Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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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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Casa MexicanaMexico's domestic architecture scene is on the rise, characterized by innovative homes that play with texture through the use of concrete and stone, maximize the piercing quality of light, and prioritize efficient use of space. Expert architecture photographer Edmund Sumner has rounded up the...
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Brooklyn BridgeAward-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee's "wonderful picture book" (School Library Journal) offers a compelling visual history of the "Eighth Wonder of the World," the Brooklyn Bridge--now with a new look! "It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument,...
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Bauhaus. Updated EditionIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media...
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Banksy You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat and If You Were Not You Would Know about ItNew expanded 248pp Edition. The single best collection of photography of Banksy's street work that has ever been assembled for print. If that isn't enough there are some words too. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers his entire street art career, spanning...
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AaltoAlvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a...
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Weird BuildingsA photographic collection will take you on a journey through some of the world's most stunningly unusual and imaginative buildings. This photographic collection will take you on a journey through some of the world's most stunningly unusual and imaginative buildings, from the terracotta-pink bubble...
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This Is HomeDesigner Marks's second book celebrates his relaxed and refined interiors inspired by the stylish ease and laid-back coastal feel of Southern California. Since the launch of his first book and hit TV Show Million Dollar Decorators, Jeffrey Alan Marks has married and become a...
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The Stage of Time: Secrets of the Past, The Nature of Reality, and the Ancient Gods of HistoryThe Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into understanding the secrets of consciousness, ancient history, and the very nature of reality itself. Be prepared to question the world you live in and everything you thought you knew about the universe,...
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Sports Cars. 45th Ed.For the seasoned car collector or the awestruck newcomer, this volume is the consummate sports car anthology. Bringing together 50 of the most exquisite, desirable, and adrenaline-charging sports cars of all time, it recounts the enthralling endeavors in automotive design and engineering in pursuit...
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Shag: The Collected WorksWith an unparalleled collection of paintings and illustrations, featuring new and unpublished pieces, Josh Agle--more commonly known as Shag--presents a tome bursting with vibrant colors, vivacious personalities, and a magic mirror into midcentury modernism. Including an introduction by author and expert on 1960s and...
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Sacred GeometryIs there a secret visual language all around us? What's so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? Why is there something so sexy about circles? How many ways can you tile the plane? Lavishly illustrated by the author, this enchanting small introduction...
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Rome AnticsA pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live side by side. It is a city...
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Mid-Century Modern Design: A Complete SourcebookA definitive survey of mid-century modern design and architecture in an accessible compact edition, this book offers a rich overview of one of the most popular, collectable, and dynamic periods of design. With rich and diverse examples of everything from furniture and lighting to...
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MassiveMASSIVE is the fourth book by John Trefry. MASSIVE is a text that exists eternally in the present of the reader. Every glimpse is new, in the moment, and transitory. Osip Mandelstam lives in exurban Atlanta under a totalitarian state called the ADA. Author:...
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