Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Piet Oudolf at WorkA major monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever publishedStep into a Piet Oudolf garden and you are transported into a dreamlike meadowscape, filled with perennials, seasonal color, and texture. Made in close collaboration...
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Modern Farmhouse: Over 200 of Today's Top Home PlansAuthor: Design America IncPublisher: Modern Farmhouse: Over 200 of TodayPublished: 05/22/2023Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 10.75h x 8.25w x 0.64dISBN: 9781586780289This title is not returnable
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Where Is the Eiffel Tower?Learn about the Eiffel Tower, beloved and iconic symbol of Paris, France, and one of the most recognizable structures in the world When the plans for the Eiffel Tower were first announced, many people hated the design of the future landmark, calling it ungainly...
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West LinnLocated along the west bank of the Willamette River at the falls in Oregon, the West Linn area offers a vibrant and interesting array of geological history, including ice age floods and the Willamette Meteorite. It is a significant historic site for Native Americans...
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The Touch (New Edition): Spaces Designed for the SensesThe Touch is a new collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects that welcome readers into over 25 inspiring spaces where interior design is not only visually appealing but engages all of the human senses. Through beautiful homes, hotels,...
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The New Sustainable House: Planet-Friendly Home DesignDesigning with the environment in mind is not new. What is new is the increasing number of ways houses can be more sustainably built. With a fresh focus on design ingenuity and innovative technologies and materials, The New Sustainable House demonstrates that there is...
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The Housing FilmThe Housing Film examines how a century of realities and possibilities in domestic living have been profiled and foregrounded through studies and representations of Housing in the medium of Film. The filmic investigations, analysis and expos?s of homes and our way of occupying them,...
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The Architectural History of VeniceThis book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated and filled with splendid new illustrations, this edition invites all visitors to Venice, armchair travelers,...
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Set Pieces: Architecture for the Performing Arts in Sixteen FragmentsWhy does live performance continue to engage us? In a world saturated with recorded entertainment, we seek out the intimacy and immediacy of live music and theater. What is the relationship between design and the experiences, perceptions, and memories it engenders? At its best,...
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Night Fever: Interior Design for Bars and ClubsAuthor: The Editors of Frame MagazinePublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 07/25/2005Pages: 311Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.85lbsSize: 11.90h x 9.30w x 1.40dISBN: 9783764305123
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Nationalism in Architecture of Modern IranA historical account of the development of nationalism in Iranian architecture between 1905 and 2015. Nationalism in Architecture of Modern Iran is the first comprehensive book on modern architecture in Iran to be published in English. It addresses the relationship between nationalism and architecture...
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MassiveMASSIVE is the fourth book by John Trefry. MASSIVE is a text that exists eternally in the present of the reader. Every glimpse is new, in the moment, and transitory. Osip Mandelstam lives in exurban Atlanta under a totalitarian state called the ADA. Author:...
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I Spy QatarLet's play a game of I Spy Enjoy a game of I Spy and discover iconic buildings and monuments around Qatar. With beautiful photographs of popular landmarks around Qatar and rhyming clues in English and Arabic, you'll uncover a bit of the States heritage...
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Interior Style: JapandiA fusion of functional Eastern minimalism with clean Scandi cosiness, the japandi interior style creates a tranquil home with its focus on warmth, simplicity, natural elements and muted colours. Elements such as bamboo, wood and stone, along with clean lines and uncluttered spaces make...
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Dise?o (Design): La Historia Visual DefinitivaDiscover the history of design with this gorgeous visual celebration of key pieces, movements, and designers, from the Arts and Crafts movement to the digital age. Discover all you need to know about art and design in this definite guide. Design: The Definitive Visual...
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Designing Aspen: The Houses of Rowland+broughtonIn this luxurious and aspirational home design book, the founders of renowned Colorado firm Rowland+Broughton share a selection of their extraordinary residential projects, with Aspen and the Rocky Mountains as the dazzling backdrop. Rowland+Broughton is known for shaping the town of Aspen with their...
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City of ChildrenThe city, born to be a place of meeting and exchange, has for several decades taken as a default model the strong citizen, man, adult and worker, thereby transforming it into a hostile space for the weakest: the elderly, the disabled, the poor and...
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Brutalist Hong Kong Map: Guide to Brutalist Architecture in Hong KongHong Kong's hitherto unmapped collection of remarkable Brutalist architecture is compiled here in this timely guide. This bilingual, two-sided map features forty examples of Brutalism across Hong Kong, from the early 1960s to 1980s. Researched by Bob Pang, with photography by Kevin Mak. In...
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Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics: Design Futures for the More Than HumanThe twenty-three papers and five editorials collected in this volume speak to subjects of bio-design, speculative biology, green walls and pavers, design by decay, soilless soil, sentient materials, photogrammetrees, robotics, nanotechnology, thermal architecture and alliesthesia, digital weaving, chemical droplets, and even Frankenstein. More broadly,...
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Bauen Im Bestand. Wohnen / Building in Existing Contexts. LivingBauen im Bestand ist f?r eine klimaneutrale Zukunft von ma geblicher Bedeutung. Seine Relevanz als Bauaufgabe ist schon heute in vielen Architekturb?ros st?rker ausgepr?gt als die Planung von Neubauten. Gleichwohl verlangt das Weiterbauen von den Planerinnen und Planern nicht nur viel Sorgfalt, sondern auch...
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