Architecture Vietnam Books

Reducere. "Poetic Significance" presents beautiful architectural photography, diagrams, and the history of the very rich and complex Vietnamese modernist arc...

In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruv...

Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and ...

Crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11: when architectural totems such as these are destroye...

This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the ...

Join the renowned Vietnamese-Australian chef as he embarks on a culinary and cultural journey through the country of his heritage to discover the p...

Reducere. For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on archi...

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Question...

"A frank, real, memoir" - ReviewerUncover the gritty, real-life story of a Vietnam combat veteran.With an engaging and authentic retelling of his e...

DescriptionArchitecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ​Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be ...

From Hitler's vast Chancellery to Saddam Hussein's Mother of all Battles mosque, from Olympic stadiums to Donald Trump's excesses, the author exami...

The Ten Books On ArchitectureBy Vitruvius PollioTranslated by Morris Hicky MorganWith Illustrations and Original Designs prepared under the Directi...

Contributor(s): Author: Rem KoolhaasAuthor: Denise Scott BrownAuthor: Yoshiharu TsukamotoSince the beginning of the century, the field of architect...

DescriptionThe objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies ...

Publisher: Trolley BooksAuthor(s): Philip Jones GriffithsIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 240 x ...

The planning, construction, and execution of the functional work of art that was the First Goetheanum was an endeavor that occupied Rudolf Steiner ...

DescriptionMoving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of traditio...

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive through increasing diversity in the profession and enhanced c...

Publisher: Stackpole BooksAuthor(s): Phil GioiaIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photog...

This unique volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. The author, John Hill, is the founder of the hugely influentia...

Looks at the history of architecture in London in key periods such as Roman times, Norman, Stuart, Victorian and Georgian periods to Art Deco, Post...

Publisher: Smithsonian BooksAuthor(s): Amy (Amy Ballard) BallardNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 182 x 241 x 20Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Rudolf Steiner gave thousands of lectures in his lifetime, usually without notes, and, with very few exceptions, with nothing more than chalk and a...

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard's new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Plantin...

Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition...

Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, ...and other such stories extends the exhibition's core que...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

Part of the }Short History{ series, this provides a concise and accessible history of one of the most important conflicts of the 20th century. Comp...

LIFE AND DEATH ON THE WATER . . . STORIES FROM THE MEN WHO FOUGHT THE VIETNAM WAR ON THE COAST AND IN THE MEKONG DELTA Developed specifically for t...

Publisher: ReadZone Books LimitedAuthor(s): Dee PhillipsNumber of pages: 48Collection: Yesterday's VoicePublication date: 2014Dimensions: 185 x 145...

Reducere. Description"Shelby Stanton has emerged as the leading military historian on the war in Southest Asia."COL. CHARLES B. MacDONALDAuthor of COMPANY CO...

If you want to know more about the buildings around you, this entertaining illustrated guide is a perfect introduction to architecture around the w...

Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narr...

Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architectu...

Reducere. ★ ``Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction.``* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of ...

Reducere. Mark M. Smith served two tours in Vietnam, 1967 to 1969, with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. In the 1970s and 80s, Mark wrote about his experience. ...

Description Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from th...

Reducere. The memoir of a young American soldier who became the most powerful man in a remote rural district of Vietnam In the spring of 1969, First Lieutena...

Reducere. Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as s...

Reducere. Historically, the Vietnam War is the longest, largest and most complex colonial wars. During the war, the North and South Vietnam fought each other...

"The sheer breadth of variety makes it the best kind of coffee table book, irresistible to leaf through and pore over at length." --National Post F...

Karen McCartney's bestselling books on modern Australian architecture now in a collectable single best-of edition with completely updated design.