- Architecture as Signs and Systems
- Robert Venturi
- Denise Scott Brown
- The views of Venturi and Scott Brown have influenced architects worldwide for nearly half a century. Pluralism and multiculturalism; symbolism and iconography; popular culture and the everyday landscape; generic building and electronic communication are among the many ideas they have championed. Here, they present both a fascinating retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 1, Monumental Occasions
- Lindsay Jones
- The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original interpretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume One maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation, and comparison of architecture. Volume Two, an exercise in comparative morphology, offers a comprehensive framework of ritual-architectural priorities by looking at architecture as orientation, as commemoration, and as ritual context.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 2, Hermeneutical Calisthenics
- Lindsay Jones
- The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original interpretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume One maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture, while Volume Two serves as an exercise in comparative morphology.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- The Parthenon
- Mary Beard
- At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this book conducts readers through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world. Who built the Parthenon, and for what purpose? How are we to understand its sculpture? Why is it such a compelling monument? The classicist and historian Mary Beard offers readers the ultimate tour of the marvelous history and present state of this glory of the Acropolis, and of the world.
- Hardcover 2003
- Space, Time and Architecture
- Sigfried Giedion
- A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, Space, Time and Architecture is an the unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment. The discussions of leading architects--Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Van der Rohe, Aalto, Utzon, Sert, Tange, and Maki--are accompanied by over 500 illustrations.
- Paperback 2008 / Hardcover
