A Harvard Graduate School of Design professor explores the influence and potential of digital technology on architecture and urban landscape projects, explaining how advances in strategic planning are also enabling significantly improved approaches to city architecture.
The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This book analyses the meaning of this gradual mutual isolation, the consequences of which can still be felt at a variety of different levels, and offers a unique insight in English to the teaching and practice of architects such as Jacques-Francois Blondel and Pierre Patte, and engineers such as Jean-Rodolphe Perronet and Gaspard-Riche de Prony. The text of the book is clear and easily comprehensible, and presents a fully accessible account of this key period in the development of architectural achievement and debate.
"The truth is, decorative art is equipment, beautiful equipment," Le Corbusier, L'Art decoratif d'aujourd'hui This book traces the history of an encounter between a remarkable invention, half-industri
From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms ?spaceship earth” and ?synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895?1983) was to create living environments that minimized consu
