"The relationship between contemporary architecture and nature is fundamental to today's creativity. Some architects reject nature or imagine that they can create an artificial world of their own - while...
This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.
Both a celebration of human ingenuity and a passionate call for greater sustainability, this is a history of architecture for our times.
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The text also serves as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. Its highly effective format organizes content around the design-building process, making the text easy to understand and appealing to students.
By way of more than 2,000 years of architectural history, this richly illustrated book defines and shows all the major components of the art--from theory, plans, and models to...
Architecture: A Bibliographic Guide to Basic Reference Works, Histories, and Handbooks
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The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures.
The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures.
The basic information necessary for planning various types of dwelling.
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The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities.
Architecture: A Bibliographic Guide to Basic Reference Works, Histories, and Handbooks
Architecture: Meaning and Place : Selected Essays
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Architecture: Residential Drawing and Design
An illustrated history of architecture that profiles structures and architects from prehistory through the twentieth century.
Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance