Princeton Architectural Press: 166 books
Constructing a New Agenda
Architectural Theory 1993-2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects...
by Gerry Kopelow
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Architectural Photography the Digital Way teaches the reader how to take first-rate photographs of buildings, inside and out. Step-by-step instructions help you learn how to choose the right kind of camera, to use it effectively, and to enhance and manipulate your images. This complete course begins...
Posters for Change
Tear, Paste, Protest
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the world answered the call to create this collection...
Architectural Regionalism
Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented....
Architecture From the Outside In
Selected Essays by Robert Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Architecture and sociology have been fickle friends over the past half century: in the 1960s, architects relied on sociological data for design solutions and sociologists were courted by the most prestigious design schools to lecture and teach. Twenty years later, at the height of postmodernism, it...
by Edward R. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
The Architectural Detail is author Edward R. Ford's life's work, and this may be his most important book to date. Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted (and wildly different) definitions of detail, in an attempt to find, once and for all, the quintessential definition of detail in architecture.
From Autos to Architecture
Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass production and mechanical products so inspired the first generation of modern architects like Le Corbusier,...
Architectural Lighting
Designing With Light And Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts...
Old Buildings, New Designs
Architectural Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Increasingly, architects are hired to design new work for existing structures. Whether for reasons of preservation, sustainability, or cost-effectiveness, the movement to reuse buildings presents a variety of design challenges and opportunities. Old Buildings, New Designs is an Architecture Brief...
Palazzos of Power
Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility...
by Branko Mitrovi
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Philosophy for Architects-áis an engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions of interest to students of architectural theory. Topics include Aristotle's theories of visual imagination and their relevance to digital design, the problem of optical correction as explored by Plato,...
The Public Library
A Photographic Essay
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.
Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the...
The Ethical Architect
The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in serious decline for the last 25 years. In this important new book, Tom Spector points out the dilemmas of architectural practice and offers a theoretical and practical basis for an examination and transformation of the quandaries the...
Minka
My Farmhouse in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After musing offhandedly that he would like to one day have his own house in Japan, the family—unbeknownst to John—set out to grant his wish. They found Roderick...