Ernst & Sohn, 2013. — 292 p. — ISBN-13 978-3433030233. Just like building physics, performance based building design was hardly an issue before the energy crises of the 1970s. With the need to upgrade energy efficiency, the interest in overall building performance grew. The term "performance" encompasses all building-related physical properties and qualities that are...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 492 p. — (Screen Classics). — ISBN-13 978-0813147185. Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award–winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920–1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North by...
RIBA Publishing, 2020 — 208 p. — ISBN 9781-85946-879-1. This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing into view the work of lesser-known architects from across the globe, alongside previously unexplored aspects of mainstream masters of the Modern, Rethinking Modernity puts forward a compelling case for the...
Routledge, 2018. — 222 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-50675-6. The theme of this book is that light is an inseparable part of architectural design, and is intended to provide students of architecture and interior design with a graphic guideline to the fundamental role lighting plays in this process. While simple light sources may be enough to satisfy practical needs, the design process...
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. — 115 p. — ISBN-13 978-0442273842. The freehand sketch is of particular importance for the understanding of Expressionist architecture - even more important, it might be argued, than the finished building. The book include more than 100 illustrations, paintings and drawing. Many drawings of this unique representative collection have never been...
Amsterdam University Press, 2007. — 336 p. — (Film Culture in Transition). — ISBN-13 978-9053569801. European cinema between World Wars I and II was renowned for its remarkable attention to detail and visual effects in set design. Visionary designers such as Vincent Korda and Alfred Junge extended their influence across national film industries in Paris, London, and Berlin,...
Amsterdam University Press, 2003. — 294 p. — (Film Culture in Transition). — ISBN-13 978-9053564943. Annette Michelson’s contributions to art and film criticism over the last three decades have been unparalleled. This volume honors her unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scholars who have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop...
Amsterdam University Press, 2013. — 260 p. — (Film Culture in Transition). — ISBN-13 978-9089644718. Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theater and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 248 p. — (Film Culture in Transition) — ISBN-13 978-9089647528. Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions...
Routledge, 2020 — 148 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138362369. Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist. By tracing the origins and promises of current technological practices in design, the book provides an alternative path, one that reconsiders the means of...
Transcript Verlag, 2019. — 346 p. — ISBN13: 978-3837648027. What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places―over here, in “reality”? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of...
RIBA Publishing, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 978-1859465776. People associate the term Brutalism with concrete and, in the UK, with the welfare state – just one thin slice of the Brutalist canon. Brutalism is not a style. It reveals enduring architectural ideas and interests that have emerged at different times and in different places, prompted by social and political ideals and...
Wiley, 2019 — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-1119115625. The book presents architectural design students, educators, and professionals with a broad overview of traditional and contemporary architectural representation methods. The book offers insights into developments in computing in relation to architectural drawing and modeling, by addressing historical analog methods of architectural...
Thames & Hudson, 2003. — 176 p. — (Architecture/Design Series). — ISBN13: 978-0500284605. Acclaimed as one of the world's foremost modern architects, Bernard Tschumi achieved early fame by winning the competition to design the Parc de la Villette on the north-east edge of Paris, featuring bright red "deconstructivist" pavilions. Tschumi is widely credited with leading the...
Quarry Books, 2020. — 276 p. — ISBN13: 978-0253049483. Jake McCandless, a lover of small towns and adventures, traveled the state in search of amazing local experiences to share this treasure trove of what you can find in often-overlooked towns across Missouri. Featured are 90 sparkling gems found in all four of the state's geographical regions ― the Northern Prairie, the...
2nd ed. — CSIRO Publishing, 2019 — 168 p. — ISBN13: 978-1486309016. The book allows walkers with little botanical knowledge to identify plants they are likely to encounter along the popular tracks of Victoria's High Country. This second edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorizing them into five easily...
New York: George Braziller Inc., 1975. — 402 p. — ISBN13: 9780807607152. Examines the materialistic and psychological factors responsible for dominant trends in twentieth-century sculpture. Preface Part One: Sculpture As Object Sculpture's Vanishing Base The Bionic Sources of Modern Sculpture Formalism: The Weary Vocabulary Form Exhaustion and the Rise of Phenomenalism Part...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ahmanson Gallery, July 11-September 15, 1985. — 34 p. Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff is the Los Angeles County Museum or Art's first exhibition devoted entirely to the graphic works or these celebrated German Expressionist artists. It commemorates the centenaries or their births. These two men were, after Ernst Ludwig...
