Art Architecture category: 42682 books
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture
Air, Comfort and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air,...
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014
La période de la Renaissance débute en Italie à la fin du XIVe siècle et s’étend sur tout le continent européen jusqu’à la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. La redécouverte des splendeurs de la Grèce et de la Rome antique marque les débuts d’une « renaissance » des arts, en rupture...
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Issue de la révolution industrielle, l’usine a longtemps été considérée comme un « monstre » de fer, soumettant l’être humain au collectif dans un acte de déshumanisation à la chaîne au profit de l’objet. Détournée aujourd’hui de son côté purement fonctionnel, pour lequel elle...
Fantasy Fashion Art Studio
Creating Romantic Characters, Clothing and Costumes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Live out all your fashion fantasies!
Flower fairies, water spirits, enchanted forests, Victorian ladies and more! Immerse yourself in timeless stories inspired by nature, myths, legends and literature!
With Fantasy Fashion Art Studio, you'll learn the basics for sketching and watercolor painting;...
Ink and Light
The Influence of Claude Lorrain's Etchings on England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), an eminent seventeenth-century landscape painter, was an equally talented graphic artist. Lorrain's etchings match the mastery and execution of his paintings and yet are largely unrecognized by contemporary collectors and art historians. Andrew Brink, an astute and discriminating...
Designs on Democracy
Architecture and Design in Scotland Post Devolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Whilst there are some studies of architecture in Scotland post-devolution, writings on design are largely non-existent. Designs on Democracy seeks to fill that gap and ranges over the debates concerning architecture, urbanism, design and the Creative and Cultural Industries and the policies, people and...
Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation
Suiseki and its Use with Bonsai
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation is an exploration into the art of suiseki—small, naturally formed stones selected for their shape, balance, simplicity and tranquility.
Written by two leading experts in the field of Japanese gardening and art, this concise introduction offers aesthetic...
Kentucky by Design
The Decorative Arts and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project -- the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American style...
The Second Digital Turn
Design Beyond Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the...
by Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Outlandia is an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, situated in Glen Nevis, opposite Ben Nevis. It is performative architecture that immerses its occupants in a particular...
Border Spaces
Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense region and visually provocative margin—the southwestern United States and northern Mexico—take center stage. From the borderlands perspective, the...
by Julie Pincus, Nichole Christian
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Detroit’s unique and partly abandoned cityscape has scarred its image around the world for decades. But in the last several years journalists have begun to view the city through a different lens, focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and adding a...
Rebuilding Babel
Modern Architecture and Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel – built, so the story goes, by people united by one language...
by Marion Harney
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste' created private resonances,...