The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture

The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture
Author: gestalten,Rosie Flanagan,Robert Klanten
Publsiher: Gestalten
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 396704064X

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What's best in architecture today and the most relevant for tomorrow by the world's most visited architecture website. ArchDaily's Guide to Good Architecture is their first-ever book. Curated around their principles of Good Architecture, the book is a curation of what's best today and most relevant for tomorrow. Through a rich variety of projects--both built and planned--the book reflects a global community of world-shapers, explores the most important topics and trends in architectural practice, celebrates the most visionary architects and introduces up-and-coming talent. It marks the forefront of architectural thought and practice. The cover image is Akihisa Hirata's Tree-ness House in Toshima, Japan

The Architects Guide to Writing

The Architects Guide to Writing
Author: Bill Schmalz,The Images Publishing Group
Publsiher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864705720

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There are a lot of good books available to help people write better. They include dictionaries, usage guides, and various types of writers’ manuals – and professional writers ought to have many of those books on their bookshelves. But most architects and other design and construction professionals are not professional writers. Instead, they are people who spend a large part of their professional lives writing. That’s a big difference, and that’s where this book will help. The Architect’s Guide to Writing has been written not by an English major, but by Bill Schmalz, an architect who knows the kinds of documents his fellow professionals routinely have to write, and understands the kinds of technical mistakes they often make in their writing. This book is designed to meet the specific needs of design and construction professionals. It’s not going to waste their time with the things that most educated professionals know, but it will help them with the things they don’t know or are unsure of. It’s not a Chicago Manual-sized encyclopaedic reference that includes everything any writer would ever need to know, because architects don’t need to know everything. But what they do need to know – and what they use every day in their professional lives – has been assembled in this book.

Writing Architecture

Writing Architecture
Author: Carter Wiseman
Publsiher: Trinity University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781595341501

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For ages, architects have been criticized for speaking an insular language, known to some as "archispeak." Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Carter Wiseman’s 30 years of personal experience in writing, editing, and teaching in young architects how to write. This book creatively tackles a problematic issue that Wiseman considers to be a crucial characteristic of successful architecture writing: clarity of thinking and expression. He argues that because we live our lives within the built environment, architecture is the most comprehensive and complex of all art forms. Even brilliantly inspired and complex architectural structures would only amount to misunderstood abstractions without the support and reinforcement of the clear explanation. Written as a primer for both college level students and practitioners, Writing Architecture acknowledges and explores the boundaries between different techniques of architecture writing from myriad perspectives and purposes. A poetic description of the beauty and impact of a bridge will not illuminate the mechanical knowledge housed in the structure, but at the same time, dense architectural theory will not encourage individuals experiencing and supporting the bridge to perceive significance and usefulness in the design. Using excerpts and from writers in different genres and from different historical periods, Wiseman offers a unique and authoritative perspective on comprehensible writing skills needed for success.

Entering Architectural Practice

Entering Architectural Practice
Author: James Tait
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781000297584

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Featuring exclusive interviews with the internationally renowned architects: Kengo Kuma; Alberto Campo Baeza; Špela Videcnik (OFIS); Fernanda Canales; Jonathan Sergison (Sergison Bates); and Jane Hall (Assemble) Entering Architectural Practice is a practical and honest guide for architecture students, entering the world of architectural practice. There is often a disconnection between what you are taught in architecture school and the actual practice of architecture in the workplace. As both a practising architect and architecture school tutor, the author has first-hand experience of this disconnection and so helps students bridge this divide between academia and practice. Focused on providing industry insight, dispelling myths, and above all providing a combination of reality and hope to students of architecture entering the workplace, the book is beautifully and richly illustrated, providing a compelling visual story alongside the invaluable information it imparts. Serious but enjoyable, thoroughly researched but highly approachable, this book is simply essential reading for every individual about to embark on a career in practice.

Patterns and Layering

Patterns and Layering
Author: Kengo Kuma
Publsiher: Gestalten
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3899554612

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Patterns and Layering is a journey into the activities of Kengo Kuma Research Lab. The book aims to establish the interrelation between patterns and layering within architecture. These two previously detached notions can now be integrated into one methodology mediated by structural concepts. Patterns and Layering is the first book to introduce this new interrelationship, which has the potential to begin a new architectural and design revolution.

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture
Author: John Hill
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393733266

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The essential walking companion to more than two hundred cutting-edge buildings constructed since the new millennium. The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new—and architecturally cutting-edge—residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the boom now waning, this guidebook is perfectly timed to take stock of the city’s new skyline and map them all out, literally. This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium—The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Park Visitors Center, by Toshiko Mori Architect; and One Bryant Park, by Cook + Fox, to name just a few. Projects are grouped by neighborhood, allowing for easy, self-guided tours, with photos, maps, directions, and descriptions that highlight the most important aspects of each entry.

The Architecture School Survival Guide

The Architecture School Survival Guide
Author: Iain Jackson
Publsiher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1780675801

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Oops! Forgot to include a door! Every year new architecture students make the same mistakes, forgetting the same essential elements in their studio work. This handy guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's witty and beautiful illustrations. The Architecture Student's Survival Kit is a life-saving and entertaining resource for any first-year student or anyone thinking about studying architecture.

The Monocle Guide to Building Better Cities

The Monocle Guide to Building Better Cities
Author: Andrew Tuck
Publsiher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 3899555031

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In this joyful new book Monocle unpacks what makes a great city, whether you're looking for a new place to call home or need help fixing your own. How do we make better cities - places that work for people of all ages and backgrounds? How do we make cities that provide the obvious essentials - great transport, good places to work - as well as the softer elements that truly deliver quality of life, from urban swimming pools to rooftop clubs? Since its launch in 2007, Monocle has been passionate about making better places to live. Every year it publishes a Quality of Life Survey, which names the top 25 cities to call home. In addition, across the issues, it has interviewed the best mayors, looked at the metropolises putting pedestrians first and met the people creating the best parks, both pocket and grand. Discover how you too can have a High Line, create the most covetable housing or turn a dirty river into a summer asset. Packed with great images and intriguing reports, this is a book that takes the urbanism debate away from city hall and explains what's needed in ways that will inspire us all.