Ernest Burden Livres

Across America old barns of all kinds are being imaginatively converted into new spaces in which to live and work. They offer luxuries otherwise scarce at any price today - lofty spaces, sound and intricate construction, and dramatic sunlight and shadow. With over 500 photographs, Lving Barns shows how to get started in reusing these buildings of our past for homes or commercial buildings. This book is an inspiring guide for adaptive restoration, including a survey of the types of barns found across the United States and advice for salvaging barn timber and moving structures. A stunning selection of residential and commercial projects -barns transformed into homes, studios, offices, churches, community centers, theaters, art centers, motor lodges, and the like, are shown. The barns featured range from those almost completely recycled by homeowners, to more ambitious renovations by architects. By preserving barns - whether by reusing original wooden pegs or by recalling the architectural forms in contemporary design - Living Barns shows how we can reclaim a part of our country's heritage and, at the same time, share and honor the spirit that led our ancestors to build with care and pride these unique and splendid structures. Originally published in the 1970s, this classic book has been updated with color photographs, sure to be treasured by architects and preservationists for generations to come.

The Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition, is a comprehensive resource featuring 8,000 definitions and 4,000 illustrations, including biographies of notable architects. This updated full-color edition covers architectural styles, elements, and green architecture, with over 3,000 new definitions and 1,000 photographs for an in-depth understanding.

How the world's great artists envisioned the futureA panoramic exploration of works of the creative imagination throughout history, Visionary Unbuilt Works of the Imagination, by Ernest Burden, introduces you to a wide range of far-reaching, original designs that, unbuilt, survived purely as artistic vision. The significant international content, from Prehistory through Medieval, Renaissance,and Modern includes full-page illustrations of baroque stage sets, designs for the film Metropolis and urban cityscapes by M.C.Escher, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugh Ferriss, and much more. A timeline integrates architectural events alongside their historical and cultural counterparts. The architectural imagery is represented by several media and stylistic techniques; sketches, drawings, paintings, models, andcomputer-generated images.

The classic guide to the use of the camera for laying out perspectives, revised and updated to highlight the author's photographic techniques, to introduce new computer techniques for accomplishing the same accurate layouts as with the camera, and to present hundreds of recent examples of architectural renderings from leading professionals. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Applies a heavily illustrated case-study approach to the multitude of techniques used to depict architectural projects, emphasizing the technique, and how the style of presentation heightens the attributes of the project itself. This revised edition adds information on using the computer to present 3-D and solid-modeled designs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.