Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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A Roof Cutter's Secrets to Framing the Custom HomeHere is your opportunity to own a copy of the latest version of "A Roof Cutter's Secrets" (4th version - 2023). This is the very book that many believe revolutionized the modern home framing industry. It has been the "go to" reference book of...
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Sketch Like an Architect: Step-by-Step From Lines to PerspectiveBecome better at sketching - learn how to Sketch like an Architect!With this book you'll learn a step-by-step process of how to master the basics of architectural sketching.The Handbook contains chapters focused on: Lines & 2D Objects Basic Perspective Rules Shadows, Textures & Materiality...
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Home Again: A Return to Gracious InteriorsJames Farmer shows that you can go home again--to welcoming Southern style regardless of your location or time of life.A house is a dwelling and structure, while home evokes the emotions and memories of a life well lived. A home is where the seasons...
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Eames: Beautiful Details"Eames: Beautiful Details" celebrates the seamlessness and fluidity in which Charles and Ray Eames operated as both a husband and wife team and as designers unrestricted by traditionally professional boundaries. Select details of their life and work, from their refined designs to their innovative...
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Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition: Over 360 Home Plans Under 1200 Square FeetChoosing a new house design is exciting, but it's also difficult. The Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition makes it easy! Featuring a catalog of small home designs with all of the amenities homeowners look for in a new home, this practical,...
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My First Shapes with Frank Lloyd WrightBuild a Love for Shapes and Design with Frank Lloyd Wright! Introduce young minds to the world of architecture and design with First Shapes with Frank Lloyd Wright. Inspired by the legendary architect's geometric style, this beautifully crafted board book teaches basic shapes through...
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Michigan's Haunted LighthousesMichigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings.Former keepers like Captain Townshend at Seul Choix Point and prankster John Herman at Waugoshance Shoal maintain their...
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Inverness by Design: How Berkeley Made a Summer PlaceAcross the Golden Gate, the wooded village of Inverness seems a world away from Berkeley's steep, shingled and stuccoed hillsides--but the two places share a deep architectural and moral lineage.In this richly documented and gracefully written study, Courtney Linn reveals how the ideals that...
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In the Company of Nature: Regenerating Business, Community and the Living WorldWhat if a business could be beautiful not only in what it creates but in how it considers and cares for the living world. In the Company of Nature tells the extraordinary story of House of Hackney, the B Corp design house that set...
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Houses: Atelier AmFollowing up on their much-heralded first volume of interiors, this new publication presents the next evolution of Atelier AM--virtuosos of mixing antiques and museum-quality artworks with pedigreed design. "Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the wife-and-husband team behind the Los Angeles-based AD100 design firm Atelier AM,...
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Digital Media Series: RhinocerosDevelopments in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) continues to influence the nature of architectural design practice. As a communication and design tool, CAD software not only supports the practical operations of architectural design practice but also introduces design theories that are unique to the medium. As...
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Antifascist Architecture: A Genealogy of Antifascist Architects, Buildings, History, and TheoryInvents and defines a new category of groundbreaking architecture. Architects, historians, and theorists have been obsessed with fascist architecture since postmodernism. But who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? This book is the first attempt at creating a working definition....
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A House Needs to Breathe...Or Does It?: An Introduction to Building ScienceA House Needs to Breathe...Or Does It? lays out the basic science of residential buildings. When it comes to how houses perform, professionals and homeowners alike believe many things that just aren't true. This book explodes the myths, misinformation, and plain old nonsense that...
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Uncanny Revivals: Designing an American IdentityAn examination of how immersive colonial revival projects contributed to the formation of a White nationalist identity by inviting viewers to step into the past From 1930 to 1950, a number of design projects in the United States appeared to bring early American history...
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MonumentsScholars and contemporary artists reckon with decommissioned monuments, examining fraught narratives of the legacy of the Civil War and slavery as well as national identity in the United StatesPublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Brick. This volume features a...
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Chicago's Luxury Apartment BuildingsChicago's Luxury Apartment Buildings presents a history of the city's residential buildings constructed during the Gilded Age of the 19th century. These buildings redefined the city's architectural landscape and transformed urban living. Beginning with the first structure, erected in 1876, and continuing through the...
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Wall Flowers: A Love Letter to WallpaperA love letter to wallpaper from the founder of Chasing Paper, one of the most successful wallpaper companies. Wallpaper might be the most singularly transformative element of design. There is no faster way to create a dramatic impact to any room--it is evocative, a...
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Drawing Lessons with Da Vinci: An Artist's Guide to Geometry, Anatomy and ProportionA comprehensive art course that reveals Leonardo da Vinci's incredible life, work, and legacy. Explore the techniques, principles, and practice of Da Vinci's work: from the Vitruvian Man and the Mona Lisa to the La Scapigliata With reproductions from his original sketchbooks that show...
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America's Classic Ballparks - Revised Edition: Celebrating Parks Past and PresentGo out to the ballgame with an interactive tour through America's ballpark landmarks in this new edition of America's Classic Ballparks. The ultimate tribute to the stadiums that shaped America's pastime, America's Classic Ballparks transports you to the golden era of baseball. From the...
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A House in Japan: Lessons in LivingA House in Japan examines the Japanese home as a site of architectural inquiry--an intimate scale through which ideas about space, structure, and domesticity are continually reimagined. In a context shaped by constraint, precision, and cultural continuity, the residential realm becomes a space of...
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