Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Merging City & Nature: 10 Commitments to Combat Climate ChangeAfter 40 years of professional experience developed in three areas of work --City-Territory, Landscape-Public Space and Building--, Batlle i Roig acquires a new commitment and positions itself in the face of the climate emergency, generating a sustainability matrix through which to contextualize your urban...
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Visualizing Complexity: Handbuch Modulares InformationsdesignDesign system for information design explained step by step How can you turn dry statistics into attractive and informative graphs? How can you present complex data sets in an easily understandable way? How can you create narrative diagrams from unstructured data? This handbook of...
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Collective Processes: Counterpractices in European ArchitectureWhat does a collective process in architecture entail and how does it influence the planning of our built environment? Although the hierarchically organized office with its claim to individual authorship is still the dominant form of architecture firm, more and more horizontally organized collectives...
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Researching Urban Space and the Built EnvironmentResearching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write innovative spatial histories....
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The Built Work of Giuseppe PizzigoniGiuseppe Pizzigoni, Architekt der klassischen und Nachkriegsmoderne in Norditalien, verdankt seinen Ruf seinen Verbindungen zur Novecento-Bewegung, der Unabhängigkeit vom Faschismus und seinem Interesse an innovativen Wohngrundrissen. Anhand von Neuzeichnungen der Pläne von ca. 60 ausgeführten Bauten werden die entwurflichen Leistungen systematisch analysiert, ergänzt um...
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City, Climate, and Architecture: A Theory of Collective PracticeThe publication rethinks climate control - a key concern of the discipline of architecture - through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of...
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Black History WalksFrom Southwark to Westminster, Black History Walks takes you through historical sites, highlighting the embedded history of Black Britons around the city of London and its fundamental links to Africa. In this guide, you'll get: Walking tours that can be self-walked or accompanied with...
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Health and Well-Being in Prison Design: A Theory of Prison Systems and a Framework for EvolutionThis book establishes a new framework for prison design to promote the health and well-being of all prison users. Based on international research in Norway, Finland, the USA, and Chile, and drawing on the expertise of key international advisors, this book uniquely reveals the...
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Transforming Public Space through PlayThis book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces. The introduced City-Play-Framework (CPF) is a practical urban analysis tool that allows urban designers, landscape architects and researchers to develop a shared awareness...
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FreeCAD 0.19 Black BookThe FreeCAD 0.19 Black Book is the 2nd edition of our series on FreeCAD. This book is written to help beginners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step by step methodology. In this book, we have tried...
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Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support SystemsInfrastructure and Society This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creative projects explore the interaction between architectural spaces and infrastructural systems with the aim of responding to contemporary environmental, social,...
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Out of the Clouds. Wolf Dprix: Sketches 1967-2020: A Selection of 1.300 Sketches Out of 320 ProjectsBuilding from the drawing board Architecture and freehand drawing are inextricably linked. Even in the Gothic period, the principle applied: what you can't build, you at least draw. The same applies to the sketches of Wolf dPrix, co-founder and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au. Over...
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The New Technological Condition: Architecture and Technical Thinking in the Age of CyberneticsElectric brain or creativity? In the era of cybernetics, architects suddenly encountered entirely new ways of operating technical systems: buildings could be calculated using circuit diagrams, creativity and imagination were confronted with the technical intelligence of thinking machines. Architects found themselves in the crosshairs...
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From Castle to Teahouse; Japanese Architecture of the Momoyama PeriodThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Arassociati Milanese Architecture- This book illustrates the extensive design and construction work in Milan over the past 20 years by the notable Milanese architectural firm ARAssociati- Text in English and ItalianThis book illustrates the extensive design and construction work in Milan over the past 20 years...
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Taesun Hong: Ykh Associates"This monograph of the work by master architect Taesun Hong is truly inspirational. It brings together architecture as a living art that stands alongside--and on its own at the same time--other great achievements of the human spirit," states quantum physist and cosmologist, Dr. Menas...
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History Lover's Guide to CheyenneCelebrating at their encampment near Crow Creek on July 4, 1867, railroad surveyors named the settlement after the local Cheyenne tribe. By the time the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in November, the town had grown from a tent city to a Hell on Wheels...
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Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected WorldArt and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. From majestic monuments to exquisite tableware, Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen, and Linda Safran deftly guide readers over twelve centuries...
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Global Gothic: Gothic Church Buildings in the 20th and 21st CenturiesAlthough largely overlooked in studies of architectural history, church architecture in a Gothic idiom outlived its 19th century momentum to persist worldwide throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium.Global Gothic presents a first systematic worldwide understanding of "Gothic" in contemporary architecture, both...
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Robotic Landscapes: Designing the UnfinishedThe first book on the use of robotic technology in landscape design that introduces new, dynamic methods and previously inconceivable scenarios for implementation. The Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich has been researching the integration of robots into the architectural practice, both in design...
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