Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Senior Cohousing Handbook - 2nd Edition: A Community Approach to Independent LivingHow to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating. "Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide...
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Made to Measure: Meyer Davis, Architecture and InteriorsSince forming their practice in 1999, Will Meyer and Gray Davis have designed some 200 private and public spaces that epitomize hip luxury style. Their interiors are as dazzling and dramatic as they are comfortable and welcoming--a carefully calibrated balancing act that has become...
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David Monn: The Art of CelebratingA state dinner at the White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, once-in-a-lifetime birthday celebrations--every lucky guest knows that there is no party like a David Monn party. Using scent, sound, sight, touch, and taste, Monn designs events to be "shared,...
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The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico-still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776-an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony....
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Southwestern Ornamentation & Design: The Architecture of John Gaw MeemJohn Gaw Meem was one of New Mexico's most renowned architects and his legacy is in part his contribution to the preservation and renewal of historic American Southwestern architecture. Because of his interest in the preservation, restoration and revival of this architecture, one of...
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The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on BehaviorThis study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in general. Mildred Reed Hall and Edward T. Hall founded Edward T. Hall...
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Vintage Living: Creating a Beautiful Home with Treasured Objects from the PastVintage lifestyle expert and interior designer Bob Richter shows us how to find the best vintage treasures and how living with them brings beauty, comfort and personal meaning into our homes. Bob Richter has been thrifting and collecting vintage treasures for more than forty...
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Home: The Best of the New York Times Home Section: The Way We Live NowAppealing and innovative houses that show creativity, ingenuity, and design savvy for all homeowners today. With striking photographs and compelling stories from its vast home-design archive, the editors of the New York Times's beloved Home section offer a look at how contemporary homeowners make...
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Thomas Pheasant: Simply SereneThe work of influential, award-winning interior designer Thomas Pheasant is best described as contemporary classical and simply serene. Celebrated interior designer Thomas Pheasant is best known for his seamless melding of tradition and the contemporary. His spaces are fresh and of the age yet...
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Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for SerenityAlthough his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in distinctive buildings around the world. In his adopted home of Detroit, where he lived and...
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Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred SpaceHow should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book offers a wide,...
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The Planetary Garden and Other WritingsCelebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the Musée du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener. To care for and cultivate a plot of...
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Masterpieces of the Mineral World: Treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural ScienceThe collection of natural mineral crystals housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the finest and best known in the world. Now the treasures of this singular collection are shown in resplendent photographs that will seduce both the connoisseur of beauty and...
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Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field MuseumGeorge Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintigs of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by Sutton. The exquisite watercolrs, housed in the Field Museum of...
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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail MovementThe story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the...
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Small Eco Houses: Living Green in StyleFresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challenges of limited living space will find inspiration in this survey of the latest trends in environmentally sensitive, small-scale residential designs. More...
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Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of RomeNot Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome is a unique, unconventional guide and a deeply felt homage to Rome and its extraordinary 2,500-year history. Moving beyond the names, dates, and statistics of ordinary guidebooks, George Sullivan's eye-opening essays celebrate the special...
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Construction Zone"Will be fascinating for the burgeoning builder. . . . This intriguing project gives an amazingly broad overview of the entire building process." -- Kirkus Reviews Caution Construction zone ahead Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a big building going up -- and...
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The Architecture of Sunderland: 1700-1914Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coalmining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion and development. Once known as the 'largest shipbuilding town in the world', Sunderland's proud and distinctive identity is embodied in its historic buildings and in its...
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Ruin and Redemption in ArchitectureLost, forgotten, reimagined, and transformed: the compelling beauty of abandoned, reinvented, and rescued architectureThis book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life - demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed, and...
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