Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Gustave Eiffel's Spectacular Idea: The Eiffel TowerHave you ever seen the Eiffel Tower? Gustave Eiffel's tower is one of the most recognized landmarks in the world, but it wasn't an easy path to turn his idea into a reality. Readers will love learning the story behind the name as they...
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Barry Dixon InteriorsFrom a Manhattan loft choreographed for entertaining to Arts and Crafts in a woodland glade, to embassy elegance in Washington, D.C., Barry Dixon has seen and designed it all. As one of America's top up-and-coming designers, Dixon's work is a masterful blend of traditional...
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Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico CityHow Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan. After archaeologists rediscovered a corner of the Templo Mayor in 1914, artists, intellectuals, and government officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for reassessing...
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Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age CyprusThis book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyze...
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Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film LocationsReframing Berlin investigates the concept of urban memory through the transformation and/or consistency of the built environment. These architectural changes, defined as urban strategies, range from demolition (forgetting) to memorialisation (remembering) and are shown through case studies using film locations in Berlin. 64 b/w...
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Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House ProjectThe story of Shinohara's exquisite modernist gem, a residential home drawing on Japanese vernacular and religious architectureBuilt in Tokyo in 1961, the Umbrella House is the smallest residential home created by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara. More than 60 years later, a stroke...
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Perspective for Interior Designers: Simplified Techniques for Geometric and FreeHand DrawingPerspective for Interior Designers offers an easily accessible and quickly learned method that will serve every interior designer's drawing needs. Beginning with a section on the fundamental technique of two-point perspective, which is presented through 14 sequential steps, the author moves on to cover...
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Warehouse Home: Industrial Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century LivingThe love of warehouse buildings--often in attractive waterside locations--has become a global phenomenon, from London to New York, Sydney, and Florence. Drawing on her own experience of living in a Grade II listed mill and running a specialist interior design consultancy and magazine, Sophie...
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Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York"We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it" Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save the city from obsolescence, decentralization, and decline. His vast building program aimed to modernize urban infrastructure, expand the public realm with extensive recreational facilities,...
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Young Architects 22: ValueYoung Architects 22: Value features work by the winners of the 2020 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. The competition theme examined the meanings of value in contemporary architecture--a concept that spans "numbers, colors, measurement, worth, and ethics," in the words of...
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Tile Designs Coloring Book: Zentangle Colouring Images For Teens And Adults, Oriental Mosaic, Kaleidoscope, Geometric Patterns For Relaxation, StrThis Tile Designs Coloring Book is exactly what you need when you are looking for relaxation and stress relief after an intensive and stressful day There's no better way to unwind and calm down than to indulge in a peaceful world of beautiful images.These...
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Non-Linear Mechanics of Reinforced ConcreteThis book describes the application of nonlinear static and dynamic analysis for the design, maintenance and seismic strengthening of reinforced concrete structures. The latest structural and RC constitutive modelling techniques are described in detail, with particular attention given to multi-dimensional cracking and damage assessment,...
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French AmericaTo celebrate the 200th anniversary of America's purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France, a new publication, French America, explores the rich French architectural and cultural heritage in the United States. A highly visual book, with more than 200 striking, full-color photographs, French America...
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Akrotiri Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years OldThis English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri provides an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbors in the Eastern...
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Engineering the NYC Subway SystemThe New York City Subway System has been carrying passengers for more than a century. Engineering the NYC Subway System explores how designers drew up plans for the subway, how workers built the underground system in one of the world's busiest cities, and how...
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Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill DistrictA lavishly illustrated record of the architectural--and preservation--wonders of the most elegant neighborhoods of St. Paul Summit Avenue, grande dame of Victorian boulevards, is lined with magnificent turn-of- the-century mansions built by railroad magnates, lumber barons, and captains of industry. Great Houses of Summit...
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Living to the Max: Opulent Homes and Maximalist InteriorsFind inspiration in a selection of lush flamboyant interiors filled with colors and patterns. Eclectic interiors with a story behind: discover contemporary maximalist homes that celebrate personality and life experiences. Extravagant furniture, saturated colors and patterns of the wallpaper and bold decorations let rooms...
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Corner Kick: Mapei Football Center SassuoloDocuments the new training campus of Italian premier league soccer club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, an elegant gem of contemporary sports architecture.Author: OnsitestudioPublisher: Park Publishing (WI)Published: 04/11/2023Pages: 60Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 12.83h x 11.02w x 0.32dISBN: 9783038603108About the AuthorOnsitestudio in Milan was founded by Giancarlo...
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On Balance: Architecture and VertigoSince the construction of the first skyscrapers in the 19th century, urban environments have been increasingly marked by verticality. The advent of the modern metropolis transformed the experience of gravity in ways which resonate acutely today. At a time of instability, the rise of...
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Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focusing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defense, urbanization, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building' (using...
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