Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis
Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice...
The Art of City Sketching
A Field Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides you through the laborious and sometimes complex process of sketching what you see in the built environment so that you can learn to draw what you imagine. Illustrated with hundreds of drawings by students and professionals of cityscapes around Europe...
Architecture
The Subject is Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object at its centre: the building. Architectural...
Building Yanhuitlan
Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing...
by Vincent Arthur Smith
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Si le « palais de l’amour » autrement connu sous le nom de Taj Mahal, est considéré comme l’emblème de l’art de l’inde, il n’en est pas pour autant l’unique représentant. Caractéristique par son élégance, sa splendeur et ses influences perses et européennes, l’art de l’inde se manifeste aussi bien dans l’architecture, la peinture que dans les arts décoratifs.
by Vincent Arthur Smith
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Si le « palais de l’amour » autrement connu sous le nom de Taj Mahal, est considéré comme l’emblème de l’art de l’inde, il n’en est pas pour autant l’unique représentant. Caractéristique par son élégance, sa splendeur et ses influences perses et européennes, l’art de l’inde se manifeste aussi bien dans l’architecture, la peinture que dans les arts décoratifs.
Shaping Seattle Architecture
A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region’s built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition updates and expands the original with new information...
by John Shannon Hendrix, Lorens Eyan Holm
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series...
Steel
A Design, Cultural and Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level – in terms of both what it has been...
Deliciae Fictiles IV
Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
In Ancient Italy, temples were adorned with full-figure architectural terracotta images such as acroteria, statuary groups and high reliefs. These terracottas mostly show complex scenes of gods and heroes, legendary battles and mythical animals, as well as large volutes and palmettes. The fourth edition...
Ruskin's Artists
Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insights into both his writings and the visual economy of the Victorian world. Each essay examines Ruskin's relationship with an individual artist or a distinct...
Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015
From Colonial to Global
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global – the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture. The book reveals hardships the city encountered in the 1950s and the glamour enjoyed in the 1980s. It depicts the public and private developments, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. Its pre-historic heritage not only tells the story of man's origin and evolution but has also contributed to the understanding of the earth's history: fossils and artefacts spanning over 27 million years have been discovered and conserved...
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike.
Here,...