Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as ...
This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that ...
Avant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays ...
The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art ...
These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about ...
Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point ...
John Templer has written the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair. Together, ...
John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today's writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens ...
These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and ...
How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that ...
Charles-Louis Clerisseau (1721-1820), the French architect, archaeologist, and artist, occupies a unique position in the genesis and wide-ranging adoption of neoclassical architecture during the ...
Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, and Otto Wagner have been widely acclaimed in recent celebrations of turn of the century Viennese art, architecture, and furniture ...
Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, ...
In Design Thinking Peter Rowe provides a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture and urban planning. He examines multiple and often ...
Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using ...
Bauhaus has established itself with designers and architects as a standard work and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictoral material ever published ...
The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social ...
