Since the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice independently from government-run design institutes, a new kind of architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics, has emerged. China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of insightful interviews that the book’s ...
Therefore architects, lighting designers, teachers, and researchers have written inspirational books about light. They have shared their valuable theories and turned their experience into guidelines to improve daylight design and the art of illumination. This collection offers a useful source of the ...
ImageChicago Riverwalk, Ross Barney Architects, 2016 This article was originally published on Common Edge. There’s a famous quote—it’s usually attributed to Winston Churchill—that goes, “History is written by the victors.” This cynical and largely erroneous belief could only be true if ...
Not unlike those in professions such as medicine and law, practitioners of architecture have long evinced an interest in and reliance upon written texts. The ownership and use of books among this occupational class is the subject of American Architects and Their Books, 1840–1915. The book ...
Against deterministic worldviews, by 1917 many writers sought to create works based on the revolutionary principle that people can be the architects of their own fortunes. Yet even in works of this period many readers perceive a pervasive helplessness. The moral power of Chinese fiction becomes ...
Neufert – Architects’ Data – Granada Publishing Geometry Of Design – Kimberly Elam Really, Really Last Minute Gifts When you realize you’ve really screwed up and forgotten someone and have no time to run to the store, much less order anything, you can always gift a good app. ...
All the students involved in the design, planning and production were women, a happenstance serendipitously blessed ahead of time by a Los Angeles Times article celebrating women architects. Drawing on that article and Maya Lin’s Boundaries (2000) as well as other research, the students agreed ...
The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved – planners authorities, architects and other practitioners, community workers, students and local residents. It features an accessible how-to-do-it style, best practice information on effective methods, and ...
A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley. An Illuminated Novel Written & Designed by Warren Lehrer(2013) Warren Lehrer Casebound, illustrated paper over boards with illustrated doublures. H254 x W198 x D28 mm. 300 pages. Acquired from Amazon, 3 March 2015. ...
The types of architecture are established not by architects but by society, according to the needs of its different institutions. Society sets the goals and assigns to the architect the job of finding the means of achieving them. This section of the article is concerned with architecturaltypology...