The book weaves together OMA projects by scale, using drawings, collages, images, and texts to challenge conventional understand of architecture, scale, and the city | Recommended by Becky Quintal, This book presents some of the architect's projects, discussing the language adopted from the technical, structural, philosophical and social point of view | Recommended by Matheus Pereira, Admirers of the Swiss architect's sensitive approach to building and form should consider this text required reading for practice. published, avg rating 0.0 — It's an invaluable insight into how one of the most exciting contemporary firms works, thinks, and plans for the future | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, If non-architects know any practicing architect today, it's probably Bjarke Ingels. 1 rating — From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy … | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, You're unlikely to find this book on any typical architecture reading lists, but that doesn't make it any less essential. Actually, practically nothing is going on.” 3,437 ratings — The popular image of the architect is one of ego and power - but as any practicing architect will tell you, this is rarely (at best) the truth. You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! But architecture (particularly vernacular design) has long been built on traditions surrounding thermal comfort, ranging from Roman baths to Islamic gardens to the porches of Southern US homes. Publisher: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. published 2002, avg rating 4.23 — published 1960, avg rating 4.45 — Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. To support Open Culture’s continued operation, please consider making a donation. John Lobell: Louis Kahn – Architecture as Philosophy ISBN: 9781580935289 Good approach, but potential not fully realised. Read Online Now; 77.6k. SHARES. Architecture has deep wells of research, thought, and theory that are unseen on the surface of a structure. 0 ratings — This novel describes the evolution of Gothic architecture as a response to its Romanesque precursor against the backdrop of (lightly fictionalized) medieval European life | Recommended by Martita Vial. 65 ratings — This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By John Lobell Publisher: The Monacelli Press Published: June 2020. A very useful book for all architects | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, Really beautifully written book on the poetics of space within the home. published 1982, avg rating 4.50 — published 1959, avg rating 3.77 — published 2017, avg rating 4.35 — This book is an excellent dive into their thinking in their own words, and includes a massive (though unfortunately black and white) selection of their famous collages. published, avg rating 5.00 — Books. Louis Kahn kept form, structure and history paradigmatically together. The legendary British group created visions for cities that still feel fresh and fantastical today, and are carried on by designers such as Neil Denari, Lebbeus Woods, and Morphosis. The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars £9.99. A book for Hundertwasser fans, but … We notice how a wall touches the ground, how a railing curves underneath our hand - but how do you design these things? published 2002, avg rating 3.33 — Books; Fiction and Philosophy; Filters. This book provides a vast variety of examples to help architects consider and design the details | Recommended by Collin Abdallah, The field experiences developed by Elemental and Alejandro Aravena, winner of the 2016 Pritzker Prize and Director of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, are compiled in this book that not only tells the history of the team but also presents its financing strategies and the participatory methods used | Recommended by José Tomás Franco, In an increasingly air-conditioned environment, it can be easy to discount thermal comfort in the design of a building. Keep up to date with architecture and design news on Architectural Digest, including profiles on top talent, building announcements and new projects. An excellent selection of authors and prevailing subjects | Recommended by Antonia Piñeiro, This book studies how architectural production is popularized and inclined to design erotic spaces based on a specific context, demonstrating how different factors of the modern culture shaped the places we inhabit | Recommended by Monica Arellano, According to Habraken, architects consider the context to be the 'ordinary' into which they are challenged to produce the 'extraordinary.' 67 ratings — 90 ratings — Order the book. The contributors—philosophers, media theorists, artists, curators, writers and architects including such notable figures as Jacques Rancière, Graham Harman, and Elaine Scarry—build a compelling framework for a new aesthetic discourse. Philosophy for Architects is an engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions ofinterest to students of architectural theory. But as vernacular architecture disappears, ordinary environments are more difficult to define. From his tentative enthusiasm for Archigram to his views on the high-tech architecture of the 80s and 90s, his opinions need not be a mystery | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, García Vásquez reveals how the contemporary city has evolved, according to psychologists, historians, and architects | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, A compilation of Piranesi's etchings of prisons, Le Carceri represents not only a huge artistic accomplishment but also a milestone on architectural perception with its numerous vaults, staircases and other ambiguous structures | Recommended by Romullo Baratto. 0 avg rating • (0 ratings by Goodreads) Hardcover ISBN 10: 3932565568 ISBN 13: 9783932565564. 