English | 2001 | ISBN: 0394893824, 1101933208 | 128 Pages | EPUB | 86 MB A fascinating introduction to architecture takes readers on a tour of buildings the world over, from the Taj Mahal to New York’s TWA Terminal, and discusses the main elements that give buildings their...

English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415509580 | 184 Pages | PDF | 17 MB Tall buildings are not the only solution for achieving sustainability through increased density in cities but, given the scale of current population shifts, the vertical city is increasingly being seen as the most viable...

2001 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 3822812293 | scanned PDF | 499 MB “Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree – it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots.” Thus claimed Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on...

2006 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 1845331834 | scanned PDF | 230 MB “Concrete Design” is an unprecedented look at the design possibilities of concrete within the domestic environment. Sarah Gaventa examines experimentation in the medium, past and present, by many of the world’s leading names, as well...

1997 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0471976873 | scanned PDF | 152 MB The last forty years have seen an outburst of theories and manifestoes which explore the possibilities of architecture: its language, evolution and social relevance. With many ‘crises in architecture’ and the obvious urban and ecological...

2001 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1856692515 | PDF | 21 MB Dagmar Richter’s work explores new solutions to architecture and planning by giving voice to elements deemed inappropriate or undesirable – traces of a site’s history, contemporary photographs or drawings, and texts or spoken words. Richter’s own...

  2002 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0714840807 | scanned PDF | 418 MB This anthology of writings by the architectural critic Kenneth Frampton brings together his most influential essays from the last 35 years. The essays focus on twentieth-century architecture, dealing with diverse themes and movements, built...

2006 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 887624378X | scanned PDF | 235 MB Peter Eisenman emerged in the 1970s as one of the so-called New York Five in a group exhibition at MOMA on the theme of housing, a theme that was one of the first to be...

2012 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 8488386699 | scanned PDF | 121 MB Starting with a conversation between Enrique Walker and the Dutch architect Neutelings Riedijk, and an introduction by Aaron Betsky, this issue of El Croquis presents the buildings and projects executed in the last nine years...