Architecture category: 43274 books
Sanctioning Modernism
Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction—and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture...
by Charles Rushing
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Modern Architecture began with the advent of electric power; once harnessed the power of electricity produced steel for structure, drives to operate elevators, and even telephones to comunicate specifications instantly. With electric power modern architecture was free to separate from classical architecture...
by Ralph Adams Cram
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
"The best book on Japanese architecture ever produced by a Westerner." —The American Architect
Japanese architecture is undoubtedly less well known and less appreciated than the architecture of any other civilized nation. Not only this, but it is almost universally misjudged, and...
Feng Shui for Architecture
How to Design, Build and Remodel to Create a Healthy and Serene Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Feng Shui for Architecture is an easy-to-use manual to incorporate Scientific Feng Shui into the design, renovation, and decorating of your home. The final goal is to support your well-being, as well as your family's, in all aspects of life. It is also particularly useful during a real estate pre-acquisition...
by John Shannon Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form...
by Amir H. Ameri
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions, the development of their architecture,...
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture....
The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture
A Complete Guide to Starting and Running Your Own Firm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
The all-inclusive reference to starting and operating a landscape architecture firm
The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture, Second Edition is completely revised to keep up with the latest developments driving the day-to-day operation of a successful private-practice landscape architecture...
by Jadwiga Krupinska
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
It's not just you. Every architecture student is initially confused by architecture school - an education so different that it doesn't compare to anything else. A student’s joy at being chosen in stiff competition with many other applicants can turn to doubt when he or she struggles to understand...
Architecture
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The origins and nature of architecture; The formative influence of architectural forms; The history of architecture in the light of mankind's spiritual evolution; A new architecture as a means of uniting with spiritual forces; Art and architecture as manifestations of spiritual realities; Metamorphosis...
by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1964
A classic examination of superb design through the centuries.
Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence*—*ranging from teacups, riding boots,...
On Architecture
Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best known critics in the United States. Her brilliance over so many years is unmatched, and her range has always...
Attunement
Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.
Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability....
Architecture in Formation
On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing...