Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Coastal Blues: Mrs. Howard's Guide to Decorating with the Colors of the Sea and SkyFrom design expert--and interior design readers' favorite--Phoebe Howard, comes a book focused on decorating with beautiful blue color schemes. Coastal Blues is a glorious decor book filled with inspiring images of beach houses, seacoast getaways, vacation cottages, and luxurious seaside manors. "Known for her...
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City ShapesHunt for shapes of all kinds on this journey through a bustling city, illustrated by four-time Caldecott Honoree Bryan Collier! From shimmering skyscrapers to fluttering kites to twinkling stars high in the sky, everyday scenes become extraordinary as a young girl walks through her...
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Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith FarnsworthThe iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth's role as Mies's collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect's angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl's audacious work...
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Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan's First Woman ArchitectA poignant eco-biography about Pakistan's first female architect and humanitarian, Yasmeen Lari, who invented sustainable and affordable housing amid natural disaster, featuring back matter with photographs of Lari and her work.From an inquisitive and compassionate young girl to a world-renowned and award-winning architect and...
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Travel Artist: Sketchbook Drawings and True Stories from the RoadTravel Artist: Sketchbook Drawings and True Stories from the Road is an illustrated travelogue drawn from 20 years of travel to 50 countries, and from the scores of sketchbooks and journals created along the way. A sketchbook changes travel, from checking off an itinerary...
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Towards a New ArchitectureFor the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure...
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Tiny House Design & Construction Guide: Your Guide to Building a Mortgage Free, Environmentally Sustainable HomeTake the first step to achieving your dream of building and living in your very own tiny house! The Tiny House Design & Construction Guide is your road map to the entire build process. This guide will help you to understand each step that...
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The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha HadidA Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2017 Parents' Choice Recommended Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect's life and her triumph over adversity from celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter. Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, and...
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Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the FutureCities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we didn't need...
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Shelter: 40th Anniversary EditionRead the definitive, complete guide to shelters--more than 300,000 copies sold!Shelter is so amazing, so revolutionary, that the best way to describe it is with one word: everything! It's a history of architecture, a do-it-yourself (DIY) guide, a scrapbook, and a collection of essays...
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School Zone Addition & Subtraction Grades 1-2 WorkbookIt's a fact! When your child understands and develops key skills, math can be more fun and a lot less stressful. In Addition & Subtraction Grades 1-2 workbook, you'll find hundreds of math facts for fast, fun learning, with clear instructions and step-by step...
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Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American CitiesConceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world--the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World's Fair postcards, nothing said "San Francisco" more than its soaring...
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New English Interiors: At Home with Today's CreativesOf the countless interior design trends that come and go every year, there is one that endures: the ever-evolving English style. Explore the homes of 22 of England's most exciting creatives, with interiors writer Elizabeth Metcalfe and photographer Dean Hearne.An inspiration to people across...
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My Garden: A Year of Design and ExperimentationA month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet's home garden--a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers. From a pioneer of the New Perennial movement, My Garden showcases...
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Look Inside Construction SitesAn action-packed book filled with construction sites to explore, construction machines to learn about and a demolition site in action. Lift the flaps to discover the work that goes into building a house, a bridge, a skyscraper and more, the jobs people do and...
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Lonely Planet Kids How Cities WorkGet ready to explore the city in a whole new way. This innovative book for younger readers is packed with city facts, loads of flaps to lift, and unfolding pages to see inside buildings and under the streets. Children aged 5+ can learn about...
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It's a Mood: Your Home. Your Vibe.Interior design legend Cara Woodhouse presents a bold, modern aesthetic for a new generation of design enthusiasts--and shows us how to create spaces that we will truly love to inhabit It's a Mood helps readers get in touch with their own design instincts. Organized...
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Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe's Medieval MonumentsWho really built Europe's finest Romanesque monuments? Clergymen presiding over holy sites are credited throughout history, while highly skilled creators remain anonymous. But the buildings speak for themselves. This groundbreaking book explores the evidence embedded in medieval monasteries, churches and castles, from Mont Saint-Michel...
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How a House Is BuiltHouses are built with many different materials, and in many shapes and sizes. Step by step, this picture book explains how homes are built--from the architect's plans through the arrival of a happy family. The many processes of construction are explained with simple language...
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous CityTokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outsiders understand Tokyo's inner workings. For cities around the globe mired in...
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