Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Facades: Beauty. Utility. PerformanceFacades: Beauty. Utility. Performance illustrates the depth and breadth of the many innovative exterior wall facades that were designed from 2007-2020 at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG). The featured projects, both built and unbuilt, are explored through photographs, renderings, model images, detail...
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The Greater Key Of SolomonSolomon wrote the book for his son Rehoboam, and commanded him to hide the book in his sepulchre upon his death. After many years the book was discovered by a group of Babylonian philosophers repairing Solomon's tomb. None could interpret the text, until one...
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Berghotels 1890-1930: Südtirol, Nordtirol Und Trentino: Bauten Und Projekte Von Musch & Lun Und Otto SchmidFundamentals of hotel construction Around 1890, the advance of alpinism and Alpine tourism necessitated the building of accommodation for visitors to the mountain worlds of South Tyrol and neighboring regions. Hotels were built in remote high-mountain landscapes. These were integrated into the regional context,...
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Introduction to Project Management: A Source Book for Traditional PM BasicsThis book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format. It is targeted principally at those who are learning or desiring to learn project management as well as those who are already taking project management as a course of...
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Europe by Night: Great Buildings in Great CitiesJulian Wicksteed's love of travel, history, and architecture has seen him crisscross the European continent many times over the years. His love of wandering the deserted streets after the daytime crowds have disappeared is illustrated in this book of night time long-exposure images of...
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High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban CenturyThe first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real...
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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 Pub (Sc)Published: 04/04/2022Pages: 98Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...
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Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland: Stadtkartierung Und Heritage Making Im Wiederaufbau Um 1945Der Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten bereitet erstmals einen bedeutenden Quellenbestand für die Stadtforschung auf und präsentiert in gro formatigen Darstellungen Karten der 1940er und 1950er-Jahre zu Nürnberg, Hamburg, Hannover, Freiburg, Leipzig und Essen. Einführende Aufsätze widmen sich der Entwicklung der Kriegsschadensaufnahme und diskutieren die Bedeutung von...
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Figments of the Architectural ImaginationGathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and incisive treatments of some of the most important projects, practices, and polemics at work making contemporary architecture contemporary....
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Tino Zervudachi: Interiors Around the WorldA unique immersion into the world of an acclaimed decorator with an eclectic aesthetic. Over the past forty years, Tino Zervudachi has earned an international reputation for elegance. Sought after for his bold approach and sensual classicism, he has established an illustrious clientele that...
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Max Alioth: Architect, Draughtsman, TrailblazerThe first book on the Basel-based Swiss architect Max Alioth. Basel-born architect Max Alioth (1930-2010) was a prominent figure in the Swiss architecture and culture scene. Alioth was a cofounder of Basels' Architecture Museum in 1984, which in 2006 became the Swiss Architecture Museum...
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The Story of Follies: Architectures of EccentricityA beautifully illustrated history of these quirky ornamental buildings in gardens across the globe. Are they frivolous or practical? Follies are buildings constructed primarily for decoration, but they suggest another purpose through their appearance. In this visually stunning book, Celia Fisher describes follies in...
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Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It Is the Green Way or the HighwayCircular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice. The book is structured...
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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global SunbeltThis volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes...
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What Makes an Assembly?: Stories, Experiments, and InquiriesA crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies. Assemblies are ancestral, transcultural ways of coming together as a community. Over the past decades, multiple social movements have reappropriated these forms of collective organisation as a prominent...
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Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and Artificial IntelligenceAI is already part of our lives even though we might not realise it. It is in our phones, filtering spam, identifying Facebook friends, and classifying our images on Instagram. It is in our homes in the form of Siri, Alexa and other AI...
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The Clock Tower: A History of Benicia's Mighty FortressAuthor H. Allan Gandy presents a comprehensive depiction of the Army's Storehouse, a three-story sandstone fortress built in 1859. What is now renowned as a treasured event hall was once an ominous fortress perched high upon Army Point overlooking an important water passage east...
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Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture: The Nordic CountriesShare: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture - The Nordic Countries is the first book in a new global series of investigative interviews about the modern architectural process. Initiated and undertaken by the Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders, the Nordic Countries edition features interviews with 30...
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Black Turtleneck, Round GlassesAccording to a recent American study, sexism and racism are so widespread in architecture that there is a distaste for these topics within the branch itself. What are the reasons for this exclusionary working culture? Even in Germany, most architecture graduates since the turn...
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Living in Morocco. 40th Ed.Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone's throw from Spain's southernmost tip, Morocco couldn't possibly be farther away.With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and welcoming...
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