Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Landscape as Infrastructure
A Base Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including...
The Architecture of Industry
Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of...
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture
A Visual Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and experience of landscapes. It explores aesthetic, spatial and experiential concepts by providing a structure through which landscapes...
The Maker
Crafting a Unique Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The act of creating the treasures you use to adorn your home takes the space to a deeper level; it goes beyond collecting, beyond decorating. The Maker is a gorgeously illustrated love letter to creating an intimate, well-designed, and handmade home. With sections on wall art, textiles, ceramics,...
Ecology and Design
Frameworks For Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for...
by Bindia Thapar
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Take a journey through Indian architecture from the dawn of civilization to the present with this colorful, attractive survey.
The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands...
Total Latin American Architecture
Libretto of Modern Reflections & Contemporary Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory.
The book intends to communicate a targeted objective,...
by Ana Miljacki
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The Optimum Imperative examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.
Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia’s entrance into World War...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing,...
by Theodore Andrea Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
The gargoyles and carvings of Notre Dame watch over Paris. Theodore Andrea Cook, art critic and historian muses about them in this short essay.
Cincinnati's Terrace Plaza Hotel
An Icon of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The Terrace Plaza Hotel heralded the post-World War II revitalization of Cincinnati's urban core. The complex stands at 15 West Sixth Street, between Vine and Race streets, in the heart of the central business district. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) between 1945 and 1946, the avant-garde...
Twentieth Century Limited
Industrial Design In America 1925-1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the late 1920's "streamlined" became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey...
by Sharon Leece
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Featuring over 300 beautiful photographs and extensive commentary, China Style blends the chic designs of modern China with the sensibilities of traditional Chinese art.
Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competing influences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palaces...
The Age of Glass
A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era.
The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension...