Art Architecture category: 42682 books
The Model as Performance
Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive...
Mall Maker
Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and...
Paradise by Design
Tropical Residences and Resorts by Bensley Design Studios
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This Asian design book, featuring hundreds of stunning color photographs and insightful commentary, showcases the art, architecture and design of the East.
Eclectic, baroque and sophisticated—such are the characteristics of the lifestyle resorts and extravagant private residences crafted...
by Franz Sales Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Republished unabridged from the final comprehensive edition, this work contains the largest single-volume collection of classical art motifs ever compiled. It reproduces material from Greek and Roman, medieval European, Islamic, Renaissance, baroque, and early nineteenth-century art, architecture,...
by Richard Serra, Hal Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
“The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.”—Richard Serra
Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume offers revelations into Serra’s...
Architecture History and Theory in Reverse
From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part I begins with present-day attitudes about architecture and traces them back...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design. With contributions originating from philosophy and design research, and from product design to architecture, it gives a rich spectrum of state of the art research and brings together studies on philosophical topics in which design plays a...
What Architecture Means
Connecting Ideas and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing...
by Shuishan Yu
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely...
AcrylicWorks 3
Celebrating Texture
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Fresh from the studios of 100 leading artists...125+ beautiful lessons on making texture work!
Acrylics are an incredibly versatile medium, perfect for achieving everything from delicate petals to shadows cast across a crumbling brick wall to mesmerizing reflections in the chrome bumper of...
Richard Krautheimer
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte de Richard Krautheimer avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'étude de l'architecture fut l'axe majeur des recherches menées pendant soixante-dix ans par Richard Krautheimer. La multiplication relativement récente des études sur l'art paléochrétien et le haut Moyen...
L'Art au temps des rois maudits. Philippe le Bel et ses fils, 1285-1328 (Paris - 1998)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Deux règnes ont marqué l'histoire de l'art gothique en France, celui de Saint Louis (1226-1270) et celui de Charles V (1364-1380). Entre les deux, une sorte de hiatus s'est instauré : l'éclosion des grandes cathédrales est alors terminée, le style rayonnant poursuit ses raffinements...
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Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers
Armies and Their Architecture in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient texts provide detailed testimonies that have allowed scholars to understand and reconstruct the army’s...
Edward Prior
Arts and Crafts Architect
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Edward Schroder Prior designed the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement (St Andrew's Church, Roker), perfected the popular butterfly plan in his houses, and published what is still the seminal work on medieval gothic art in England in 1900. Highly regarded by critics such as Ian Nairn, Prior...