6th ed. — Routledge, 2018. — 890 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138714687. The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects and architecture students. Covering basic design data for all the major building types it is the ideal starting point for any project. For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal...
Rockport Publishing, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN13: 978-1592532582. Selecting the right color palette for any design project, whether personal or commercial, can make all the difference in getting it right. Colors set the tone for visual communication and are essential elements in effective information navigation. Unfortunately however, for most people, even many trained designers,...
Rockport Publishing, 2006. — 264 p. — ISBN13: 978-1592531936. Distills the information provided in standard architectural tomes and provides an easy reference for the essential bits of information for architects. The facts this book offers ensure the project is done right. General planning guides, design data, drawing methods, and help with mathematical formulas are also...
2nd ed. — Rockport Publishers, 2008. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-1592534616. It’s tough to remember all the minute details of packaging standards and conversions when you are a designer juggling varied projects. With Forms, Folds & Sizes – Revised, you can just look them up. Including updated information and new topics, this handbook provides designers with all the little details...
MIT Press, 1979. — 184 p. — ISBN13: 978-0262700207. Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader...
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2000. — 250 p. — ISBN13: 978-0870700316. This text explores anti-modernist impulse, as exhibited in painting and sculpture through the social, political and cultural conflicts of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. It discusses taste and vulgarity, and the implications both past and present for institutions like the New York Museum of Modern Art. Throughout...
Laurence King Publishing, 2016. — 128 р. — ISBN: 978-1-78067-849-8. Playing with typographic puzzle pieces is one of the joys of graphic design and typographers have many entertaining, esoteric, and eccentric options at their disposal. The Typography Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field from across the world, visible in all areas...
Dover Publications, 1989. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0-486-40951-1. Developed by English handwriting masters in the 18th century, copperplate calligraphy is admired for its fluidity and beauty. It is the most popular style for social correspondence, invitations, and other communications requiring an elegant hand. In this practical manual, a noted calligraphy teacher offers a...
Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1988 — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-0500235256. This visual survey of graphic design styles through the ages is an essential resource for designers, art and design students, and art lovers. With more than 700 illustrations, it is the only wide-ranging history of graphic design to be completely visual, and many readers treasure it for its amazing trove of images.
Allworth, 2014. — 305 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62153-404-4. Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged designers from the late...
Wiley, 2015. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-1118771983. Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer is a single source guide to the myriad of options available to those pursuing a graphic design career. With an emphasis on portfolio requirements and job opportunities, this guide helps both students and individuals interested in entering the design field prepare for successful careers....
Valiz, 2017 — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-9492095190. Within the design discipline, calls for sustainability and social responsibility have become some of the most common rallying cries of the past decade, generating countless new products, materials and technologies―all designed to change the course of our future. Adjectives like “sustainable,” “green” and “eco” describe this new...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 419 p. — ISBN13: 978-0253026941. This major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a 'sensory revolution' to accompany political and...
3d ed., rev. and enl. — New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1912. — 94 p. Thomas Ewing French (1871-1944) was a scientific lettering expert. The Essentials of Lettering coauthered with Robert Meiklejohn, has many historical examples and takes the reader on a grand tour of lettering. Furthermore, the book is one of the best guidebooks for a beginner or intermediate level...
Ташкент: Изд-во литературы и искусства им. Г. Гуляма, 1983. — 144 с. Книга впервые наиболее полно освещает значение и место средневековых памятников Ташкента в истории зодчества Средней Азии. Историко-топографический очерк посвящён истории жизни и деятельности человека на территории Ташкента с древнейших времён. Историко-архитектурный обзор впервые рассказывает об архитектурном...
Documan Pr Ltd, 1999. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 978-0932076113. Norman F. Carver Jr. is an architect, Fulbright grants to Japan and India stimulated his interest in the world of vernacular architecture, which he has been documenting for the last three decades.
Birkhaeuser, 2013. — 275 p. — ISBN13: 978-3034608183. Todd Saunders (1969) is one of the most important young contemporary Canadian architects working internationally. His architecture, simple yet powerful, incorporates elements of his country’s architectural identity – including the use of wood and carefully picked Modernist influences – bringing it at the same time into the...
MIT Press, 2004. — 386 p. — ISBN: 0-262-08322-1. A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture — the preparation of meals and the production of space. The contributors to this highly original collection of essays explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining the (often...
