Theory of Architecture
"Le Corbusier"An Analysis of Form
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This unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more building. The Villa Shodhan and the Pavilion Suisse round out the coverage of Le Corbusier's significant works. The author critically With 400 line illustrations, 48 colour illustrations. 3 rev ed. Paperback, 416 pages. Size: 210 x 297 mm. Weight: 1452g.
Author: Baker, Geoffrey H.
ISBN: 0419161201
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"The Return of Sacred Architecture"The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism
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The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism. With illustrations. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 254 x 203 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Bangs, Herbert
ISBN: 1594771324
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Theory of Architecture
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"The Management of Construction"A Project Lifecycle Approach
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Introduces various aspects of management practice to students and professionals based in the construction industry. This book addresses each stage of the construction project from conception to completion, giving a perspective on the whole life cycle. It also covers design-build, build-own-operate-transfer, and construction management. With illustrations. Paperback, 352 pages. Size: 244 x 172 mm. Weight: 650g.
Author: Bennett, F.Lawrence
ISBN: 0750652543
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Theory of Architecture
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"Identity By Design"
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Addresses the idea of place-making and the concept of identity, looking at how these things can be considered as an integral part of the design process. Including a series of case studies, this book discusses an array of design approaches to explain and define the complex interrelated concepts. With illustrated. Paperback, 298 pages. Size: 276 x 219 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Bentley, Ian Butina-Watson, Georgia
ISBN: 0750647671
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"Concert Halls and Opera Houses"Music, Acoustics, and Architecture
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An illustrated guide to 100 important concert halls and opera houses. It examines their architecture and engineering and discusses their acoustical quality as judged by conductors and music critics. It includes photographs and architectural drawings together with acoustical data on the halls. With illustrations. 2 rev ed. Hardback, 683 pages. Size: 260 x 184 mm. Weight: 1642g.
Author: Beranek, Leo L.
ISBN: 0387955240
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Date: 2003 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Theory of Architecture
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"The Fate of Place"A Philosophical History
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"Centennial Books" series; Offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. The text begins with mythological creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle. It then considers modern spatial conceptions in 20th-century thought, ending with postmodern theories. With 4 b&w photographs. New ed. Paperback, 495 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 690g.
Author: Casey, Edward S.
ISBN: 0520216490
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1998 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"Privacy and Publicity"Modern Architecture as Mass Media
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Through close reading of two major figures of modern architecture, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, this text argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media. It suggests that modern architecture renegotiates the relationship between public and private. With 168 illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 402 pages. Size: 266 x 165 mm. Weight: 944g.
Author: Colomina, Beatriz
ISBN: 0262531399
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 1996 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"Modern Architecture Since 1900"
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This work on 20th-century architecture combines a clear general outline with analysis and interpretation of particular buildings. For this revised and updated third edition, an appreciation of regional identity and variety has been incorporated, and also a section on recent architecture. With 310 colour, 367 b&w illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. 3 rev ed. Paperback, 656 pages. Size: 245 x 210 mm. Weight: 2074g.
Author: Curtis, William
ISBN: 0714833568
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Theory of Architecture
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"Places of the Soul"Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
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Presents buildings as environment, intrinsic to their surroundings, and offers design principles, useful for the architecture student and professional alike. This book provides ideas quite different to the orthodoxy of modern architectural education. With approx. 100 illustrations. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 619g.
Author: Day, Christopher
ISBN: 0750659017
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"Spirit and Place"Healing Our Environment
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Shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book also shows how to reconcile the demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability. With approx. 300 illustrations (50 in full color). Paperback, 253 pages. Size: 246 x 189 mm. Weight: 821g.
Author: Day, Christopher
ISBN: 0750653590
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"The Architecture of Happiness"
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Considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes. It look at questions such as why do people disagree about taste? can beautiful surroundings make us good? Reflecting that architecture has the power to influence how we feel, this book suggests how we might learn to build better dwellings, in which we would stand a higher chance of happiness. Cd-Audio, Weight: 234g.
Author: De Botton, Alain
ISBN: 0141806753
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Theory of Architecture
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"New Stone Architecture"
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A discussion of stone construction and the nature of stone as a material. Aimed at practising architects and students, this study describes the new technologies that make the new stone forms possible. This is followed by 33 case studies from around the world. With 432 illustrations, (366 colour ). Hardback, 240 pages. Size: 250 x 250 mm. Weight: 1653g.
Author: Dernie, David
ISBN: 1856693120
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"Enduring Innocence"Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades
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Shows how outlaw spatial products - resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports - act as cunning pawns in global politics. With 20 illustrations. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 222 x 174 mm. Weight: 478g.
Author: Easterling, Keller
ISBN: 0262550652
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture
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"Architectural Theory Anthology From Vitruvius to 1870"
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A comprehensive anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from 25 BC to 1870. It chronicles the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper. It collects over 200 classic essays in the field, covering Classicism, Neoclassicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Gothic. Paperback, 616 pages. Size: 247 x 172 mm. Weight: 235g.
Author: Ellingsen, Eric (Mallgrave, Harry Francis, ed.)
ISBN: 1405102586
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Theory of Architecture (V. 1)
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"Architectural Theory"
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"Klotz" series; Brings together the important essays about architecture written since the Renaissance, illustrated and organized chronologically by country. This book gathers the treatises by architecture's greatest masters from Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, each accompanied by an essay discussing its historical context and significance. With illustrations (some col.). Taschen 25 anniversary ed. Paperback, 576 pages. Size: 152 x 194 mm. Weight: 31g.
Author: Evers, Bernd (Thoenes, Christoph, ed.)
ISBN: 3822850853
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Date: 2006 (Germany)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Theory of Architecture
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