Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Museum Skepticism
A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum during the French Revolution, its development has...
Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in...
Housing and Dwelling
Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture,...
Architecture at the End of the Earth
Photographing the Russian North
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and...
by Jan Krikke
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Digital Dragon: The Road to Nirvana runs through the land of Tao offers a new perspective on art and science in East and West. Starting in the 19th century, Western science and technology helped to modernize the East. Not widely known is that Far Eastern aesthetics played a crucial role in modernizing...
The Edifice Complex
How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
A provocative look at architecture-"exceptionally intelligent and original" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World)
Deyan Sudjic-"probably the most influential figure in architecture you've never heard of" - argues that architecture, far from being auteur art,...
Architecture and the Historical Imagination
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern...
by Jeremy Roe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture....
by Sacheverell Sitwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published London, 1924. Contents Include: The Serenade at Caserta "Les Indes Galantes" The King and the Nightingale Biography etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm...
Architecture and Armed Conflict
The Politics of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. By bringing together specialists from a range of relevant fields, and with knowledge of case studies across time and space, it provides the first synthetic...
by Richard Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant...
The Icon Project
Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service...
by Vladimir Lukonin, Anatoly Ivanov
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for...
Places of the Soul
Architecture and environmental design as a healing art
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
For Christopher Day, architecture isn’t just about the appearance of buildings but how they’re experienced as places to be in. Occupants’ experience can differ radically from designers’ intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential...