Art Architecture category: 42682 books
The Art of the Travel Sketch
Dancing Lessons from God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Art of the Travel Sketch is a compilation of drawings by architect James Warfield. Inspired by American author Kurt Vonnegut’s observation that “peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God,” Warfield has devoted a lifetime of world travel and architectural research to record in...
Byzantine Images and their Afterlives
Essays in Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide scope of Annemarie Weyl Carr's interests and the equally wide impact of her work. The concepts linking the essays include the examination of form and meaning, the relationship between original and copy, and reception and cultural identity...
19th-Century Art
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Munch’s The Scream. Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Rodin’s The Thinker. Monet’s Water Lilies. Constable’s landscapes. The 19th century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them in an instant. At the time, however, their avant-garde nature was...
New Japan Architecture
Recent Works by the World's Leading Architects
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.
The past five years are widely consider to have been the most innovative period in contemporary Japanese design history. The...
Pioneers of Modern Design
From William Morris to Walter Gropius
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991
One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing...
The Art of Setting Stones
& Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect...
Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing
Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.
Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many...
by Dragica Potocnjak, Nicola Kirkham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation. Taking the position that a culture signifies a way of life, it asks how cultural frameworks inform patterns of settlement, and how the built environment, as process and design, conditions cultural production and reception....
O Glorious City
A Love Letter to San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
O Glorious City is an exuberant love letter to San Francisco from Jeremy Fish, a beloved artist who enjoys a massive fan base for his edgy artwork. When Fish was invited to create 100 new works of art in honor of City Hall's 100th birthday, he moved his studio into a City Hall office to become the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design considers the design, not only of artifacts, but of structures, systems, and interactions that bear our decisions and identities in the context of sustaining our shared planet. In addressing issues of design for global impact, behavior change, systems...
by Francis D. K. Ching, James F. Eckler
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
A survey of the built environment distills the work of legendary author and illustrator Francis D. K. Ching into a single volume
Introduction to Architecture presents the essential texts and drawings of Francis D. K. Ching for those new to architecture and design. With his typical highly graphic...
The Egyptian Revival
Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his...
by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2016
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety of different themes and domains, including architecture,...