Architecture category: 43274 books
Design Intervention (Routledge Revivals)
Toward a More Humane Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit themselves to solving social problems,...
by Kostas Terzidis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This unique volume challenges the reader to tackle all...
Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic
A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration...
Research in Landscape Architecture
Methods and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is...
Perspectives on Research Assessment in Architecture, Music and the Arts
Discussing Doctorateness
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Research in the creative fields of architecture, design, music and the arts has experienced dynamic development for over two decades. The research in these practice- and arts-based fields has become increasingly mature but has also led to various discussions on what constitutes doctoral proficiency...
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City
Representations, Constructions, Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art...
by Jin Baek
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage with these core issues.
Drawing on Tetsuro Watsuji‘s (1889-1960) philosophy, the book illuminates climate not as a collection of objective natural...
A Lexical Description of English for Architecture
A Corpus-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book offers a thorough lexical description of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) variety, English for Architecture, by means of a selfmade corpus. As other knowledge communities, Architecture practitioners have a distinctive discourse and a linguistic identity of their own. Both are conveyed...
by A. D. F. Hamlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
A history of architecture is a record of man’s efforts to build beautifully. The erection of structures devoid of beauty is mere building, a trade and not an art. Edifices in which strength and stability alone are sought, and in designing which only utilitarian considerations have been followed,...
Across Space and Time
Architecture and the Politics of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has had an impact across the globe and for much longer...
Theology and Form
Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How do space and architecture shape liturgical celebrations within a parish? In Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America, Nicholas Denysenko profiles seven contemporary Eastern Orthodox communities in the United States and analyzes how their ecclesiastical identities are affected...
Architecture coloniale et patrimoine de Marc Pabois et Bernard Toulier
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
La publication des actes de la table ronde organisée, en septembre 2003, par l'Institut national du patrimoine à Paris sur le thème de l'architecture coloniale et du patrimoine (I. L'Expérience française, I.N.P.-Somogy,...
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking...
Architecture and the Mimetic Self
A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful theoretical guide to our unconscious...