Architecture category: 43274 books
by Arshad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Computer Architecture Multiple Choice Questions and Answers pdf: MCQs, Quizzes & Practice Tests. Computer architecture quiz questions and answers pdf with practice tests for online exam prep and job interview prep. Computer architecture study guide with questions and answers about assessing computer...
by Ivanka Menken
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Learn how to find your own way out of the current general market confusion about Enterprise Architecture. Set your own direction for your projects and not be confused by Reference Models, Enterprise Architecture tools, EA Methods and especially Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
This Certification...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 1 Geo-Architecture Wandering in the Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book analyzes forms of architectures within the frame concept of geo-architecture, and looks into the interaction of architecture and its environment. It starts by discussing the collisions between architecture and geography, humanity, as well as other architectures and reflects on the ancient...
by R.E Meugens
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The classic introduction to what architecture is; materials employed and definition of distinctive features of the main styles. With 86 drawings it explains in depth: -Egyptian, Asiatic, and early American architecture -Greek architecture -Roman architecture -Early Christian architecture...
by Benjamin S. Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us. The role architecture plays in shaping buildings and societies has occupied historians for centuries. Likewise, the cultural, economic, and political importance of sport is the...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 4 Symbolism and the Language of Geo-Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the symbolic characters of architectures. It proves that the relationship between architecture and geography is not merely an embodiment of physical and functional demands but rather a formal expression of the materialization of culture....
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 3 Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book explores the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the ways architectures are related to the local geography, including mingling or contrasting with surrounding landscape, adapting to mountainous or aquatic terrain, and selection of construction materials. Architectures build with such...
The Greening of Architecture
A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century. This text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 2 Geo-Architecture Inhabiting the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture from the perspective of functions of architectures by analyzing the cases of traditional Chinese houses and tombs as well as palaces and places of worship. Houses and tombs, the ‘Yang’ dwellings and ‘Yin’ dwellings of human beings in traditional...
by Sylvia Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy...
Built upon Love
Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society.
The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing...
by Francis D. K. Ching, James F. Eckler
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
A survey of the built environment distills the work of legendary author and illustrator Francis D. K. Ching into a single volume
Introduction to Architecture presents the essential texts and drawings of Francis D. K. Ching for those new to architecture and design. With his typical highly graphic...
Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture
Praxis Reloaded
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities...
Architecture Post Mortem
The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but...