Architecture - Regional
Discover a curated selection of architecture regional books, regional fiction, and geography. From regional writers to bestselling books, find the best books to read at our online bookstore!
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A City Built By Giants: The Architectural Masters That Shaped Buffalo, New YorkBuffalo is literally a walkable encyclopedia of amazing --architecture, told through the works of internationally renowned masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright; Louis Sullivan; H. H. Richardson; Daniel Burnham; McKim, Mead, & White; Eliel and Eero Saarinen; and dozens of great local architects, including...
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A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic ArchitectureThe fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a...
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A House in Japan: Lessons in LivingA House in Japan examines the Japanese home as a site of architectural inquiry--an intimate scale through which ideas about space, structure, and domesticity are continually reimagined. In a context shaped by constraint, precision, and cultural continuity, the residential realm becomes a space of...
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African Fabbers Atlas: Manual of Synthetic Vernacular ArchitectureA compendium of essays, conversations and paradigmatic projects conceived as an adaptive platform on synthetic-vernacular architecture in Africa and its potential role as cultural driver for global scenarios. Based on almost ten years of applied research of Paolo Cascone and his CODESIGNLAB practice in...
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All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York's Largest and Most Diverse BoroughThe borough of Queens has long been celebrated as the melting pot of America. It was the birthplace of North American religious freedom in the seventeenth century, hosted two World's Fairs in the twentieth, and is currently home to over a million foreign-born residents...
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Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western AfricaA stunning survey of the boom in independence-era building by western African architects in the mid-20th century, expressed across universities, hotels, banks, museums and moreBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific--and...
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Architectural Styles: A Visual GuideA hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout history Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley...
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Arts and Crafts Architecture Across AmericaA beautifully illustrated exploration of Arts and Crafts buildings across the United States, showcasing the movement's wide reach and regional variations After the Arts and Crafts movement coalesced in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, it made its way quickly to the...
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Assemble: Building CollectiveArchitecture collective Assemble has transformed the definition of a successful young practice by working on temporary, small-scale, community-based projects, often reusing sites and materials. Described by architecture critic Edwin Heathcote as "young, widely admired and increasingly influential," they are the future of architecture and...
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Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805-1879The first Euro-Americans to trek through the verdant Walla Walla Valley were uniformly impressed with its prospects for colonization. The Cayuse remained the valley's primary inhabitants until diverse populations with equally diverse objectives--manipulative traders, frictional missionaries, hostile colonists, an over-ambitious governor, a distracted Bureau...
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Big AtlasThe first comprehensive monograph focusing on the built work of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, one of the most innovative and creative architecture practices working today For over two decades, the pioneering, multidisciplinary Danish firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group has created a wide range of projects that...
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California Crazy. American Pop Architecture. 45th Ed.At the dawn of the automobile age, Americans' predilection for wanderlust prompted a new wave of inventive entrepreneurs to cater to this new mode of transportation. Starting in the 1920s, attention-grabbing buildings began to appear that would draw in passing drivers for snacks, provisions,...
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Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer CapeFrom the "summer Bauhaus" on, the Cape's modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivityIn the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard's new Graduate School of Design, rented a...
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Casa MexicanaMexico's domestic architecture scene is on the rise, characterized by innovative homes that play with texture through the use of concrete and stone, maximize the piercing quality of light, and prioritize efficient use of space. Expert architecture photographer Edmund Sumner has rounded up the...
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Contemporary Southern Vernacular: Creating Sustainable Houses for Hot, Humid ClimatesMore and more people are flocking to the warm, sunny states of the American South, but the hot, humid climate presents a unique set of challenges to those building or renovating a home. Fortunately, veteran architects Jane and Michael Frederick are sharing the knowledge...
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for ManhattanSince its publication - Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the variety of human behaviorAt the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made...
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Emery Roth's New York Apartment Buildings: Incorporating Mansions in the Clouds by Steven RuttenbaumThe long list of apartment buildings and hotels designed by Emery Roth in the 1920s and 1930s includes names that will be familiar to any aficionado of Manhattan real estate: the Ritz Tower, the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ardsley. Roth's buildings, which ranged...
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Enchanting Paris: The Hedonist's GuideGo beyond the ordinary with this charming and sophisticated entry in the Hedonist's Guide travel series, a remarkable travelogue, guidebook, and coffee table keepsake--filled with spectacular color photography and detailed insights--that showcases Paris's stunning beauty and hidden gems.See the City of Light through the...
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Fabulous Fountains of New YorkA stunning exploration of New York's most enchanting fountains New York City's fountains are more than just decorative features--they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of art that shape the city's landscape. In Fabulous Fountains of New York, award-winning author and native...
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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction: Expanded EditionFeaturing new houses, many additional photographs and a new afterword, Fire Island Modernist offers a fascinating look at the history and culture of this "gay paradise" through the life and work of Horace GiffordPublished with Gordon De Vries Studio. As the 1960s became the...
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