Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Outrigger Design for High-Rise BuildingsOutrigger systems are rigid horizontal structures designed to improve a building's stability and strength by connecting the building core or spine to distant columns, much in the way an outrigger can prevent a canoe from overturning. Outriggers have been used in tall, narrow buildings...
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Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas IIThe laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages....
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Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape GardeningAuthor: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 532Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.48w x 1.95dISBN: 9780884021926This title is only available via back order
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Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent...
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Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social EngagementThe role of the global architect in society is changing. Instead of waiting for commissions to come their way, architects are initiating and developing practical solutions in response to dramatically changing living conditions in many parts of the world today. Small Scale, Big Change...
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Msu Campus--Buildings, Places, Spaces: Architecture and the Campus Park of Michigan State UniversitySince its founding in 1855, Michigan State University has emerged from its modest "oak opening" in the wilderness to become a large campus park. This story reflects the commitment of campus leaders since the nineteenth century to develop MSU as a beautiful and educational...
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The Senior Cohousing Handbook - 2nd Edition: A Community Approach to Independent LivingHow to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating. "Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide...
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Made to Measure: Meyer Davis, Architecture and InteriorsSince forming their practice in 1999, Will Meyer and Gray Davis have designed some 200 private and public spaces that epitomize hip luxury style. Their interiors are as dazzling and dramatic as they are comfortable and welcoming--a carefully calibrated balancing act that has become...
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David Monn: The Art of CelebratingA state dinner at the White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, once-in-a-lifetime birthday celebrations--every lucky guest knows that there is no party like a David Monn party. Using scent, sound, sight, touch, and taste, Monn designs events to be "shared,...
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The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico-still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776-an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony....
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Southwestern Ornamentation & Design: The Architecture of John Gaw MeemJohn Gaw Meem was one of New Mexico's most renowned architects and his legacy is in part his contribution to the preservation and renewal of historic American Southwestern architecture. Because of his interest in the preservation, restoration and revival of this architecture, one of...
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The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on BehaviorThis study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in general. Mildred Reed Hall and Edward T. Hall founded Edward T. Hall...
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Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause Et CureMedieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise. Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical...
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Vintage Living: Creating a Beautiful Home with Treasured Objects from the PastVintage lifestyle expert and interior designer Bob Richter shows us how to find the best vintage treasures and how living with them brings beauty, comfort and personal meaning into our homes. Bob Richter has been thrifting and collecting vintage treasures for more than forty...
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Home: The Best of the New York Times Home Section: The Way We Live NowAppealing and innovative houses that show creativity, ingenuity, and design savvy for all homeowners today. With striking photographs and compelling stories from its vast home-design archive, the editors of the New York Times's beloved Home section offer a look at how contemporary homeowners make...
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Thomas Pheasant: Simply SereneThe work of influential, award-winning interior designer Thomas Pheasant is best described as contemporary classical and simply serene. Celebrated interior designer Thomas Pheasant is best known for his seamless melding of tradition and the contemporary. His spaces are fresh and of the age yet...
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The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque WorkshopIn this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realization, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the...
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Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for SerenityAlthough his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in distinctive buildings around the world. In his adopted home of Detroit, where he lived and...
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Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred SpaceHow should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book offers a wide,...
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Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations Along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to HegelThis book examines some of the salient historiographical and conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the nature of the medieval contribution to modern Western political ideas. On the one hand, scholars who subscribe to the "Baron thesis" concerning civic humanism have asserted...
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