Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Rethinking Aesthetics
The Role of Body in Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday...
Tropical Living
Contemporary Dream Houses in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This tropical design book showcases the innovative interior designs and architecture of The Philippines most luxurious homes.
Start with a warm tropical climate. Add an abundance of exotic natural building material. And then let the cross currents of Asian design and aesthetics create a rich...
by Cate Bramble
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Cate Bramble has devoted her career to highlighting the differences between 'feng shui-lite' as a fashionable pursuit in contrast to the original intentions of the Chinese masters. Here she presents the authentic principles in a technical, no-nonsense pocket book specifically for architects.
As...
by Oliver Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This is the first book published on Harold Caparn. It traces his education in horticulture and architecture in England and in Paris. It follows him to America in 1889 and his work for a nurseryman and landscape gardener in Pittsburgh. It describes the major works he accomplished from his own solo office...
by Virag Molnar
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent.
Examining...
The Solar House
Passive Heating and Cooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really...
Her Space, Her Story
Exploring the Stepwells of Gujarat
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A fascinating, multi-disciplinary exploration of water, wells and women’s spaces in Gujarat. Centuries ago, in the arid landscape of Gujarat, where water is scarce and rains scanty, stepwells sustained life and enabled crops to flourish. Women played a major role in the construction and patronage of...
by Elizabeth V. Reyes
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Explore the latest developments in Filipino architecture and interior design.
With over 350 color photographs, as well as numerous architectural plans, 25 Tropical Houses in the Philippines presents, for both the layman and the professional, new space concepts for contemporary lifestyles and...
Transcultural Cities
Border-Crossing and Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental...
Commemorating and Forgetting
Challenges for the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The...
Living Architecture
Green Roofs and Walls
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world are becoming denser, with greater built form resulting in more hard surfaces...
Advancing Wood Architecture
A Computational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In light of environmental challenges architecture is facing, wood is no longer regarded as outmoded, nostalgic, and rooted in the past, but increasingly recognized as one of the most promising building materials for the future. Recent years have seen unprecedented innovation of new technologies for...
by Munir Hamad
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book’s figures. Autodesk Revit 2019 Architecture...
The Grammar of Ornament
A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The complete and unabridged full-color edition
First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly...