Architectural Styles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architectural Styles write by Owen Hopkins. This book was released on 2014-09-08. Architectural Styles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.
Weather Architecture
Weather Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weather Architecture write by Jonathan Hill. This book was released on 2013-06-17. Weather Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider the weather as an architectural author that affects design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with other authors such as the architect and user. Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Rather than investigate architecture’s relations to the weather in isolation, they are integrated into a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture. The analysis of weather’s effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society, leading to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary responses to climate change.
Architectural History Retold
Architectural History Retold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architectural History Retold write by Paul Davies. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Architectural History Retold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how these are connected or how one style evolved to become another? Or what happened historically during each of these periods? Architectural History Retold is your roadmap for your journey through architectural history. Offering a fresh take on what the author calls the ‘Great Enlightenment project’, it traces the grand narrative of western architecture in one concise, accessible volume. Starting in Ancient Greece and leading up to the present day, Paul Davies' unconventional, engaging style brings the past back to life, helping you to think beyond separate components and styles to recognise ‘the bigger picture’. The author is an academic and journalist with three decades of experience in introducing students to architectural history. The book is based on his successful entry-level course which has used the same unstuffy approach to break down barriers to understanding and engagement and inspire generations of students.
Conditional Design
Conditional Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conditional Design write by Anthony di Mari. This book was released on 2014-11-17. Conditional Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections and apertures.
Building Urban Landscapes
Building Urban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Urban Landscapes write by Aaron Betsky. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Building Urban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major monograph of American architect Andrew Bromberg that explores how landscapes, both natural and human, inspire his designs The work of Andrew Bromberg, creative director of the global architecture and design practice Aedas and a leading light in cutting-edge design of skyscrapers and large-scale developments, has appeared across Asia and the Arab peninsula. Born in the United States but now inhabiting the craggy mixture of natural and human- made rocks that defines Hong Kong, Bromberg considers cities not just as collections of buildings but as human-made landscapes shaped by social and economic forces equivalent to the erosions, accretions, uplifts, and explosions that shape the natural world. Through a series of chapters that explore the exceptional urban sites of Bromberg’s buildings, architecture critic Aaron Betsky reveals how Bromberg visualizes his settings and relates his designs to the dynamic contexts in which they appear. Bromberg shows through his drawings and photographs what nature has meant, and still means, to him, observations that help readers understand the concept of urban development in relation to its natural origins.
