Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Hidden DimensionPeople like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's territory is one of the key dimensions of modern society. Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language, introduced the science...
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Home Security Guide: How to Protect Your Home & Family with Security Systems, Cameras, Companies, Alarms, & AutomationAre you looking to protect your home, belongings, and your family? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this guide is for you. Recent technological advancements have made home security more accessible, more effective, and cheaper than ever before. Forget paying...
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Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank GehryHere, from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger, is the first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. Goldberger follows Gehry from his humble origins--the son of working-class Jewish immigrants in Toronto--to the heights of his extraordinary career....
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The Gateway Arch: A BiographyThe surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious plan Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a revered monument to...
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The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture, Revised and Updated EditionHome to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fifth anniversary, richly illustrates and describes the most important highlights...
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Skyscrapers: Structure and DesignAn investigation of thirty skyscrapers from around the world--both recently built and under construction--that explains the structural principles behind their creation Skyscrapers, ever taller, astound us with their immensity and beauty. Despite the challenges associated with their design and safety, there is continued growth...
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Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750: Volume 2: The High Baroque, 1625-1675This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years...
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Native Plants for Southwestern LandscapesWinner, Xeriscape Award of Recognition, Arizona Municipal Water Users Association Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library AssociationFor gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such...
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White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful selection of case studies, that the evolution of the architecture of new churches and chapels built on campuses reveals the shifting and...
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The Architecture of the CityAldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest...
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Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 2: Ecologies of ChangeTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world--rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the...
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Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of ArchitecturePart memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver...
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Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal EraIn an era when many decry the failures of federal housing programs, this book introduces us to appealing but largely forgotten alternatives that existed when federal policies were first defined in the New Deal. Led by Catherine Bauer, supporters of the modern housing initiative...
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared CommunitiesThe building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving...
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A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold WarA House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the beginning of World War II until the late 1950s. Houses were built across the Midwest, Northeast, and Southwestern United...
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Complete Book of Home Inspection 4/EPublisher'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.INSPECT ANY HOME INSIDE AND OUT--WITH HELP FROM AN EXPERT Find out the real value of a house...
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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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