Art Architecture category: 42682 books
by Caryn Brause
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration provides practitioners and students with the tools necessary to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of partners in an increasingly socially complex and technology-driven design environment. Beautifully illustrated with color images, the book draws...
by Tom Zatar Kay
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
"You are now my favorite modern writer. Serious genius every time". – Molly "I enjoyed viewing your paintings which are most compelling and provocative" - Ruthie Tucker Executive Director-Curator, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery "Zatar master of the universe" - Rozola “My god what a complex being you are”...
The Capsular Civilization /
on the city in the age of fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
The spread of capsular civilization is a worst-case scenario that is taking shape before our very eyes, without us even being aware of it. In the face of the speed of our technology, the suburbanization of our daily lives and the ever more extreme but poignant polarization of our society, we feel...
Imagining the Turkish House
Collective Visions of Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
"Houses can become poetic expressions of longing for a lost past, voices of a lived present, and dreams of an ideal future." Carel Bertram discovered this truth when she went to Turkey in the 1990s and began asking people about their memories of "the Turkish house." The fondness and nostalgia with which...
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism,...
Nordic Modernism
Scandinavian Architecture 1890-2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Modernism was instrumental in the development of twentieth and twenty-first century Scandinavian architecture, for it captured a progressive, urbane character that was inextricably associated with, and embraced the social programmes of the Nordic welfare states. Recognized internationally for its...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative...
Le forme del museo - Architectural shapes of museums
Ragionamenti ed esercizi didattici - Reasoning and learning exercises
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2017
72 Archinauti / quaderni della didattica - Collana di Architettura del Politecnico di Bari diretta da Claudio D'Amato 72 Archinauti series | Educational papers - Architecture Series - Polytechnic of Bari edited by Claudio D'Amato Questo è un libro di ragionamenti architettonici, che come tutti quelli...
Cityscapes in History
Creating the Urban Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment. The concept ’cityscapes’ refers to three different dynamics that shape the...
The Architectures of Childhood
Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Between 1935 and 1959, the architecture of childhood was at the centre of architectural discourse in a way that is unique in architectural history. Some of the seminal projects of the period, such as the Secondary Modern School at Hunstanton by Peter and Alison Smithson, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation...
A Japanese anthology - Antologia giapponese
Cutting-edge architecture - Un’architettura d’avanguardia
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The architecture illustrated in this book dates primarily to a period between the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Before presenting a compilation of these texts in the second half of the book, each of the introductory essays focuses on a date marking either a destructive physical event...
Istanbul, Open City
Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture. This is often in response to technological, economic and societal transformations in the nineteenth- and early...
by Peter Fane-Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions...
Radical Marble
Architectural Innovation from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian’s Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque...