Building for PeopleDesigning Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit. There is a diversity of housing types with abundant affordable and middle-income options. Schools, services, and pedestrianized streets make the neighborhood family friendly. As cities turn brownfields into green fields and look to maximize public investment in transit and in…

Foundations of architectural engineering

Architectural engineering merges architecture and engineering, uniting the imaginative visions of architects with the technical prowess of engineers. This interdisciplinary field focuses on designing, constructing, and maintaining buildings and structures, with a strong emphasis on optimizing functionality, safety, and environmental sustainability. The roots of architectural engineering can be …

The Mobile IndividualMobile Life, Longer-term Approaches and Subjectivities

"Being mobile is more than just traveling." Early research on transportation long believed that daily commutes were a waste of time, and that modes of transportation were simply interchangeable depending on changing circumstances. However, as research on daily mobility advances, a better understanding of the social and symbolic significance of such practices emerges. All of this contributes to…

Architecture Reference & Specification BookEverything Architects Need to Know…

Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details—overwhelmingly more than architects need to know to know on any given day. The Architecture Reference & Specification Book contains vital information that's essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes, in a format that is small enough to carry anywhere. It distills the …

Johann Christoph KnöffelDer Architekt des sächsischen Rokokos

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Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and LightThe Churches of Northern New Spain, 153…

Over nearly three centuries, Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries built a network of churches throughout the "new world" of New Spain. Since the early twentieth century, scholars have studied the colonial architecture of southern New Spain, but they have largely ignored the architecture of the north. However, as this book clearly demonstrates, the colonial architecture of Northern New…

La contrarrevolución de 1811

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Fiske and Marie KimballShaping Public Engagement with Architecture and the Arts

The fascinating journey of one of the art world’s great midcentury power couples The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore how Fiske and Marie Kimball, together and in their own respective ways, shaped the experience and understanding of art and architecture in the twentieth century. From his pioneering publication Thomas Jefferson, Architect in 1916 through his long connection…

Prácticas documentalesProyecto y contingencia

¿Es posible entender algunas prácticas arquitectónicas como cercanas al arte documental? Este texto ensaya esta posibilidad a partir del corpus teórico que recoge el documental en el cine. Realidad, honestidad y ficción son términos muy discutidos y a la vez muy pertinentes en nuestra disciplina. Lo que une a cine y arquitectura, en el marco de este texto, es que uno y otra han de elabora…

Las siete maravillas del mundo modernoUna guía fascinante sobre la Gran Mura…

 ¿Sabía que Sha Jahan planeó una vez construir otro Taj Mahal en su imperio?  El Taj Mahal es famoso por su excepcional arquitectura, en la que se mezclan elementos de diversas influencias de todo el mundo, como la magnificencia de los estilos arquitectónicos mogol, persa e islámico. Sha Jahan, emperador reinante del Imperio mogol, estaba sumido en la tristeza tras la muerte de su am…