Architecture category: 43274 books
Ornament
The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a ‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no...
by Anne M. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are "documents" of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the...
Constitutional Modernism
Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the Cuban Republic, Timothy Hyde reveals how architects...
Transcultural Architecture
The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and...
Solid Wood
Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel construction for a variety of building types, including...
by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Volume 1 of an unabridged reprint of extremely influential work by great 19th-century architect, champion of the Gothic Revival. Coverage of Greek and Roman architecture, Byzantine architecture, teaching of architecture, monumental sculpture, domestic architecture, much more. Over 230 engravings and...
by Vitruvius
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect...
Automatic Architecture
Motivating Form after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
In the 1960s and ’70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving...
by Jennifer A.E. Shields
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Collage and Architecture is the first book to cover collage as a tool for design in architecture, making it a valuable resource for students and practitioners. Author Jennifer Shields uses the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects, such as Le Corbusier, Daniel Libeskind,...
Subnature
Architecture's Other Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today's discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the...
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
a revised and expanded edition of Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin’s Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings...
by Andrea Palladio
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance, so important that the term Palladian has been applied to a particular style of architecture that adheres to classical concepts. The wide spread of Palladianism was due partly to the private and public buildings...
by Thomas Barrie
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the...
by Percy Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Few countries possess a richer architectural heritage than India, a country whose buildings are rooted in history, culture, and religion. As a results of India's global discourse with other regions around the world, there have been many influences that have been assimilated into its architecture,...