Art Architecture category: 42682 books
by Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in...
Systemic Architecture
Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design...
by Nasser Golzari
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side. By inviting a range of architects and scholars to write about historical and contemporary...
Demystifying Doha
On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 3 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 3 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
Offsite Architecture
Constructing the future
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Architects have been intrigued by prefabricated construction since the early twentieth century. Recent advances in design, engineering and manufacturing processes have led to a significant expansion in the use of pre-assembled components, which are fitted to finished structures on site. Collectively,...
Fashioning Professionals
Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry. Fashioning Professionals addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and...
Community-Built
Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets...
The Urban Sketcher
Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Make the world your studio!
Capture the bustle and beauty of life in your town.
Experience life as only an artist can! Join the rapidly growing, international movement of artists united by a passion for drawing on location in the cities, towns and villages where they live and travel....
by Heike Nehl, Sibylle Schlaich
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In diesem E-Book stellt das Kommunikationsdesignbüro Moniteurs das Leitsystem-Projekt, das für den Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg entwickelt wurde, vor. Die vier Kapitel erläutern, wie das Leitsystem die bauliche Identität des Flughafens prägt: "Identity" befasst sich mit der Architektur, der Farbwelt,...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 1 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 1 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
Wide Awake in Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light...
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
This second in a three-volume series on Venetian art and architecture focuses on the Byzantine and Gothic periods. Ruskin discusses the palaces belonging to each era, along with the “nature” of the Gothic and the beautiful islands of Murano and Torcello in the Byzantine period.