Architecture category: 43274 books
Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond
Influence, Process and Afterlife since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of belief they offer across time. Inspired...
Le forme del museo - Architectural shapes of museums
Ragionamenti ed esercizi didattici - Reasoning and learning exercises
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2017
72 Archinauti / quaderni della didattica - Collana di Architettura del Politecnico di Bari diretta da Claudio D'Amato 72 Archinauti series | Educational papers - Architecture Series - Polytechnic of Bari edited by Claudio D'Amato Questo è un libro di ragionamenti architettonici, che come tutti quelli...
The Architectures of Childhood
Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Between 1935 and 1959, the architecture of childhood was at the centre of architectural discourse in a way that is unique in architectural history. Some of the seminal projects of the period, such as the Secondary Modern School at Hunstanton by Peter and Alison Smithson, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation...
A Japanese anthology - Antologia giapponese
Cutting-edge architecture - Un’architettura d’avanguardia
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The architecture illustrated in this book dates primarily to a period between the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Before presenting a compilation of these texts in the second half of the book, each of the introductory essays focuses on a date marking either a destructive physical event...
Architecture of the Sacred
Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative...
Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople
Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, hagiographic and historical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastic typika and testaments...
by Phil M. Riley, Frank Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Salem, Massachusetts, has long been considered the center of New England's Colonial architecture, a storehouse of well-preserved American antiquities. This profusely illustrated study, first published in 1919, represents the first complete, chronological survey of Colonial architecture in Salem —...
The Environments of Architecture
Environmental Design in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture.
The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of...
by Remei Capdevila-Werning
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an introduction to the aspects of Goodman’s philosophy...
Architecture of Resistance
Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents...
by Nicholas C. Markovich, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Fred G. Sturm
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture. This book brings together experts from architecture and art, archaeology and anthropology, philosophy and history, considering Pueblo style not simply architecturally, but within its cultural, religious, economic, and...
Architecture Beyond Criticism
Expert Judgment and Performance Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works.
As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide, from environmental sustainability...
Transgression
Towards an expanded field of architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of boundaries produces new forms of architecture, education, built environments, and praxis.
Based on material from the 10th International Conference...
Architecture and Justice
Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated...