Architecture category: 43274 books
Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China
Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices. In doing so, this book argues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Socially engaged architectureis a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and construct an egalitarian global society....
An Architecture of Ineloquence
A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by José Luis Sert, remains tranquilly unvisited and quietly erased from architectural history. Why? This unusual convent...
Do We Need Architects?
A Journey Beneath the Surface of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Do We Need Architects? Journey Beneath the Surface of Architecture is a journey of discovery that takes place over twenty-five years of my life, from exploring my own motivations to become an architect, learning about architecture, and the changing environment of practicing architecture to experiencing...
by Edward Burian
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown....
by Philip Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, this lively guide explains the key concepts and inventions in architecture clearly and concisely. Exploring the myriad ways in which the built environment is shaped and created, readers will gain a new and informed appreciation for architecture, from the...
Writing Architecture
A Practical Guide to Clear Communication about the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
For ages, architects have been criticized for speaking an insular language, known to some as "archispeak." Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Carter Wiseman’s 30 years of personal experience in writing, editing, and teaching in young architects...
by Claire Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject and reception,...
by David Mann
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
MR Architecture + Decor’s work—which, true to its name, straddles the line between architecture and interior design—is driven by the belief that close collaborations with clients lead to personalized and intimate homes. The first collection of the firm’s 20 years of work includes a brief history...
by Le Corbusier
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond...
by Aaron Betsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
An illuminating introduction to the influence of architecture on the world, the environment, and human lives
Architecture matters. It matters to cities, the planet, and human lives. How architects design and what they build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. The more we understand...
What Is Architecture?
An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of...
by Stefano Corbo
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring...
Architecture in Words
Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of...