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61. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995 | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1996-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism. By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of great value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and the general public, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a critical introduction to each essay. The list of authors in Theorizing a New Agenda reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Sol -Morales Rubi , Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on all the contributors are also included. Customer Reviews (13)
Fantastic
merely passable
Post Modernist psyco-bable
Excellent Architectural Theory text
Correcting Ignorance phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy - noun 1. A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness. 2. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl. ... Read more |
62. Diagrams of Architecture: AD Reader by Mark Garcia | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2010-03-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual/digital design to methodology, environment/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well as interior, urban, engineering, interactive and landscape design. · The first critical, multidisciplinary book on the history, theory and futures of the architectural diagram. · Includes seminal articles on the diagram from the history and theory of architecture such as those by Peter Eisenman, Sanford Kwinter, MVRDV, Neil Spiller, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and Anthony Vidler. · Features 16 newly commissioned articles by leading architects and theorists, including Will Alsop, Charles Jencks, Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Leon van Schaik and Alejandro Zaera-Polo. · Includes a full-colour critical collection of over 250 of the most significant and original diagrams, many of which are previously unpublished, in the history of architecture from around the world. |
63. Morris Lapidus: The Architecture of Joy by Deborah Desilets | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2010-10-19)
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The Lapidus of Glamorous
Too much is never enough |
64. PCI Express System Architecture by Mindshare Inc., Ravi Budruk, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley | |
Paperback: 1120
Pages
(2003-09-14)
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Quick and Accurate
Detailed and comprehensive
PCI Express System Architecture
well written and complete but a little dated
Perfect reference for PCIe newbie |
65. Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by George Reese | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2009-04-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services. To provide realistic examples of the book's principles in action, the author delves into some of the choices and operations available on Amazon Web Services, and includes high-level summaries of several of the other services available on the market today. Customer Reviews (34)
Good introduction to cloud computing
A good overview of Cloud Computing and Amazon cloud
Good for the right audience
What a bore.
Easy to read introduction focusing on architecture, best practices. |
66. Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture by Virginia McLeod | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(2008-04-02)
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Excellent condition
best book
A useful resource for design details |
67. 1000x Landscape Architecture (1000 x) by Editors of Verlagshaus-Braun | |
Hardcover: 1024
Pages
(2010-04-16)
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Great book for specialists
Precedents Galore
The Most Inspirational Landscape Architecture book out there!
absolutely awesome, photographs are wonderful, info is clear |
68. Residential Landscape Architecture (5th Edition) by Norman K. Booth, James E. Hiss | |
Hardcover: 576
Pages
(2007-08-11)
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Great book
RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Basically informative...
Easy ordering and arrived in good condition
A Review from the Perspective of the Novice Home Owner |
69. Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky | |
Paperback: 157
Pages
(1987-07-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The beauty of"primitive" architecture has often been dismissed as accidental, but today we recognize in it an art form that has resulted from human intelligence applied to uniquely human modes of life. Indeed, Rudofsky sees the philosophy and practical knowledge of the untutored builders as untapped sources of inspiration for industrial man trapped in his chaotic cities. Customer Reviews (8)
GREEN DESIGN FROM THE EXOTIC PAST
good classic
Bummer ... all photos in black and white only
My Dream.
A Classic Presentation The essential point Rudofsky cares to make in these pages is that "vernacular architecture does not go through fashion cycles. It is nearly immutable, indeed, unimprovable, since it serves its purpose to perfection." Rooted in a practical, harmonious relationship with its setting, 'primitive' architecture exemplifies the art of living well through its consistent use of frugality in construction, cleanliness in line and detail, and a general respect for "creation." Further, its impetus is aligned with a human dimension fundamentally as opposed to an excessively hubristic predisposition to conquer nature at whatever cost. Finally, from Rudofsky's vantage, these principles are usefully to be understood as timeless guidelines for the future as well as descriptions of the past. According to Rudofsky, sophisticated people seek rugged country where what is intrinsic holds sway. His search for the origins of a humanistic architecture was always in rugged terrain where people's lives must necessarily challenge the difficulties of topography and the vicissitudes of climate. His primary heuristic interest was in elucidating the solutions creatively and spontaneously generated by these people in order to make such rugged locales inhabitable AND livable. Architecture Without Architects demonstrates the way in which basic solutions to complex problems were developed historically and why those solutions are so important to remain cognisant of today. ... Read more |
70. THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIGHT: Architectural Lighting Design Concepts and Techniques by Sage Russell | |
Perfect Paperback: 264
Pages
(2008-01-14)
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Fantastic Book!!!
