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Theory of architecture

Hardcover. Bar, surface, body, and space are the fundamental elements of the design process. Every form, however complex, may be understood as a variation of them. This title represents a foundational work for architects, designers, and lay people with an interest in cultural history: the unrivaled grammar of design. Translator(s): Gussen, James; Lindberg, Steven. Num Pages: 179 pages, 900 black & white illustrations, 400 colour illustrations, 900 schw.-w. u. 400 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AK; AMA; AMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 320 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1589.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Birkhäuser Architecture
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764367619
ISBN
9783764367619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Paperback. Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in a new design. This volume investigates the relationship of art and building reuse. How can art transform the economics of a built context? Editor(s): Wong, Liliane; Berger, Markus; Rhode Island School of Design. Series: Int | AR. Num Pages: 136 pages, 50 black & white illustrations, 100 colour illustrations, 50 schw.-w. u. 100 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: ABC; AMA; AMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 281 x 11. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Birkhauser
Condition
New
SKU
V9783035608342
ISBN
9783035608342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.07

Hardcover. Examines how photos are used to digitally reproduce, inform about, and archive buildings. This book is dedicated to the concept of the use of a building being the visual content of architectural photography, and also questions how the photograph influences the constructed reality. Editor(s): Fitz, Angelika; Lenz, Gabriele. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 200 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 290 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Birkhauser
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783035605860
ISBN
9783035605860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 28.84

Paperback. Editor(s): Howard, Michelle. Num Pages: 256 pages, 350 black & white illustrations, 350 schw.-w. Abb. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 246 x 25. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783035604177
ISBN
9783035604177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 44.38

Hardback. Essays for Eric Fernie. 430 pages, 177, 177 black and white. Editor(s): Franklin, Jill A.; Heslop, T. A.; Stevenson, Christine. Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AMA. Dimension: 252 x 181 x 34. Weight: 1258.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843837817
ISBN
9781843837817
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.56

Hardback. This richly detailed study explores the issue of how architects view the phenomenal world. Mallgrave sketches various moments of architectural thought as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory. He later repositions this question from the perspective of contemporary neuroscience. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405195850
ISBN
9781405195850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.43

Paperback. Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Bending, Stephen. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; HBA; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405105354
ISBN
9781405105354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.14

Paperback. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 color illustrations, 43 black-and-white illustrations, 48 color photographs, 1 black-a. BIC Classification: 1DST; AMA; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 918.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884023678
ISBN
9780884023678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353089
ISBN
9780822353089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 129 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639137
ISBN
9780816639137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.72

Paperback. In its exploration of how spaces become places, The Spaces between Buildings invites readers to see anew the spaces they encounter every day and often take for granted. Series: Center Books on Space, Place and Time. Num Pages: 240 pages, 52, 52 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMA; AMG; AMK; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801863318
ISBN
9780801863318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.11

Hardback. * A sophisticated account of the work of key German thinkers, including Benjamin and Simmel, and their writings about the city. * Will have a wide--ranging approach, appealing to students and scholars of social theory but also urban studies and architecture. * Features 15 illustrations. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AMA; JFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745609676
ISBN
9780745609676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.61

Paperback. By way of more than 2,000 years of architectural history, this illustrated book defines and shows the major components of the art - from theory, plans, and models to structural elements such as columns, arches, and domes, to materials and decorative elements. Num Pages: 384 pages, 325 color illus. BIC Classification: AMA; AMC; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 116 x 199 x 33. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141503
ISBN
9780691141503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. Since its early twentieth-century peak, this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. This book tells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 49 halftones. 2 line illus. 17 tables. BIC Classification: AMA; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138473
ISBN
9780691138473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. * Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment. * Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances. Editor(s): Ballantyne, Andrew. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8. BIC Classification: AMA; AMC; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631229445
ISBN
9780631229445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.23

Paperback. This book examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which its image has been formulated and presented. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; AMA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 353 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631216674
ISBN
9780631216674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.87

Paperback. In this age of ever--increasing environmental awareness, the issue of sustainability is set to become the dominant factor in architectural design. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations (some colour) facsimiles, plans. BIC Classification: AMA; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 276 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471486602
ISBN
9780471486602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.60

Paperback. The Theory of Architecture Concepts, Themes & Practices Paul-Alan Johnson Although it has long been thought that theory directs architectural practice, no one has explained precisely how the connection between theory and practice is supposed to work. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 190 x 27. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471285335
ISBN
9780471285335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 108.85

Paperback. In order for a book to succeed in presenting a theory of architecture, it must address aspects of imagination and creativity as well as the channels one can use to achieve truly significant architectural design. Num Pages: 320 pages, 103 line drawings, 94 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 280 x 213 x 17. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471285304
ISBN
9780471285304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.29

Paperback. Much recent literature dealing with the formation of modern cities, particularly in developing countries has not adequately conveyed the complexity of the issues. Using a selection of examples from around the world and from the past two centuries, this book explores the transfers of models that seek to shape urban environments. Editor(s): Nasr, Joe; Volait, Mercedes. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: AMA; AMVD; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470851609
ISBN
9780470851609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.90

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