"Details in Contemporary Architecture is the first volume of AsBuilt, a new series that seeks to foster a better understanding of the relationships between architectural form and technology. Details in Contemporary Architecture contains architectural details and technical drawin…
"Details in Contemporary Architecture is the first volume of AsBuilt, a new series that seeks to foster a better understanding of the relationships between architectural form and technology. Details in Contemporary Architecture contains architectural details and technical drawin…
"Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, function…
Architecture is all around us ' it is part of our lives, and its development is a central theme in the history of mankind. Learning to read a building is the route to understanding a major part of our cultural inheritance. Collins Need to Know' How to Read a Building shows you h…
Starting with the basics of analysing the home, then moving onto looking at public buildings and larger and more well-known structures, the author shows the reader how features are inherited and copied, as well as adapted with each new generation.
"This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive …
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive c…
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive c…