Download or read book Oxford in 50 Buildings written by Andrew Sargent and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Cambridge in 50 Buildings written by Susie Boulton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the history and numerous architectural treasures of the famous university city of Cambridge.
Download or read book Newcastle in 50 Buildings written by Steve Ellwood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Bloomsbury in 50 Buildings written by Lucy McMurdo and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the history and architectural treasures of Bloomsbury in this fascinating tour of 50 of its buildings and landmarks from across the centuries.
Download or read book Reading in 50 Buildings written by Stuart Hylton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of Reading through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Southampton in 50 Buildings written by Garth Groombridge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Alan Colquhoun and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.
Download or read book Oxford Its Buildings and Gardens written by Ralph Anthony Durand and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book 50 Architects 50 Buildings written by Twentieth Century Society and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most inspirational buildings in the world, as chosen by well-known contemporary architects. In this book, published in conjunction with the Twentieth Century Society, 50 contemporary architects choose the buildings from around the world that have inspired them and made an impact on their own work. Architectural journalist Pamela Buxton interviewed each of the architects to create these outstanding portraits of the buildings that have influenced modern architecture. The diverse selection is introduced by Twentieth Century Society director Catherine Croft, and illustrated throughout with photographs by Gareth Gardner and Edward Tyler. The book features a diverse range of inspirational buildings, from housing estates to castles, coal mines to cathedrals. Work by the giants of twentieth-century architecture including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto are featured, as well as lesser-known gems. Examples include Richard Rogers (of RHSP) on Maison de Verre (Paris, France); Chris Williamson (of Weston Williamson) on the Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames (Los Angeles, USA); Takero Shimazaki (of T-SA, UK) on Hexenhaus by Alison and Peter Smithson (Bad Karlshafen, Germany); Ted Cullinan (of Cullinan Studio) on Chapel of Notre Dame Du Haut by Le Corbusier (Ronchamp, France); Michael Squire (of Squire & Partners, UK) on Grundtvig’s Church by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (Copenhagen, Denmark); and Jonathan Woolf (of Jonathan Woolf Architects) on Haus Esters and Haus Lange by Mies van der Rohe (Krefeld, Germany). This beautifully produced book offers a great insight into the power of existing architecture and its immense influence on the world we build today.
Download or read book Blackpool in 50 Buildings written by Allan W. Wood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich history of Blackpool in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
Download or read book A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
Download or read book High Wycombe in 50 Buildings written by Eddie Brazil and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the architectural gems and history of High Wycombe in this fascinating exploration of 50 of its buildings from across the centuries.
Download or read book Frome in 50 Buildings written by Alastair MacLeay and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the history and character of the Somerset town of Frome in this enriching tour of fifty of its buildings and landmarks.
Download or read book Lichfield in 50 Buildings written by Joss Musgrove Knibb and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of Lichfield through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Oxford Historic Buildings Appeal written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Buildings of Oxford written by A. F. Kersting and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aylesbury in 50 Buildings written by Paul Rabbitts and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of some of the architectural heritage of the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury.
