Written by leading experts in timber architecture and engineering, Timber in contemporary architecture investigates materials, connections, applications, and celebrates innovation. Excellence in timber design ...
Manchester: Shaping the City demonstrates the constant spirit and originality of Manchester's people and the physical, social and economic improvements, which continue to drive ...
"Graphic Europe" is a guidebook to 31 cities in 31 different European countries written and illustrated by graphic designers based in those cities. The ...
City Walks Architecture: New York" deck offers the best way for visitors and adventurous locals to experience the world-renowned architecture of the Big Apple. ...
What can good design offer the hospital, a functionally distinct building type showing considerable consistency of component parts and key issues around the world? ...
Shortcuts provide an eclectic mix of at-a-glance guides to the minefield of regulations, new materials, and technologies that confront building designers today. Comprising hand-drawn ...
Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. ...
Ruedi Baur has chosen seven concepts to describe his conceptual approach: anticipate, question, identify, contextualize, perplex, inscribe, and translate. They serve as the structure ...
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome ...
James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling's reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the ...
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became ...
As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between ...
The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders ...
El nacimiento del Reino de Asturias bajo la España musulmana fue una empresa titánica de resistencia y supervivencia. Resulta inconcebible que un puñado de ...
