The Anatomy of the Architectural Book

The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
Author: André Tavares
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Architectural writing
ISBN: 9783037784730

This book makes visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back.

The Anatomy of Architecture

The Anatomy of Architecture
Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0226058611

Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can read the beliefs, psychology, traditions, and social concerns of their inhabitants. In doing so, she explores the role of vernacular architecture as an expression of culture. "A splendid analysis of the centrality of architecture in the daily lives of the Batammaliba and its integral role in articulating social values....The story is beautifully told in the best of anthropological traditions."—Judith R. Blau, Contemporary Society "A remarkable study....Blier's volume carries the study of African architecture to a qualitatively new level of scholarship. It introduces a new dimension whereby the architectural medium can be used to illuminate much of the entire belief system of any culture."—Labelle Prussin, African Arts "In this excellent book Blier provides a richly detailed and searching account of what architecture means to the Batammaliba of northern Togo and Benin....The finest account I have yet read of the relations between systems of beliefs, ritual practices, and African aesthetics and plastic arts....The ethnography and basic insight should be the envy of any social anthropologist."—T.O. Beidelman, Man

Anatomy of Architecture

Anatomy of Architecture
Author: George Mansell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1979
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Examines the great architectural styles, the background to their evolutions, and the means by which the buildings within them were achieved. The many superb pieces of specially commissioned cut-away artwork, researched with the aid of computer techniques, provide an intriguing and informative study of the world's greatest structures from the Great Pyramid of Cheops to examples of modern architectural styles, and, together with the clear and informative text, make this a fascinating book for both expert and layman.--From publisher description.

The Anatomy of a House

The Anatomy of a House
Author: Fayal Greene
Publisher: Main Street Books
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This ultimate renovation guide identifies hundreds of parts of a house to help home owners understand the elements of construction, decorative detail and convey ideas to suppliers, contractors, or designers. B & W illustrations throughout.

An Anatomy of Influence

An Anatomy of Influence
Author: Thomas Daniell
Publisher: AA Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781907896965

Taking inspiration from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists and Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, this book elucidates the theory and practice of a selected group of key Japanese architects by situating them within a wider cultural context of art, technology, literature, and politics. Illustrated with rarely seen images and interspersed with previously untranslated texts, the book uses biographical profiles and comparative analyses to trace the evolution of spatial, aesthetic, and behavioral concepts in Japanese architecture over the postwar decades. In particular, the political activism of architects in the 1960s and the social criticism of architects in the 1970s provide a vital source of inspiration for the protean creativity of the Japanese architectural world today.

The Heights

The Heights
Author: Kate Ascher
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0143124080

A gorgeous graphic tour of the inner workings of skyscrapers—from the author of The Works Indispensable and unforgettable, The Heights is the ultimate guide to the way skyscrapers work—from the bases of their foundations to the peaks of their spires. With skyscrapers becoming essential elements of urban life, there has never been a greater need for understanding and embracing these complex structures. Using innovative illustrations to tackle the vast complexity of these buildings, The Heights explores with remarkable insight every aspect of designing, building, and maintaining a modern skyscraper, as well as the individuals who build and maintain these architectural cathedrals. In the process, The Heights provides a remarkable snapshot of urban life at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

The Anatomy of a Golf Course

The Anatomy of a Golf Course
Author: Tom Doak
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1998-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781550413731

A key book for the golfer's library, exploring the intricacies of golf architecture--and how this knowledge can improve your golf game.

Anatomy of the Mind

Anatomy of the Mind
Author: Ron Sun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199794707

This book aims to understand human cognition and psychology through a comprehensive computational theory of the human mind, namely, a computational "cognitive architecture" (or more specifically, the Clarion cognitive architecture). The goal of this work is to develop a unified framework for understanding the human mind, and within the unified framework, to develop process-based, mechanistic explanations of a large variety of psychological phenomena. Specifically, the book first describes the essential Clarion framework and its cognitive-psychological justifications, then its computational instantiations, and finally its applications to capturing, simulating, and explaining various psychological phenomena and empirical data. The book shows how the models and simulations shed light on psychological mechanisms and processes through the lens of a unified framework. In fields ranging from cognitive science, to psychology, to artificial intelligence, and even to philosophy, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and practitioners of various kinds may have interest in topics covered by this book. The book may also be suitable for seminars or courses, at graduate or undergraduate levels, on cognitive architectures or cognitive modeling (i.e. computational psychology).

The Anatomy of Sabkhas

The Anatomy of Sabkhas
Author: Rashid Bin Shabib
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 8891830364

Sabkhas (salt flats) are natural phenomena—a unique result of converging climates, winds, and river flow—with the potential to rehabilitate the natural global order. The ancient term sabkha originates in the Arab world. Today, it has become well-established in the global lexicon of geological and ecological discussions around sustainability: These overlooked ecological networks of wetland plants can sequester more carbon per square meter than rainforests. The Anatomy of Sabkhas investigates how these precious resources form, how they have aided the development of human civilization throughout history, and how they have subsequently infiltrated our traditions, rituals, festivals, smartphones, and cities today. Written and edited by urbanists and architects, the book examines the ways that sabkhas might actively contribute to more sustainable built environments and how, in tandem, sabkhas can not only support our natural environment but also heal it.

Anatomy of a Park

Anatomy of a Park
Author: Albert J. Rutledge
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: