Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Hayward Field: An Unparalleled Track and Field Facility Designed and Crafted to Push the LimitsAll the details of the stunning redesign of Hayward Field, the home of the University of Oregon track and field and hopeful US Olympians over the decades, outfitting it for the 21st Century. Hayward Field has hosted more Olympic trials than any other venue...
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Field House: Birdseye - Masterpiece SeriesA striking addition to the Birdseye Masterpiece series celebrating sustainable and innovative rural modernism. Field House showcases a distinctive Rhode Island residence designed by the award-winning Vermont architecture and building firm Birdseye. Fronted by an open meadow and otherwise surrounded by a deciduous forested...
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The Covert Life of Hospital ArchitectureA strong visual text that makes research on hospital architecture comprehensible. This book addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions, identifying ways that hospital spaces work to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased care provider...
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The Coolest Chinese ArchitectureChina's architecture has always impressed, whether the structure is an ancient temple with perfect symmetry or a modern skyscraper that reflects the passing clouds. In the past century, China's growth as an economic power and its rapid urbanization has demanded ingenuity of architects, who...
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Building the Body of Christ: Christian Art, Identity, and Community in Late Antique ItalyIn Building the Body of Christ, Daniel C. Cochran argues that monumental Christian art and architecture played a crucial role in the formation of individual and communal identities in late antique Italy. The ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs that emerged during the fourth and...
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Public Administration for Planners: Leadership and Responsibility in Theory and PracticeThis book offers an introduction to public administration by a veteran practitioner, written for planners, as well as students seeking a public administration career and individuals simply wanting to learn more about responsible government.The narrative provides an overview of public administration theory and the...
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Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological IssuesThis book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice - a central issue in urban injustices. With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Spain,...
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An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of KavalaAn Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala's expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was...
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Crime and Fear in Public Places: Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable CitiesThe Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature-a...
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Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban SpectaclePlanning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies. This book adopts a case study approach to examine a diverse range of events taking place in towns...
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Chinese Modern: Episodes Backwards and Forwards in TimeChinese modernity - a defining overview Rowe's third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in...
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Köpriyet: Republican Heritage Bridges of TurkeyKöpriyet: Republican Heritage Bridges of Turkey deals with bridges and the construction industry of Turkey during the foundation of the Republic between 1923 and 1940. This book provides a brief summary of the bridge history of the country, but the main focus is on...
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Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Interaction and OccupationIf participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and the Russian Revolution. Politics and aesthetics are still catching up with each other. In the 21st century, since the revolutionary...
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Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary BritainA captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome. "A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account of recent British history, rich in humour." NINA STIBBE "Brilliant, encyclopaedic, funny and often cutting." DANNY DORLING...
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Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman AntiquityThis book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does water help shape the world? What is the nature of the ocean? What causes watery weather,...
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Experimental Diagrams in Architecture: Construction and Design ManualExperimental Diagrams: Presenting New Practices After its golden age in the last decades of the 20th century, diagramming is still an experimental practice today, but it focuses on the synthesis of complexity and on new disciplinary territories on the edge between humanities, art, architecture,...
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A+u 21:09, 612: Feature: Urban Science and New Design Tools- Explores the theme of new technologies in urban science by describing the project from Barcelona in detail, which has been at the forefront of using these new tools at the municipal level and are presented alongside recent efforts in the United States and...
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A Solitary Traveler in the Long Night: Tong Jun -- The Later Years 1963-1983- This is perhaps the only book on Tong Jun, an outstanding architect and architectural educator in contemporary China Tong Jun was an outstanding architect and architectural educator in contemporary China. He was widely considered an all-round talent in theory, creation, writing and painting...
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Architecture Asia: Arcasia Awards for Architecture 2021- This special issue of Architecture Asia gives a comprehensive review of the 26 winning projects of the ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2021 The ARCASIA Awards for Architecture is an annual award established by the Architects Regional Council Asia to recognize the outstanding architectural...
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Walla WallaWalla Walla is a town that has seen elegant buildings erected during a period of early prosperity and has benefited from a determined commitment to preserve these architectural treasures more than 100 years later.Author: Susan MonahanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)Published: 04/04/2022Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...
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