Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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At Home in New England: Royal Barry Wills Architects, 1925 to PresentThe now venerable firm of Royal Barry Wills was founded in a one-room office on Boston's Beacon Street in 1925. Initially fueled by word of mouth and occasional newspaper exposure, the firm gained admiration for Wills's fresh take on various New England styles, including...
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National Geographic Kids Everything CastlesYoung readers will be spellbound by this story of fierce battles, dark dungeons, secret passageways, and medieval characters, made all the more vivid by true tales from experts in the field. Fun facts and photos, including reenactment shots, illuminate the lives of the inhabitants...
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The House at Capo d'OrsoRocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family's life and art, suspended in memory. How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a practice of living? Architect Sebastiano Brandolini invites readers on...
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My Adventures Building a Straw Bale House: A Home of My Own"My Adventures Building a Straw Bale House," culminates a life long interest and study of alternative housing construction methods and materials, specifically straw bale material.Each phase of construction is included within these pages. From breaking ground to final paint Edna tells the reader how...
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Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and TechniquesThe only comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to building with earthbags. Over seventy percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive,...
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The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability - Designing for AbundanceFrom the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what's next: The Upcycle The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living lessons gained from 10...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Natural Design, Organic Architecture: Lessons for Building Green from an American OriginalAn unsung prophet of today's green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision, it is not surprising that Frank Lloyd Wright anticipated many of the hallmarks of...
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The Seven Lamps of ArchitectureI believe architecture must be the beginning of arts, and that the others must follow her in their time and order; and I think the prosperity of our schools of painting and sculpture, in which no one will deny the life, though many the...
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Where Is the Taj Mahal?Learn about the love story behind the creation of one of the most beautiful and famous buildings in the world. The Taj Mahal may look like a palace, but it's actually a tomb and a lasting testament to one of the world's great love...
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6,000 Years of HousingThis encyclopaedic volume limns the rich story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic and sedentary societies to today. It covers housing around the world and suggests solutions for modern housing problems based on historical precedents.Author: Norbert SchoenauerPublisher: W....
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Global Investing: A Practical Guide to the World's Best Financial OpportunitiesIdentify and invest in the world's best performing companies In Global Investing: A Practical Guide to the World's Best Financial Opportunities, veteran portfolio manager Darrin Erickson walks readers through how to best analyze, understand, and invest in leading global businesses. In the book, you'll...
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Planung Für Morgen: Zukunft Stadt Und RaumDie Zukunft von Stadt und Raum liegt in der Weiterentwicklung des Bestands und den damit verbundenen Transformationsaufgaben. Die Planungsdisziplin muss sich dabei neu positionieren, und sie muss sich im Spannungsfeld von Klimaveränderung, Mobilitätswandel, der Forderung nach mehr Partizipation und mehr Resilienz behaupten. Wie können...
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Czech Secession: Art and Architecture 1890-1914A lavishly illustrated exploration of forward-looking Czech art around the turn of the twentieth century. Though it's less widely heralded than Berlin and Vienna, 1890s Prague was every bit as much a fin-de-siècle cultural center as its Mittel European peers. At the end of...
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M3: Modeled Works [Archive] 1972-2022The work of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and that of the firm Morphosis at its most pure is best seen in the models that preceded the buildings, masterworks made at scale, for the first time comprehensively gathered--and shown here. Thom Mayne is a...
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The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985How South Asian architects broke with the colonial past and found ingenious ways to negotiate modernism's universalist claims with the material and labor conditions on the groundSouth Asia holds a unique place among the many regions of the world where modern architecture was understood...
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Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and WildfireThe climate, which had been relatively stable for centuries, is well into a new and dangerous phase. In 2020 there were 22 weather and climate disasters in the United States, which resulted in 262 deaths. Each disaster cost more than a billion dollars to...
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Inventing Greenland: Designing an Arctic NationInventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape - one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Geared towards a design audience, this book combines spatial sensibilities with Greenland's local cultural, social,...
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Ron Thom, Architect: The Life of a Creative ModernistA definitive biography of an iconic Canadian architect--and a social portrait of the midcentury design world he lived in. Ron Thom came of age in the mid-20th century, just as the modern movement and an impending building boom were about to reshape the country....
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AA Files 78AA Files is the Architectural Association's (AA) journal of record. Currently under the editorship of Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing both on the AA's own academic research, public programme, exhibitions...
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Let's Build a SchoolFrom the publisher that brought you the bestselling Baby University books comes a brand new board book series of construction books for kids. Join the construction team and help build a school!Let's build a School! Follow along step-by-step as we construct a school, from...
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