Art Architecture category: 42682 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately,...
Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires
Encounters and Confluences
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context...
by Weiwei Ai
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists...
Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas
Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the...
Gothic Ornament
Architectural Motifs from York Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
These royalty-free motifs feature exquisite specimens of the sculptured ornaments from northern Europe's largest medieval cathedral. York Cathedral features soaring Gothic architecture and a vast interior, parts of which date back to the 13th century. Reproduced from a rare 18th-century volume, this compilation consists of 175 illustrations, selected from throughout the building.
Basic Perspective Drawing
A Visual Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The best-selling guide…now completely updated to include online tutorials!
Basic Perspective Drawing introduces students, both those in formal design courses and self-learners, to the basic principles and techniques of perspective drawing. Clear and accessible illustrations show how to construct...
Traditional Chinese Architecture
Twelve Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture
Translated by Alexandra Harrer.
Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every period...
Art's principles
50 years of hard-learned lessons in building a world-class professional services firm
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Art's Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies...
Cities Surround The Countryside
Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin...
The Fountains of Rome
Selected Plates from the Classic "Le Fontane di Roma," 1660-1675
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Dating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full-page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture,...
Losing Site
Architecture, Memory and Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
As Ruskin suggests in his Seven Lamps of Architecture: "We may live without [architecture], and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her." We remember best when we experience an event in a place. But what happens when we leave that place, or that place no longer exists? This...
Laboratory Lifestyles
The Construction of Scientific Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....
Flow
Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between...
by Salvatore Settis
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
A chilling account of the slow agony of Venice as illustrative of a global consumerist epidemic. Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation."-Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtWhat is Venice worth? To whom does this...