A discussion of the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. It analyzes the relationship between buildings and designs, explores the notion of "architectural experience", [...]

Graphic communication in architecture has made a dramatic shift from traditional drafting practices to dynamic and hyper-medial representations. This book provides a concise and practical [...]

Sketches from Japan is the charming record of an eminent architect's visit to Tokyo and Kyoto. Each day Francis Ching would walk downtown, past temples [...]

Following Samuel Butlers assertion that "Every mans work, whether it be literature or music or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself", [...]

Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality [...]

The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the [...]

Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches [...]

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), perhaps the most famous of all German artists, embodies the modern ideal of the Renaissance man-he was a remarkable painter, printmaker, draftsman, [...]

Traditional methods of architectural history and theory tend to attribute a city’s civic and cultural identity to the dominant culture. Ignored are more marginal cultures [...]

The construction of a building is fascinating to watch, as the symbiosis between man and machine turns what seem to be scattered piles of material [...]