Authors:The Chicago Architecture Foundation, Edward Keegan,
Publisher: Universe
Keywords: architecture, series, universe, chicago
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0789315335
ISBN-13: 9780789315335

Universally recognized as an architectural center, Chicago contains some of the world’s finest buildings by the most renowned architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, and many more left their stamp on the city’s skyline and, as a result, influenced the practice of architecture across the globe. This book, published in association with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, features an in-depth analysis of forty-two seminal works of Chicago architecture. This accessible and engaging volume is the latest addition to the succes

Author: Mark A. Torgerso
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: architecture, ministry, immanence, worship
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 2007-02-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0802832091
ISBN-13: 9780802832092

Author: David A. Hanser
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: architecture, national, guides, reference, france
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0313319022
ISBN-13: 9780313319020

Covering all regions of France—from Avignon’s Palace of the Popes to Versailles’ Petit Trianon—and all periods of French architecture—from the Roman theater at Orange to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris—this volume examines more than 60 of France’s most important architectural landmarks. Writing in a clear and engaging style, David Hanser, professor of architecture at Oklahoma State University, describes the features, functions, and historical importance of each structure. Besides identifying location, style, architects, and periods of initial construction and major renov

Author: Axel Ritter
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: architecture, design, interior, smart, materials
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2002-11-20
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 376437327X
ISBN-13: 9783764373276

Smart materials are architectural innovations that merge research, development, and function. With their reversible characteristics and amazing ability to respond to stimuli such as light and temperature, they have become a popular resource for architects. One of the most fascinating developments is the advent of Phase Change Materials. These materials make it possible, for example, to develop self-acting, kinetic facades and wallpaper that changes its color and pattern based on temperature, light, or touch. Smart Materials presents the development of these materials and describes their use in

Author: John B. Ward-Perkins
Publisher: Phaidon Press / Electa
Keywords: architecture, world, history, roman
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1904313191
ISBN-13: 9781904313199

The first part of the book examines the developments that originated in central Italy. It then goes on to discuss the majestic complexes of the Republican era, and the Augustan buildings that culminated in the planning of the Roman Forum. The book explains how the Romans successfully developed and exploited a revolutionary building material called opus caementicium, a composite of stone and mortar. This material made it possible for them to effectively develop new forms of structures, such as amphitheatres, public bath-houses, villas, basilicas, and markets, which were to become essential feat

Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher: Phaidon Press / Electa
Keywords: architecture, world, history, baroque
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1904313108
ISBN-13: 9781904313106

The "History of World Architecture" series offers scholarship, accessibility, extensive illustration and international scope. This text examines the principal 17th-century architectural themes - "capital city", "church" and "palace" - using the most famous examples of the period in Rome, Paris, Turin and Versailles. A large section of the book is devoted to religious architecture, analysing works by Della Porta, Maderno, Mansart, Borromini, Bernini and Guarini, envisaged in both a local and European context. The book ends with a general survey of the diffusion of the Baroque in Europe, in its

Author: Alejandro Lapunzina
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: architecture, national, guides, reference, spain
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0313319634
ISBN-13: 9780313319631

Covering all regions of Spain, from Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum to Granada’s Islamic palace of La Alhambra, and all periods of Spanish architecture, from the Roman aqueduct at Segovia to the modernistic German Pavilion in Barcelona, this volume examines 68 of Spain’s most important architectural landmarks. Writing in a clear and engaging style, Alejandro Lapunzina, associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois, describes the features, functions, and historical importance of each structure. Besides identifying location, style, architects, and periods of init