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What Adults Don’t Know About Architecture

Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912891306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book What Adults Don’t Know About Architecture written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are rarely introduced properly to architecture, but there are in fact few subjects more important – because the quality of the architecture that surrounds us has such an impact on our mood and sense of well-being. The bitter truth is that in modern times, we’ve built a world that’s far too often ugly or uncharming – and we’ve done so because only a very few people ever feel they have the right to comment on what gets built around them. This is a chance for the next generation to develop the tools to talk about architecture with confidence, knowledge and passion. It tells us about what a satisfying building is, what makes a street enticing (or not), why some cities are charming and others repel us – and how we might build going forward in a way that will reliably delight and uplift us. This engaging and beautifully illustrated guide is designed to help children (and their favourite adults) to understand how buildings work and how we might create the better looking world we all crave and deserve.

What Adults Don’t Know About Art

Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912891290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What Adults Don’t Know About Art written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative guide to the importance of art, produced in a way that will enchant children and, along the way, teach their favourite adults one or two vital things as well.

Architecture for Teens

Author : Danielle Willkens
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1647393965
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Architecture for Teens written by Danielle Willkens and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical introduction to architecture for aspiring teen architects Architecture is a fascinating, diverse field that blends technology, creativity, engineering, and even psychology. Discover the possibilities with this in-depth choice in architecture books for teens. Delve into the world of architecture, learn about recent innovations in sustainability and inclusivity, and uncover the details behind real architectural projects. Explore an overview of architectural movements and designers from prehistory to modern-day, and check out inspiring interviews with working professionals. With tons of practical advice for pursuing a career, you'll find out how you can become an architect and help build an environmentally responsible world from the ground up! Go beyond other architecture books for teens with: Architecture essentials—Get to know the five basic elements of architecture: structure, program, economics, aesthetics, and region. Creative career options—Learn what it means to work in residential or industrial architecture, specialize in historic preservation, create landscapes, innovate in urban planning, and more. Real-world examples—Go behind the scenes on real architectural projects with colorful illustrations, breakdowns of the design process, and thoughtful examinations of their impact. Learn all about the role of an architect with this comprehensive selection in architecture books for teens.

Architects Make Zigzags

Author : Diane Maddex
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471143574
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Architects Make Zigzags written by Diane Maddex and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1986-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabet book of twenty-six architectural concepts, with drawings and definitions of such terms as dormer, facade, and newel post.

The Architecture of Happiness

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993872
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Happiness written by Alain De Botton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.

Experiencing Architecture, second edition

Author : Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262680028
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Architecture, second edition written by Steen Eiler Rasmussen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace—Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in “a remarkably suitable comeliness.” While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time—its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered “what instrument the architect plays on.”

The Great Indoors

Author : Emily Anthes
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374716684
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Great Indoors written by Emily Anthes and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships? In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what—and how much—we eat. Along the way, Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students’ physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates’ psychological needs. And she previews the homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon. The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world—one room at a time.

Under Every Roof

Author : Patricia Brown Glenn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470593598
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Under Every Roof written by Patricia Brown Glenn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a delightful guide to understanding and identifying architectural styles for kids and their parents Why do houses look the way they do? Why do dome have small windows, while others seem to be all glass? Why do some hug the landscape, while others are tall with very steep roofs? Why do dome people live in mansions, while others live in mobile houses? Can you imagine a house that looks like an elephant or a shoe? Children and adults will learn about the history of domestic architecture, the styles of the houses we live in, and the terms for the architectural elements that compose the buildings. Use the pictorial field guide to investigate your own house, then take it along on family outings to identify different architectural details. Under Every Roof features more than 60 houses from 30 states and the District of Columbia that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places; many of these are house museums that are open to the public. Kids need to understand the house they live in, so the book also includes a wide variety of regional styles and architectural types. The full-color, watercolor illustrations add a unique, gentle humor to the text.

LEGO Architecture

Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : DK
ISBN 13 : 9781465422866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book LEGO Architecture written by Philip Wilkinson and published by DK. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Iconic buildings reimagined in LEGO bricks"--Container.

Boundaries

Author : Maya Lin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501146564
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Boundaries written by Maya Lin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

Spot the Difference Architecture!

