Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for 20th-Century IconsDie weltweite Verwendung von Stahl-Glas-Gebäudehüllen ist eine der charakteristischen und bestimmenden Eigenschaften moderner Architektur. Bei vielen dieser Gebäude der Vor- und Nachkriegszeit gibt es Mängel in der Bausubstanz, die Ma nahmen zur Erhaltung der Gebäude notwendig machen. Dabei spielen architektonische, bauphysikalische und den Denkmalschutz...
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Facades: Design, Construction & TechnologyThe fa ade is the "skin" of a house. It forms the boundary between interior and exterior, between form and function, between user and pedestrian. In addition to aspects of function, construction, design and urban space, increasingly sustainability parameters are gaining importance. So fa...
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Breathe: Investigations Into Our Environmentally Entangled FutureAuthor: Klaus LoenhartPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 07/31/2021Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsISBN: 9783035612103About the AuthorKlaus Klaas Loenhart, Professor of Architecture and Landscape, Munich/Graz
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Planning Architecture: Dimensions and TypologiesAuthor: Bert BielefeldPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 10/24/2016Pages: 568Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 5.95lbsSize: 12.10h x 9.30w x 1.80dISBN: 9783035603248About the AuthorBert Bielefeld, Professor für Bauökonomie und Baumanagement, Universität Siegen; Inhaber bertbielefeld&partner, Dortmund.
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Elements in Landscape: Areas, Distances, DimensionsAuthor: Astrid ZimmermannPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 02/01/2020Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsISBN: 9783035618570About the AuthorAstrid Zimmermann, landscape architect and lecturer at various universities in Germany
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Jean Prouvé Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2Jean Prouv began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouv to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame...
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility GuidelinesAppendix A to Part 1191 - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities This document contains scoping and technical requirements for accessibility to buildings and facilities by individuals with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. These...
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Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of RelativityStarting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi's reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical's research on mass-production civilization to the "infinite territories", proposing new territories...
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Fifty Paintings: Anthony Ames ArchitectThis volume presents fifty paintings (1985-2020) with brief references for each. The paintings--executed in acrylic latex paint on two inch deep wooden panels--refer to or are informed by a particular way of looking at architecture. They are abstract in nature, and representative in subject...
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Olmsted's Elmwood: The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, a Model for America's CitiesThe fascinating story of the historic Elmwood District is told for the first time, from the arrival on the Niagara Frontier of Joseph Ellicott, through the role played by Fredrick Law Olmsted's parks and parkways, and into the decline and renewal during modern era....
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Ellsworth Kelly: AustinThe only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly's most enduring legacyIn January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building with...
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Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in ArchitectureNot Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms:...
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Behavioral Formation: Volatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange SpecificityEmergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a...
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Gensler Research Catalogue Volume 2This is the second in Gensler's Research Catalogue series, and the first to be made available for public sale. Volume 1 received significant praise from academic, business, and design audiences - both for the insights it contained and for its design. Volume 2 builds...
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Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo HuntersAward-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than...
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New Hampshire Covered BridgesNew Hampshire's Covered Bridges**Color Edition** A Source book for Travelers, Photographers, Explorers** Descriptions to all of New Hampshire's 54 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as color photos of each one. **GPS Positions**Written Driving Directions**Instructions for Self-Guided Tours which include tours of Carroll County,...
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Junkspace with Running RoomJunkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in...
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Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Providing Energy Efficient HomesThis book is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It takes the form of an annotated details book, with photos taken from live construction sites, with the content based around diagrams, drawings and...
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F.L. Griggs (1876-1938): The Architecture of DreamsF.L. Griggs was acclaimed as one of the finest etchers of his time. Griggs' work links that of Turner, Blake and Palmer with the Neo-Romantics Graham Sutherland and John Piper. This is a scholarly account of Griggs' life and work.Author: Jerrold Northrop MoorePublisher: Clarendon...
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Simply Scandinavian: 20 Stylish and Inspirational Scandi Homes'Simply Scandinavian' is an inspirational survey of 20 outstanding homes, ranging from tiny cabins to elegant apartments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark. 'Simply Scandinavian' is an inspirational survey of 20 outstanding homes, ranging from tiny cabins to elegant apartments in Sweden, Finland, Norway,...
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