Architecture category: 43274 books
by A. L. Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This expert guide to Japanese architecture is of enormous historical importance to the understanding of Japanese design and culture.
Pioneering Japanologist A. L. Sadler's invaluable study of Japanese architecture first appeared in 1941. Considered a classic in its field, unequaled in clarity...
by Andrew Leach, John Macarthur
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic...
by Nagesh V. Anupindi, Gerard A. Coady
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
To provide structure and transparency to the complex world of IT, Enterprise Architecture was created. However, we created complexities within Enterprise Architecture with Frameworks that are not easily understandable and purposefully implementable. In this book, Nagesh and Gerry help to turnaround...
Your Architecture Career
How to Build a Successful Professional Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Master the business side of architecture with advice from an expert.
In Your Architecture Career, Gary Unger provides tips and guidance to students, interns, architects, and firm owners to help them understand and master the business side of architecture and interior design. Students in school are...
Prefab Architecture
A Guide to Modular Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
"Prefab Architecture . . . is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than 'Prefabrication 101.' It is the Joy of Cooking writ large for the architecture and construction industries."
—From the Foreword by James Timberlake,...
Performance-Oriented Architecture
Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Architecture is on the brink. It is a discipline in crisis. Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construction of the built environment....
Architecture From the Outside In
Selected Essays by Robert Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Architecture and sociology have been fickle friends over the past half century: in the 1960s, architects relied on sociological data for design solutions and sociologists were courted by the most prestigious design schools to lecture and teach. Twenty years later, at the height of postmodernism, it...
Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition
A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architecture
For more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture. Now, the book has been revised to address the latest developments...
by John Shannon Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture. The English Gothic style developedsomewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed itsown architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies...
by Nnamdi Elleh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela,...
by Nigel Coates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye
Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather...
Architecture 101
From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an Essential Guide to Building Styles and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
A crash course in designing and constructing buildings
Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged...
The Architecture of Madness
Insane Asylums in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an...