On Architecture

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

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

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...

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. 20x14, Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad: twenty suggestions (or paternal exhortations, if you will) for the fourteen weeks of a regular ...

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

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

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacl...

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 ...

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

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

Beautiful China is the title of the Chinese government's broad policy to ensure the traditions and esthetics of Chinese culture not only survive as...

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...

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 ...

Reducere. For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that neuroscience has helped determine...

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

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...

DescriptionArchitects on Architects is a collection of essays and interviews rooted in one fascinating premise: What do the architects of today hav...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Bas PrincenIllustration(s): 43 black and white illustrations, 32 colour platesNumber of pages: 416Publication da...

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

The future of the computer and communications industries is converging on mobile information appliances - phones, PDAs, laptops and other devices. ...

DescriptionMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most inf...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planner...

Reducere. DescriptionAbstract is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Prese...

Reducere. 1. The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work...

Voyage. On the Edge of Art, Architecture and the City - Nadim Karam

Reducere. Architecture on the water has changed from a fringe niche market into an increasingly popular sector. Catalyst is the risk of rising water levels a...

The Ten Books On Architecture: Translated By Morris Hicky Morgan This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the...

The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on ...

As a pioneer of the "New Adirondack Style" of architecture, Nils Luderowski, AIA, is best defined as specializing in residential architecture and d...

Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. This book examines historic preservation as an enterprise of ideas, methods, ...

DescriptionA novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what ...

DescriptionToday, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges. Beyond news ...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Gevork HartoonianNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

The last decade has seen the construction of numerous innovative and well-received performance venues, as well as the sensitive refurbishment of th...

This book showcases buildings based on simple technology, good craftsmanship, and the careful choice of local and natural materials, as well as loc...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Jess (Monash University, Australia) BerryIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 224P...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Jess (Monash University, Australia) BerryIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 224P...

DescriptionNot Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This ...

Reducere. NESS.docs is Lots of Architecture's monographic series. Each issue features one practice or subject for in-depth analysis: interviews, texts, and a...

DescriptionContemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by ve...

Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the CityAuthor(s): James GrahamNumber of pages: 224Collection: GSAPP TranscriptsPublication date: 201...

In this book, Sanda Iliescu brings aesthetics back into the conversation, exploring the subject through compelling examinations of lived experience...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Basile BaudezIllustration(s): 176 color illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local.Resilience now matters most, and most resil...

Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless a...

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Nights of the Dispossessed brings together artistic works, political texts, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to sense, ch...

The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philos...

DescriptionSince 2007, Claudio Gobbi (born 1971) has been systematically documenting Armenian religious architecture from the Middle Ages to the pr...

DescriptionArchitecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as...

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

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

DescriptionThe Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture fro...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book SHTF Root Cellar is the complete guide that elaborates 30 incredible tips to build a root cellar and how to store food in it. ...

DescriptionHow do you design a distinctive building that also fits seamlessly into its context? How do you add value to a site yet at the same time...

Contributor(s): Author: Igor ZhirkovLearn Intel 64 assembly language and architecture, become proficient in C, and understand how the programs are ...

Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.Publisher: University of M...

Security is usually an afterthought when organizations design microservices for cloud systems. Most companies today are exposed to potential securi...

Reducere. DescriptionDetermine whether it is better for you to go gridless or modify your energy grid-based system Design a floor plan utilizing the best pas...

Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sk...

An invaluable, thought-provoking collection of conversations with leading creatives from around the globe, including architects, photographers, des...

Reducere. This one-of-a-kind manual compiled by a seminal Boy Scouts of America founder is full to the brim with detailed instructions and tips for construct...