Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Richard NeutraThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Mornings in Florence (Esprios Classics)John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy....
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Streetlife: Urban Retail Dynamics and ProspectsOur street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to economic upheaval as commercial corridors and...
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Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood GardensA critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today. The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social...
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Iwo Jima Monuments: The Untold StoryIWO JIMA MONUMENTS - The Untold StoryIn 1945 there was an Original Wartime-Built IWO JIMA MONUMENT unveiled in front of the old Department of the Navy Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC.The flag raising atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima has become one...
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Power and Piety: Monastic Houses of Medieval Britain and Ireland - Volume 8 - The Warrior MonksPower and Piety: The Warrior MonksIt was the increasingly aggressive expansion of Islam, which was spreading to Europe, Africa, and throughout the Middle East, threatening the Christian hold on the Holy Land, whose sacred sites had been visited by pilgrims for centuries, that gave...
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Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the CityA collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their...
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Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn Al-'Arabī's Book of the Fabulous GryphonThis volume presents the seminal treatise of the important Spanish Muslim mystic, Ibn al-'Arabī, on Islamic sainthood The Book of the Fabulous Gryphon. In highly allusive, symbolic language, the Shaykh al-Akbar reveals his manifesto of the revolutionary significance of sainthood in the person of...
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Exhibition Art - Graphics and Space DesignThis book meant for exhibition designers, graphic designers, curators and event organizers, collects over sixty of the world's most creative exhibition designs including fascinating space design solutions and sophisticated graphic design ideas. The examples range from extraordinarily large events such as a World's Fair...
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Factory DesignIndustrial manufacturing facilities have always been an own category in architecture. Ever since the development of factories in the 17th century this type of buildings have first of all served to improve the production process while reflecting at the same time the workflow. Furthermore...
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Unfinished: Ideas, Images, and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture BiennaleSpain was one of the countries where the practice of architecture has been most affected by the economic crisis. There are few places on earth where such large numbers of buildings were built in such a short period of time. The lack of reflection...
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Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant DisplayIn the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in the role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and display have long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions--particularly in...
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The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in AlgeriaOf all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria's President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of...
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Brother Pluto, Sister Eris: Aspects Between the Dwarf Planets Through 800 Years of HistoryHistory has been full of battles, wars, and times of upheaval that lead to greater struggles. What if we were to look at these events as crime scenes, in which murder takes place at an extreme level? If we were to examine each crime...
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Harvard/Handbook Art MuseumWith some 280,000 objects, the Harvard Art Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States. Its Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums feature world-renowned collections of archaic Chinese jades and bronzes, Italian Renaissance paintings, and nineteenth-century art, along with remarkable...
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Preserving the Key: Manasota Key, FloridaAs the ice age ended large amounts of melting glacial ice led to rising sea levels. As part of this long term process the Florida shoreline moved 20 to 100 miles landward, and Manasota Key and many other barrier islands were formed. For most...
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All about Portland Head Light: Cape Elizabeth, MaineYour personal guide to one of the most iconic lighthouses in America!Portland Head Light has long been at the center of Maine's maritime history and lore, and is undoubtedly one of the state's greatest treasures...and All About Portland Head Light is a treasure trove...
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Historic Dance Halls of East Central TexasTexas dance halls are iconic structures that have played a prominent role in the state's culture from its earliest stages. They became central institutions in the earliest European settlements and provided these immigrant communities with a common, central space in which to build new...
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Hans Scharoun - Architektur Auf Papier: Visionen Aus Vier Jahrzehnten (1909-1945)The built work of Hans Scharoun (1893- 1972) has already been honored many times, but his sensational drawings with utopian contents have only been considered cursorily and his pioneering drawings as a pupil and student have not been a focus at all. Over 1,000...
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Design Monograph: StarckA design monograph on architect Philippe Starck, also a ground-breaking designer of furniture, interiors and hotels. A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the...
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