Discover the essential skills required on the way to becoming an architect in this innovative activity book. Architect Academy gives kids the know-how to plan & draw all sorts of structures, from bridges & schools, to parks & pyramids. Activities range from designing a residential street, & your perfect play park to learning some of the maths skills used by architects, how to read floor plans, & the basics of interior design. The Architect Toolbag section contains all sorts of goodies, such as Architect Task stickers to use when a challenge is completed, a pull-out poster, & press-out game cards to share with friends. Encourages imaginative play & problem solving Fresh, contemporary artwork helps to make basic design & space-planning concepts accessible

Includes:: loads of great extras: stickers, a pull-out poster, a game, & cards to play with

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Do you know a Doric column when you see one? Of course. But what about an entablature, a hypostyle, a pylon, or a pagoda? Architecture Styles uses beautifully engraved plates from the great works of architectural history to illustrate a show-&-tell journey round the architecture of civilizations east & west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Most of the drawings & engravings have been taken from early sources, unparalleled for their elegance & delicacy of line, as well as for the amount of fine detail they offer. Extended captions & annotation supply you with a complete naming of parts which, as well as identifying & defining the correct terminology, will help you to understand how architects have planned & made the buildings of the past, from Amenhotep to Palladio, & Vitruvius to Wren. ...

Brazil, the big B of the BRIC countries, is in high spirits. The current upswing involving booming economic growth & cultural development is accompanied by good architecture: a great number of outstanding buildings have emerged, reviving international interest in Brazilian architecture. This publication provides an exciting selection of 220 modern buildings from the canonical works of Brazilian modern architecture to barely-known buildings; from works of the six best-known Brazilian masters namely, Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Joao Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, & Joao Filgueiras Lima (Lele) to those of young aspiring architectural offices. Coming from different cultural contexts & professional backgrounds, the three authors favoured an open-minded approach to Brazilian production. Considering the vastness of the country & the enormous number of projects, the selection presented here is far from exhaustive but presents a panoramic overview that helps the traveller to see good architecture. ...

This guide book is a must-have for all who are interested in European architecture & its rich history of diversified culture. Undoubtedly Riga is famous for its unique mixture of styles & traces of war & politics: German roots, Art Nouveau at its highest quality, Soviet Modernism, & a young European`s nation on its way to architectural profile. In 1997 the central part of Riga was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Daugava embankment & numerous streets with medieval roots encircle this special area. The author`s selection provides descriptions of nearly 800 buildings & various places in Riga & its vicinity. Buildings of all historical periods & architectural styles are described, ranging from centuries old monuments to buildings currently under construction. ...

This guide is a celebration of the works of professional architects in three South African metropolitan centres, namely Cape Town, Durban & the Johannesburg/ Pretoria Axis. The content ranges from the early years of European settlement, where architects were trained by the military schools of engineering, through the period of apprenticeship either to a recognised practicing architect or in public works, to the twentieth century & beyond, where architects were regulated as professionals by legislation, as was their education. The projects selected are all secular, being either in the public domain or eye, & therefore readily accessible. This guide is structured along main themes, each historically located. Each episode or project type featured is highlighted by a representative from each metropolitan centre, each being discussed in broader detail alongside similar contemporaneous local examples. In total the guide features over a hundred-&-fifty projects with all salient information as to their dates of construction, designers & locality (by way of QR codes). ...

The exotic architecture of Japan`s capital city fascinates architecture aficionados around the world. This new Tokyo architectural guide is an indispensable companion for anyone seeking to explore the architecture of one of the world`s largest & most complex cities. Two hundred of Tokyo`s most interesting buildings from the post-1945 era are introduced in pictures & informative texts. Photographs, plans, & several indices complete this practical & user-friendly guide, with maps making the buildings easy to locate. Included is a foreword by one of the most knowledgeable authorities on Japanese architecture, Professor Botond Bognar who discusses many of the buildings in the book in the context of East Asian architecture. ...

Architects have been described as artists using building lots as their canvas & the stunning examples of their work found in ...

Folded map of Berlin from Archimap Publishers highlighting architecture dating from 1237 to 1920, with an architectural guide on the reverse. The cartography is designed to show clearly the buildings included in the guide, with only street names & train stations indicated; certain areas have been enlarged for easier navigation, although the level of map detail remains the same. The map also has architectural walking tours marked on it that are described in greater detail in boxes surrounding the map itself. The guide on the reverse gives you a short description & history of the building & the relevant architects involved; a small colour photo of the building is shown next to the description. ...

Folded map of Berlin from Archimap Publishers highlighting architecture dating from 1920 to 1989, with an architectural guide on the reverse. The cartography is designed to show clearly the buildings included in the guide, with only street names & train stations indicated; certain areas have been enlarged for easier navigation, although the level of map detail remains the same. The map also has architectural walking tours marked on it that are described in greater detail in boxes surrounding the map itself. The guide on the reverse gives you a short description & history of the building & the relevant architects involved; a small colour photo of the building is shown next to the description. ...

In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history & theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present day. Along the way she profiles 200 key buildings, historic styles, architectural movements & celebrated architects from all around the world. Contents include the Greek orders, Roman engineering, Gothic architecture, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Revivalism, Art Nouveau, Modernism & Postmodernism, Futurism & Dynamic architecture along with architects like Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier & Frank Gehry. ...