Architecture

Discover how traditional architecture can improve well-being in 'Architecture For Human Well-Being'. Learn how to implement it in new construction for happier communities.

Discover how traditional architecture can improve well-being in 'Architecture For Human Well-Being'. Learn how to implement it in new construction for happier communities.

This book is a lively, readable account of two revealing figures in the history of that renaissance: the urban economist Jane Jacobs and the architect Christopher Alexander.

The reader finds collected here a series of essays on twenty related topics that we wrote to introduce designers and design students to new developments in the sciences underlying modern design, with a focus on the design of human settlement.

This publication, an extended extract from my habilitation to direct research, defended on 4 March 2021 at the University in Strasbourg.

It is hard to imagine today that relatively few construction plans have been found for the impressive churches and cathedrals of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. How did the master builders construct the churches? Did they even need building plans?

This volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, Byzantine Constantinople: the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the East.

THE history, the features, and the most famous examples of European architecture, during a period extending from the rise of the Gothic, or pointed, style in the twelfth century to the general depression which overtook the Renaissance style at the close..

This book examines the relationship between Soviet and Western architecture from the 1950s to 1970s, focusing on how Soviet architects engaged with Western influences through travel, conferences, and migration.

At a time of great challenges for the built environment and for human civilizations, this book on architecture, science and philosophy offers a broad perspective and a hopeful way forward.

Millais offers a rarely heard perspective on the Modern movement, explaining its failures and how the well-meaning “revolutionaries” behind it gained and maintained power.

In this book, forty-nine experts, many of them Parisians, show that Paris City Hall threatens to damage Paris irreparably. They call on the world to aid Paris.

In this book, Nikos A. Salingaros sets the stage for a new thinking about the current status of architecture. Twelve essays critically analyse evolutionary aspects of Modernism and post-Modernism and their resulting end-style: Deconstructivism.

Organized in 44 sections, this book contains lecture notes and readings from a course based on Christopher Alexander's "The Nature of Order, Book 1", and using Salingaros' "A Theory of Architecture".

More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects.

This volume presents a distillation of key essays by Congress for the New Urbanism proponents in their own words, as well as perspectives from allied thinkers and other outside observers.

This volume presents a distillation of key essays by Congress for the New Urbanism proponents in their own words, as well as perspectives from allied thinkers and other outside observers.

This book takes innovative topics – such as algorithms, fractals, cellular automata, complexity, emergence, information theory, symmetries, scaling, codes, and networks – and introduces them into architecture and urbanism for the first time.

A new collection of so-called “design patterns” aimed at contemporary urban challenges, and following the instructions of the classic 1977 book A Pattern Language. By authors including long-time collaborators with the first book’s lead author.

A new collection of so-called “design patterns” aimed at contemporary urban challenges, and following the instructions of the classic 1977 book A Pattern Language. By authors including long-time collaborators with the first book’s lead author.

Alexander's classic text, published together with new interpretive commentaries and discussions by leading theorists and practitioners. This volume is destined to become an invaluable resource for a new generation of students and practitioners.

Stap terug in de tijd en ontdek het historische hart van Coevorden door de bijzondere lens van Jan Veenstra. Deze beelden nemen je mee op een betoverende reis door de geschiedenis, vastgelegd met een hedendaagse twist.

Ontdek hoe traditionele architectuur het welzijn kan verbeteren in 'Architectuur Voor Menselijk Welzijn'. Leer wat u kunt implementeren in nieuwbouw voor gelukkigere gemeenschappen.

Roermond kent vele oude en monumentale gebouwen met bijzondere, karakteristieke gevels, maar ook opvallende eigentijdse architectuur. In dit boek geeft de schrijver een overzicht van wat de stad te bieden heeft op het gebied van bouwkunst.

Die Architekturgeschichte des Mittelalters steckt voller Überraschungen. Für die beeindruckenden Kirchen und Kathedralen der Romanik und Gotik existierten kaum Planskizzen, jedoch zahlreiche Zirkel. Wie sind die Kathedralen ohne Baupläne entstanden?

Chartres ist eine der meistbesuchten Kathedralen Frankreichs. Erbaut im Mittelalter, gehört sie zu den bedeutendsten gotischen Bauwerken im weiteren Umkreis von Paris. Der kompakte Führer stellt die wesentlichen Besonderheiten vor.

Zu den vielleicht ungewöhnlichsten Museen in Hessen, wenn nicht sogar Deutschlands, gehört das Schenkbarsche Haus Museum in Biedenkopf, ein Privatmuseum ohne Öffnungszeiten, aber interessanten Innenräumen und einer kleinen aber feinen Ikonensammlung.

Les photos de 110 églises et chapelles du Parc naturel régional du Vexin français sont exposées dans cet album. Je vous laisse le plaisir de les découvrir.

La Sollac, qui implante ses usines à Sérémange et à Florange. Le manque de logements dans la région, avec l'arrivée de milliers d'ouvriers, est une réalité. Ainsi, une cité est construite par Sollac et pour Sollac, sur la rive droite de la Mosell

Ce recueil présente des dessins détaillés de Philippe Hernandez, mettant en lumière le riche patrimoine architectural de la Gironde. Un hommage visuel et technique essentiel pour la préservation et la restauration des édifices historiques.