Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics
Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky,...
The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor
Montreal's Square Mile and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects. In The Architecture of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture. Cities have been substantially affected by transnational migration but the physical manifestations of migration in architecture – and its effect on streetscape, neighbourhood and city –...
The Architecture of Ruins
Designs on the Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture’s relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities...
Architecture in Black
Theory, Space and Appearance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques...
by Renée Tobe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological...
by Javier Senosiain
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Bio-Architecture studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives, and presents a great part of the knowledge that gives origin and shape to built form.
Organic architecture offers a design approach arising from natural principles, bringing...
Architecture's Evil Empire?
The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
From Chicago to Toronto to Shanghai, cities around the world have sprouted “iconic” buildings by celebrity architects like Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind that compete for attention both on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years, criticism of these extreme “gestural” structures,...
by Colin Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
'A must-read for practitioners, teachers and others interested in or working with energy use in the built environment, including a delightful set of examples' Ann Grete Hestnes, former President of the International Solar Energy Society Solar Architecture in Cool Climates is an invaluable primer on...
Architecture, Media, and Memory
Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath – from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond.
Yet...
La controverse Learning from Las Vegas
Un retour sur l'émergence du postmodernisme en architecture
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Manifeste sur le postmodernisme architectural américainLa publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne...
Elemental Architecture
Temperaments of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures, it incorporates a broader framework of considerations, including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental...
An Architecture Manifesto
Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. This is the wrong...