Art Architecture category: 42682 books
by Akihiko Seki, Elizabeth Heilman Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
With over 300 gorgeous photographs, this book is an exploration of Asia's most stunning hotels and resorts.
From a stilled villa above a blue lagoon in the Maldives and a remote yoga resort in the hills of Bhutan to serene enclaves in the bustling cities of Dubai and Bangkok, Asia offers an...
Biographies & Space
Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships.
Biographical methods of historical...
Persian Gardens and Pavilions
Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah 'Abbas's palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae in the sixth century BC. Here, Mohammad Gharipour places both the garden...
by Benjamin H. Bratton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
What is the new normal? Something has shifted, it seems. We are making new worlds faster than we can keep track of them, and the pace is unlikely to slow. If our technologies have advanced beyond our ability to conceptualize their implications, such gaps can be perilous. In response, one impulse is to...
by George Elvin
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world’s leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource. Post-Petroleum Design brings them together for the first time.
Readers will be introduced to the...
Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture
Praxis Reloaded
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities...
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress
As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories...
Landscape Graphics
Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear...
City Choreographer
Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from...
Design and Ethics
Reflections on Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.
Approaches...
by Kingston Heath
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international...
Corrections and Collections
Architectures for Art and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment.
Author...
by Jack Freiberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The Tempietto, the embodiment of the Renaissance mastery of classical architecture and its Christian reinvention, was also the pre-eminent commission of the Catholic kings, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile, in papal Rome. This groundbreaking book situates Bramante's time-honored memorial...
Architecture Post Mortem
The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but...