Beginnings (AKAD, #1)
This work is on the sociology of the built environment.
EMUVE (Euro Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology) Barcelona
by Federico Wulff
An insightful monograph highlighting the illustrious design of master architect William Hefner - lavishly illustrated and richly detailed - an intimate tour of some of the world's most opulent houses. This latest addition to IMAGES' Master Architect Series showcases seven exquisite residential projects by master architect William Hefner, whose Los-Angeles-based architectural firm has been designing residential, commercial and retail properties for nearly two decades. Although varied in style,...
Art Deco in Detroit (Images of America)
by Rebecca Binno Savage and Greg Kowalski
Georgian Architectural Designs and Details (Dover Architecture)
by Abraham Swan
European Architecture in the Twentieth Century Volume One
by Arnold Whittick
A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland's most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of ex...
Speech
Modern architecture has at its disposal an almost infinite palette of materials: natural and synthetic, transparent and solid, of the most diverse colours and textures, making it possible to clad surfaces of any height and of the most diverse forms. A building's external and internal skins are among the key elements in creating its architectural image, its atmosphere and mood. The examples shown in this issue of Speech: demonstrate that materiality is not just something specific to individual bu...
A visual book that focuses on a selection of nation-wide projects funded by the Millennium Commission. Extending beyond preconceived notions of "architecture" or "landscape", these projects - from the Earth Centre in Doncaster to the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew - will create a landscape of effects that serves both a local and global community. As a sustainable, showcase model, the Dome at Greenwich is the book's starting point and, as such, is seen as the first link in an ongoing chain of pionee...
The Design of Frontier Spaces (Design and the Built Environment)
by Prof. Carolyn Loeb and Andreas Luescher
In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and other design elements are deployed to signal the nature of the space and to guide, if not actually control, behaviour and social relations within it. This volume unpacks how manipulations of space and design in frontier zones, historically as w...
The Person Notebook
AIA Guide to St Paul's Summit Avenue and Hill District
by Larry Millett
