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Making Sense of Islamic Art a Architecture

Designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each painting, building, or artifact in terms of the iconography an

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Applied Psychology of Architecture - Karel Smejkal

Anotace: The first book on the psychology of architecture.<br><br> During ten years, the author met architects from more than 140 countries, but there was not one among them who could answer the question of what is the psychology of architecture. So he decided to return to university, assemble a research team in Applied Psychology of Architecture, and define...

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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole

Addresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in the l

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The Architecture of Reciprocity - Miroslav Cikán,Pavla Melková

Anotace: We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through ...

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture through five power structures: academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects. By acknowledging the manner in which architecture is framed to create both just and unjust spaces, it is possible to contest the validity of these...

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture through five power structures: academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects. By acknowledging the manner in which architecture is framed to create both just and unjust spaces, it is possible to contest the validity of these...

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Atlas of Eco Architecture - Álex Sánchez Vidiella

<p>This 700 page record of some of the finest work known in the field of green architecture shows a series of new and important buildings and designs that truly represent the moment of this time of change.</p>

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C20: Guide to the architecture of Trenčianske Teplice

The bath town Trencianske Teplice is an open book telling the story of the dawn of the modern man as we see it now. The 20th century (C20) left its most distinct imprint here and Trencianske Teplice became the town where new forms and contents of the architecture called functionalism were born and tested. This guidebook is a reflection of a group of young people who have ...

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The Architecture of Reciprocity - Pavla Melková, Miroslav Cikán

We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes.

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Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-century

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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

The book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that

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Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings

Gottfied Semper was the most important German theorist of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1989, this book provides an English translat

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Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty

After two decades which saw the construction industry flourish, has come a sudden period of instability, where architecture firms have been jettisonin

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Histories of Architecture Education in the United States

This book is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of

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Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture

Addresses the question of how architecture – defined broadly – mediates the forces that constitute various forms of flows and bound

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Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary

Thought-Provoking impulses at the intersection of architecture and climate chnage.

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Early Art and Architecture of Africa

This new history of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have ob

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Social (Re)Production of Architecture

A cutting-edge, critical text which rethinks both practice and theory in the light of recent crises, making it key reading for students, academics and

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Vitra designové knihy Louis Kahn, The Power of Architecture

Americký architekt Louis Kahn (1901 – 1974) je považován za jednoho z největších stavitelských mistrů dvacátého století. Se složitými prostorovými kompozicemi, elementárním formálním slovníkem a choreografickým mistrovstvím světla vytvořil Kahn budovy archaické krásy.

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A Guide to the Architecture of Brno - Pavel Zatloukal (EN)

Přehledný kapesní průvodce po 160 nejhodnotnějších stavbách Brna 19. století. Autorem úvodní stati i hesel je Prof. Pavel Zatloukal, autorem fotografií David Židlický

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Sensing Place: What is the Point of Architecture?

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Making Architecture: The work of John McAslan + Partners

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Light Up – The Potential of Light in Museum Architecture

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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC

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The Blue Pearl. Mediterranean Architecture - Conrad White

<p>As an innovator in the construction and real estate market in Ibiza for more than twenty-five years, The Blue Pearl is most people’s first and only port of call when it comes to turning their dreams of an island home into a reality. The Blue Pearl covers all aspects of construction, remodelling and renovation, from a minor refurbishment to a complete new build. W...

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Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape

This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what

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Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture

The recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Prize in architecture, Shigeru Ban remains one of the most innovative of architects. A pioneer in the use of sustai

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Art and Architecture in Mexico

Offers an interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century. The author shows ho

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Living with Architecture as Art

Introduces readers to one of the largest private collections of architectural drawings in the world.

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Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, Future

A multilayered work about the building material of the 21st century

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Great Windows in Modern Architecture

This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language of architecture. It investigates 18

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Architecture and Politics in Nigeria

By examining the creation of the modernist national public spaces of Abuja within a broader historical and global context, this book looks at how the

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Colour and Create Architecture 2

Discover the cities of the world with Georgie the giraffe in this entertaining and educational Colour and Create Architecture book. With over 50 beaut

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Architecture, Media, Populism… and Violence

The book sharpens our critique of the relationship between direct political action, its media representation, and the role it assigns to architecture

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Architecture, Media, Populism… and Violence

The book sharpens our critique of the relationship between direct political action, its media representation, and the role it assigns to architecture

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The Village of Holašovice in the Context of South Bohemian Rural Architecture

The Bohemian south is the epitome of the rural environment that retains a certain harmony more than other regions of the Czech Republic, based on the preservation of historic spatial pattern and the enduring natural sense for the symbiosis of architecture and landscape. The evidence is not only the seventy-one South Bohemian village conservation areas and protection zones...

