Architecture category: 43274 books
Scotch Baronial
Architecture and National Identity in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotland's politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring how the architecture of Scotland – in particular the constantly-changing ideal of the 'castle' – has been of great consequence to the ongoing...
Computer Architecture
Digital Circuits to Microprocessors
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
An introductory text to computer architecture, this comprehensive volume covers the concepts from logic gates to advanced computer architecture. It comes with a full spectrum of exercises and web-downloadable support materials, including assembler and simulator, which can be used in the context of...
Germain Boffrand
Book of Architecture Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations and Sections of some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This title was first published in 2003. Germain Boffrand was one of the great French architects of the early eighteenth century. His work encompassed not only the design of town and country houses for the wealthy but also mines, bridges and hospitals. His Livre d’Architecture is one of the most...
by Corinna Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
In this fascinating study, architect and Egyptologist Corinna Rossi analyses the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt by exploring the use of numbers and geometrical figures in ancient architectural projects and buildings. While previous architectural studies have searched...
by Tino Mager
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of reconstruction go far...
by Lawrence W. Speck, Richard Payne
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
"This selection of twenty of Texas' proudest architectural achievements is a tiny sampling of the state's rich, but little-heralded, architectural heritage. The visual presentation of these buildings in Richard Payne's insightful photographs is evidence enough to any student of Texas culture that there...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles is a full-color illustrated edition of the classic study of the history of architecture.This handbook has been written by Tatyana Fedulova - Russian art critic, lecturer and popularizer of history of Fine Arts, the expert in the History of Art and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Norway and Russia have been closely related through the ages, both geographically and historically, and have experienced similar problems relating to climate, building maintenance and national wooden architecture. As a result, the parallel study of architectural conservation and restoration theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and...
Sprawl Scapes. Laboratorio di Progettazione per Quartu Sant'Elena. Città diffusa, paesaggio agrario, sistema costiero: nuove dinamiche
Sprawl Scapes. A Design Workshop for Quartu Sant'Elena. Sprawl city, rural landscape, coastal system: new dynamics
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Collana PAESAGGI IN TRASFORMAZIONE diretta da Enrico Alfonso Corti Questo libro raccoglie i risultati del workshop internazionale di progettazione SPrawlScapes 09 organizzato congiuntamente dalla Facoltà di Architettura di Cagliari, con il coordinamento di Cesarina Siddi, e dall'École Nationale...
Sustainable Architecture: A Solution to a Sustainable Sleep-out Design Brief. Volume 1.
Sustainable Architecture - Sustainable Sleep-out Design Brief, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
BOOK DETAILS: Volume 1 : 222 pages in total. 20,000 words in total.
Volume 2 - second book (not included in this book)
This book was written with the intent to assist teachers, parents, caregivers, students, architects, designers, and those who are interested in Education for Sustainability,...
Inflection 02 : Projection
Journal of the Melbourne School of Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Our built environment exists in a perpetual state of becoming, caught in a process of creation that is continuous and unending. If we wish to understand architecture today, we must engage with the state of flux that defines it. In 2015, Inflection Volume 02 considers the idea of projection, interrogating...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
The notion of data is increasingly encountered in spatial, creative and cultural studies. Big data and artificial intelligence are significantly influencing a number of disciplines. Processes, methods and vocabularies from sciences, architecture, arts are borrowed, discussed and tweaked, and new...
by A. D. F. Hamlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1895. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, A.M., L.H.D. (1855-09-051926) was an American architect, born at Istanbul, Turkey as the son of Cyrus Hamlin. He graduated at Amherst in 1875, studied architecture at Boston and Paris, and afterward began teaching...