Architecture category: 43274 books
by Carlo Ratti
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
A provocative look at the architecture of the future and the challenges of learning from the past
Open Source Architecture is a visionary manifesto for the architecture of tomorrow that argues for a paradigm shift from architecture as a means of supporting the ego-fueled grand visions of “starchitects”...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Information architecture has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s and earlier conceptions of the world and the internet being different and separate have given way to a much more complex scenario in the present day. In the post-digital world that we now inhabit the digital and the physical blend...
Beautiful Architecture
Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable...
The Return of Sacred Architecture
The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture
• Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity’s greatest civilizations
•...
Occupying Architecture
Between the Architect and the User
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Occupying Architecture focuses on the importance of the user of architecture. It emphasises the cross-currents between design, theory and use, and the need for a wider cross-cultural approach to architecture. Beginning with the architect, the book proceeds to explore models for architectural practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
In this volume, noted Columbia University Professor of Architecture Cyril M. Harris offers a unique tour through the entire history of architecture: an extraordinary compendium of clear, concise definitions for over 5,000 important terms. This thoroughly accurate and comprehensive gathering of architectural...
Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest
Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia, and ending with the...
Moderns Abroad
Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory,...
From Autos to Architecture
Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass production and mechanical products so inspired the first generation of modern architects like Le Corbusier,...
The Efficacy of Architecture
Political Contestation and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the ‘starchitecture’ system and the focus on aesthetic innovation, a growing number of architects, emboldened by the 2007–8 economic crisis, have staged...
Architecture History and Theory in Reverse
From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book looks at architecture history in reverse, in order to follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas alter the course of civilization in general and the discipline of architecture in particular. Part I begins with present-day attitudes about architecture and traces them back...
What Architecture Means
Connecting Ideas and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing...
Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture
Analytical Therapy for the Next Generation of Passive Sustainable Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture is a guide to innovative architectural design for architects, engineers and other specialists who are working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural concepts.
Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture has three parts:
• Part I focuses on the relationship...
Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture
Academia Eolia Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science.
One of the principle goals of Renaissance architects was...