Architecture
Higher
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning
The International conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning is organised bi-annually by the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Transparent State
Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.
Women's Places
This book provides new information and new interpretations in the study of gender, material culture and the built environment in the period 1860-1960.
Actions of Architecture
Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism.
Fashioning Vienna
This book seeks to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Surrealism and Architecture
This edited collection examines a long overlooked topic: the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. It offers a model for a new approach to historically rigorous analysis of interdisciplinary artistic practice.
Spaces of Global Cultures
^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.
Modern Airport Terminal
This book will be a source of inspiration and guiding principles for those who design, commission or manage airport buildings.
Toxicology of the Kidney, 3rd Edition
Updated to reflect the latest research in the field, Toxicology of the Kidney, Third Edition focuses on the correlation between anatomy, biochemistry and physiology of the kidney.