Architecture category: 43274 books
Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand
Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
With independence, India experienced a dramatic social rupture but also a recuperation of political autonomy and a new sense of optimism that promised opportunities. The country became a crucible for experimentation in modern and utopian architecture with new buildings, cities and museums giving public...
An Aesthetic Occupation
The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate...
Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals
Politicizing the Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare...
On Discomfort
Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and...
Activism in Architecture
Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009),...
Live Architecture
Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Live Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day.
This book quantifies the factors that determine what makes a venue successful focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest barroom music space to the largest...
The Politics of Parametricism
Digital Technologies in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Over the last decade, 'parametricism' has been heralded as a new avant-garde in the industries of architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture, heir to postmodernism and deconstruction. From buildings to cities, the built...
Reification and Representation
Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The relationship between politics and the public relations industry is controversial and, at times, polemic. However, one component of this relationship that has yet to be investigated is the role of architecture. Arguing for a fundamental reconfiguration of our understanding of ‘political architecture’,...
by Ahmet Bindal
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
This textbook provides semester-length coverage of computer architecture and design, providing a strong foundation for students to understand modern computer system architecture and to apply these insights and principles to future computer designs.
It is based on the author’s decades of...
by Manoj Dole
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
Architecture Engineering is a simple e-Book for Architecture Diploma & Engineering Course, Revised Syllabus in 2018, It contains objective questions with underlined & bold correct answers MCQ covering all topics including all about the latest & Important about Construction Project Management,...
Computer Architecture
Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
With the new developments in computer architecture, fairly recent publications can quickly become outdated. Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware takes a modern approach. This comprehensive, practical text provides that critical understanding of a central processor by clearly...
Islamic Architecture on the Move
Motion and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible. This book brings together scholars from architectural...
Sensing Architecture
Essays on the Nature of Architectural Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Sensing Architecture sets out to provide a thoughtful commentary on our lived experience of inhabiting the world from several different and often surprising angles. The essays derive from a symposium of the same name held in March 2014 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, which accompanied the exhibition...
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis
Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability and Multidisciplinary Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally...