Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Building the Nation
Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans...
The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its...
by Jonathan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider...
Architecture That Speaks
S. C. P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path,...
by Multi-authored
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The stunning architecture unveiled at World Expo 2010 Shanghai brings new atmosphere and style to the appearance of Shanghai. This vital book captures and presents more than 60 examples of architecture and design created and built for World Expo 2010 Shanghai in four chapters with content and design...
Exercises in Architecture
Learning to Think as an Architect
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it...
This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop...
The Hierarchy of Energy in Architecture
Emergy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The laws of thermodynamics—and their implications for architecture—have not been fully integrated into architectural design. Architecture and building science too often remain constrained by linear concepts and methodologies regarding energy that occlude significant quantities and qualities of...
Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies
Re-conceptualising design and making
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies explores how digital technologies are reshaping design and making in landscape architecture. While the potentials of digital technologies are well documented within landscape planning and visualisation, their application within design practice is far...
by Peter Šenk
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit, called the "capsule." Here it is presented with regard to the continuity...
by Allison Lee Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs,...
Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture
Tradition and Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects – Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki – Buntrock reveals the aims...
Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order
Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts;...
by Jaimini Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective...
Information Materials
Smart Materials for Adaptive Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book considers the potential of new, smart materials and their use in architecture. It begins with an overview of current global tendencies (technological, demographic, and socio-anthropological) and their relevance for architectural design. Expanding upon approaches for flexible design solutions...