Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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London, Block by Block: An Illustrated Guide to the Best of England's CapitalLondon is a spectacular place to visit, and there are endlessthings to see and do all year round. In London Block by Block, illustrator Cierra Blockshares 50 maps showing the best that London has to offer, whether it's thefood, history, culture, shopping, beautiful buildings...
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Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style: Evocative StyleFor her first book in ten years, Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and fascinating designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent interiors, here inviting readers into her latest creations including her newly designed home. Celebrated for luxurious...
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Jewish Country HousesAn exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them. Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy....
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How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome StructuresThis striking book explains the feats of engineering behind the world's most impressive architectural marvels. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Children's Books of 2022Featured on the Children's Book Council's 2023 Teacher Favorites Award List From skyscrapers that reach astonishing heights to bridges that...
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Heidi Caillier: Memories of Home: InteriorsIn her debut book, designer Heidi Caillier shows how to mix moody color with layers of pattern, natural materials, and textures to create spaces that are both beautifully curated and comfortably livable. Heidi Caillier believes that our homes should create a sense of place,...
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Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday Times BestsellerSpending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside - and sharing their beauty and unsung history across social media - Luke Sherlock is bringing English history and the heritage of our rural countryside to a new audience. England is full of...
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Desert by Design: Creative Minds, Arid Places, Tailor-Made SpacesDesert by Design celebrates the interior worlds that exist in Earth's most arid climes and, more importantly, the creative minds who inhabit them Marfa, Texas-based desert dwellers Molly Mandell and James Burke traveled the world to explore and photograph thirty incredible spaces. They made...
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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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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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