Architecture category: 43274 books
by Hal Box
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public...
New Japan Architecture
Recent Works by the World's Leading Architects
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.
The past five years are widely consider to have been the most innovative period in contemporary Japanese design history. The...
by Robert Harbison
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Mies van der Rohe, master of modern architecture, declared that “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.” In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison takes a closer look at these bricks, providing an engaging and concise companion...
by Kingston Heath
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international...
by Jonathan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.
Architecture is generally perceived as the solid, physical matter that it unarguably creates, but what of the spaces it creates? This issue drives Hill's explorative...
Modeling Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF
A Practical Guide Using UML and BPMN
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Modeling Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF explains everything you need to know to effectively model enterprise architecture with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), the leading EA standard. This solution-focused reference presents key techniques and illustrative examples to help you model...
Shaping Seattle Architecture
A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region’s built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition updates and expands the original with new information...
The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I
A New Framework for Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society.
Author Patrik Schumacher offers...
Architecture's Pretexts
Spaces of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects,...
Architecture
Cool Women Who Design Structures
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
What style building do you live in? Is it a skyscraper, a Victorian home, or a modern building? In Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures, readers ages 9 to 12 examine the stories of women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time.
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Bare Architecture
A Schizoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which the architecture/body relation may be rethought...
by Felix Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in...
How Architecture Works
A Humanist's Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday...
The Architecture of Neoliberalism
How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive....