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L'architecture comme sémio-physique de l'espace social. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004. ISBN 978-2747550789; Patrice Ceccarini, Le système architectural gothique. Théologie sciences et architecture au XIII° siècle à Saint-Denis (Tome 2). Morphogenèse et modélisation de la basilique de Saint-Denis (in French). Paris, Editions de l'Harmattan, 2013.
The Four Elements of Architecture is a book by the German architect Gottfried Semper. Published in 1851 , it is an attempt to explain the origins of architecture through the lens of anthropology . The book divides architecture into four distinct elements: the hearth, the roof, the enclosure and the mound. [ 1 ]
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. [3] It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, [4] planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. [5]
Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture is an architecture manifesto conceived by architect Le Corbusier. [1] It outlines five key principles of design that he considered to be the foundations of the modern architectural discipline, which would be expressed through much of his designs.
Baroque architects took the basic elements of Renaissance architecture, including domes and colonnades, and made them higher, grander, more decorated, and more dramatic. The interior effects were often achieved with the use of quadratura , or trompe-l'œil painting combined with sculpture: the eye is drawn upward, giving the illusion that one ...
Architecture is variously defined in conflicting ways, highlighting the difficulty of describing the scope of the subject precisely: [1] [2] [3] A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures – although not all buildings are generally considered to be architecture, and infrastructure (bridges, roads etc.) is civil engineering, not architecture.
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability.It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
The book, developing new philosophical ideas related to architecture, aims to fill the gap between architectural theory and philosophy. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Singular Objects of Architecture was originally published in French, but since then it has been translated into many languages including English, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and Arabic.