A Must-Have Book for Everyone in Lighting
Excellent architectural lighting textbook for architecture students
Great intro to lighting
Creative logic to lighting design |
71. Architecture is Elementary: Visual Thinking Through Architectural Concepts by Nathan B Winters | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2005-09-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Awarded for its unique ink illustrations, this newly revised edition of Architecture is Elementary is a self-instruction book that concisely and coherently discusses the principles of architectural design. Stimulating lessons challenge the lay person and trigger creative responses. New features include a fresh design and layout, 50 new illustrations of recent and planned buildings, and new lessons that update the book for the world of 21st-century architecture. Customer Reviews (5)
A Concise Visual Glimpse of our Surroundings
A good book for today students
ICK AND UGH
Superior book for art teachers
An excellent resource on the subject matter! |
72. Architecture and democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon | |
Paperback: 234
Pages
(2010-09-09)
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73. Early Medieval Architecture (Oxford History of Art) by Roger Stalley | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1999-12-02)
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Early Medieval Architecture
comprehensive and entertaining
Flagship Volume in New Art History Series Both series are superbly well printed and illustrated; eachincludes maps, charts, timelines, and bibliographies.What Thames andHudson's "World of Art" series did well for several decades,these two series are now achieving in a more strictly periodizing form,with greater emphasis on method and, in the case of Oxford, on Theory. Inboth the Oxford and Everyman series, the most fascinating volumes are thosewhich treat subjects broken down or combined in unusual ways.Thus, AlisonCole's "Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts" (l995) seeks tocompare Naples, Urbino, Milan, Ferrara, and Mantua--- bringing relativeclarity to a topic that most surveys tend to gloss over.Similarly, LorenPartridge's Everyman"The Renaissance in Rome" (1996) treats theQuattrocentoand Cinquecentoin the Eternal City, chapter by chapter, interms of urban planning, churches, palaces, altarpieces, chapeldecorations, and halls of state--- all in a single volume. BeforeStalley,the two Oxford volumes I had read were Jas Elsner's"Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph" and Craig Clunas's"Art in China".Both are by younger scholars and are massivelyimbued with new (politically correct) art history.Yet both books arefilled with challenging and brilliant examples and new information. Infact, the China volume is written (like all of Clunas's work) from aperspective that is truly revolutionary in Chinese studies.At the end ofthe day, both Elsa and Clunas are so skilled, both as writers andhistorians, that even the jargon of the new art history is eclipsed by thesheer quality of the two works. Roger Stalley, Professor of the Historyof Art, at Trinity College, Dublin, writes clearly, penetratingly, andwithout jargon."Early Medieval Architecture" is deftlyconstructed, and the author claims that his chapters may be read "inalmost any order".This may indeed be the case (I read straightthrough and could scarcely put the book aside).It comes, of course, as nosmall recommendation that Stalley was a student of Peter Kidson's. Whatmakes "Early Medieval Architecture" unique is the editorialdecision to relegate the entire topic of "late" medieval buildingto a separate volume by Nicola Coldstream.Therefore, hardly a mention ismade of "Gothic--- the question that Stalley addresses being:"What is Romanesque?"Like its subject the book is suitablyaustere, yet it is not without personality.The endnotes are unobtrusive,and there is a state- of-the-art Bibliographic Essay.All this issupplemented by some 150 varied and informative photographs and redrawnplans and building sections.There is virtually no attention to sculpture,as befits a scholar whose interests and sympathies are Cistercian; however,there is a sensitive underlying concern with the "language ofarchitecture" itself, such that the book would give pleasure to anyworking architect. Stalley has given us ten chapters starting with"The Christian Basilica", where his subject overlaps slightlywith that of the Elsner's book.Appropriately, the argument returns againand again to Rome.The next chapter is an exercise in setting forth thearchitecture of the Carolingian Renaissance, where light is shed in an areaof architectural history that for the novice is more typically hedged withexceptions and speculation.A third chapter pursues the "iconographyof architecture" in Rome, Milan, Ravenna, and Jerusalem, as well aslesser-known places. Chapter 4 is devoted to secular architecture andis somewhat revisionist in tone.The very fact that such an exercise isprovided bodes well for the clarity of Stalley's enterprise, and there arenumerous photographs throughout the book that succeed in demonstrating arelationship between ecclesiastical buildings and the architecture offeudalism. Chapters 5 and 6 treat, respectively, the patron-as-builderand the builder-as-engineer.In this, the architectural expertise ofcertain early patrons is stressed, while the engineering argument is softpeddled, in the sense that techniques of vaulting are not allowed todominate a more all-embracingexplanation of the general integrity of thebuilding fabric. As the author reminds us, the story of vaulting has toooften been permitted to get out of hand, leading the discussion of earlymedieval structure well beyond what is warranted by evidence and probablyaway from what must have been the original aims and concerns of earlymedieval builders themselves, whether "engineers" ornot. Chapters 7 and 8 deal with the influences of pilgrimage andmonasticism on early medieval building. Here a number of relevantstatistics and medieval texts are cited that raise