Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Slavutych: Architectural GuideSlavutych, a Ukrainian provincial city north of Kiev, seems in many respects to belong to a different era. Built after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 to replace the contaminated dwellings of workers from the plant, Slavutych is the last "ideal" planned city of...
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The Essence of Light: Centre for International Light Art UnnaA celebration of the Centre for International Light Art's 10-year anniversary, this beautiful catalog presents fascinating photos of the museum's light installations accompanied by explanatory texts and artist biographies. The book details the space's effective presentation of works created specially for the former Lindenbrauerei...
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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in DialogueSigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto,...
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Prefab HousesA prefab is a mass-produced house, constructed in a factory and assembled on-site in a few days or weeks. Once regarded as a cheap, easy solution for urgent housing problems, the prefab has evolved to become a synonym for ambitious design and sophisticated detailing...
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CabinsEver since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade,...
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Arts & Architecture 1945-49From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study...
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PalladioAndrea Palladio (1508-1580) is widely considered the father of Western architecture. Strongly influenced by formal temple designs in Ancient Greece and Rome, he pioneered a revival of Classical symmetry and perspective, and with it created a universal architectural language.From his humble beginning as a...
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Michel-Ange. l'Oeuvre Peint, Sculpté Et Architectural CompletAvant d'atteindre le jeune âge de 30 ans, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) avait déjà sculpté la Pietà et David, deux des oeuvres les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire de l'art. Sculpteur, mais aussi peintre, dessinateur et architecte, les créations de ce maître absolu de la...
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PianoWhile some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form.Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of...
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TurnerL'oeuvre de Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) déclenche une émotion proche d'une acquisition soudaine de la vue. Ses paysages terrestres et marins aux couleurs et lumières enchanteresses brûlent la rétine avec une force fondamentale, élémentaire, comme si le soleil lui-même brillait hors du cadre.Pertinemment...
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Venedig Von Oben: Die Lagunenstadt in LuftaufnahmenVenedig - ein Sehnsuchtsort, dessen Faszination ungebrochen bleibt. Der vorliegende Band bietet einen vollig neuen Zugang zu dieser ungewohnlichen Stadt, namlich mit Luftaufnahmen, die in einer eigenen Fotokampage angefertigt wurden.Author: Riccarda Cantarella, Armando Dal Fabbro, Maria Giulia MontessoriPublisher: Schnell & SteinerPublished: 08/31/2015Pages: 288Binding Type:...
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Valparaiso School: Open City GroupSince 1950 the avantgarde architect Alberto Cruz has had such a defining influence on the Faculty of Architecture at the Catholic University in Valparaiso that the phrase Valparaiso School was soon coined. Out of this work emerged in 1970 the anonymous group "Open City...
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Die Villa Hügel: Unternehmerwohnsitz Im Wandel Der ZeitAuthor: Renate Kohne-LindenlaubPublisher: Deutscher KunstverlagPublished: 01/29/2019Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsISBN: 9783422980174Language: GermanAbout the AuthorDr. Renate Köhne-Lindenlaub, Essen.This title is not returnable
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Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the RegionWhat if we stopped dividing the US and Mexico, and instead saw the border as one region? This book envisions the cultural and industrial cohesion of the areaAt a moment when migration has returned as a hot-button political issue and NAFTA is being renegotiated...
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Climates: Architecture and the Planetary ImaginaryThis book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is...
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Formless: Storefront for Art and Architecture Manifesto Series 1Struggles to escape form as a manifestation of various norms and constraints are as old as architecture itself. But the formless is also increasingly in the air today, explicitly as in discussions of the "formless" quality of the city, and implicitly in talk of...
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Kazunari Sakamoto: VortragKazunari Sakamoto (born 1943) has mainly been working on smaller residential buildings, in which he questions and explores the principles of architecture. His buildings and theoretical works have had a big influence on the contemporary Japanese architecture. The lecture is about his search for...
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Passivhaus-Bauteilkatalog: Neubau / Details for Passive Houses: New Buildings: Ökologisch Bewertete Konstruktionen / A Catalogue of Ecologically RatedAuthor: Österreichisches Institut Für BaubiologiPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 12/01/2018Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.75lbsSize: 13.60h x 9.30w x 1.20dISBN: 9783035616866Language: GermanAbout the AuthorIBO - Institut für Baubiologie und Ökologie, Forschung und Wissensverbreitung im Bereich Baubiologie und Bauökologie.
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Architecture Design Data: Practice Competency in the Era of ComputationAuthor: Phillip BernsteinPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 11/01/2018Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.70dISBN: 9783035611885About the AuthorPhillip G. Bernstein, Lecturer and Associate Dean at Yale School of Architecture, former Vice President at Autodesk, Inc.
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Historic Houses of Paris Compact Edition: Residences of the AmbassadorsA unique glimpse inside a world of luxury, tradition, and splendor. Many historic homes in Paris serve as residences to foreign ambassadors; these historical sites are closed to the general public. From a seventeenth-century h tel particulier, to a Belle Epoque palace, to a...
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