Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Palazzo Vecchio Grotesques- Features highly detailed photography specially taken for this publication Palazzo Vecchio, which towers over piazza della Signoria, at the center of Florence, is an iconic building and from the Middle Ages to the Medici family to present day it has been the seat...
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Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of TimeMonuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect, even while pursuing its monument-building program with a singular ruthlessness...
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Arne JacobsenThe largest book on Arne Jacobsen to date, describing his life, sources of inspiration and achievements. The book also contains more in-depth analyses of selected individual works.Author: Carsten Thau, Kjeld VindumPublisher: Danish Architectural PressPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 559Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9788774072300
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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and PeopleThe Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints...
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Brückenbau Beginnt Im Kopf: Ingenieursein - Mehr ALS Technische LösungenDas Besondere an diesem Buch: Es enthält in jedem Kapitel auch eine Audioversion des Textes.Bauingenieur zu sein ist ein erfüllender Beruf. Bauingenieure gestalten nachhaltige Infrastruktur. Wir errichten Häuser, Stra en, Brücken, Tunnel, Kulturstätten, Türme und vieles mehr. Dafür bringen wir häufig die ganze Ingenieurskunst...
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Colonial Taverns of New Jersey: Libations, Liberty & RevolutionEat, Drink, Be Merry and Join the Revolution New Jersey was the "Crossroads of the American Revolution," and its colonial taverns were havens for Patriots and Loyalists alike to debate the political question of independence and even plan much of the Revolution itself. Taverns...
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A+u 22:12, 627: Feature: Engineering Arta+u's December issue features 20 collaborations between artists and engineers, diverse in scale and materiality, and liberated from conventional architectural constraints of programs and building regulations. Ranging from Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 60-year-old project plans for L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, to monumental sculptures by Pablo...
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Brutal Outer LondonFrom the photographer behind the bestselling, iconic photo book Brutal London. London is a large, dispersed megacity, and where Brutal London focused on inner London, this new book from the acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps concentrates on the further reaches; the suburbs and outer residential...
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Brand Addiction: Designing Identity for Fashion Stores.We use fashion as an outside expression of who we are on the inside. This is why, more than in any other field, branding is essential to the fashion industry. Good branding is storytelling- a consistent message, weaving meaning into every piece. Brand Addiction...
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Signature Houses: Private Homes by Great Italian DesignersThis inspiring volume takes readers on a tour of luxurious interiors that showcase the best of Italian design and architecture. As part of the series dedicated to "Made in Italy" architecture and design (Carlo Scarpa, Piero Portaluppi), this latest book features a stunning collection...
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Private Gardens of the Potomac and Chesapeake: Washington, DC, Maryland, Northern VirginiaThe first-ever survey of private gardens in the Washington, DC, Metro Area and the Eastern Shore, this fascinating tour of 15 gardens by well-known landscape designers illuminates the sophisticated yet inviting landscape style of the Capital region. From urban rooftops and terraces to suburban...
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Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar DetroitIn the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city...
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The Poet & The ArchitectIn The Poet & The Architect, Christine Stewart-Nuñez explores how the disciplines we devote our lives to influence how we view the world and, subsequently, interact with each other. If, as Louis Sullivan says in the book's epigraph, an architect must possess "the intuition...
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Le Corbusier - Oeuvre Complète Volume 4: 1938-1946: Volume 4: 1938-1946Author: Willy BoesigerPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 01/01/1995Pages: 203Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.11h x 11.35w x 0.66dISBN: 9783764355067
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Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product DesignFor students of design, professional product designers, and anyone interested in design equally indispensable: the fully revised and updated edition of the reference work on product design. The book traces the history of product design and its current developments, and presents the most important...
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Louise Blanchard BethuneAs America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life...
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Concrete Jungle: Tropical Architecture and Its Surprising OriginsCombine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather...
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Sj Axelby's Interior Portraits: An Artist's View of Designers' Living SpacesAn artist's record of the homes of 89 leading creatives from interior designers to ceramicists, antiques dealers, florists and chefs.SJ Axelby brings new life to interior portraiture, capturing in paint the favourite rooms of 89 leading creatives from interior designers to ceramicists and antiques...
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Lake Arrowhead ArchitectureLocated in the mountains above San Bernardino is a surprising enclave of significant architecture built by some of the region's most important architects. The Lake Arrowhead area was long a getaway for the rich and famous, who brought many of the architects they used...
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Miami Art DecoA book reviewer once described Arnold Schwartzman as "a trufflehound with a Nikon," praising his passion and inquisitive eye. In Miami Art Deco, Schwartzman's sixth photographic book on Art Deco architecture, he turns his lens on the tropical sun-bleached facades of Miami Beach's pastel...
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