Art Architecture category: 42682 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture...
Design Strategies in Architecture
An Approach to the Analysis of Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Modern architecture has become extremely complex and its study has been made more difficult by changes in fashion and a proliferation of design modes. In this book, Geoffrey Baker develops a methodology for design analysis that reveals the underlying organisation of buildings.
Part One explains the...
by Madeline Gins, Shusaku Arakawa
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another.
This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural...
Architecture and the Turkish City
An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbul's modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gül highlights the dynamics of political and social...
Image, Text, Architecture
The Utopics of the Architectural Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The...
Color, Facture, Art and Design
Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Color, Facture, Art and Design seeks to understand art and design from the aspect of materials, construction and the senses. It contends that this element is omitted from art and design theory as a product of the division of labour and alienation as it operates within the realms of theory and art history.It...
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III
From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
An invaluable guide to lives and work of Frank Gehry, Atoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and other important figures of 20th and 21st century architecture.
Martin Filler's "contribution to both architecture criticism and general readers' understanding is invaluable,"...
Shaping the American Interior
Structures, Contexts and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870 until 1960. Its interdisciplinary approach encompasses a broad range of people, contexts, and practices,...
Art and Archaeology
Collaborations, Conversations, Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeological practitioners. Departing from the proceedings of the Sixth World Archaeological Congress’s ‘Archaeologies of Art’ theme and Ábhar agus Meon exhibitions,...
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
***WINNER OF A NAUTILUS 2018 SILVER MEDAL BOOK AWARD***
Innovations in Behavioural Health Architecture is the most comprehensive book written on this topic in more than 40 years. It examines the ways in which healthcare architecture can contribute, as a highly valued informational and reference...
The Art of Memory
Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the look and feel of cemeteries in the United States changed dramatically, from utilitarian burial grounds to the serene parklike spaces that we know today. The so-called park cemetery was innovative not only for its distinctive landscape architecture...
Classical Art
A Life History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated...
by Jane Portal
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Nuclear bombs and geopolitical controversy are often the first things associated with North Korea and its volatile leader Kim Jong-II. Yet behind the secretive curtain of this isolated nation also lies a little-known and slowly expanding world of art.
Art Under Control in North Korea is the...
by Albert Jaquemart
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From the Middle Ages to contemporary times, decorative art can be defi ned by the artistic materials, designs and objects used in both architecture and interior design. Similar to many art forms decorative art continues to evolve, originating with pieces as simple as a chair, noted for its utility,...