter Šenk
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit, called the "capsule." Here it is presented with regard to the continuity...
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Architectural Patterns

Uncover essential patterns in the most indispensable realm of enterprise architecture

by Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Anupama Murali, Dr. Kayarvizhy N
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017

Learn the importance of architectural and design patterns in producing and sustaining next-generation IT and business-critical applications with this guide. Key Features Use patterns to tackle communication, integration, application structure, and more Implement modern design patterns such as...
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