Art Architecture category: 42682 books
by Erik Champion
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Jørn Utzon, Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos...
by Professor Lorraine Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The Fundamentals of Architecture, 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. It is intended to unravel the complexity of architecture to explain its process and make it more accessible. It guides students through the rich history of the discipline, and introduces aspects...
Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation
The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark...
Aero
Beginning to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In the follow-up to the bestselling American Modern, Aero celebrates 20 years of the famed Aero design studio with an intimate look at its founder Thomas O’Brien’s design philosophy. From O’Brien’s vivid reminiscences about his early days in art school in Manhattan to the opening and development...
by Oscar Lovell Triggs
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
« N’ayez rien dans vos maisons que vous ne considérez pas utile ou croyez être beau. » Cette citation de William Morris pourrait résumer à elle seule les Arts & Crafts, mouvement unique qui, en Angleterre, provoqua une véritable réforme des arts appliqués. Fondés par John Ruskin, puis...
by Robert J. Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles...
by Itohan Osayimwese
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany’s built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany’s colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies...
by Lew French
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years. Rather than use a chisel, his stones have to fit together naturally; he remembers and fits them together...
by Professor Lorraine Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Basics Architecture 02: Construction & Materiality is an in-depth exploration of the key materials used in modern architecture. The book covers materials including stone and brick, concrete, timber, glass, steel and composites. It examines their history, development and practical application in...
The Architecture of Wales
From the First to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole,...
Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970
Building the Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s. This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and its associated...
Modern London
An illustrated tour of London's cityscape from the 1920s to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
From the art deco factories of the 1920s through to the skyscraper boom of the twenty-first century, Modern London takes you on an illustrated tour of the capital’s ever-changing landscape.
Shaped variously by war, economics, population growth and design trends, the city has been moulded by some...
by W. R. Lethaby
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This classic explores the symbolism of classical architecture. A milestone in relating mysticism to design, it shows the correlation between mythology and the design of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Versailles, and other architectural masterpieces. This delightful book describes...
Lo studio della Storia dell’Architettura fra tradizione e high-tech | A study of the History of Architecture: tradition and high-tech
Published in Disegnare idee immagini 51/2015. Rivista semestrale del Dipartimento di Storia, Disegno e Restauro dell’Architettura “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Biannual Magazine of the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Anziché costituire un fondamentale corredo di un testo scientifico, la costruzione del modello 3D di un’architettura, antica, contemporanea o futura, costituisce oggi un vero e proprio metodo di studio. Si può finalmente indagare non soltanto la forma architettonica in ogni sua componente, ma...