Architecture category: 43274 books
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure
Making and Using the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before...
Ecology for architecture
architectural, urban and environmental planning elements
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This book analyzes themes and concepts of environmental design from a composition stand point. A selection of case studies from a larger regional scale to the small and local scale demonstrates how architectural and urban design works with different combinations of environmental elements, by particular...
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism
Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben’s politics, which can affect change in current architectural...
by Albena Yaneva
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is...
Architecture as Cultural and Political Discourse
Case studies of conceptual norms and aesthetic practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture. It examines how these discursive mechanisms and technologies combine to normalise and aestheticise everyday practices. It queries the means by which buildings are appropriated to give shape and...
by Penelope J. E. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509–44 BCE). At the start of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the political system; by the end, buildings were...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Buddhist temples are some of the most beautiful and awe inspiring examples of religious architecture ever created. This helpful handbook is a guide to the finest examples from around the world. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce...
by Andrew Leach
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical...
by Graham Bizley
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Following on from Graham Bizley’s successful Architecture in Detail, Architecture in Detail II presents 40 case studies of detailing on recent construction projects. Over 150 full colour drawings and photos provide a reference compendium for the professional architect seeking detailing inspiration.
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by William Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
“The most sensible book and the most exempt from prejudice that ever was written in that science.” — Horace Walpole.Born in Stockholm to Scottish parents, taken to London at the age of two and then on to India, William Chambers (1723-96) later studied architecture in Italy and France before...
Constructing a Sense of Place
Architecture and the Zionist Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an architectural ideology and the production of national space and place has so far been neglected. Focusing on the Zionist ideology, this book brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This inspiring and thought-provoking book explores how recent innovations in landscape architecture have uniquely positioned the practice to address complex issues and technologies that affect our built environment. The changing and expanding nature of "landscape" make it more important...
Building Socialism
Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture...
Sacred Architecture in a Secular Age
Anamnesis of Durham Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Having won more than one recent poll as Britain’s best-loved building, the appeal of Durham Cathedral appears abiding, which begs the question whether an iconic sacred building can retain meaning and affective pertinence for contemporary, secular visitors. Using the example of Durham Cathedral,...