Architecture category: 43274 books
Shadow-Makers
A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.
Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture....
by Kerry Dean Carso
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the impact British Gothic novels and historical romances had on American art and architecture in the Romantic era. Key figures include Thomas Jefferson, Washington Allston, Alexander Jackson Davis, James Fenimore Cooper,...
by David Lowe, Simon Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
The poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to wait many years before he was able to travel south to Italy, "the land where the lemon trees bloom." He had gained success in several fields, but he had a sense of being trapped and confined and felt a need for light. Italy...
Origami Architecture (booklet & downloadable content)
Create Lifelike Scale Paper Models of Three Iconic Buildings: Origami Book with Downloadable Paper Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Build detailed models of your favorite iconic buildings with this easy origami ebook!
Master paper crafter and preeminent designer Yee, brings origami folders this extraordinary boxed architectural craft ebook which brings some of the worlds' most recognized architectural feats to life. Yee...
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge. This intellectual...
Sight Lines
Looking at architecture and design in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Canada's leading architectural and design critic, Adele Freedman has been writing for the The Globe and Mail for almost a decade. For this collection she has selected her best columns, including a revised and expanded version of her profile of architect Peter Dickinson, the modernist architect whose...
The Noble Room
The Inspired Conception and Tumultuous Creation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
"When I finished Unity Temple, I had it. I knew I had the beginning of a great thing, a great truth in architecture." —Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright's design for Unity Temple was radical in its simplicity—a monolithic concrete exterior—yet sublime in its detail and revolutionary...
Architecture of Brazil
1900-1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book. Accordingly, the author does not give overall preference to particular...
by Lynn Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
By the end of Queen Victoria's reign, factories had become an inescapable part of the townscape, their chimneys dominating urban views while their labourers filled the streets, coming and going between work and home. This book is concerned with the architecture, planning and design of those factories...
Doing Disability Differently
An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as creative starting points for the whole design...
Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice
Discourses on Architecture and the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product.
A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing...
by Judith Paine McBrien
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
“A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago Tribune
Updated and expanded to chart the changing urban landscape of Chicago--as well as to incorporate a section on Chicago’s...
François Blondel
Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today.
Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated...
by Allan Greenberg, Michael George
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
For forty years (1880–1920), the now-legendary architectural firm led by Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White was responsible for many of the finest buildings in America. The Boston Public Library, Pennsylvania Station in New York, and the campus of Columbia University...