Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Arts de la Perse (Les Grands Articles)
(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Il reste toujours difficile de se faire une image précise de ce que furent la civilisation séleucide et surtout celle des Parthes en Iran même ; il n'y existe guère de fouilles de grande envergure sur un site parthe ; les documents demeurent rares et sont ordinairement mal datés. L'art parthe,...
Wide Awake in Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftsmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the...
by Antoni Puigverd
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2015
"Muchos de los textos de este libro son originales, aunque otros provienen de mis artículos. Purgados, ciertamente, de su contingencia periodística. Recortados, reescritos, restaurados. Purgados de toda alusión a los calendarios originales. Reelaborados pensando en la coherencia, aunque fragmentaria,...
On Stage
The theatrical dimension of video image
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre – stage, décor, space, gaze and more – have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions of theatre both as points of reference and as a prism through which video installation can be approached, Roman concentrates...
D'ARS magazine n° 219
Contemporary arts and cultures
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2015
D’ARS Magazine è una collana in formato ePub che dal 2014 offre al pubblico una raccolta di articoli tratti da D’ARS - periodico di arti e culture contemporanee in due lingue (italiano e inglese).
Diretto da Cristina Trivellin, D’ARS propone un approccio sincretico alle arti e alle culture...
by William N. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
In the many centuries preceding Western contact, a richly diverse and innovative architectural tradition reached maturity in the western Pacific. Prehistoric Architecture in Micronesia, the first modern study of this remarkable work, reveals that there is no such thing as primitive architecture but only...
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers
Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have...
The Inka Empire
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in...
The Business of Architecture
Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Business of Architecture is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect. Written by successful architects for architects everywhere, this book shows the architecture industry from a corporate business perspective, refining the approach to architecture...
Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North
Regional Schools and Traditions (14th - 19th centuries)
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour of the country’s capital cities, this unique phenomenon is regarded as the most distinctive national...
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,...
Isa Genzken
Sculpture as World Receiver
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken’s tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span...
Knowledge collaboration design
Theory techniques and applications for collaboration in architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
“...The purpose of this book is to illustrate the result of a many-year-long research effort. We have sought to separate the description of the theoretical part from that of its application. The result is a work organized in five parts, corresponding to the content we indicated above: the first...