Architecture - Individual Architects & Firms - Essays
Explore our curated selection of architects books and essay books, featuring top architecture books, biographies of the best architects of all time, and bestselling titles. Discover your next favorite read!
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Architecture Against Architecture: A ManifestoA fourteen-point manifesto to bring architecture into the twenty-first century Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices...
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Barragán Outside Barragán: A Journey Through Books, Trips, Exhibitions and FriendsThe life of Mexico's greatest 20th-century architect as told by Fernanda Canales, Mexico's rising star architect of the 21st centuryPublished with Barragan Foundation, Switzerland. This publication is based on an illustrated talk presented by architect and historian Fernanda Canales in June 2024 at the...
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Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award winner! 2018 Robert & Judi Newman Award for Literature & Journalism! For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that neuroscience has helped determine...
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Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural RepresentationEmerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency...
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Kengo Kuma: SubstanceKengo Kuma: Substance explores the work of the acclaimed Japanese architect through six materials--wood, bamboo, metal, paper, textile, and stone--and presents the ideas behind each work. Kengo Kuma's work masterfully engages experimentation, traditional Japanese design, and advanced technology. This results in highly innovative yet...
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Ridiculously Good-Looking Saunas: Ridiculously Good Looking SaunasRidiculously Good-Looking Saunas reimagines the sauna as a space of radical design, cultural depth, and elemental beauty -- where architecture and atmosphere merge in the pure pursuit of presence. Far beyond wellness trends, the modern sauna reflects a growing desire for intentional living and...
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Thinking Architecture: Third, Expanded EditionEine Architektur, die in einer sinnlichen Verbindung zum Leben stehen soll, erfordert ein Denken, das über Form und Konstruktion weit hinausgeht. In seinen Texten bringt Peter Zumthor zum Ausdruck, was ihn zu diesen Gebäuden motiviert, die Gefühl und Verstand auf so vielfältige Weise ansprechen...
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Through the Long Desert: Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd WrightA richly illustrated exploration of newfound connections between American cultural icons Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright. This groundbreaking volume places the artist and architect side by side, shedding light on their lives, work, and mutual love of the American desert. Georgia O'Keeffe and...
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Tips from the Top: Architects Share Their Advice for SuccessTips from the Top is a collection of advice from more than sixty architects who have earned the respect of their peers and are willing to share their knowledge on building a successful and meaningful career in architecture. This book compiles more than sixty...
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Towards a New ArchitectureFor the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure...
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