the discussion wellabove what is ordinarily expected to suffice the undergraduate reader.Forexample, the names of the seven major services or "offices" ofBenedictine communal worship are set out and, where needed, explanation isoffered.The discussion of the famous St. Gall plan is commendable in itsdetail, while the full-page photographic detail of the plan is printed incolor to show the use of red ink on parchment.Included here is mentionand illustration of the recently restored Cistercian abbey church atFontenay, which as a caption points out, may reflect the destroyed motherhouse at Clairvaux. The final two chapters are a magisterialrecapitulation of the "Language of Architecture", starting off"During the course of the eleventh century a new architecturallanguage emerged in western Europe...", and of its subsequent diversitythroughout Europe.In summary, this is an exciting book that matches someof the recent strides forward in early medieval social and politicalhistory and provides a superlative discussion of a topic that has rarelybeen so coherentlypresented and illustrated in a single volume. DavidB. Stewart, Tokyo Institute of Technology ... Read more |
74. Architecture Shapes by Michael J Crosbie | |
Hardcover: 15
Pages
(1993-09)
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Fantastic with one flaw
Fun reading
My twins Love this book
My twins LOVE this book! |
75. Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(2009-09-07)
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76. The Four Books on Architecture by Andrea Palladio | |
Paperback: 472
Pages
(2002-09-09)
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Quatro Libri
Excellent book
Andrea Palladio: The Four Books on Architecture
Modern Translation Details Ancient Architectural Secrets In hisFour Books ofArchitecture of 1570, Andrea Palladio balancedillustrations of ancientRoman construction,that he had drawn from observing ruins,with brief,straightforward practical interpretations of historicaldescriptions ofRoman architectural design and construction from Vitruvius's FirstCenturyBC Treatise on Roman And Greek architecture, which had been found a centurybefore in a Swiss monastery.To this treatise on Roman architecture,Palladio added examples of his own imaginative designs to demonstrate howancient principles of engineering, planning, construction and decorationcould enhance public and private buildings of his day. Palladio'ssuccessful Four Books were published and translated many times. They becameone of the most cited references for architects in the West, where theydominated architectural studies until academic training for architectsbecame standard in the 19th century.Variations on Palladio's designs areeverywhere. Thomas Jefferson's house, Montecello, is one of the best knownexamples in the U.S.. Jeffersonowned a copy of Palladio's 1570 edition ofthe Four Books. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield'swell written,carefully annotated scholarly, 1997translation of Palladio's Four Books--the first new English translation since 1738-- from MIT Press is apleasure to read for what it reveals much about both great principles andfine detail of classicaldesign and construction practices. The textexplains how Palladioorganized roomsin urban palaces as well as how hearranged living, storageand work areas in his rural villas to takeadvantage of the climate.Practical details about construction include building foundations, sizing windows, designingclassical columns as wellas instructions for to selectingand harvesting timber: Cut treesonly inthe fall after the sap has run out. Cure the lumber, covered withexcrement,under a shelter for two years to prevent rot. The text alsodetails how toquarry, cut and set stone --always in place--, how toprepare cement, mortar and concrete and how to build masonryformedconcrete walls, as the Romans did. The reinforced masonry used today is thesame inprinciple as Roman walls. We have merelymodified the pratice inthis century with larger hollow bricks,Portland cement and steelreinforcing. It's not possible to understand Roman and modernarchitectural history in the West or building technology with withoutstudying Palladio.Original editions of Palladio's 1570 book are availablein a few rare book libraries. Occasionally a copy turns up in rare bookauctions.Robert Tavernor'snew English translationof the Four Booksmakes Palladio accessible to modern English readers.
An exemplary edition |
77. Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice: Tools, Tips, Best Practices, Ready-to-Use Insights (The Enterprise Series) by Martin van den Berg, Marlies van Steenbergen | |
Paperback: 205
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book provides practical advice on how to develop an enterprise architecture practice. The authors developed different tools and models to support organizations in implementing and professionalizing an enterprise architecture function. Coverage applies these tools and models to a number of different organizations and, as a result, will help readers avoid potential pitfalls and achieve success with enterprise architecture. Customer Reviews (1)
Good book for beginners |
78. The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Fifth Edition (Dictionary, Penguin) by John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Nikolaus Pevsner | |
Paperback: 656
Pages
(2000-03-01)
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Perfect!
a necessity for current architects and architecture students
more objective
An essential for everyone's reference shelf . |
79. The seven lamps of architecture; by John Ruskin | |
Paperback: 228
Pages
(2010-09-09)
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rip off
Be forewarned:Unashamed moralizing and aesthetic certainty
outdated
Architecture's Most Influential Written Work
Wonderful architectural moralism |
80. Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook by Jane Vandenburgh | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2010-08-17)
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