Art Architecture category: 42682 books
On Discomfort
Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series of disparate instances in which architecture and...
Activism in Architecture
Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009),...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept ‘resilience’ has been addressed in social sciences research. In doing so, this edited book draws together state-of-the-art research from a variety of disciplines (i.e....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team...
Live Architecture
Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Live Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day.
This book quantifies the factors that determine what makes a venue successful focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest barroom music space to the largest...
The Politics of Parametricism
Digital Technologies in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Over the last decade, 'parametricism' has been heralded as a new avant-garde in the industries of architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture, heir to postmodernism and deconstruction. From buildings to cities, the built...
Splendors of Faith
New Orleans Catholic Churches, 1727-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A gumbo of French, Spanish, and American influences, the architecture of New Orleans has always reflected the city's strong Catholic roots. Indeed, St. Louis Cathedral across from Jackson Square stands as perhaps the most widely recognized face of New Orleans. The cathedral, though, is just one of...
The Empty Place
Democracy and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice.
Establishing the theoretical basis for the study...
Reification and Representation
Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The relationship between politics and the public relations industry is controversial and, at times, polemic. However, one component of this relationship that has yet to be investigated is the role of architecture. Arguing for a fundamental reconfiguration of our understanding of ‘political architecture’,...
by Manoj Dole
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
Architecture Engineering is a simple e-Book for Architecture Diploma & Engineering Course, Revised Syllabus in 2018, It contains objective questions with underlined & bold correct answers MCQ covering all topics including all about the latest & Important about Construction Project Management,...
by Miriam Paeslack
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now have to deal with various degrees of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
As architectural designs continue to push boundaries, there is more exploration into the bound shape of architecture within the limits of spaces made for human usability and interaction. The Handbook of Research on Form and Morphogenesis in Modern Architectural Contexts provides emerging research...
Memorials as Spaces of Engagement
Design, Use and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before. No longer limited to statues of heroes placed high on pedestals, contemporary memorials engage visitors in new, often surprising ways, contributing to the liveliness of public space. In Memorials as Spaces of Engagement Quentin...
Eastern Turkey
An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1989
This second volume continues with a description of the fine Georgian monuments of the Tao region, including Ihan, Ök Vank, and Haho. The Pontus region comes next, the centre of the medieval Greek empire of Trebizond. The many Byzantine churches of Trabzon itself are covered, including Aya Sofya and...