Architecture category: 43274 books

Cover of Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture. Cities have been substantially affected by transnational migration but the physical manifestations of migration in architecture – and its effect on streetscape, neighbourhood and city –...
Cover of The Architecture of Ruins

The Architecture of Ruins

Designs on the Past, Present and Future

by Jonathan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019

The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and...
Cover of Historical Dictionary of Architecture
by Allison Lee Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

This dictionary provides a historical overview of the major architectural developments and styles, building materials and types, major structures and locations, sites and architects. Historical eras like ancient Egyptian architecture and the Renaissance in Europe and movements such as Art Deco are...
Cover of Inflection 03: New Order

Inflection 03: New Order

Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

by Rory Hyde, Luke Pearson, Forensic Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016

In the context of recent global political and economic disruption, architecture seems no longer equipped to address the demands of contem- porary society as an isolated discipline. One solution offered in this crisis of relevance is the notion of transdisciplinarity characterised by the hybridisa-...
Cover of Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art...
Cover of Industries of Architecture
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture’s relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities...
Cover of Architecture in Black

Architecture in Black

Theory, Space and Appearance

by Darell Wayne Fields
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015

Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques...
Cover of Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination
by Renée Tobe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological...
Cover of Bio-Architecture
by Javier Senosiain
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Bio-Architecture studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives, and presents a great part of the knowledge that gives origin and shape to built form. Organic architecture offers a design approach arising from natural principles, bringing...
Cover of Architecture's Evil Empire?

Architecture's Evil Empire?

The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism

by Miles Glendinning
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

From Chicago to Toronto to Shanghai, cities around the world have sprouted “iconic” buildings by celebrity architects like Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind that compete for attention both on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years, criticism of these extreme “gestural” structures,...
Cover of Solar Architecture in Cool Climates
by Colin Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

'A must-read for practitioners, teachers and others interested in or working with energy use in the built environment, including a delightful set of examples' Ann Grete Hestnes, former President of the International Solar Energy Society Solar Architecture in Cool Climates is an invaluable primer on...
Cover of Architecture, Media, and Memory

Architecture, Media, and Memory

Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York

by Joel McKim
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018

Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath – from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond. Yet...
Cover of Serverless computing in Azure with .NET
by Sasha Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017

Harness the power of the Cloud, leveraging the speed and scale of Azure Serverless computing About This Book Take advantage of the agility, scale, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud using Azure Serverless compute Build scalable, reliable, and cost-effecient applications with Serverless architecture...
Cover of Colonial Architecture in India
by Moritz Herrmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 2,0, Manipal University (Manipal Institute of Communication), course: Cultural History of India, language: English, abstract: Of course, the India of today is also a product of the decade of colonialism in...
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