Architecture category: 43274 books
Beyond the Supersquare
Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and...
by Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Architecture is all around us – it is part of our lives, and its development is a central theme in the history of mankind. Learning to read a building is the route to understanding a major part of our cultural inheritance. Collins Need to Know? How to Read a Building shows you how to analyse and...
University Planning and Architecture
The search for perfection
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The environment of a university – what we term a campus – is a place with special resonance. They have long been the setting for some of history’s most exciting experiments in the design of the built environment. Christopher Wren at Cambridge, Le Corbusier at Harvard, and Norman Foster at the...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In questo lavoro “Progettare Paesaggio, Landscape as Infrastructure” si confrontano: da un lato le stimolanti proposte progettuali redatte dal gruppo di studenti della Harvard Graduate School of Design guidati dalla docente Paola Cannavò; dall’altro l’analisi del territorio portuense ed ostiense...
by McKim, Mead & White
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The roster of McKim, Mead & White's clients reads like a who's-who of American business, professional, cultural, and social enterprise in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of the buildings designed by this distinguished New York firm still stand today — libraries, museums,...
Foundations of Landscape Architecture
Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design
Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment....
Freedom and the Cage
Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This...
Finland
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Buildings speak volumes, not just about their occupants or owners, but about the countries in which they exist. From colonnades to paving stones, the architecture of any building does more than simply date the structure—it celebrates the spirit of a people and a nation.
Roger Connah's latest...
by Joan Zunde, Hocine Bougdah
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This key text presents students with a holistic view of the building design process, bridging the gap between the theory and practice of constructing and assembling buildings.
Integrated Strategies in Architecture encourages and enables students to gain a sound understanding of the purpose...
Atmospheric Architectures
The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme.
Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics...
by Richard Coyne
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main...
Easter Island's Silent Sentinels
The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, monumental...
European Landscape Architecture
Best Practice in Detailing
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.
Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book...
Anti-Ugly
Excursions in English Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Since 2004 Gavin Stamp, one of Britain’ s most eminent and readable architectural historians, has written a monthly column for Apollo, the esteemed architecture and fine art magazine. The subject is simply whatever in design or architecture happens to take his fancy. It might be the splendid reopening...