University Architecture

Reducere. This book explores the depths of adobe and enables the reader to build their own home intelligently and realistically. With an emphasis on adobe co...

Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the...

This volume aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the architectural treasures of Norfolk. It brings together research on a county which has som...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Nikolaus PevsnerNumber of pages: 832Collection: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of EnglandPublic...

The City of London has a rich architectural heritage which is quite unique in its diversity. This guide includes the Tower of London and St Paul's ...

This volume sheds light on the pride of the region - the great medieval churches of York Minster, the Minster and St Mary at Beverley, and Holy Tri...

Reducere. Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Frist Art Museum, this lavishly illustrated catalogue is the first major study in English about manuscript illumi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Text by (Art/Photo Books): Jim FraiserPhotographer: West FreemanThere is no place in America like New Orleans's famed French Quarte...

Reducere. The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek R...

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Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectur...

Reducere. Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contem...

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

DescriptionThe first major retrospective of the Brazilian modernist architect's life and work One of the most important architects of the twentieth...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color The Gaza Strip is one...

Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute ...

Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Stonborough-Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, thi...

Argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural prac...

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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 ...

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and arch...

An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota's first modern architect Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912-2011) left an indelible mark on...

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. It summarizes traditional views about...

A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into ha...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between the architecture of Republican Rome and its politics. It covers the early Re...

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Reducere. The pioneering Egyptian architect and teacher Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-74) is best known for his founding in 1951 of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art C...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Danielle BobkerIllustration(s): 32 b/w illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Interpreting American architecture, this text explores the subject in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In gi...

Outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. The bo...

Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent y...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Kevin D. MurphyEditor: Lisa ReillyOf all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not ...

Reducere. A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders...

Written by a leading author in the field, Introduction to Protein Science provides a wide-ranging perspective on the study of protein structure and...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Felix ArnoldNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 198 x 251 x 23Cover type:...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressIllustration(s): 9 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Collection: e-flux ArchitecturePublication date: 20...

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

Reducere. Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southe...

Many masterpieces of Islamic art, such as the Alhambra and the Taj Mahal, were produced during the period between the early 13th century and the ad...

The first in-depth English-language work to present regional traditions of Chinese architecture based on a detailed study of the timber constructio...

DescriptionThrough an interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre, Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces studies the p...

This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive m...

Reducere. An unprecedented look at the complex and beautiful world of underground ant architecture Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigatin...

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...

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cary CarsonEditor: Carl R. LounsburyFor more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsb...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas D. WilsonThe statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political lan...

Reducere. A room's acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects ...

Reducere. Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration...

Reducere. J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies int...

Known internationally for designing buildings that take their inspiration from the land, Antoine Predock explores many of his ideas about architect...

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

Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Isa...

This modern, pedagogic textbook from leading author Behzad Razavi provides a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to CMOS PLL design, featuring ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Christina CogdellNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 178 x 252 x 23Cover type:...

"The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age was first published in a different form in the original Portuguese as Arquitetura na e...

Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invent...

This volume offers a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory through the lens of morphology, crucially collapsing the distinction between th...

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

Reducere. Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Ho...

DescriptionSince antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yeg l of...

The ancient Axumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was possibly the first nation in the world to convert to Christianity. In AD 340 King Ezana co...

DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

Reducere. Neil Levine's study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the constru...

Explores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoce...

Reducere. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive guide to understanding the brain's architecture from a topographical viewpoint. Authored by a leadi...

Reducere. How do you use your local library? Does it arrive at your door on the back of an elephant? Can it float down the river to you? Or does it occupy a ...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria