Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition
A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architecture
For more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture. Now, the book has been revised to address the latest developments...
by Maria Tsaneva
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Tsaneva contains 92 selected reproductions of paintings from Vasily Andreevich Tropinin. Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of...
by Nnamdi Elleh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela,...
by Nigel Coates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye
Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather...
Culture and Consensus (Routledge Revivals)
England, Art and Politics since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the...
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....
Saints, Signs, and Symbols
The Symbolic Language of Christian Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition enhances the well-loved and often-used earlier work as a guide to symbolism in Christian liturgical art, architecture, manuscripts, stained glass, and more. The new book is more heavily pictorial in an effort to provide an even stronger resource...
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...
by Maria Peitcheva
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876 –1942) was a 20th-century illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva and contributed to the Ballets Russes. Throughout his career, he was inspired by Slavic folklore.
Ivan Bilibin was born in a suburb of St. Petersburg. He studied in 1898 at...
Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades
State Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades.
Critique of theory and practice in architecture is combined here with ideas from...
by Vernon Hyde Minor
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical...
Pride in Modesty
Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects...
Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science
With Over 5,500 Illustrations
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Based on J. G. Heck's Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, published in German in the nineteenth century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information, covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture...
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”...