Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
New York 1960
Author: Robert A. M. SternPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
New York 1960 is a massive, in-depth study of the city during a period of unprecedented change. This volume--1,344 pages with more than 1,000 detailed illustrations, including new and period photographs--is part of an ongoing series on the history of New York's architecture and urbanism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Architectural Record of Design and Construction
Author: Konrad Wachsmann's Television
Author: Mark WigleyPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3956795350
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann's design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect—a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s who dedicated thirty-five post–Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture. Wachsmann turned architecture against itself. His hypnotic projects for a new kind of space were organized around the thought that television enables a different way of living together. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it. He dissolved buildings into pulsating mirages that influenced the experimental avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s; but Wigley demonstrates that this work was even more extreme than the experiments it inspired. Wigley's forensic analysis of a career shows that Wachsmann developed one of the most compelling manifestos of what architecture would need to become in the age of ubiquitous electronics.
Architectural Record
Author: American Vernacular Architecture 1870 To 1960
Author: Herbert GottfriedPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393732627
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A comprehensive examination of American vernacular buildings.
The Details of Modern Architecture
Author: Edward R. FordPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262562027
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Covering the period 1890 - 1932 this book focuses on various recognised masters explaining the detailing and construction techniques used in their buildings.
Building Structures
Author: Malcolm MillaisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415336239
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in buildings. Both interested layman and all types of building professional will benefit from the explanations given for the behaviour of structures as they form part of buildings. No prior knowledge is assumed and no mathematics is used.
Architectural Inventory and Assessment of Arsenal Acres
Author: Joseph MurpheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arsenal Acres (Center Line, Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Contemporary Architects
Author: Muriel EmanuelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134904184X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 935
Book Description
The Way We Build Now
Author: Andrew OrtonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113673709X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point of view of the designer, architect and engineer. The second part is an extensive examination of over 70 case studies. They have been carefully selected and tightly structured to present a summary of established modern methods of building construction. It contains copious ready-reference charts of design information, numerous photographs and meticulous axonometric drawings. The book is international in scope. Dual units are used throughout (SI and Imperial) and nearly half the case studies are taken from the USA. Cases are also drawn from Canada, Europe, Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong as well as 25 from the UK.