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Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

by Rudolf Wittkower
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (1971-09-01)
ISBN: 0393005992
EAN: 9780393005998
Binding/Media: Paperback - 246 pages
Edition: 1st Publ. in Norton Library 1971
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"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review.

A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic.

Focusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to Palladio-this bestselling classic explains the true significance of certain architectural forms, bringing to light the connections between the architecture and culture of the period. With publication scheduled to coincide with that of Architectonics of Humanism, this important reference is superbly reproduced in a new, large square format.

The late RUDOLF WITTKOWER was a college professor and eminent scholar residing in London, England.

Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention

by William Hubbard
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The MIT Press (1982-06-17)
ISBN: 0262580578
EAN: 9780262580571
Binding/Media: Paperback - 272 pages
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This book is about a failure of nerve in architecture, a failure the author contends is as threatening to human values as it is to the creative act itself.

For almost two decades the tenets of modern architecture have been under attack, but until now the attack has centered on the abuses of modernist buildings rather than the abuses of modernist ideas. Complicity and Conviction shows how both modernism and its alternative, postmodernism, would have us believe that the form of buildings comes not from human volition but from extrapersonal forces at work in the world. The book asserts that this idea has become so pervasive that today neither architects nor society see architecture as a vehicle for embodying human concerns.

Complicity and Conviction seeks to rescue architecture from this self-imposed irrelevance by taking a new look at convention—not as a mindless habit but as a realistic means for giving concrete form to cherished human values. The book shows how three systems of conventions reflect such values: games, where made-up rules provide a realm of action that embodies our sense of what's fair; typography, where the conventions of printing produce pages that look right; and the law, where by following conventional procedures, judges are able to create rulings that embody our sense of what is just. It points out that while we know all of these creations (the rules, the pages, the laws) could have been otherwise, still we are able to give our complicity to them and feel a conviction that they are somehow right.

Complicity and Conviction uncovers the principles or strategies that elicit this complicity from us and then reformulates them as strategies for producing architecture. The book illustrates how two building projects unwittingly but successfully embody these strategies—Thomas Jefferson's Lawn at the University of Virginia (where the author received his undergraduate degree) and Kresge College at the University of California at Santa Cruz ("Having visited and been deeply affected by Kresge, I wanted to see if my critical method could isolate and highlight reasons for liking it that would 'ring true,' that would make articulate and systematic the unformed liking I felt for the place.") A final chapter discusses works by Venturi, Johnson, Graves, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, Meier, and Eisenman, showing specific ways in which their works both support and undercut our sense of conviction.

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Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period (Dover Architecture)

by Hugh Morrison
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dover Publications (2011-01-17)
ISBN: 0486254925
EAN: 9780486254920
Binding/Media: Paperback - 640 pages
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Hailed as "a model of scholarship" by the Saturday Review, this comprehensive survey of domestic and public architecture ranges from early settlers' primitive cabins to Greek Revival mansions of the early 1800s. Nearly 500 illustrations complement the text, praised by The New York Times as "entertaining, vigorous, and clearly written."

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Green Architecture: Design for an Energy-Conscious Future

by Brenda Vale, Robert Vale
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bulfinch Pr (1991-10)
ISBN: 0821218662
EAN: 9780821218662
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 192 pages
Edition: 1st US edition
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Morality and Architecture: The Development of a Theme in Architectural History and Theory from the Gothic Revival to the Modern

by David Watkin
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press (1984-10)
ISBN: 0226874877
EAN: 9780226874876
Binding/Media: Paperback - 126 pages
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The Development of a Theme in Architectural History and Theory from the Gothic Revival to the Modern Movement.

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Sustainable Architecture White Papers: Essays on Design and Building for a Sustainable Future (Earth Pledge Foundation Series on Sustainable Development)

by Earth Pledge
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Earth Pledge Foundation (2001-02)
ISBN: 0967509912
EAN: 9780967509914
Binding/Media: Paperback - 324 pages
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A remarkable collection of vibrant and diverse readings, Sustainable Architecture White Papers explores the critical link between our built and natural environments. Cutting-edge architecture, design, planning, public works, and education leaders illustrate the value of a new architectural strategy. Sustainable Architecture teaches us that when creative processes are used in conjunction with social, cultural, and environmental systems, architecture can meet the aesthetic and practical requirements of today without compromising the needs of future generations.