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Exteriorless Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This bookattempts to delineate three main characteristics for an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS: its physical and symbolic role as interface, its ambiguous condition of being at the same time local and global, isolated and connected, compressed and expanded, and, lastly, its contribution to new forms of urbanity in absence of the traditional city. These three aspects—In...

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The Village of Holašovice in the Context of South Bohemian Rural Architecture - Pavel Hájek,kol.

Anotace: The Bohemian south is the epitome of the rural environment that retains a certain harmony more than other regions of the Czech Republic, based on the preservation of historic spatial pattern and the enduring natural sense for the symbiosis of architecture and landscape. The evidence is not only the seventy-one South Bohemian village conservation areas and protec...

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The Village of Holašovice in the Context of South Bohemian Rural Architecture - Pavel Hájek

<p>The Bohemian south is the epitome of the rural environment that retains a certain harmony more than other regions of the Czech Republic, based on the preservation of historic spatial pattern and the enduring natural sense for the symbiosis of architecture and landscape. The evidence is not only the seventy-one South Bohemian village conservation areas and protect...

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Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

A treasury of architecturaldrawing from the 16th century to the present day. Includes 200full-colour reproductions, from back-of-envelope concept sket

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Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avo

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Architecture Asia: Globalization and Locality

Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum, not only for presenting Asian phenomena a

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Frontend Architecture for Design Systems

This practical book takes experienced web developers through the new discipline of frontend architecture, including the latest tools, standards, and b

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Architecture History, Theory and Preservation

Architecture History, Theory and Preservation critically explores the historic development, theoretical underpinnings and conservation practices of ar

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Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference

This handy pocket reference contains a wealth of information on a range of topics including the principles of passive solar building and passive house

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Italian Renaissance Architecture - Marco Bussagli

<p>The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, theorized by artists such as Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti, influenced styles and trends of the following centuries throughout Europe and beyond. This volume offers a comprehensive compilation of Italian Renaissnace architecture--richly documented, illustrated, arranged by region, and including a gloss...

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Architecture Lover's Guide to Paris

Unlock the secrets of Paris's charm with this handy visual guidebook.

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Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome

For lovers of Rome, a "greatest hits and B-sides" guidebook that presents a historical tour of the Eternal City's better- and lesser-known buildings a

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Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture

Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing th

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Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation

Authored by two architects, this book tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980-2020, as architecture developed in the Western

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Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow

Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architectureÂ’ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays addres

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Containers Architecture - David Andreu Bach

<p>An illustrated celebration of architecture using shipping containers as modular building elements, resulting in affordable moveable and sustainable prefabricated homes. Architecture with containers is a form of sustainable architecture creating a very peculiar aesthetic from recycled material. It is a construction procedure based on the assembly of modular elemen...

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Lives in Architecture: Nigel Coates

A searingly honest, unvarnished personal history of oneof the UK’s most versatile designers – Nigel Coates. Spanning lost loves and aprolifi

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Irish Follies and Whimsical Architecture

Ireland possesses a wealth of follies – picturesque buildings erected to commemorate loved ones, to enhance a view, to tell a tale from the past … o

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Architecture Today - Pools - Oriol Magrinya

<p>This book offers ideas, inspiration and advice through the most recent projects of 30 of the most relevant architects and landscape designers of the world. Over 500 inviting color photos illustrate the many options from infinity-edge pools to attractive garden pools. Valuable advice is included on site selection, materials, financing, and more. This gorgeus comp...

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Modern Architecture A–Z

Explore the A–Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti’s colored geometries to Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features mo

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Power of Images in the Age of Augustus

Art and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition. Upon this premise Pa

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Applied Psychology of Architecture. The secret world of architects - Karel Smejkal e-kniha

The first book on the psychology of architecture.

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Applied Psychology of Architecture. The secret world of architects - Karel Smejkal

The first book on the psychology of architecture.

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The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (World of Art) - Nikolaus Pevsner

An updated edition of this classic title on the origins of 20th-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts. The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: Art Nouveau and the International Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period ...

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