Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Turkey
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Turkey: Modern Architectures in History offers a journey through the iconic buildings of Turkey that begins with the end of World War I, when the new Turkish Republic was born out of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, includes its democratization in the midst of the Cold War’s competing ideologies,...
Screen of Kings
Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study...
The Innovative Use of Materials in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
History, Theory and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book is about materials. The fundamental properties and technical aspects are reviewed within a context of a material’s history, the theories of its meaning and making, and its use. Information about the sustainability aspects of each material is included (as a critical necessity in construction)....
Arts and Crafts Architecture
History and Heritage in New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has...
Inside Smartgeometry
Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Smartgeometry (SG) is a key influence on the architectural community who explore creative computational methods for the design of buildings. An informal international network of practitioners and researchers, the group meets annually to experiment with new technologies and collaborate to develop digital...
Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts
Art, Migrations, Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The extraordinary Watts Towers were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, a highly remarkable Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do “something big.” Now a National Historic Landmark and internationally renowned destination, the Watts...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
by Axel Stelter
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 2,0, University of California, Berkeley , 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Germany's biggest island Rügen offers beautiful landscapes with endless beaches and forests. Just...
Miracle Mile in Los Angeles
History and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The world-famous Miracle Mile in Los Angeles was shaped into a great commercial and cultural district by the city's tremendous urban expansion in the early twentieth century. Its origins along Wilshire Boulevard are directly related to the twin LA booms in auto travel and real estate ventures. Once the...
Scale
Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. ‘To build in scale’ is an aspiration...
Network Practices
New Strategies in Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, architecture's tie to the built world itself have evaporated in the face of our new networked society. Form is now conceptualized...
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, ...etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and...
Relational Architectural Ecologies
Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the ‘habitats’, ‘natural milieus’,...
by Élie Faure
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Texte révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Élie Faure. Élie Faure a aimé Charlie Chaplin dès son premier film. Mêlé aux aux foules anonymes du début du cinéma, il a vibré comme il fallait, ri quand il le fallait, comme tout le monde. Critique d'art clairvoyant et conscient de sa satisfaction,...