Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Designs on Film
A Century of Hollywood Art Direction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high-gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat? The modernist high-rise architecture, inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead? The lavish, opulent drawing rooms of Martin Scorsese's...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Art Deco style was established on the ashes of a disappeared world, the one from before the First World War, and on the foundation stone of a world yet to become, opened to the most undisclosed promises. Forgetting herself in the whirl of Jazz Age and the euphoria of the “Années Folles”, the...
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,...
Venice
The Anthology Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
This is the ebook version, specially revised and completely updated in 2013, of Venice: The Anthology Guide, Milton Grundy’s perennially fresh classic travel guide to the city. It is based on the sixth edition, which had itself been updated, revised and reset in 2007. It is unlike any other guide,...
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...
Sacred Stimulus
Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Sacred Stimulus offers a thorough exploration of Jerusalem's role in the formation and formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. The visual vocabulary discussed by Galit Noga-Banai gives an alternative access point to the mnemonic efforts conceived while Rome converted...
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...
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...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Le style Art déco fut érigé sur les cendres d’un monde dévasté par la première guerre mondiale. S’oubliant dans le tourbillon du Jazz Age et de l’ivresse des années folles, la mince « Garçonne » reflète le style architectural de l’Art déco : aux sinusoïdes généreuses sont désormais...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Développé à travers l’Europe pendant plus de 200 ans, l’art gothique est un mouvement qui trouve ses racines dans la puissante architecture des cathédrales du nord de la France. Délaissant la rondeur romane, les architectes commencèrent à utiliser les arcs-boutants et les voûtes en berceau...
Beyond the Bauhaus
Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Although the Breslau arts scene was one of the most vibrant in all of Weimar-era Germany, it has largely disappeared from memory. Studies of the influence of Weimar culture on modernism have focused almost exclusively on Berlin and the Dessau Bauhaus, yet the advances that occurred in Breslau affected...
The Efficacy of Architecture
Political Contestation and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the ‘starchitecture’ system and the focus on aesthetic innovation, a growing number of architects, emboldened by the 2007–8 economic crisis, have staged...
The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini
A Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print despite their impact on Modernist culture. This new edition of The Quattro Cento and The Stones of Rimini presents the original texts of 1932 and 1934 and...