Architecture Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fiction in the Field
Book SynopsisJacqueline Yallop is Reader in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published three novels and four non-fiction works. Most recently, Into the Dark, (2023) brings together science, technology, literature, art and philosophy to offer an interdisciplinary reflection on darkness.
£61.75
Bloomsbury Academic Modern Architecture of Quito
£999.99
University Press of the Pacific Wallpapers in Historic Preservation
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£20.00
Trafford Publishing Foundations Site Investigation Design Site Investigation Design
£11.35
Neeland Media Ten Books on Architecture
£11.52
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Arriving Home
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£32.30
Gibbs M. Smith Inc At Home on the Water
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£999.99
Read Books Japanese Architecture
£19.99
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£43.58
Lulu.com Reini Waldburger
£101.35
Read Books Architectural Shades And Shadows
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£22.42
Lulu.com Designs for Systemic Habitats
£52.15
Lulu.com Toward a Different Habitat
£67.98
£23.74
Read Books An Illustrated Handbook of Hindu Temple Architecture The Temples of Northern and Southern India
£13.99
Lulu.com Cities in Evolution
£21.31
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Lulu Press Notes on Hospitality
£20.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Architecture of David Lynch
Book SynopsisRichard Martin completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, having previously worked at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). He has taught at Birkbeck, Middlesex University and Tate Modern.Trade ReviewA thoughtful exploration of Lynchian space, The Architecture of David Lynch ... [provides] a wealth of architectural readings, a diverse bibliography, and a wonderfully insightful analysis of Lynch's filmography that inspire and enrich re-viewings. * New Review of Film and Television Studies *Architecture is more central to the cinema of David Lynch than that of any other film-maker, and now a book finally exists that not only grasps architecture's significance for Lynch but shows that it is impossible to understand these films without a thorough knowledge of the role that architecture plays in them. Martin's book is godsend for anyone with even a passing interest in David Lynch or the relationship between architecture and cinema. He bombards us with insight after insight. -- Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USAIn this important and original study Richard Martin explores connections between the cinema of David Lynch and a series of distinctive urban spaces, drawing on insights from architectural history, cultural geography and contemporary film theory. -- Matthew Gandy, University College London, UKWhile David Lynch’s admirers have long marvelled at his talents as an engineer of atmosphere, the director’s architectural thinking has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. The Architecture of David Lynch is thus a welcome study. Brimming with insight and intelligence, this book inhabits the obsessive spatial topoi of Lynch’s films, and finds there the traces of history. In Martin’s fascinating account, Lynch’s moody architecture is a way of engaging modernity’s built environments through the kinds of spaces that only cinema can fashion. -- Justus Nieland, Michigan State University, USAThe reviewer commends the author on the work’s intelligence and insightful considerations of Lynch’s use of space, place and architecture in his films... With an impressive bibliography and 62 color plates of film stills, reproductions of paintings, and photographs of filming locations, the book is an important contribution to Lynch scholarship and engages film scholars to consider the dynamics of space, place and architecture in cinema... Martin’s text effectively joins the canonical works of Lynch scholarship, while simultaneously forcing all film scholars to re-evaluate the impact, effect and importance of space, place and architecture in film. * CINEJ Cinema Journal *Incisive and highly readable... Martin finds solid rhetorical ground and a plethora of interdisciplinary source material from which to articulate astonishingly deep, intricate, and, yes, original readings of Lynch’s work... The Architecture of David Lynch is clearly an indispensable entry in a densely analyzed field of film and auteur studies. * Jason Clemence, Cultural Politics *Martin’s study is such an important addition to ‘Lynch’ studies, offering a unique analysis of Lynch’s cinematic work through design and construction... Martin’s particular, unique focus shows how architecture forces us to confront the strange within the urban and suburban, and the social forces at work in the use of architecture, essentially re-establishing and altering our conceptions of the everyday. * Siobhan Lyons, Media International Australia *Table of ContentsPrologue: Three Journeys Introduction: Mapping the Lost Highway 1. Town and City 2. Home 3. Road 4. Stage 5. Room Acknowledgments Notes Image Credits Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Sympathy of Things Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
