Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings, Paperback - Nathaniel Coleman

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration...

An explanation of the meaning of architecture and how to understand the quality and meaning to be found in architectural images.Illustrations: clr ...

DescriptionThe Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Gr...

Reducere. This book is a collection of independently written essays about the Entheological Paradigm by Martin W. Ball, which was first articulated in his pr...

"Experience" is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, "the personal is...

Cross sections of famous buildings including the pyramids and the Sydney Opera House from }Incredible Explosions{ illustrator Stephen Biesty are co...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Andrej RadmanIllustration(s): 6 B/W illustrations 9 B/W tablesNumber of pages: 232Publication date:...

A comprehensive, practical and highly illustrated guide to good practice in building construction.

Looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of today's America. This provocative book asks: What did Americans learn - and not learn - from t...

This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history. Sitting at the intersection of philosophy and hi...

I Have a Weakness for a Touch of Red is a selection of essays on the art and architecture of Portugal by Yehuda Safran, who has been a professor at...

Bauen im Bestand erfordert mehr als praktische L sungen und Sicherheit in Stilfragen. Wenn bei der Umnutzung von Bauten die neuen Programme und Fun...

This collection of new essays presents cutting-edge research from an international group of scholars on the semantic conception of logic, the invar...

DescriptionThe words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar--they direct the ways we think of a...

This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be characterised as the tension between judging and understanding. It seems that after a...

Fifty of the world’s modern architectural masterpieces, constructed between 1950 and the present, are analysed through specially commissioned drawi...

Reducere. There is a constant drumbeat of commentary claiming that STEM subjects--science, technology, engineering, and math--are far more valuable in today'...

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

Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, alt...

Over the last several decades, feminists and architects have independently developed critiques of modern Western assumptions and cultural practices...

Reducere. We can be led to act in our own interest as a group if we tune into, and add to, our mental diets, the liberating thoughts that are provifef for us...

Fresh insights into the thought and work of the modernist architect, from Loos expert Christopher LongIn this collection of essays, noted architect...

How does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space into another, affect us? It is no wonder that the door, one of the ...

The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity - Karen K. Hersch

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Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionIllustration(s): Approx. 250 illustrations (150 in full color); Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of p...

This is the story of architecture as never seen before. A brilliantly original book that takes us from the colossal achievements of antiquity to th...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): James Boyd WhiteNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 13Cover typ...

In this collection of strikingly original material, numerous practical as well as philosophical issues are explored. In an in-depth, wide-ranging i...

Reducere. While Savannah's famous urban plan is rightly renowned in many studies of urban history, what brings streams of tourists and architects to the city...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Tamara MetzIllustration(s): 270 Halftones, black and white; 270 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 278P...

This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Ir...

Reducere. Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-...

Reducere. In this collection of strikingly original material, numerous practical as well as philosophical issues are explored. In an in-depth, wide-ranging i...

Reducere. Hbcu Experience - The Book: A Collection of Essays Celebrating the Black College Experience, Paperback