Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Native Plants for Southwestern LandscapesWinner, Xeriscape Award of Recognition, Arizona Municipal Water Users Association Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library AssociationFor gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such...
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White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful selection of case studies, that the evolution of the architecture of new churches and chapels built on campuses reveals the shifting and...
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The Architecture of the CityAldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest...
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Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 2: Ecologies of ChangeTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world--rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the...
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Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of ArchitecturePart memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver...
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Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal EraIn an era when many decry the failures of federal housing programs, this book introduces us to appealing but largely forgotten alternatives that existed when federal policies were first defined in the New Deal. Led by Catherine Bauer, supporters of the modern housing initiative...
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared CommunitiesThe building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving...
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A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold WarA House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the beginning of World War II until the late 1950s. Houses were built across the Midwest, Northeast, and Southwestern United...
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Complete Book of Home Inspection 4/EPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.INSPECT ANY HOME INSIDE AND OUT--WITH HELP FROM AN EXPERT Find out the real value of a house...
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Alternative Energy Systems in Building Design (Greensource Books)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Design High-Performance Alternative Energy Systems for BuildingsA comprehensive reference for architects and engineers, this GreenSource book provides practical...
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Color in Interior Design CLPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Create dazzling color schemes for any indoor space You'll quickly sharpen your color skills--and open the door to...
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Venice Lab: Reconsidering St. Mark's SquareA photographic and textual documentation of David Chipperfield's long-awaited restoration of St Mark's SquareThis volume follows the long-anticipated restoration work on the Procuratie Vecchie in St Mark's Square in Venice, as overseen by David Chipperfield Architects. Thousands of people walk past the landmark each...
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On Specific Ambiguity by the Idea of Tropical Space or the Reasoned Practice of the Forms of TransitionA leading Colombian architect's inventive conception of tropical architecture's unique qualitiesAppraising the "tropical architecture" of Latin America, On Specific Ambiguity, authored by Colombian architect Camilo Retrespo (born 1973), is a manifesto-cum-monograph on the notion of tropical space. Retrespo argues for a form of architecture...
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Cherubino Gambardella: Bellezza ImperfettaThe singular designs of a Naples-based architectural firmThis book brings together 15 works by the studio of Italian architect and designer Cherubino Gambardella (born 1962), whose buildings are defined by a bold use of materials, forms and colors, such as the integration of modern...
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Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with ArchitectsThe author of The Future of the Museum talks with architects from David Adjaye to Sou Fujimoto about the future of museum architectureFollowing on the widely read volume The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó...
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Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, FutureWood as the essential building material for the 21st century--ecologically, economically and technologicallyWood is the building material of the 21st century. Understanding this material and its potential requires us to recognize its ecological, technological and cultural-historical contexts. Touch Wood explores this potential, with inspiring...
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Ghost Stories Vol IIBehind every haunted house, there's a true story... and for every true story, there are countless eye witness accounts... What's better than a good ghost story? A true ghost story! We've been telling ghost stories for centuries, with evidence of them seen as far...
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Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings, Second EditionDrawing on the authors' experience gained from library projects around the world, this book charts a readable path through everything from the planning of a new library, to major refurbishment, or the remodeling of a current library. It clearly explains the library design language...
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Voices of Design Leadership: Insights from Top Collaborative Design FirmsVoices of Design Leadership Provides inspiration to architecture and design students and professionals through the insights, stories, and projects of successful design leaders Voices of Design Leadership seeks to educate, inform, and inspire a new generation of diverse design leaders. The work includes sixteen...
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History of Alcatraz Island Since 1853As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history since 1853. The small island known in sea charts by its Spanish name Isla de los Alcatraces or Island of Pelicans laid essentially dormant until the 1850s, when...
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