Book SynopsisLars Spuybroek is Professor of Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He is the author of NOX: Machining Architecture (2004), The Architecture of Continuity (2008), Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation (2009) and Research & Design: Textile Tectonics (2011). He is an award-winning architect with his practice NOX.Trade Review... exhilarating to watch elements of Ruskin's thought being taken on ... The Sympathy of Things is energetic, well written and full of examples. -- Matthew Reynolds * Times Literary Supplement *This is a dazzling, provocative, baffling, and sometimes vexing manifesto. The Sympathy of Things is an unforgettable book. * Carlyle Studies Annual *The term 'brilliant' is often misused in reviews, but the opening chapter on 'the digital nature of gothic' is truly scintillating. * Architectural Research Quarterly *Hundreds of threads that make an astonishingly rich tapestry ... Ruskin has at last found an interpreter with the breadth of learning and a poetic imagination to make his perceptions relevant to our own day. * Architectural Review *The author envisions a radical future for design and technology ... This book is undoubtedly a rich and original source of ideas for anyone across the many disciplines that increasingly care about materiality in the past, present or future. * Theory, Culture & Society *In this remarkable study, Spuybroek treats us to an astonishingly fresh upgrade of John Ruskin, who ends up no longer inhabiting an antique past but talks to us directly. Spuybroeck shows how Ruskin's aesthetic actually works, cutting through clouds of vagueness to get at a wonderfully algorithmic, procedural tactics with limpid clarity. But there's much more: something like a distinctive ontology emerges when we study Ruskin this way. This ontology radically decenters the human from its meaning-making position in the cosmos, allowing all kinds of other entities to show up without the usual visas and interrogations. What results is truly an ecology of things, making Ruskin sharply relevant for our age. * Professor Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Chair in English, Rice University, USA *The Sympathy of Things is a stirring call to action; an amazing reconstruction of the ideas of the Victorian sage John Ruskin; and, above all, a visionary look at the inner life of things. Lars Spuybroek makes the case that aesthetics is first philosophy, and proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital age. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University, USAIf Spuybroek, like Ruskin, does not shake your design and aesthetic concepts, you haven’t understood him. -- Charles JencksThe Sympathy of Things is an astonishing and visionary work. I have never before come across a book so brimming with insight, written with such feeling, and so keenly in touch with life. Ostensibly a meditation on the oeuvre of John Ruskin, what Lars Spuybroek offers us is an intoxicating meditation on art, architecture and design that soars above the ponderous deadweight of thing-theory to luxuriate in the unruly and exuberant proliferation of the things themselves. * Professor Tim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen *Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1. The Digital Nature of Gothic 2. The Matter of Ornament 3. Abstraction and Sympathy 4. The Radical Picturesque 5. The Ecology of Design Notes Bibliography Index
£130.00
AuthorHouse The Irvine Ranch
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£19.29
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Higher Education Teaching Learning Space Design
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£17.71
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Embracing the Past Stories of the people who live in historic districts
£10.05
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform How to Build a Peace Palace
£35.26
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Stone Masonry Stone Restoration Handbook
£25.17
Authorhouse Architecture for Kids
£15.57
£14.99
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Timely Meditations, vol.2: Architectural Philosophy and Hermeneutics
£16.28
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Adult Coloring Book Cityscapes Volume 1: Amazing Cities Around the World
£9.46
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Adult Coloring Book Cityscapes Volume 2: Amazing Cities Around the World
£9.46
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Adult Coloring Book Cityscapes Volume 3: Amazing Cities Around the World
£9.46
Independently Published French Guiana
£11.29
University of Tennessee Press Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities
£25.60
University of Tennessee Press The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America's Early Auto Age
