Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Discovery Design: Design Thinking for Healthcare ImprovementDiscovery Design is a handbook for healthcare innovators who want to address the most important challenges facing patients, families, clinicians, and healthcare organizations. Leveraging the best ideas from the worlds of design thinking, healthcare improvement, and business strategy, Discovery Design will walk you through...
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Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities 2014This product of the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) provides minimum standards for design and construction of hospitals and outpatient facilities. The standards for long- term care facilities will appear in a new document for 2014; please see the entry for Guidelines for Design and...
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The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp-Limevolume 5The Hempcrete Book is a detailed practical manual for architects, surveyors, professional builders and self-builders. It explains how to source and mix hempcrete and how to use it in new builds and restoration. In colour throughout, fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this book provides...
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Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern MetropolisA compilation of Julius Shulman's extraordinary images of his adopted city, ranging from residential, commercial, shops, factories, and street life of Los Angeles, a true portrait of a modern metropolis. The book will show the photographs chronologically from 1934, when Shulman shot Richard Neutra's...
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Palm Springs Modern: Houses in the California DesertThis classic volume, now available at a lower price, showcases jet-set homes designed by the likes of Neutra, Frey, Lautner, and others. Palm Springs is famous as a mecca for the international jet set. But the city has also attracted its share of eccentrics...
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Architecture Inside-Out: Understanding How Buildings WorkFifty of the world's most important buildings seen through specially commissioned isometric illustrations and detailed photographs and plans, providing the perfect introduction to architecture for students and anyone interested in buildings.Taking readers behind architecture's facades and finishes, this charmingly illustrated book explores how some...
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Louis Sullivan: Creating a New American ArchitectureLouis Sullivan's designs stand today as leading exemplars of Chicago School architecture. Having spent much of his career in a late Victorian world that bristled with fussy ornament for ornament's sake, Sullivan (American, 1856-1924) refuted this style with the now famous dictum "Form follows...
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The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection"One of the best guides to creating a more socially connected and rewarding life."--Shelf Awareness Whether you're seeking mindfulness gifts, meditation gifts, or are looking for a way to bring calm and comfort into your home, hygge is the solution. Hygge (hoo-gah) is a...
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Edwardian House StyleThis is an invaluable pocket source book bursting with images of original and well restored Edwardian features. This is the ideal handy reference for the home owner, either to take to the architectural salvage yard or DIY store to identify authentic styles and colours,...
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Farnsworth House: Ludwig Mies Van Der RoheLaunched in 1991, award-winning Architecture in Detail books focus on individual seminal buildings, celebrating their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains a text by a respected author, a sequence of colour and black-and-white photographs, and a set of technical drawings...
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The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded EditionThe description for this book, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, will be forthcoming.Author: Otto Georg Von SimsonPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 07/21/1988Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.48w x 0.90dISBN: 9780691018676
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The ColosseumByron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour...
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American Barns and Covered BridgesWhen this book was first published in the mid-1950s, the author was concerned that such functional structures as the American barn and the covered bridge would soon give way to progress and be replaced by modern elements. Today, a number of these sturdy, beautifully...
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Words of Life: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and MeaningThis book celebrates the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library and its fifty years as a place of evolving service, powerful symbolism, and collaboration. It tells the history of the Library in terms of its meaning to all those who designed it, helped it...
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Scottish CastlesHistorical background and architectural details are given for each of the nearly 140 Scottish castles. Includes the major sites of Edinburgh and Stirling, and covers from as far north as Shetland to as far south as Dumfries and Galloway, west as far as the...
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Architecture in Mexico, 1900-2010An authoritative, two-volume compendium of 20th- and 21st-century Mexican architectureThis expanded two-volume edition of Arquine's 2013 publication examines the architectural styles that have taken place in Mexico during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. The book is divided into six periods:...
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Colonial & Antebellum Virginia: Images of Montgomery County's Historical-Cultural LandscapeVirginia has long been regarded as a state with great historical significance. Yet, the noteworthy places and events of the pre-Civil War era in the Commonwealth's southwestern region, Montgomery County in particular, have long been overshadowed by those in other parts of the state....
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Joslyn CastleIn the spring of 1893, media titans George and Sarah Joslyn bought a farm in Omaha, Nebraska, that would prove to be one of the city's most noteworthy real estate transfers. On this land, the Joslyns would construct a transformational home that would become...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of DefianceThe historic Welsh origins of the architect's creative defiance. The father of modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright learned his defiant creativity from the radical politics and work ethic of his Welsh family. Throughout his career, Wright strongly resisted the idea that his accomplishments owed...
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Higher Knowledge: Sanaa's Rolex Learning Center at Epfl Since 2010A unique book about one of the most famous buildings in Switzerland. The Rolex Learning Center at EPFL Lausanne opened in 2010. Designed by Pritzker Prize laureates SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) from Japan, it soon became one of the more well-known buildings...
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