Condé Nast Publications. — 362 p. — ISSN: 0043-5759. Международный журнал, посвященный искусству дизайна и декорирования помещений. Журнал расскажет о новинках технологий и материалов, а известные архитекторы и дизайнеры поделятся с вами своими идеями. Отдельная тема в журнале - экологичный дизайн (green design). House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and...
Ava Publishing, 2007. — 184 p. — ISBN: 978-2-940496-01-3. Visual Communication for Landscape Architecture demonstrates not only how and where a range of visual communication skills are needed to inform a design process, but also why they are essential in order to make presentations both informative and memorable. It illustrates how representational techniques can be sensitively...
Ava Publishing, 2009. — 184 p. — ISBN10: 2940411123. The book seeks to define and describe the role played by landscape architecture in urban design, an interdisciplinary practice that is concerned with defining the form of human settlements. It provides a brief history and definition of urban design and the roles of the various professions involved. Urban Design looks at the...
Wiley, 2014. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-1118763346. Embrace Open Engineering and accelerate the design and manufacturing processes Product development is a team sport, but most companies don't practice it that way. Organizations should be drawing on the creativity of engaged customers and outsiders, but instead they rely on the same small group of internal "experts" for new ideas....
Ampersand Type, 2017. — 334 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9956642-0-3. Typography is what comes between the author and the reader. This is as true on the web as it is in any other medium. If a text has anything at all significant to say, it needs a typographer’s care, which will in turn be repaid by the reader’s attention. If you design websites or use CSS then you are a typographer whether...
Verlag Niggli AG, 2001. — 274 р. — ISBN13: 978-3721200430. This book is the legacy of Emil Ruder, one of the originator of Swiss Style, famous throughout the world for the use of asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces and flush left, ragged right text. His holistic approach is still recognized as fundamental for graphic designers and typographers all over the...
Watson-Guptill, 2018. — 162 p. — ISBN13: 978-0399582172. The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide has something for everyone - from beginners that have never used a brush pen, to seasoned letterers looking for new stylistic, expressive options and ideas. Each lesson builds on itself, unlocking endless opportunities inside the playful art of brush lettering.This book covers it all,...
Walter Foster Publishing, 2016. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 1633221369. With more than 50 tips, techniques, and lessons for creating beautiful illuminated letters and sophisticated lettering projects, The Joy of Lettering takes hand lettering to a whole new level. Gabri Joy Kirkendall (Creative Lettering & Beyond) and Jaclyn Escalera guide readers through a dynamic exploration of the...
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2003 — 176 p. — ISBN10: 8483017180. La arquitectura y la planificación son el resultado de una integración ponderada de conocimientos técnicos y una multiplicidad de aspectos relacionados con el conocimiento natural y social. En este trabajo el autor propone, desde el ámbito de las ciencias del medio ambiente, diversos planteamientos...
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2003 — 214 p. — ISBN10: 848301680X. ¿Qué debe hacer el diseño para solucionar su(s) problema(s)? Es necesario saberlo para poder juzgar si los problemas están realmente solucionados o, lo que es lo mismo, para efectuar una evaluación posterior a la ocupación del entorno. Esto es esencial, ya que todo diseño puede considerarse una hipótesis...
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2002 — 104 p. — ISBN10: 8483016494. ¿Por qué Arquitectura y Hermenéutica? En este número monográfico de ARQUITECTONICS hemos intentado resumir la extraordinaria inteligencia del filósofo Paul Ricoeur, a partir de la publicación (con su expreso permiso) de sus escritos en castellano y francés. Paul Ricoeur, en sus libros y artículos más...
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2002 — 112 p. — ISBN10: 8483016168. ¿Por qué Arquitectura en Portugal?. La rápida evolución en los últimos años, desde la diversidad de culturas locales, hacia prototipos globales de referentes epistemológicos metabólicos, hace prever importantes cambios que ya se dejan notar en la arquitectura. Portugal, por su dimensión y su peculiar...
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2001 — 112 p. — ISBN10: 8483015447. ¿Por qué el transhumanismo? El nexo entre el transhumanismo y el uso de ordenadores en el diseño arquitectónico es, posiblemente, menos obvio para el público general que para los autores de la siguiente selección de artículos. Sin embargo, es un tema muy serio: los arqutectos, sin saberlo, actúan como...
Hoffman Media, LLC. — 100 p. — ISSN: 1559-2138. Taste of the South helps you savor the unique dishes, cooking personalities and culinary destinations of the South and now you can enjoy every single page on your smart device! For readers who love Southern cooking or simply experimenting with new flavors, this magazine is a guidebook.