The Architectural Plates from the "Encyclopedie"
Title | The Architectural Plates from the "Encyclopedie" PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Diderot |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2013-01-23 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486157768 |
From Diderot's monumental illustrated record of 18th-century European arts and sciences: elegant renderings of architectural landmarks; drawings and plans for windmills, bridges and boats; renderings of palatial interiors and furnishings; elevations and floor plans for many well-known European theaters; scenes of 18th-century craftsmen at work in the building trades; and much more.
Form and Design in Classic Architecture
Title | Form and Design in Classic Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Stratton |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0486137015 |
Most people recognize at a glance the extraordinarily graceful proportions of classical-style buildings such as London's Syon House and Athenaeum Club and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall. Few, however, appreciate the underlying geometrical principles that lend these buildings their elegant unity of expression. Form and Design in Classic Architecture explains in simple, direct terms — and with numerous photographic plates and line illustrations — the ways in which the relationship of exterior and interior elements creates that unity and sense of completeness. Dozens of edifices by Inigo Jones, the Adam Brothers, Sir Christopher Wren, and other renowned architects appear here, in images accompanied by detailed analyses. The author presents a chapter-by-chapter view of buildings in a variety of shapes, with separate treatments of vestibules, corridors, domed and vaulted ceilings, pavilions, loggias, interior and exterior staircases, porticoes, and colonnades. The informative, readable text and handsome illustrations — as well as the sheer beauty of the buildings themselves — make this volume appealing, not only to architects and architectural historians but also to anyone with even a casual interest in architecture and design.
French Architectural Ornament
Title | French Architectural Ornament PDF eBook |
Author | Eugène Rouyer |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0486141276 |
Take a visual tour through salons, war rooms, and ballrooms in this illustrated survey, with decorative elements from doors, walls, fireplaces, cabinets, consoles, and friezes. 61 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland
Title | Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Albert E. Richardson |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780486415345 |
Detailed text and illustrations examine the buildings of the great neoclassical period, 1730–1875. The roster of masterpieces pictured and described include The Customs House, Dublin; The Bank of England, Liverpool; Newgate Prison, London; The British Museum, London; The National Gallery, Edinburgh; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and many more. 176 black-and-white illustrations.
Architecture Thinking across Boundaries
Title | Architecture Thinking across Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Rajesh Heynickx |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2021-01-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1350153184 |
While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted. Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of intellectual history. Eleven original essays explore a variety of themes and contexts, each examining how architectural knowledge has been transferred across social, spatial and disciplinary boundaries - whether through the international circulation of ideas, transdisciplinary exchanges, or transfers from design practice to theory and back again. Dissecting the frictions, transformations and resistances that mark these journeys, the essays in this book reflect upon the myriad routes that architectural knowledge has taken while developing into architectural theory. They critically enquire the interstices – geographical, temporal and epistemological – that lie beyond fixed narratives. They show how unstable, vital and eminently mobile the processes of thinking about architecture have been.
Masterpieces of American Architecture
Title | Masterpieces of American Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Warren Hoak |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2013-02-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0486147274 |
From the golden age of American architecture comes this splendid survey, documenting scores of masterpieces built between 1900 and 1930. More than 260 illustrations include plans, sections, exterior and interior details, and photographs. A sampling of featured buildings include Lincoln Memorial, Boston Public Library, Tribune Tower, and Woolworth Building.
Gibbs' Book of Architecture
Title | Gibbs' Book of Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | James Gibbs |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-05-23 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0486142345 |
Gibbs's legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martin in the Fields; the Senate House of the University of Cambridge; plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.