Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Earthbag Architecture: Building Your Dream with BagsDiscover how you can build an amazing variety of structures using little more than the earth beneath your feet. Earthbag building is revolutionizing how people around the world are thinking about ways of providing shelter, both temporary and permanent. Such buildings can be remarkably...
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King Arthur and the Goddess of the Land: The Divine Feminine in the MabinogionReveals how the ancient Celtic text of the Mabinogion was the mythical predecessor to the legends of King Arthur. - Revised edition of Arthur and the Sovereignty of Britain (UK) that includes the author's latest research and insights. - A comprehensive reader's companion with...
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern PhilosophyWestern philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony...
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Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New LookDior and His Decorators is the first work on the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the unabashedly luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary...
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Morphosis: 2004-2018A resounding masterpiece of architectural publishing, this volume, Rizzoli's sixth on Morphosis and its founder, architect Thom Mayne, features the work of the award-winning interdisciplinary architectural and design practice over the past fourteen years. Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis...
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The World of Charles and Ray EamesThis is the first comprehensive book on the Eames' legacy in over a decade, revealing the rich totality of the their work in all media. Produced in close collaboration with Eames estate, this novel publication presents the husband-and-wife team from both personal and professional...
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The New Chic: French Style from Today's Leading Interior DesignersThe next generation of Parisian interior designers curated by the editors of French Architectural Digest. From Vincent Darr and Joseph Dirand to India Mahdavi, a new wave of design talent has emerged in Paris. Combining nonchalant elegance with the French capital's perennial chic flair,...
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Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior DecorationThe eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatta reinvented the English Country House style stateside for clients such...
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Courthouses of GeorgiaThe courthouses of Georgia's 159 counties hold the keys to the history of individual families and entire communities alike. From their primary role as the temples of justice for our court system to their better-known function as the official repository of public records for...
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Barbarians, Marauders, and InfidelsBarbarians, Marauders, and Infidels examines the motives and terrors of war during the Middle Ages, the rise and fall of ethnic and religious groups, and the actions of good and evil military leaders during this violent and colorful period. In this sweeping chronicle, historical...
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Homilies on Genesis 1-17This translation makes available for the first time in English one of the most significant Old Testament commentaries of the patristic period. St. John Chrysostom's extant works outnumber those of any other Father of the East; in the West, only Augustine produced a larger...
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Aquinas and AnalogyIn his De nominum analogia, Cajetan introduced a spurious distinction between analogy of attribution and analogy of proportionality that is not found in Aquinas's writings or anywhere else. Cajetan's mistake became a commonplace and it is still uncritically accepted today. In Aquinas and Analogy,...
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The Invention of Rivers: Alexander's Eye and Ganga's DescentDilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human habitation and everyday practice. What we take to be natural features of the...
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Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern PhiladelphiaIn the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood...
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Historic Houses of Philadelphia: A Tour of the Region's Museum HomesWith 160 color photographs that invite the reader to step over the threshold, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life. The only comprehensive readers' tour of the nation's richest array of historic residences open to the public, the...
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval SpainReconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain Joseph F. O'Callaghan "On the one hand, a masterful synthesis of work done in both crusade and reconquest history and, on the other, a fresh look at the intersection between the two fields, this engaging book tackles the...
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Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife ArtThe first European artist-naturalists to tour North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were awed not only by the continent's varying landforms but also by the animals they encountered: vast herds of buffalo, majestic horned stags, a bewildering variety of birds. The earliest...
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Hanok: The Korean HouseAppreciate the understated glamour and traditional comfort in this collection of the most excellent examples of timeless Korean architecture. Hanok: The Korean House provides new insights on the stylish traditional Korean homes that are experiencing a resurgence of popularity in Seoul today. While the...
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All the Buildings in New York: That I've Drawn So FarA charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to New York City, told through James Gulliver Hancock's unique and charming drawings of the city's diverse architectural styles and cityscape. His buildings...
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Comparing MythologiesTomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the ways that Canadian culture today is shaped by the mixture of Aboriginal and Western mythologies. What interests him...
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