Architecture category: 43274 books
Tropical Home
Inspirational Design Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This Asian interior design and architecture book showcases the best luxury homes and interior spaces of the Pacific region.
Asia has emerged in the last couple of decades as the global leader in tropical villa design. With innovative indoor/outdoor architecture engineered to facilitate relaxed,...
Japan Modern
New Ideas for Contemporary Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This Japanese design book, featuring over 200 stunning photographs, captures the delightful, modern style of the Japanese home.
Japan has always intrigued the world with its deceptively simple blending of architecture, landscape and design. Zen temples, the famous tea ceremony, formal gardens,...
Houses and Gardens of Kyoto
Revised with a new foreword by Matthew Stavros
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Houses and Gardens of Kyoto presents over 500 photos of the most excellent examples of traditional Japanese architecture from every significant historical period in this new edition of a favorite classic.
Kyoto, considered the quintessential birthplace of Japanese culture, has survived centuries...
by Kim Inglis, Pia Marie Molbech
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Tropical Hotels showcases the best boutique hotels and resorts in Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
Southeast Asia is renowned the world over for its superb standards of resort architecture, hotel service and interior design and this book beautifully traces the development of today's...
by H. W. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Including a wealth of practical information and step-by-step instructions concerning architectural drawing, this profusely illustrated handbook will be of considerable utility to illustrators, designers, architects, and artists alike. Contents include: "The Aim", "Visit to an Ideal...
The Possibility of (an) Architecture
Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes...
Artificial Love
A Story of Machines and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2003
Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him.
The Myth of the Orient
Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular smoking room inspired...
by Amie Jane Leavitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Careers in technical education (CTE), also known as vo-tech careers, are believed to be among the best options for increasing students’ future earning power. Architecture and construction are areas that fall clearly within the CTE/vo-tech category. This volume prepares young people who are interested...
by Ann Zimmerman, Scot Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Decidedly not your grandparents’ beach cottage . . .
The Coastal Cottage ushers you into summer with its quintessential exteriors and sunbathed interiors. Ann and Scot Zimmerman take the reader on tours of fourteen cottage homes along America’s coastal waterways, from the mid-Atlantic and...
An Introduction to Architectural Theory
1968 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as...
Cities Interrupted
Visual Culture and Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.
Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha,...
The Dissertation
A Guide for Architecture Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course. This classic text provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and what the major pitfalls are.
This is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture...
by Rachel Preston Prinz
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Author Rachel Preston Prinz and contributing authors discuss the history, research, design issues, and evolution of Earthships, drawing on the knowledge of thousands of builders, craftsmen, and designers who have mastered the art of earth sheltering. Then, they walk readers step by step through design,...