Architecture category: 43274 books
by Ahmet Bindal
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
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 industrial...
Integrating Innovation in Architecture
Design, Methods and Technology for Progressive Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Today’s design professionals are faced with challenges on all fronts. They need not only to keep in step with rapid technological changes and the current revolution in design and construction processes, but to lead the industry. This means actively seeking to innovate through design research, raising...
The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture
Modeling Buildings, Visualizing Design, and Creating Construction Documents with SketchUp Pro and LayOut
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
A guide for leveraging SketchUp for any project size, type, or style. New construction or renovation.
The revised and updated second edition of The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture offers guidelines for taking SketchUp to the next level in order to incorporate it into every phase of the architectural...
by Lewis Mumford, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le célèbre architecte et théoricien de l’architecture organique, et l’historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joué un rôle crucial dans l’histoire de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, comme en témoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu’ils...
Home and Community
Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.
Based on...
by Anastasia Karandinou
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design space? Why do architects traditionally design, draw and map the visual, as opposed to other types of sensations of space (the sound, the smell, the...
by H. Philip Staats
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Following a devastating earthquake in 1925 that destroyed most of Santa Barbara’s significant buildings, the city became the first in the country to have a controlled building plan that encouraged a unified style using elements of Spanish colonial architecture.
With airy broad patios, thick...
Talking Architecture
Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Talking Architecture is a part of the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent Indian intellectuals. This revised edition presents additional visuals and an extended dialogue between Jahanbegloo and Raj Rewal, one of India’s leading architects. The conversation flows effortlessly...
by Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced.
With a focus on domestic space...
by Mark R. Cruvellier, Bjorn N. Sandaker, Luben Dimcheff
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and...
Children as Place-Makers
the innate architect in all of us
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three...
Curve
possibilities and problems with deviating from the straight in architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three...
Constructing the Architect
An Introduction to Design, Research, Planning, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Unlike books that concentrate on the monuments and other artefacts that architects produce, Constructing the Architect focuses on architecture as a disciplinary and professional process, an institution of society, and a career of learning and mastery. In doing so, it offers a lens into the architecture...
Architecture and Resilience
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient.
This volume takes resilience...