Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to FilmA deeply researched exploration of the influence of simulation and cinematic design on visionary or speculative architecture. This book outlines the impact of film and animation on architectural representation through key projects. The opening analysis is useful in contextualizing speculative architectural projects, while the...
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Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil WarThe American Civil War left indelible marks on the country.In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone...
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The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in PlaceHow sound and its atmospheres transform architectureAcoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct impressions each time we visit certain places. Stable or dynamic, acoustic atmospheres have...
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Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Field GuideThis field guide, a companion to Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective, reviews key blockhouses left standing in South Africa. A first-of-its-kind guide, it can be used for virtual visits to learn more about these military structures, or better still to get...
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A History of Street Networks: from Grids to Sprawl and BeyondRoadway networks are the basic frameworks of cities. They endure for centuries, influencing the ways that cities operate and their residents' quality of life. A History of Street Networks explores the origins and institutionalization of modern roadway networks, particularly the networks of urban sprawl....
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Outsourcing in European Emerging Economies: Territorial Embeddedness and Global Business ServicesDrawing on a range of European cases, this edited volume analyses the offshoring and outsourcing of foreign companies, with a focus on territorial embeddedness. The book opens by developing a theoretical framework and then presents a range of international case studies exploring the experiences...
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Marseille MixA journey through the history, cultures, and societies of Marseille. There are many Marseilles, or at least many versions of Marseille: seaside village, haven of gangsters, gateway to the East, city of immigrants and outcasts. It is by turns the dull bourgeois provincial town...
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Shipping Container Homes for Beginners: An Introductory Guide Pros & Cons Of DIY Building An Eco-Friendly, Cargo, Storage House. Practical Guidebook.Shipping Container Homes for Beginners: An Introductory Guide Pros & Cons Of DIY Building An Eco-Friendly, Cargo, Storage House. Practical Guidebook.You know how curious you are about shipping container homes?This in-depth yet brief guidebook explains the advantages and disadvantages and many more questions.Is it...
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Bauen Mit Papier: Architektur Und KonstruktionAuthor: Ulrich KnaackPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 02/15/2023Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9783035621396Language: GermanAbout the AuthorProf. Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, Prof. Samuel Schabel (eds.), TU Darmstadt
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Bibliothek"Gibt es denn ein schöneres Bild für den Frieden unter den Menschen als den Lesesaal einer gro en Bibliothek?, fragt Peter von Matt in seinem Beitrag für dieses Buch. Mit dem Bau der Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin hat Max Dudler einen ebenso modernen...
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Olmsted's Linear ParkIn 1892, entrepreneur Joel Hurt invited Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. to Atlanta to design an ideal suburb. Olmsted and his firm began designs and were in regular communication with Hurt. Members of the firm came to Atlanta during design and construction. Even with changing...
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Detroit Opera HouseThe theater known today as the Detroit Opera House has been an integral part of the city's culture and history as well as the live entertainment industry. Its existence has been threatened in the past, but it has survived wars, the Great Depression, civil...
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Aoe: Exploring Possibilities: A Journey of Architectural FantasyA comprehensive overview of the work of the award-winning Beijing-based architectural studio aoe, Exploring possibilities: A journey of architectural fantasy offers a privileged insight into one of China's most dynamic young firms. Featuring in-dept studies of ten of the studio's most successful projects with...
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Designing Social Architecture: Spaces, Relationships, and Communities in the PhilippinesDrawing on qualitative research conducted in the impoverished areas of Manila, Philippines, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form micro-relationships, social networks, and social structures among the inhabitants and considers whether the architects' aim to promote certain social behaviors...
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A House Through TimeIn recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning...
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Revit 2022 Home DesignIn this book, you will discover the process evolved in modeling a Home using Autodesk Revit's architectural tools. You will start by creating levels and then create exterior and interior walls, doors, windows, roofs, and ceilings. You will create elevations, sections, schedules, and renderings....
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Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the '50s and '60s: From the Surf Club to Ludlow GarageCincinnati in the '50s and '60s offered a stunning array of live music and entertainment venues. Although many of them no longer exist, their memories live on. Fulfilling an obligation to mobsters, blues crooner Charles Brown played a residency at the Sportsman's Club in...
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Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural EnglandThis book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider...
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Classicist No. 18The Classicist is an annual journal dedicated to the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts. Focused on the United States' Washington Mid-Atlantic region, the Classicist No. 18 explores the city's rich architectural history as well as contemporary examples of classical design through...
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Urban Oases: Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural GemsThe inspiring history of a medieval Dutch architectural typologyA medieval Dutch phenomenon, a hofje is a courtyard or garden surrounded by almshouses or some form of public housing. This guide takes readers through 20 Dutch hofjes built between 1395 and 2007, and explores how...
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