Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Kyoto Gardens
Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener's Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens."
—HGTV Gardens
Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy....
Key Modern Architects
50 Short Histories of Modern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing...
Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea
An In-visible Colony, 1890-1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea during the Italian colonial period spanning from 1890-1941. Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, the book examines...
by Daniel Chavkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 2008, Daniel Chavkin began photographing some of the more discreet and off-the-beaten-path midcentury modern homes and buildings in the Palm Springs area. These included secret gems created by such famous modernist architects as William Cody and John Porter Clark, as well as others by relatively...
Mamluk History through Architecture
Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval architectural traditions, Mamluk architecture is actually a key to the social history of the period. Analysing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication...
The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople
The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which...
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959
Messages of Peace, Images of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related...
The Break with the Past
Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 – 1925
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations continue to influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, thus making a comprehensive study of the relationship between individual war experience...
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture
Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military technologies,...
Australian lectures
Miegunyah lectures 2010 at The University of Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
This book contains the two formal lectures delivered by the authors at the University of Melbourne as part of the 2010 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Program, and an anthology of essays written during the last ten years. These writings formed the basis for the academic activities undertaken...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively...
by Darren Deane, Sarah Butler
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood. However, the most powerful collective representation of a nation is through its architecture and how that architecture engages the global arena...
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2015
eBook Interactivo. Nos encontramos ante un producto artístico plenamente oriental. El problema de que los árabes no fueran creadores de formas artísticas propias no resta mérito alguno a su labor. Las soluciones arquitectónicas por ellos adoptadas habían sido empleadas por persas y bizantinos...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The Interior Architecture Theory Reader presents a global compilation that collectively and specifically defines interior architecture. Diverse views and comparative resources for interior architecture students, educators, scholars, and practitioners are needed to develop a proper canon for this...