Architecture 5

Like sushi, Giga Pets, and Jackie Chan, feng shui has made its way West in a big way. Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal -- at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui's seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way……続きを見る

PRP is one of the most successful housing practices in the world. Peter Phippen, Peter Randall and David Parkes founded the practice in 1963, and since then have moved forward from their modernist beginnings, evidenced in the post-Second World War housing boom to the diverse concerns of the twenty……続きを見る

The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris. Over 210 illustrations and halftones.続きを見る

The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion as well as the ancients' methods, materials, and aesthetics. Authoritative translation.続きを見る

The first English translation of Palladio in over 250 years, and the only translation available in modern English.続きを見る

Bruce Roberts presents a photographic tour of fourteen of the famous colonial Virginia plantation houses nestled along the shores of the Lower James River from Richmond east to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Now carefully restored, often with the original furnishing, these houses are glorious monumen……続きを見る

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.続きを見る

Following the success of such bestsellers as "Brunelleschi's Dome" and "Longitude" comes the intriguing, true story of two legendary Baroque architects who would change 17th-century Rome and the world. 12 photos.続きを見る

This lyrical, room-by-room exploration of the American home past, present, and future reveals how houses reflect identity and affect daily lives.続きを見る

THE STONEBUILDER'S PRIMER, is a highly readable account of a couple's effort ot build 'a house that will outlast anything made of wood.' The author describes the complete building process in clear, easy-to-follow steps.続きを見る

This first book by Architecture Urban Design Collaborative, founded by the authors, captures three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects.続きを見る

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) presents a detailed selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing, a compeition which challenged participants to design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling.続きを見る

Homes & Interiors" offers content appropriate for both an interior design course and a consumer-based housing course. This edition places even greater emphasis on the interior design process. Units 1 & 2 address housing from a consumer point-of-view. Units 3 & 4 focus on the actual structure and s……続きを見る

Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change……続きを見る

This monograph explores the whole host of influences from Mies van der Rohe, to Richard Neutra, to Rafeal Moneo. Strong, and explicit, these outside references are both conscious and deliberate while simultaneously contradictory and perhaps even random. In his work Rahola revisits the places of ar……続きを見る

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--……続きを見る

In 1926 the fabled alchemist Fulcanelli left his remarkable manuscript concerning the Hermetic Study of Gothic Cathedral Construction with a student. He than disappeared. The book decodes the symbology found upon and within the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe which have openly displayed the secrets of……続きを見る

Basic theoretical texts for landscape architects.続きを見る

* Content ranges from isolated bucolic environments to large urban environments. * Includes many building types such as dormitories, classrooms, and research facilities. * Covers sweeping changes such as distance learning facilities, technology-driven research laboratories, and electronically enha……続きを見る

This includes tables of the Classical Orders, measured drawings of monuments, and practical instruction on classical design. 304 illustrations.続きを見る