Shapes in Buildings
Author | : Rebecca Rissman |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781432921781 |
Describes the different shapes you can find in buildings.
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Author | : Rebecca Rissman |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781432921781 |
Describes the different shapes you can find in buildings.
Author | : Penny Ann Lane |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781845076955 |
This shapes book with a difference features 12 buildings from around the world. Each spread is devoted to one shape - both two- and three-dimensional shapes eg circle, square, rectangle, cube, pyramid and cylinder. Each building is illustrated in full colour with the geometric shape reproduced again on the page. This inventive and intriguing approach not only reinforces the learning of everyday shapes, but will inspire children to appreciate some of the world's great buildings. Buildings featured are: The Pantheon, Rome, Italy/ Pont du Gard, Nimes, France/ St Peters Piazza, Rome, Italy/ Beinecke Library, Yale University, Connecticut, USA/ Imperial Villa of Katsura, Kyoto, Japan/ The Parthenon, Athens, Greece/ Masjid-in shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran/ The Gherkin, London, UK/ The Ka'Ba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia /Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, UK/ Entrance to the Louvre Museum, Paris, France/ Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amon, Karnak, Thebes, Egypt
Author | : Rebecca Rissman |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781432921729 |
Introduces shapes, including squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles, and presents images of buildings that employ these shapes in their architecture.
Author | : Peter Blundell Jones |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1472577493 |
Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.
Author | : Scot Ritchie |
Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1525304208 |
An engaging introduction to buildings, with a deft mix of nonfiction and fiction elements.
Author | : Sarah Williams Goldhagen |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0062199188 |
One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs. By 2050 America’s population is projected to increase by nearly seventy million people. This will necessitate a vast amount of new construction—almost all in urban areas—that will dramatically transform our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas. Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary; authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Erudite, wise, lucidly written, and beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, Welcome to Your World is a vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for human experience.
Author | : K.L. Going |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1442478284 |
A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America’s greatest architects in this inspiring biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frank Lloyd Wright was a baby, his mother dreamed that he would become a great architect. She gave him blocks to play with and he learned that shapes are made up of many other shapes. As he grew up, he loved finding shapes in nature. Wright went on to study architecture and create buildings that were one with the natural world around them. He became known as one of the greatest American architects of all time.
Author | : Stuart J. Murphy |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2001-08-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
While piloting his spaceship through the skies, Captain Invincible encounters three-dimensional shapes, including cubes, cylinders, and pyramids.
Author | : Lance Hosey |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2012-06-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1610912144 |
Does going green change the face of design or only its content? The first book to outline principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design, The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made. In addition to examining what makes something attractive or emotionally pleasing, Hosey connects these questions with practical design challenges. Can the shape of a car make it more aerodynamic and more attractive at the same time? Could buildings be constructed of porous materials that simultaneously clean the air and soothe the skin? Can cities become verdant, productive landscapes instead of wastelands of concrete? Drawing from a wealth of scientific research, Hosey demonstrates that form and image can enhance conservation, comfort, and community at every scale of design, from products to buildings to cities. Fully embracing the principles of ecology could revolutionize every aspect of design, in substance and in style. Aesthetic attraction isn’t a superficial concern — it’s an environmental imperative. Beauty could save the planet.