Art Architecture category: 42682 books
by David Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
As a formative exemplar of early architectural modernism, Bruno Taut’s seminal exhibition pavilion the Glashaus (literally translated Glasshouse) is logically part of the important debate of rethinking the origins of modernism. However, the historical record of Bruno Taut’s Glashaus has been primarily...
Why Old Places Matter
How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives, they don’t have the words to express why. This book brings these ideas together in evocative language and with illustrative...
by Phil M. Riley, Frank Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Salem, Massachusetts, has long been considered the center of New England's Colonial architecture, a storehouse of well-preserved American antiquities. This profusely illustrated study, first published in 1919, represents the first complete, chronological survey of Colonial architecture in Salem —...
The Environments of Architecture
Environmental Design in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture.
The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of...
Riga - Baltic Summer City
Baltic Summer, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
The wonders of Riga are revealed in the latest photo book by Giorgio di Bon. Riga is the largest of the Baltic capitals. Like the other Baltic capitals, the old town has been declared a UNESCO Heritage Site.
Images capture a city at the height of summer. The Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture...
Architecture of Resistance
Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents...
Architecture Beyond Criticism
Expert Judgment and Performance Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works.
As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide, from environmental sustainability...
by Andrew Herscher
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination...
Architecture and Justice
Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated...
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure
Making and Using the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before...
Ecology for architecture
architectural, urban and environmental planning elements
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This book analyzes themes and concepts of environmental design from a composition stand point. A selection of case studies from a larger regional scale to the small and local scale demonstrates how architectural and urban design works with different combinations of environmental elements, by particular...
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism
Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben’s politics, which can affect change in current architectural...
by Albena Yaneva
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning? How can we prevent these abstractions from continuing to blind architectural theory? What is...
The Eagle Has Two Faces
Journeys Through Byzantine Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The Double Headed Eagle, the symbol of the Late Byzantine Empire, speaks eloquently to the worldview of the Byzantines, whose Empire looked both to the East and to the West, but never wasor isreally part of either. At its apogee, the Byzantine Empire was the highest civilization in Europethe Center....