A sample of the contents reveals a top-notch team of forward-thinkers: William McDonough: "Eco-effectiveness: A New Design Strategy" Croxton Collaborative Architects: "Human-Centered Sustainable Design" Architectural Record: "Taking the Elective Out of Environmental Education" Karl Linn: "Reclaiming the Commons" Pliny Fisk: "Advanced Green Building" James Wines: "The Art of Architecture in the Age of Ecology" Emilio Ambasz: "Green Towns"

This beautifully assembled compilation, published by the Earth Pledge Foundation, follows on the success of Sustainable Cuisine White Papers and reflects the organization's mission to promote sustainability, primarily in the areas of architecture and cuisine. Working with architects, builders and designers, and farmers, chefs, and restaurateurs, Earth Pledge creates nonprofit media projects that promote "green living" in these respective areas.

With a preface by Paul Hawken, this is a star-studded collection of essays on sustainable architecture that speaks to professionals and nonprofessionals alike. A perfect read for anyone interested in how the architecture and design aesthetic connects with environmental sustainability.

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The Dynamics of Architectural Form

by Rudolf Arnheim
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of California Press (1978-02-07)
ISBN: 0520035518
EAN: 9780520035515
Binding/Media: Paperback - 289 pages
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The power of the visual effects exerted by architecture, in our own time and in the past, has been largely neglected in recent discussion, with its focus on practical utility and other economic and social factors. Such an account of the human needs met by architecture remains sadly incomplete unless the expressive visual qualities of buildings are recognized as among their foremost effects.
A fresh approach is overdue--an attempt to analyze these psychological qualities with the principles of visual perception. Such an attempt is made in this new volume by Rudolf Arnheim, who has been known, since the publication of his Art and Visual Perception, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. As he now turns his experienced eye to the visual aspects of buildings, he amplifies his theories with new features specific to the medium of the architect. Arnheim explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture with his customary clarity and precision. Of particular interest is his thorough analysis of order and disorder in design, the nature of visual symbolism, and the relations between practical function and perceptual expression.
Arheim's ability to deal with theoretical principles in a concrete and easily accessible way assures him the attention of the general reader whose concern with the arts leads to the aesthetic and psychological aspects of the broader environment. At the same time, Arnheim's strikingly original approach will stimulate professionals and students concerned with the theory and practice of modern and historical architecture.

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The Grammar of Architecture

by et al., Emily Cole, Emily Cole
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bulfinch (2002-06)
ISBN: 0821227742
EAN: 9780821227749
Binding/Media: Paperback - 352 pages
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Do you know a Doric column when you see one? Perhaps. But what about an entablature, a pylon, or a pagoda? THE GRAMMAR OF ARCHITECTURE uses beautifully engraved plates from the great works of architectural history to illustrate a show-and-tell journey around the architecture of civilizations east and west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Extended captions and annotations supply the reader with a complete naming of parts and an explanation of how architects have planned and made the buildings of the past, from Amhotep to the Palladio, and Vitruvius to Wren.

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The Seagram Building (Building Block Series)

by Ezra Stoller (Foreword: F. Schulze)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (2000-01-24)
ISBN: 1568982011
EAN: 9781568982014
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 88 pages
Edition: 1
Condition: Used: Very Good
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These new titles in the Building Blocks series showcase four more icons of modern architecture, as portrayed by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. Two buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater and Taliesin West, Louis Kahn's Salk Institute, and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building are shown in original condition, with original furnishings, as the architects intended them to be seen. Wright's integration of architecture and landscape, Kahn's dramatic yet humane monumentality, and Mies's austere elegance are revealed and preserved in Stoller's classic compositions. Small, elegant, and affordable, each volume presents the photo-graphs that made these structures famous. With 60 rich duotone plates (and 16 color plates for Taliesin West), a brief introduction, and newly drawn plans, sections, and elevations, these books constitute the essential photographic histories of the most important works of modernism.

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