Art Architecture category: 42682 books
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...
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...
The House of Art
Modern Residences of Artists as the Subject and Space of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist’s residence as his own creation and as his product of a need to create which is unfulfilled in the painter’s, writer’s or composer’s actual field. This book discusses the most...
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
A History of Ecological Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly...
by Razak Basri
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, course: BSc. in Architecture, language: English, abstract: The case for System Building Method and aesthetics is often compelling. Building owners are often dissatisfied...
by Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.
Uniquely intersperses chapters devoted to major...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
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In this position paper, I will look at some of the important issues regarding the theorising of knowledge, concepts of knowledge, knowledge differentiation and the New Zealand Technology Curriculum. I will explore some ideas related to situated cognition and the construction of...
Surveillance, Architecture and Control
Discourses on Spatial Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections; Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (2017) and Surveillance, Race, Culture (2018), this book seeks to explore instances of surveillance...
Bejing Solarscape: A Visual Anthropology
Beijing's architecture through its relationship to the sky
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, , language: English, abstract: This book will be the first to offer an analysis of a city through its upper zone and the distinctive architectural features that make up this zone, at once...
Gli affreschi delle Palazze / The Palazze frescoes
Una storia tra Umbria e America / A Tale between Umbria and America
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Collana Chiaroscuro. Ricerche di storia e storia dell'arte diretta da Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri e Grazia Maria Fachechi n.1 Gli affreschi del monastero delle clarisse di S. Maria inter Angelos presso Spoleto, detto Le Palazze, staccati dalle pareti e ora conservati in vari musei, la maggior parte...
Vitruve et la tradition des traités d'architecture
Frabrica et ratiocinatio
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Les articles et essais qui composent cet ouvrage jalonnent plus de trente années de réflexion sur le De architectura de Vitruve, le seul traité sur l'art de bâtir qui ait échappé au naufrage de la littérature technique grecque et romaine. Dispersés dans diverses revues scientifiques ou actes...
Introducing Modernism
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht...
The Geometry of Love
Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A “delightful” tour of Rome’s St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building (The Christian Science Monitor).
In The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent “anthropologist of everyday...
by Joan Breton Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our...