Prague: a Guide to Twentieth-Century Architecture (Architectural Guides)
by Ivan Margolius
Architects, Contractors, & Engineers Guide to Construction Costs (Architects, Contractors, & Engineers Guide to Construction Costs)
by Don Roth
Edifices de Rome Moderne, Ou Recueil Des Palais, Maisons, Eglises, Couvents. T. 3 (Arts)
by Letarouilly-P
Environmental Security and Public Safety
by Wolfgang Spyra and Michael Katzsch
Oppositions Reader
In its 11-year history, "Oppositions", the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), set the agenda, introduced key players and published seminal pieces on the theorization of architecture in the late 20th century. This text collects essays from 26 issues of "Oppositions". Contributions from architects, theorists and historians such as Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhom, Leon Krier and Denise Scott Brown, amongst others, are included.
This book provides students of civil engineering and architecture with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures, and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. The book aims to explain structural concepts clearly, using analogies and examples to illustrate the points, and it expresses mathematical aspects of the subject in a straightforward way. Fully worked solutions to examples available online for readers.
Office construction is one of the largest building tasks today. Architects and designers face the challenge of creating buildings and spaces that are functional yet stylish. This title presents 170 of the most interesting office projects of the past years, which range from small-scale two-roomed offices to vast corporate buildings that comprise more than 100 stories. Open-plan offices, single-roomed bureaus, group offices, office landscapes as well as new concepts such as just-in-time-offices an...
Building Systems
We can no longer view building components as artifacts (a brick or a boiler) or as autonomous systems (air conditioning or prefabrication). Rather these components and systems are part of much larger systems of which architects are one agent. This book will help architects more broadly envision these networks including : canonical texts as well as contemporary thinking from well known theorists and practitioners, each contribution frames a specific range of technology in relation to society such...
This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design. Authors Tom Spector and Rebecca Damron present typical writing assignments and explain principles of effective writing by including examples of good form and illustrating common pitfalls. The book includes resources for how to write a designer's manifesto, statements of d...
Eduardo Souto de Moura (2G: International Architecture Review)
by X Guell
Architects have been drawing for centuries on their creative abilities to produce astonishing works of imagination, but the greatest period of experimentation has been from the Second World War to the present. This book, the first survey of the breathtakingly visionary and experimental architecture of this period, illustrates and analyses the early, radical work of many of today's most important architects as well as seminal work of earlier practitioners.
Building Ideas An Introduction to Architectural Theory This book is an essential text for students of architecture and related disciplines, satisfying the demand for an accessible introduction to the major theoretical debates in contemporary architecture. Written in a lucid and user-friendly style, the book also acts as a guide and companion volume to the many primary theoretical texts recently made available in reprinted collections. Whilst architectural monographs, collections of building prec...
Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture
by Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stephan Truby, James Westcott, and Stephan Petermann
Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, facade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail. The result is no single history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations, similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation, political calculation, economic contexts, regulator...
An Outline History of Architecture for Beginners and Students
by Clara Erskine Clement
This volume marks the conclusion of the many years of teaching and research by Dieter Geissbuhler, investigating the significance of construction in architecture. The various articles are compiled in a collage-like structure and shed light on stances that have above all been communicated in teaching.
Theoretical Practice
This accordion-fold booklet contains a series of analytical views of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf by AMO-OMA and colleagues from the American University of Sharjah, UAE. In a "futurized present, a these views seek to depict the current and unprecedented state of the region, which invites one to contemplate the design of a new version of urbanism. Like a pristine and untouched canvas, the sand and sea of the Persian Gulf coast constitute a tabula rasa, waiting to receive the imprint of n...
A tri-lingual overview of recent contemporary architecture taking examples from all over the world and trying to distill them into some semblance of trends and evolution. Lavish, often full-page, color photographs, plans, diagrams, and drawings provide focus for the minimal text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).