Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Greening of America's Building Codes: Promises and ParadoxesEnvironmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change, both triggered by human actions, have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes. But the way in which America builds its homes is part of the problem. This deeply researched history of sustainable design...
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Notes from Another Los Angeles: Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social LandscapeThe first book to focus on California architect Gregory Ain's housing projects, which featured open kitchens, movable walls, and other design innovations. The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908-1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard...
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The Lawless Land: Volume 1'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could be Jack Reacher's ancestor, 700 years ago. Highly recommended!' Lee ChildFirst in a fast-paced historical adventure series from New York Times bestselling author...
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The Phone in the FishbowlBlake Seever is really trying this time. After nearly destroying his life (and the lives of those around him) with his heroin addiction, he's completed a treatment program and is now working a steady square gig at Telesolutions, a cold-calling firm that offers everything...
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Industrial Palimpsest: The City of Newark, NJRecognizing Newark's industrial heritage and new design concepts by studentsInitiated in Nina Rappaport's classes in the School of Public Architecture, at Kean University this collaborative study documents the rich industrial heritage of Newark, New Jersey, and its industrial palimpsest: it is a record of...
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The Green LadyFrom the leading lady of Scottish historical mysteries comes her US debut novel: a shocking tale of betrayal and murder in the court of Mary, Queen of Scots. 1567, Scotland: no place for a woman. Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate in...
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Montpelier Transformed: A Monument to James Madison and Its Enslaved CommunityBy the late 20th century, Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison, had been altered until it would no longer have been recognizable to the couple.In 2000 the newly-created Montpelier Foundation took over management of the historic home with the seemingly insurmountable task...
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Crouchback: Le Retour du CroiséAvril 1284 - Récemment veuve et désormais dame d'honneur de la reine Eleanor d'Angleterre qui s'apprête à donner naissance à son seizième enfant, Catrin n'avait jamais imaginé revenir un jour au Pays de Galles. Elle avait encore moins imaginé s'y trouver confrontée à un...
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Joy: Kim Utzon Architect- The first monograph by Kim Utzon, the son of Pritzker Prize-winning Danish architect J rn Utzon - Features a selection of twenty-five built and unbuilt institutional, commercial and residential projects developed throughout a thirty-five year practice - Provides a creative, spiritual and artistic...
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Morally AmbiguousShe just wants to be loved... by the one man who is not capable of feeling it.A CUTE PSYCHOCharming and unpredictable, Vlad Kuznetsov is known as the joker of the underground world. Known to many yet known by none, he is a true social...
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Werewolf Tales: An AnthologyTen gripping tales span one-hundred years' worth of werewolf legends in this new anthology.Witness the traditional lore of lycanthropy, werewolfery and shape-shifting evolve over the years, from the Victorian gothic fantasy of Erckmann-Chatrian's The Man-Wolf, to Algernon Blackwood's two tales of atmospheric occultism, to...
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The Quarry Girls: A ThrillerKillers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime.Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means...
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Logic of Love in the Canterbury TalesThe Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an insoluble. Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious...
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A Cultural Symbiosis: Patrician Art Patronage and Medicean Cultural Politics in Florence (1530-1610)Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de' Medici in 1532. Proud and self-confident patricians did not become subservient courtiers overnight, but remained significantly influential for a long period....
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Pour Yourself a House; Low-cost Building With Concrete and StoneThis 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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Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots PastourellesCentering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as...
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Leaning Tower of PisaIn this book, early fluent readers will marvel at the Leaning Tower of Pisa while learning about its history, location, uses, and architecture. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the landmark's cultural history. A...
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Fragments: Guillaume TerverThe first monograph on French architect Guillaume Terver and his team. This beautiful book presents high-end houses and apartments in Paris and Brussels. Text in English and French.Author: Guillaume TerverPublisher: Beta-PlusPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.90lbsSize: 13.60h x 10.70w x 1.30dISBN: 9782875500977
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Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern ArtA nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art's carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and cultural interests In the interwar period and immediately following World War II, the U.S. government promoted the vision of a modern, progressive,...
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The Fundamentals of Interior ArchitectureThe Fundamentals of Interior Architecture (second edition) offers an introduction to the key elements involved in the creation of aesthetically appealing and practically appropriate interior architecture. The book contains five sections, which together encapsulate the principle ideas, skills and knowledge that are employed in...
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