Art Architecture category: 42682 books
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...
Mediated Messages
Periodicals, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Mediated Messages presents a collection of original writing exploring the role played by the media in the development of postmodern architecture in the 1970s and 80s.
The book's twelve chapters and case-studies examine a range of contemporary periodicals and exhibitions to explore their role...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from...
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,...
Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures
Australia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning...
Man in the Place of the Gods
What Cities Mean
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
WHO SAYS SECULAR PEOPLE CANT BE SPIRITUAL? What do cities mean to you? Excitement? Dreams and goals? Glamor? Escape? Danger? Romance? Artistically planned parks, zoos and museums? Shopping? Ohmygod skyscrapers and bridges? Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue? From Aristotle to Ayn Rand, writers have analyzed...
Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015
Developments and Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. The book introduces the diversity of Japanese...
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,...
Tastemaker
Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of “good design” and “better...
by lasantabarbara
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
ATRIA. Architecture, expresses not only the atmosphere, but the relationship. A rarefied static reality where walls are covered with water containers (ice-maker bags). This architecture extends time, the demolition of the hope that the waiting modify everyday life, it will not happen.
They are forced...
The Detroit Public Library
An American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit — an important landmark as well as a significant monument serving generations of Detroiters. The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic was born out of “Discover the Wonders,” an art...
Mike Kelley
Educational Complex
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
An illustrated examination of a 1995 work by Mike Kelley that marked a significant change in his work.
One of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of innovative work mining American popular culture as well as modernist and postmodernist art—relentless...