Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of DreadExplores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home. Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber's cabin, houses often capture and...
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Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice During World War IIA story of incredible military daring--set against the splendor of Venice--that tells how an unlikely squad of pilots executed the most meticulous air raid of World War II. March 21st, 1945. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over...
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New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age ArchitectureThe first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City's Art Deco treasures.Winner of a 2017-2018 New York City Book Award presented by the New York Society Library Of all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as...
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Modern Art. a History from Impressionism to TodayMost art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown...
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Lodge: An Indoorsy Tour of America's National Parks"LODGE is a beautiful reminder to go somewhere rustic with spotty wifi once in a while."--Barbara Corcoran, Shark on ABC's Shark Tank, Business Unusual Podcast Host, and Founder of The Corcoran Group2024 Reading the West Awards, Longlist, Nonfiction (MPIBA)"Luxurious full-page photo spreads capture the...
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Home at Last: Enduring Design for the New American HouseBestselling author and popular American architect Gil Schafer returns with the final installment in his trilogy on the rewards of living in the American house. The work of Gil Schafer--one of the world's leading experts on contemporary traditional architecture--is beloved for its elegance, charm,...
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Habitat: The Field Guide to DecoratingFrom Lauren Liess, an interior designer and founder of the popular blog Pure Style Home, Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating is "stunningly simple . . . a survival book for any budding decorator" (USA Today). "Not-always-conventional ideas for livening up any space with...
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Forever Beautiful: All-American Style All Year LongBestselling author Sikes, now the "standard bearer of great American design" (Architectural Digest), returns with a new book of fresh yet classic American decorating. AD100 and Elle Decor A-List designer and tastemaker Sikes believes there's beauty everywhere: all we have to do is look...
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Embracing Southern HomesFollowing up on his first book, Enduring Southern Homes, designer Eric Ross brings together a collection of new projects with fresh looks and perspectives on the perennial and ageless nature of Southern interiors.Enter the world of romantic, refined, and approachable living with a blend...
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Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural RepresentationEmerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency...
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Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City's Everyday ArchitectureA comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago's residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city's earliest days through the Second World War, revealing everything about what makes a home a Chicago...
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A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams"A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace." --Chicago Tribune A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work "A room of one's own:...
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Animal Architects (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)Independent readers will learn all about nature's most amazing builders in this new leveled reader from National Geographic Kids. Ever wondered why beavers build dams? Or how spiders weave their intricate webs? In this reader, you'll meet brilliant birds, inventive insects, and amazing mammals...
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AD at Home: Architectural DigestEditor in chief Amy Astley has revolutionized AD, and the interior design world, with her emphasis on how home is about the people who live there. Her favorite stories from the last ten years--of the unique homes, interiors, and lifestyles of some of the...
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Women Architects at Work: Making American ModernismA comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories...
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UnbuildingThis fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.Author: David MacaulayPublisher: Clarion BooksPublished: 10/26/1987Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.98h x 9.01w x 0.31dISBN: 9780395454251Audience: Ages...
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The Timeless Way of BuildingThe theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that...
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The Social Life of Small Urban SpacesIn 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public...
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The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow LivingNew York Times bestseller When The Kinfolk Table was published in 2013, it transformed the way readers across the globe thought about small gatherings. In this much-anticipated follow-up, Kinfolk founder Nathan Williams showcases how embracing that same ethos--of slowing down, simplifying your life, and...
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The House, the Ghost, and Me / La Casa, La Fantasma Y YoThis is a beautifully illustrated picture book journey through a hundred-year-old New Orleans home in both English and Spanish.Claudie lives in a house in the oldest part of New Orleans, a city where Mardi Gras beads dance in the breeze and every corner is...
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