Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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American Country Houses of the Gilded Age: (Sheldon's Artistic Country-Seats)The Gilded Age, the three decades following the Civil War, were years of astounding economic growth. Vast empires in oil, shipping, mining, banking, lumber, transportation, and related industries were formed. It was an era in which fortunes were made and lost quickly, almost easily;...
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Henry Hobson Richardson and His WorksAlthough he was known in his own time as a leader of the so-called Romanesque Revival, the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86) is today regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture -- a man who, in the words of Lewis Mumford,...
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The Painter's Methods and MaterialsMany of the valuable techniques and materials formerly used in painting have been lost or forgotten. With the convenience of the art supply store, the artist is no longer forced to acquaint himself with many of the operations performed by the great craftsmen-painters of...
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The Autobiography of an IdeaThe famous American architect's fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the "father of the skyscraper." Far from an ordinary document of records and dates, Sullivan's passionate book crystallizes his insights and opinions into an...
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Residential Building Codes IllustratedAn easy-to-use illustrated guide to building codes for residential structures As the construction industry moves to a single set of international building codes, architects and construction professionals need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specific projects....
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Model Making: A Basic GuideModel Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landscape architecture; urban, interior, and theatrical design; or anyone who has the need or desire to make the large small. In concise instructions and nearly 200 charming, easy-to-follow drawings the book details...
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An Architectural Masterpiece in Hyderabad: From British Residency to Osmania University College for Women- Reveals significant discoveries from the past 140 years of the building's history - Includes a detailed account of the recent conservation program coordinated by World Monuments Fund In the heart of Hyderabad, India, is the majestic Osmania University College for Women. The building...
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Roman WoodworkingThis book presents an authoritative and detailed survey of the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world. Illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs, Roman Woodworking covers topics such as the training and guild memberships of Roman carpenters, woodworking tools and techniques,...
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Think Like an ArchitectThe design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some...
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Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century ArchitectureComposed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to...
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Imagining Mit: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First CenturyThe story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche.In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down...
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Domesticity at WarWhen American architects, designers, and cultural institutions converted wartime strategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domestic bliss became another kind of weapon.In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an...
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Early Art and Architecture of AfricaThis new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West...
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Modern ArchitectureColquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the...
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European Architecture 1750-1890This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll...
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Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building ConstructionPublisher'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.Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook...
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Intimacy Exposed: Toilets, Bathrooms, RestroomsA meditation on the space, evolution, and function of the bathroomThis book presents a series of scientific and artistic interventions reflecting on the evolution of toilets, public and private, and on their many functions today, including those of transgressive, informal meeting places and spaces...
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YakimaArising from sagebrush in 1884, Yakima, Washington, became an instant city within its first year of existence. With the initial placement of more than 100 moved structures and rapid construction of new ones, the city's downtown vicinity expanded rapidly in its first few decades....
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Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our PresentThe theme of "modernity" was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionizing our way of life. By causing in its development absolutizations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyone's life were...
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The Little Theater of Vincent DarréA whimsical scrapbook celebrating the confluence of style and decor from France's most original interior designer. This handsome oversized volume is a lavish scrapbook bursting with creativity that presents twenty recent projects, inspiring encounters, and ephemeral decor created by designer Vincent Darré. Quirky and...
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