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 Short Dictionary of Furniture : Containing Over 2,600 Entries That Include Terms and Names Used in Britain and the USA / John Gloag

Contains 2,612 entries and over 1,000 illustrations, reproduced from contemporary sources and from drawings by Ronald Escott, ...

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 ...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities : A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece / Sofia Voutsaki, Paul Cartledge

Sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century ...

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 Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors / Charalampos Politakis

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such ...

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 Beyond the Cupola: Inventions and Designs of Dante Bini / Alberto Pugnale, Alberto Bologna

This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction ...

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 ...

Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in ...

Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space / J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, Pieter Martens, R.L.M. Morris

Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, ...

Architectures of Refusal / Jill Stoner, Ozayr Saloojee

Reveals how designers, practitioners, scholars and architects are participating in dismantling the major canons of Western ...

Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design / Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Sabine T. Kriebel

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and ...

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

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

Cranbrook Architecture: A Legacy of Latitude / Gretchen Wilkins

The renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Michigan, has been described as the epicentre of American Modernism. ...

Doors : History, Repair and Conservation / Michael Tutton, James W.P. Campbell

Guides you through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are ...

Drawing Imagining Building : Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices / Paul Emmons

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked ...

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