Electronic Books

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A Companion to Contemporary Drawing / Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Dana Arnold

Textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing. his textbook: Demonstrates ways contemporary ...

A Language of Contemporary Architecture : An Index of Topology and Typology / Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim

Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...

A companion to Islamic art and architecture / Flood, Finbarr Barry, Necipoğlu, Gülru

The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays ...

An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History / Joclyn M. Oats

Provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture ...

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking : Computational Modeling for Beginning Design / Frank Jacobus, Angie Carpenter, Rachel Smith Loerts

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series ...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices : Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century / Marianna Charitonidou

Explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees ...

Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline / Mark Jarzombek

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature ...

Architecture and Collective Life / Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm, Sandra Costa Santos

Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis of changes in the architectural profession. Contains thought-provoking ...

Architecture and the Housing Question / Can Bilsel, Juliana Maxim

Examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects ...

Building Children's Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks / Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward

Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed ...

Building Meaning : An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History / Tamara Metz

An essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. ...

Building Meaning : An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History / Tamara Metz

Introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book ...

Building Theories : Architecture as the Art of Building / Franca Trubiano

Discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to ...

Coding, shaping, making : experiments in form and form-making / Haresh Lalvani

Combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future ...

Design to Value : The architecture of holistic design and creative technology / Mark Bryden, John Dyson, Jaimie Johnston, Martin Wood

Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its ...

Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design - Assembly - Industry / Scott Marble

The logics of digital processes in architecture have begun to structure the way that architects design, the way that builders ...

Early Islamic Art, 650-1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I : Variorum Collected Studies / Oleg Grabar

Represent major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad (661-750) ...

Exercises in Architecture : Learning to Think as an Architect / Simon Unwin

It involves awakening abilities that remain dormant in most people. It is like learning language for the first time; a task ...

Forty Ways to Think About Architecture: Architectural History and Theory Today / Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Barbara Penner

How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction ...

From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design / Harry Francis Mallgrave

Combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive ...

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