Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Alternative Energy Systems in Building Design (Greensource Books)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Design High-Performance Alternative Energy Systems for BuildingsA comprehensive reference for architects and engineers, this GreenSource book provides practical...
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Color in Interior Design CLPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Create dazzling color schemes for any indoor space You'll quickly sharpen your color skills--and open the door to...
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Venice Lab: Reconsidering St. Mark's SquareA photographic and textual documentation of David Chipperfield's long-awaited restoration of St Mark's SquareThis volume follows the long-anticipated restoration work on the Procuratie Vecchie in St Mark's Square in Venice, as overseen by David Chipperfield Architects. Thousands of people walk past the landmark each...
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On Specific Ambiguity by the Idea of Tropical Space or the Reasoned Practice of the Forms of TransitionA leading Colombian architect's inventive conception of tropical architecture's unique qualitiesAppraising the "tropical architecture" of Latin America, On Specific Ambiguity, authored by Colombian architect Camilo Retrespo (born 1973), is a manifesto-cum-monograph on the notion of tropical space. Retrespo argues for a form of architecture...
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Cherubino Gambardella: Bellezza ImperfettaThe singular designs of a Naples-based architectural firmThis book brings together 15 works by the studio of Italian architect and designer Cherubino Gambardella (born 1962), whose buildings are defined by a bold use of materials, forms and colors, such as the integration of modern...
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Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with ArchitectsThe author of The Future of the Museum talks with architects from David Adjaye to Sou Fujimoto about the future of museum architectureFollowing on the widely read volume The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó...
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Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, FutureWood as the essential building material for the 21st century--ecologically, economically and technologicallyWood is the building material of the 21st century. Understanding this material and its potential requires us to recognize its ecological, technological and cultural-historical contexts. Touch Wood explores this potential, with inspiring...
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Ghost Stories Vol IIBehind every haunted house, there's a true story... and for every true story, there are countless eye witness accounts... What's better than a good ghost story? A true ghost story! We've been telling ghost stories for centuries, with evidence of them seen as far...
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Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings, Second EditionDrawing on the authors' experience gained from library projects around the world, this book charts a readable path through everything from the planning of a new library, to major refurbishment, or the remodeling of a current library. It clearly explains the library design language...
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Voices of Design Leadership: Insights from Top Collaborative Design FirmsVoices of Design Leadership Provides inspiration to architecture and design students and professionals through the insights, stories, and projects of successful design leaders Voices of Design Leadership seeks to educate, inform, and inspire a new generation of diverse design leaders. The work includes sixteen...
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History of Alcatraz Island Since 1853As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history since 1853. The small island known in sea charts by its Spanish name Isla de los Alcatraces or Island of Pelicans laid essentially dormant until the 1850s, when...
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Modern Construction HandbookNew edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to its regular revisions and clear structure with chapters titled "Material", "Wall", "Roof", "Structure", "Environment" and "Applications". For the sixth edition, the 3-D...
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Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev BedouinThe resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs...
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Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's CapitalAuthor: Katherine ZubovichPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780691202723
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Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment, 1876-1925This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Mobility Design: Shaping Future Mobility Volume 2: ResearchClimate change and increasing resource scarcity together with rising traffic volumes force us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. New forms of smart mobility are becoming possible thanks to the expansion of digital information systems, and we will soon be able...
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Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial" style. With the aim of articulating British global power...
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A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British LandscapeThe 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain's role in trans-Atlantic slavery, too often overlooked. Yet the legacy of that predatory economy reaches far beyond bronze memorials; it continues to shape...
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Church Archaeology in Transylvania (Ca. 950 to Ca. 1450)Transylvania has some of the most valuable monuments of medieval architecture in Europe: the easternmost churches built in Romanesque style, Cistercian monasteries, Gothic buildings, and fortified churches. This book explores archaeological sources to bring to light the hidden past of these monuments.Author: Daniela Marcu-IstratePublisher:...
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The Minimal InterventionThe mind's eye as a design principle Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) outlined his theory of the "smallest possible intervention" back in the early 1980s. The idea of minimal intervention runs through his entire oeuvre, from his critique of urbanism to the science of walking. The...
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