Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Engineering Nature
Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This third volume in the Consciousness Reframed series, documenting the very latest artistic and theoretical research in new media and telematics including aspects of artificial life, robotics, technoetics, performance, computer music and intelligent architecture. The contributions to this volume...
Automatic Architecture
Motivating Form after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
In the 1960s and ’70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving...
Sacred Light
Holy Places in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Renowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous European cathedrals such as...
Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio
The Only Primer You’ll Ever Need
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio helps you learn the art of designing a compelling and effective architectural portfolio. Margaret Fletcher categorizes the architectural portfolio design process into a step-by-step method that you can manage and understand. The full-color book includes 400 portfolio...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
This book examines the interaction between art, design, technology and the social sciences. It features 56 papers that were presented at the International Symposium on Research of Arts, Design and Humanities, ISRADH 2014, held at Sutera Harbour Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Complete with...
Subnature
Architecture's Other Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today's discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the...
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
a revised and expanded edition of Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin’s Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings...
The Complete Pattern Directory
1500 Designs from All Ages and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
An essential resource for any designer, crafter, artist, or historian, THE COMPLETE PATTERN DIRECTORY is the most comprehensive, practical, and beautiful directory of patterns throughout history, covering all periods, styles, and cultures.
Throughout history, patterns have come in countless...
The De-Caff Camino
A 500 Mile Cycling Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Charlies introduction to his blog put it best: A lifetime in marketing actually equips a man for very little... Now pushing 58, I realise with some horror that it is a full half century since I last took cycling remotely seriously. If this trip does not go well, I might leave it as long until my next...
by Thomas Barrie
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the...
by Percy Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Few countries possess a richer architectural heritage than India, a country whose buildings are rooted in history, culture, and religion. As a results of India's global discourse with other regions around the world, there have been many influences that have been assimilated into its architecture,...
Designing With Light
The Art, Science and Practice of Architectural Lighting Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
A comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of lighting design
Designing With Light: The Art, Science, and Practice of Architectural Lighting Design is a comprehensive introduction to the intelligent use of lighting to define and enhance a space. The book explores all aspects of...
Poland and Artistic Culture of Western Europe
14 th 20 th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In ten studies by Polish authors this book offers an overview of Polish artistic culture and its relation to Western European culture. Thematically, it ranges from fine arts, sculpture and architecture to music, drama and theatre, spanning seven centuries of European artistic culture. While forming...
by Matthew Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people...