In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Architecture as Measure is an elaboration on this question, and on the disciplinary and cultural potentials of such a provocation. It positions climate c...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture Now including interactive CD–ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulation, light, views, and site ...(展开全部)

For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. This classic visual reference helps both students and practicing architects understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment.? U...(展开全部)

Kojin Karatani, Japan's leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most recently Kant. His works, of which Origins of Modern Japanese Literature is the only one previously translated into English, are the generic equivalent to what in America is called "theory." Karatani's writings are important no...(展开全部)

"Structure as Space" is a monograph on the work of the innovative Swiss engineer Jurg Conzett, who has been instrumental in redefining the relationship between structural engineering and architecture. This volume illustrates Conzett's own exquisite designs, such as his granite stress-ribbon Suransuns Bridge, as well as his collaborations with Switzerland's leading architects, a...(展开全部)

Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by di...(展开全部)

To be outside allows one a fresh perspective on the inside. In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are fundamentally outside each another--architecture and philosophy--can meet in a third space to interact free of their internal constraints. "Outside" also refers to those whose voices are not usually heard in architectural d...(展开全部)

这部具有开创性的著作为设计师、艺术指导和学生，无论他们的经验如何，提供了通向成功的设计的独特方法。在他对使视觉设计醒目和清楚易读的要素的探索中，经验丰富的设计师和教育家阿历克斯·伍·怀特收集了大量的资料和例子，学习怎样使用： 限定和表现主导图像、词汇和概念 运用规模、色彩和位置引导观者穿过主次等极进行阅读 把空白空间作为设计的一个重要组成部分，而不仅仅只是背景 运用特排和正文字体使读者能够最大程度地理解和重视它 从设计、绘画、建筑和版画以及作者自己的文件资料中选出来的数百幅插图使甚至是最抽象的概念都变得通俗易懂。为思考和运用4种设计要素提供了一个新的方法，本书一定能够促成、产生更好的设计。

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler arg...(展开全部)