Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534710Author Stephen CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architectureToward a Living Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Starting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140139969Author Stewart BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 273mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533607Author Sarah RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 14mm

Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self...

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects and designers began rethinking how to design cities...

London 2: South is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve southern boroughs. Its riverside buildings range from the royal splendours of Hampton Court and Greenwich and the Georgian delights of Richmond, to the monuments of Victorian commerce in...

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract,...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern...

An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the "savage mind"-a way of thinking they...

"This book is a must read for all with an interest in the future of design." -Jim Spohrer, PhD, Retired Industry executive, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals "The world is in need of better design, and Kozma's book shows us how to...

This volume covers the vast area of the Highland region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland and highlights buildings and monuments as varied as its landscapes: brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both...

The Greek architectural orders-Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian-lie at the heart of the classical traditions of building, and yet satisfying accounts for their origins have proved elusive. In contrast with conventional theories that would see the orders...

Architecture Stuff is about a way of looking at architecture. It examines 7 seminal projects and shows how they might have been conceived with or without the design architect's awareness. More a working method than a theory, the book deals with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997874464Author Budhaditya ChattopadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056628482Author Maartje van den HeuvelFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in relation to architecture worldwide, and influenced a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277244Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Victorian Britain's greatest thinkers, the art critic and social reformer John Ruskin, the distinguished Ruskinian Robert Hewison introduces Ruskin's ideas and values through revelatory...

What constitutes the social context of architecture? What kind of stories can be told about how lived experiences across global communities, cities, territories, and ecologies resonate with architectural and space-making practices? The 2019 Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095503Author John MacArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 163mm * 10mm

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical...

Founded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica's north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in...

The theme of "modernity" was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our way of life. By causing in its development absolutisations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound...

Looks at a selection of Birmingham's Victorian architecture, some of the lost buildings as well as the survivors to illustrate the range of building that took place during Birmingham's most prosperous decades. This book includes a range of photographs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790461Author Keller EasterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries - such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Radovan Niksic of Yugoslavia. This...

A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In...

This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words 'region' and 'regional' mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the...

"Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544238Author Francois BlanciakFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496954526Author Beatriz ColominaFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 1908g

Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. Against the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centerless field where anything goes and...

Artistic principles of presentation are the most influential factors in formation of the observer's interpretation of a certain object. Artists use these principles to enhance the communication of their ideas to their audience. This book aims to teach...

The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance. Through...

NOMINATED FOR THE RIBA INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2007. In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands in recent years at the forefront of...

The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638400363Author Francisco González de CanalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525815Author Christine SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and discourse, Robert Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected architectural writers and educators of recent times. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert...