Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture', Paperback - Vitruvius

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...

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

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

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...

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

A consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the...

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

Carul era greu incarcat si scartaia din incheieturi. Auzeam cum picura ceva, ca de vazut nu vedeam decat negru, am zis ca era gheata, dar de unde g...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

DescriptionOf all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in ...

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...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Leon Battista AlbertiTranslator: Joseph RykwertNumber of pages: 470Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 19...

Three friends balance counting and fun in this silly Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss and illustrated by Roy McKie. When a lion, a dog, and a tiger meet ...

Reducere. A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest--can they get ten apples piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting...

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

Reducere. Since earliest times Christians have used pebbles, a string of knots, or beads on a cord to keep track of their prayers, and prayer beads can be fo...

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 ...

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

Publisher: Edition Axel MengesAuthor(s): Friedrich AchleitnerIllustration(s): 200 b/w & colour photosNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2008Dime...

THE COMPLETE SERAPHIN MESSAGES, VOLUME I What is telepathy? Can we answer the divine telephone? Can we talk to an angel? Do we have a purpose? Can ...

A Journey Through Ten Thousand Veils is an in-depth account of the journey of the soul on the path of return to its Lord. Sheikha Maryam Kabeer was...

"War Plan Iraq" brings together the arguments that can shake George Bush and Tony Blair's determination to start a war with Iraq. Despite Washingto...

Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleAuthor(s): Nate BerkusIllustration(s): 300 photosNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 21...

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 ...

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

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Cameron WardNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 31Cover type: Paperback / soft...

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

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...