Architecture category: 43274 books
by Marcos Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Today’s architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence of interest in flesh, especially in art, has led to a politics of abjection, completely changing traditional aesthetics, and is now giving light to an alternative discussion...
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers
Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have...
The Business of Architecture
Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Business of Architecture is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect. Written by successful architects for architects everywhere, this book shows the architecture industry from a corporate business perspective, refining the approach to architecture...
Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North
Regional Schools and Traditions (14th - 19th centuries)
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour of the country’s capital cities, this unique phenomenon is regarded as the most distinctive national...
The Architecture Chronicle
Diary of an Architectural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
During the last 30 years, technological, social, economic and environmental changes have brought about the most dramatic evolution to architectural practice that has taken place since the profession emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Whilst these changes have transformed the way architects work,...
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,...
Knowledge collaboration design
Theory techniques and applications for collaboration in architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
“...The purpose of this book is to illustrate the result of a many-year-long research effort. We have sought to separate the description of the theoretical part from that of its application. The result is a work organized in five parts, corresponding to the content we indicated above: the first...
Stories of Storeys
Art, Architecture and the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
A renowned architect and artist on how public architecture in our cities has lost contact with the lives of the common people.
Behind the seemingly ordinary life of a practising architect lies a whole host of non-professional impulses that give shape to buildings.Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture...
by Erik Champion
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Jørn Utzon, Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos...
by Professor Lorraine Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The Fundamentals of Architecture, 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. It is intended to unravel the complexity of architecture to explain its process and make it more accessible. It guides students through the rich history of the discipline, and introduces aspects...
Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation
The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark...
by Robert J. Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles...
by Architect Professor Indranil Sen
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Firmitas - Utilitas -VenustasFirmness; Utility & Delight -these are the three basic purposes architecture must serve as defined by Vitruvius, the ancient Roman architect.Being the mother of all art forms, the creations of an Architect are live testaments of his work which are timeless. No Architect can...
by Itohan Osayimwese
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany’s built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany’s colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies...