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Free Download Writing and Publishing in Architecture and Design
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032371315 | 231 Pages | PDF (True) | 30 MB
This book outlines the process of writing and publishing research in the field of architecture and design. The book sets out to help researchers find a voice and find the best fit for their work. Information about the different types of publication on offer is set out, as well as how to make that important initial approach. From pitching an idea for a review in a magazine, to producing a journal article right through to the monograph, Writing and Publishing in Architecture and Design maps out the different steps for the novice author. Your first steps in publishing can be daunting, and the book offers material which will inspire confidence, by demystifying the publication process. It also includes valuable nuts and bolts material such as planning and structure, time management, writing styles, editing, production of the final manuscript and picture research. How do you turn your PhD into a book? How do you turn conference proceedings into a publication? Commissioning editors and authors share their experiences through interview and offer recipes for success as well as what to avoid. Key titles from the past are included as case studies, and their pathway to publication explored. This is an invaluable book for anyone working in the fields of architecture and design, with an ambition to publish.

Free Download Dr A. Krista Sykes, "Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community"
English | ISBN: 1350298379 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 155 MB
The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully’s life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years.

Free Download Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays (The Princeton-China Series, 8) by Xinian Fu, Nancy Steinhardt, Alexandra Harrer
English | May 30, 2017 | ISBN: 9780691159997 | 448 pages | MOBI | 37 Mb
A groundbreaking book by one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese architecture

Free Download The architecture of error : matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision By Hughes, Francesca
2014 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 0262526360 | PDF | 10 MB
When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, seems now to have been uncoupled from its contract with truthfulness. Meanwhile error, and the always-political space of its dissent, has reconfigured itself. In The Architecture of Error Francesca Hughes argues that behind the architect’s acute fetishization of redundant precision lies a special fear of physical error. What if we were to consider the pivotal cultural and technological transformations of modernism to have been driven not so much by the causes its narratives declare, she asks, as by an unspoken horror of loss of control over error, material life, and everything that matter stands for? Hughes traces the rising intolerance of material vagaries — from the removal of ornament to digitalized fabrication — that produced the blind rejection of organic materials, the proliferation of material testing, and the rhetorical obstacles that blighted cybernetics. Why is it, she asks, that the more we cornered physical error, the more we feared it? Hughes’s analysis of redundant precision exposes an architecture of fear whose politics must be called into question. Proposing error as a new category for architectural thought, Hughes draws on other disciplines and practices that have interrogated precision and failure, citing the work of scientists Nancy Cartwright and Evelyn Fox Keller and visual artists Gordon Matta-Clark, Barbara Hepworth, Rachel Whiteread, and others. These non-architect practitioners, she argues, show that error need not be excluded and precision can be made accountable.

Free Download Peter de Bolla, "The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0823254399, 0823254380 | PDF | pages: 308 | 2.0 mb
The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century.

Free Download Danilo Udovicki-Selb, "Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938"
English | ISBN: 1474299865 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin’s totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex and contradictory than previously believed, and shows, in contrast to the conventional scholarly narrative, how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it is widely considered to have been driven underground.

Free Download Kenneth Powell, "Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future"
English | ISBN: 3764370491 | 2006 | 408 pages | PDF | 80 MB
Written by the architectural critic Kenneth Powell, this monograph provides a richly illustrated overview and an ideal introduction to the works of Richard Rogers’ internationally renowned office. Founded in 1977, with offices in London, Barcelona, and Tokyo, RRP has a long-established reputation for high-tech and energy-efficient designs.

Free Download Revit 2018 Architecture
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1683921488 | 474 Pages | PDF (True) | 21 MB
This is the most comprehensive book you will find on Autodesk Revit 2018 Architecture.

Free Download Realization of Forms in Contemporary Architecture
by Pallavi Tiwari
English | 2024 | ISBN: 152755614X | 130 Pages | True PDF | 3.58 MB

Free Download Nina Juzwa, "Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation "
English | ISBN: 1032517727 | 2023 | 214 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 22 MB
Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980 and 2020, as architecture developed in the Western world and Japan. Its main focus is public utility buildings which the authors "have touched" in situ and which have moved them or sparked their interest. The book is divided into three parts: