The Ten Books on Architecture: de Architectura - Morris Hicky Morgan

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

Provides both the story of Red House, the only house that William Morris ever built, and a 'virtual tour' showing how the house looked when the Mor...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

Reducere. For 1, 400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting po...

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...

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...

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

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

Romantic seaside houses in the beloved Shingle Style, from Maine to Montauk. This book will delight and inspire readers with its luxurious treatmen...