2 ratings — 1,961 ratings — | Recommended by Katherine Allen, In this 1960s classic, Kevin Lynch presents studies of how cities are perceived and imagined, and shows how his findings can impact the building and rebuilding of cities | Recommended by Becky Quintal, Explains the beauty of oriental architecture through their perception of light and shadows in their art and architectural traditions | Recommended by Martita Vial, Seminal work for the history of architecture, the authors analyze the Las Vegas' strip to better comprehend the common and ordinary architecture, rather than the iconic buildings proclaimed by modernism | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, Mutations' reflects on the transformations that urban accelerating processes inflict on our environment, and on the spaces in which architecture can still operate | Recommended by Victor Delaqua, It presents appropriate standard measures and design tips. 250 ratings — “John Lobell's book Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy adds effectively to the Kahn legacy, and its clear order might even be said to echo the order of Kahn's buildings. How are they? By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman’s architecture with his theory. published 1957, avg rating 0.0 — The buildings of the world, from homes to skyscrapers, churches to sheds, are met with a delightful appreciation for complicated craftsmanship. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's "territory" is one of the key dimensions of modern society. 44 ratings — From essays to monographs, urban theory to graphic novels, each of the following either engage directly with or flirt on the edges of architecture. Robert Bevan guides the reader through the architectural landscape in times of and after a conflict, giving words to what we know but don't often say: that the built environment has cultural and personal significance that stretches far beyond shelter. This book systematically reviews the intense structural experimentation that marked Kahn’s work since the beginning and would eventually lead him to an almost constant adoption of ‘hollow’ structural forms. Essays offer invaluable insight into not just the buildings selected but to the idea of the section itself | Recommended by Kaley Overstreet, Oppositions Reader collects the most important essays from 26 issues of Oppositions, the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS). One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. 6 ratings — The process is one of balance and reconciliation, illuminated through drawings, photographs, and interviews | Recommended by Niall Patrick Walsh, Set up as a conversation between WORKac co-founders Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, We'll Get there When We Cross that Bridge switches seamlessly between portfolio review and an impassioned discussion of issues relevant to the practice. Disclosure: ArchDaily earns a commission from Amazon on books and items purchased through their platform. published 2006, avg rating 4.58 — the world's most visited architecture website, © All rights reserved. PRS Sivakumar based on his 3 decades of work experience Home; Register; Sign In +91 11 4242 0837; search. Architecture depends on just about everything: the client, contractors, code, materials, zoning, budget…how much of a building is actually designed by the designer? In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are fundamentally outside each another—architecture and philosophy—can meet in a third space to interact free of their internal constraints. What are their favorite foods? Hall introduced the science of proxemics to demonstrate how human's use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural interactions, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal | Recommended by Christele Harrouk, Edited by dpr-Barcelona's Ethel Baraona, Het Nieuwe Instituut's Marina Otero and FAST's Malkit Shoshan, Drone brings together researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds whose work seeks to understand and represent the nature and extent of drone operations | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Texts by Rodolphe El-Khoury, Andrew Payne (Hardcover), Architecture and Participation (Paperback), Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined (Hardcover), The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (Paperback), You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore (Paperback), Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (Paperback), 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover), Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society (Hardcover). 15 ratings — The Poetics of Space book. | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or things. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Kate Ascher reviews the systems that manage traffic, water, heat, electricity, and much more, tying architecture not just to an image of the urban environment, but to the actual workings of the city | Recommended by Collin Abdallah, Yona Friedman takes up the work of groups such as Archigram to propose cities that propose new ways of inhabiting cities | Recommended by Monica Arellano, This book systematically and exhaustively analyzes the foundations of architectural form, space, and arrangement based on prototypes and historical examples from all periods, cultures and geographical areas | Recommended by Martita Vial, For many architects, designing for the senses often means simply designing for sight and touch. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy … Im weltweit umfassendsten Index für Volltextbücher suchen. Of the ten books of De Architectura , eight are dedicated to building materials, civic infrastructure, civil engineering and technology (and the underlying science), and building types other than temples. : Technology and the Threat of Disaster £14.99. 7,335 ratings — Error rating book. The book is the result of extensive interdisciplinary research, as well as the author's extensive experience as a landscape architect | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, Leonardo Benevolo describes the basic history of the man-made environment in Europe | Recommended by Pedro Vada, If you are interested in urban form issues, this analysis of different cities explains the characteristics of the open system and closed spaces | Recommended by Fabian Dejtiar, The book describes essential elements that contribute to people’s enjoyment of spaces in the public realm | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, The geographer Michael Batty presents the new vision about cities as systems of network and flows | Recommended by Pedro Vada, Economist Edward Glaeser explains how and why cities shape the economy, including how the ways we develop and build we affect the future of cities' inhabitants | Recommended by Becky Quintal, In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socio-economic and political-political terms | Recommended by Antonia Piñeiro, A guide to study the city based on the theories of the situationists and the drift of Guy Débord that studies the simultaneous episodes that make up the urban | Recommended by Monica Arellano, The architect proposes explanations about climatic contexts, forms, and materials that enable energy, water and sanitation solutions that help in the work, through the use of alternative eco-technologies | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, A book that features numerous solutions from Materials, Processes, Structures | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, Augé uses the concept of “supermodernity” to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. By this Venturi showed a deep … Until its author reunited them under the generic title of "The Future of Architecture", the lessons of the great master exhausted the original editions. This book is a big part of the reason why! View all copies of this ISBN edition: Synopsis; About this title; Book by "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. fashionable architects, for example; have no relation with either construction or its history. This book exposes the consistency and coherence of the seemingly unrelated episodes of Manhattan's urbanism focusing on its "culture of congestion." In his rejection of architectural modernism Venturi gave rise to the new cultural setting. This little handbook acts as a brief introduction to philosophical ideas and how they intersect with architecture: its reception and appreciation as well as its practice. It was essential that these enlightening texts be brought to light for the new generations of architectural scholars | Recommended by Martita Vial della Maggiora, This book presents and discusses part of the works of Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld, from homes to hotels in Brazil and other regions of the world. And yet a concern for architecture … published 2004, avg rating 3.67 — An architect's design philosophy as shared by Ar. 64 ratings — Architecture, under their idiosyncratic gaze, is lively, ironic, and even a bit awkward. This essay refers generally to the basic creative output ofarchitects, in any (unspecified) form, as “architecturalobjects”. 1st Edition. This is surely the way we should talk about our cities: as shimmering reflections and formless memories. 8 ratings — 1,453 ratings — 9 ratings — 321 ratings — published 1989, avg rating 4.00 — So, for those of you looking to expand your bookshelf (or confirm your own tastes), ArchDaily has gathered a broad list of architectural books that we consider of interest to those in the field. To be outside allows one a fresh perspective on the inside. published 1991, avg rating 4.19 — published, avg rating 4.36 — 330 ratings — published 1978, avg rating 3.93 — Architecture Books | Fans of architecture are a truly vibrant and insatiable people. I particularly appreciate the detailed analysis of materials, details, and structure.” —David G. De Long, University of Pennsylvania published 2000, avg rating 4.00 — Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. In this fascinating essay, he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity | Recommended by Martita Vial, Gehl and Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension | Recommended by Eduardo Souza, In a time where the future looks darker than ever, Alex Krieger reminds us of how utopian dreams once galvanized American (city planning) history and shows that our current worries―rather than dreams―require new utopias to be imagined | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick. Architecture as Philosophy, The Works of Imre Makovecz. ISBN-13: 978-0993053009. 2 ratings — 5 ratings — Plastic Emotions £9.99. The leveling of buildings in war is less often the byproduct of hostilities than it is the hostilities themselves. 8 ratings — In Zevi's capable hands the components of architecture come alive, offering an illuminating and provocative perspective on the field of architecture | Recommended by Martita Vial. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. What's new Apocalypse How? | Recommended by José Tomás Franco, Compilation of eight lectures from Rafael Moneo on eight of the most renowned architects from the last half-century, including James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas | Recommended by Romullo Baratto, The great Brazilian geographer presents an alternative theory of globalization | Recommended by Pedro Vada, This volume presents, in a sequence of ten “conversations,” Bernard Tschumi's autobiography in architecture | Recommended by Nicolas Valencia, The most famous architectural critic offers an architectural dictionary to understand how we live spaces | Recommended by Monica Arellano, This book brings Gautherot's photos about the construction of the building of Brasilia with essays by Kenneth Frampton | Recommended by Pedro Vada, Richard Rogers presents a program of action for the future of cities. The books on this list were chosen by our editors, and are categorized loosely by type. 1,788 ratings — Meine Mediathek. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction. published, avg rating 4.07 — This book gives a comprehensive overview of designing for sound, from detailed drawings to texts on the subject. Refresh and try again. Without a clear counterpoint, how can architects situate concepts of innovation in architecture? 2 ratings — published 1996, avg rating 4.17 — 2,629 ratings — Discussing cinema as ‘mass art’, they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing ‘mass art’. published 2006, avg rating 4.50 — Quotations of Hundertwasser which inspire contemplation and explain his philosophy alternate with photographs of impressive Hundertwasser architecture projects. 3 ratings — Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. published, avg rating 4.20 — This is one of the best philosophy books in the history of medical practice, and forms the foundation of our current understanding of human health and disease. Each city is lushly, if fragmentarily described. 1,549 ratings — Read 415 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 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