Author : Shut Up Coloring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Spot the Difference Architecture! written by Shut Up Coloring and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spot the Difference Architecture!A Hard Search and Find Books for Adults Take a world tour of stunning architecture, from Fuji, Japan to Big Ben, England. Each magnificent color spread features a picture of the same building on same pages, but with 5 differences between the original and the altered image. This puzzles books is not to hard for adults to start the day. Best for buying at gifts for friends who love traveling.

13 Buildings Children Should Know

Author : Annette Roeder
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791341715
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book 13 Buildings Children Should Know written by Annette Roeder and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most iconic buildings are made accessible and exciting for young readers in this colorful introduction to architecture that changed the world. Children’s fascination with buildings is a natural outgrowth of their curiosity about anything strange or huge or complex. This unique book brings together thirteen architectural wonders that have intrigued children for years. Through activities such as games, quizzes, drawings and other activities, it teaches them the history behind each of the buildings, and presents fascinating facts about the design, historical use, and construction techniques. This book features pyramids built by men with pulleys, a tower that leans, an opera house shaped like a sailboat, a museum built like a spiral, and the most recent example, a "bird’s nest" stadium where the 2008 summer Olympics were held. Each of these buildings and more are introduced to young readers through lively texts and illustrations that will serve to heighten their interest and knowledge about the world’s most important architecture, and perhaps inspire them to dream and build on their own.

I.M. Pei

Author : Jill Rubalcaba
Publisher : Skyscape
ISBN 13 : 9780761459736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book I.M. Pei written by Jill Rubalcaba and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the renowned architect that focuses on six of his signature buildings.

Architecture Pop-up Book

Author : Anton Radevsky
Publisher : Universe Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780789311887
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Pop-up Book written by Anton Radevsky and published by Universe Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Architecture pop-up book is a magnificent three-dimensional journey through the history of the art of building construction. Featuring amazing pop-up replications of a comprehensive selection of famous buildings from ancient to modern times"--P. [4]o

Brick

Author : Joshua David Stein
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714876313
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Brick written by Joshua David Stein and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young brick goes on a journey to find her place in the world by visiting ten celebrated brick structures around the globe When Brick was just a baby, tall buildings amazed her. Her mother said, "Great things begin with small bricks. Look around and you'll see." Brick's observations begin at home and then extend globally as she travels to a diverse list of brick structures ? Malbork Castle in Poland, Mahabodhi Buddhist Temple in India, Grosvenor Estate apartments in England, and more ? all the while pondering where she may end up. With a tender and timeless text by Joshua David Stein and architectural line art by Julia Rothman, this tribute to becoming part of something greater serves children and adults alike.

Architecture

Author : Sabine Tauber
Publisher : Prestel Junior
ISBN 13 : 9783791372211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Architecture written by Sabine Tauber and published by Prestel Junior. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to make an ionic column? How about a cathedral with flying buttresses? Or a mishmash of frills, domes, pillars and arches that could only exist in your imagination? With more than 200 stickers that reflect every important era of architectural history, this book encourages children to create buildings that can be historically accurate or completely whimsical. Along the way it tells the story of architecture as we know it - from ancient Greece through the modern era - and offers the elements of different styles and structures. A hands-on learning experience, this delightful book shows children how architecture works and how it has evolved over time. AGES: 6+ AUTHOR: Sabine Tauber studied art history and book studies in Erlangen. She is the author of 'Antoni Gaudi. Create Your Own City!' and 'Coloring Book Hieronymus Bosch' (both by Prestel). 4 sheets with stickers

Architecture, Colors

Author : Michael J. Crosbie
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471143598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Colors written by Michael J. Crosbie and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A senior editor at Progressive Architecture and an award-winning architectural photographer come together to present four colorful board books that introduce the built environment to preschoolers. Architecture Counts consists of numbers from 0-10 such as two brackets, three dormers, five arches and six ducts. Architecture Shapes explores shapes through the composition and arrangement of windows. Architecture Colors looks at the entire building as well as several details to suggest nine colors including a red barn, green roofs and a white church. Architecture Animals is an excursion into the deepest, wildest, architectural jungles around. Contains 14 animals in their native habitats--crawling across building facades, perched on top of a skyscraper or lounging at the ocean shore. Each full-color photograph is accompanied by a rhyme that provides hints of the animal's location or history.