Book SynopsisThe garage—whether used for automobile storage, parking, repair, or sales—has been an American commonplace for so long that it is surprising how little attention it has drawn from scholars tracing the country’s architectural and cultural heritage. In this compellingly written and profusely illustrated book, John Jakle and Keith Sculle—two of the nation’s foremost experts on “Roadside America”—bring their analytical acumen and meticulous research skills to bear on the remarkably rich history of this overlooked feature of the U.S. landscape. Beginning with the days when only the wealthy could afford cars (and their chauffeurs doubled as mechanics), the authors show how blacksmiths and carriage repairmen quickly adapted to the increasing ubiquity of the automobile. Noting differences from region to region as well as between large cities and smaller population centres, they look at the growth of car dealerships, with their separation of service and sales floors, and the parallel rise of small, independent repair shops—businesses that have steadily disappeared from the national scene, though some of the buildings that once housed them have survived, refitted for other purposes. The domestic garage—first conceived as a detached structure, then integrated with the house itself—gets its own chapter. And throughout, the authors explore the various ways in which concerns with practicality, commerce, and aesthetics have dictated how garages were laid out and constructed and what services they offered. A worthy complement to the authors’ earlier collaborative studies of the gas station and the parking lot, The Garage will engage an eclectic audience of architectural and material-culture specialists, historic preservationists, antique car enthusiasts, local historians, and others fascinated by the impact of the automobile on early America and its legacy in the built environment of modern communities.
£29.66
Cosimo Classics Architecture, Mysticism and Myth
£17.58
New World Library Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming
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£15.29
Cognella, Inc Building Structures: Fundamentals of Crossover Design
Book SynopsisBuildings embody ineffable, yet sensible aesthetic and functional qualities that merge from a number of domains, such as space, form, and structure. The particular connection that exists between structures and architecture is what is referred to as the crossover design in building structures.Building Structures: Fundamentals of Crossover Design introduces young architects, engineers and builders to the fundamental concepts of building structures. It seeks to develop proper understanding and interpretation of structural behavior and concepts within various architectural expressions, which is accomplished using clear 3D illustrations, photographs and graphical details. Mathematic is kept to a basic level by incorporating simple hand calculations. This ensures the primary emphasis on behavioral and conceptual aspects is not lost behind complex analytical methods. Examples inspired by real world projects are also presented throughout the text, which aim to give readers a solid knowledge base for understanding building structures. This book offers an essential introduction to building structures for anyone interested in architecture, civil and structural engineering, building construction and technology.
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University of Tennessee Press Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes
Book SynopsisIn Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape. As representations of King Solomon’s temple in ancient Jerusalem erected in almost every American town and city, Masonic temples provided specially designed spaces for the enactment of this influential fraternity’s secret rituals. Using New York State as a case study, Moore not only analyzes the design and construction of Masonic structures and provides their historical context, but he also links the temples to American concepts of masculinity during this period of profound economic and social transformation. By examining edifices previously overlooked by architectural and social historians, Moore decodes the design and social function of Masonic architecture and offers compelling new insights into the construction of American masculinity. Four distinct sets of Masonic ritual spaces—the Masonic lodge room, the armory and drill room of the Knights Templar, the Scottish Rite Cathedral, and the Shriners’ mosque – form the central focus of this volume. Moore argues that these spaces and their accompanying ceremonies communicated four alternative masculine archetypes to American Freemasons—the heroic artisan, the holy warrior, the adept or wise man, and the frivolous jester or fool. Although not a Freemason, Moore draws from his experience as director of the Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library in New York City, where heutilized sources previously inaccessible to scholars. His work should prove valuable to readers with interests in vernacular architecture, material culture, American studies, architectural and social history, Freemasonry, and voluntary associations.
£29.40
Univ Tennessee Press The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation
£21.84
University of Tennessee Press Managing the Magic of Old Places
£26.80
A.R. Shephard & Co. The Octagon House: A Home for All
£16.56
Clanrye International World Architecture: A Modern Review
£95.71
Clanrye International Architectural Design and Engineering
£103.50
Clanrye International Architecture: A Reference Handbook
£99.90