Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Regeneration, Heritage and Sustainable Communities in Turkey: Challenges, Complexities and PotentialsOver the last three decades, historic housing areas have become one of the major concerns in urban regeneration, housing renovation and conservation projects. Since the late 1990s, the notion of community, sustainability and sustainable community have become rising issues in the urban regeneration debate....
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Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (Open Access)Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled...
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Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable PlacesGoverning for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept 'resilience' has been addressed in social sciences research. In doing so, this edited book draws together state-of-the-art research from a variety of disciplines (i.e....
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Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela: Government, Infrastructure and EnvironmentUncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements. To do so, it focuses on three metropolitan areas located in Venezuela's Center-North region: Caracas, Maracay and Valencia, designated...
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Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance Through EmptyingKenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity's grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the "emptying" that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible.It concretises that grounding through architecture--a primal expression of human creativity--critically examining, for the first time, kenotic instantiations evidenced in...
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Being Urban: Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle EastIn Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, 'What is a good city?', five questions motivate the book: How can a...
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American Colonisation and the City Beautiful: Filipinos and Planning in the Philippines, 1916-35Winner of the 2020 IPHS Koos Bosma PrizeAmerican Colonisation and the City Beautiful explores the history of city planning and the evolution of the built environment in the Philippines between 1916 and 1935. In so doing, it highlights the activities of the Bureau of...
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Public Infrastructure, Private Finance: Developer Obligations and ResponsibilitiesTraditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing. With the shift in recent years towards public...
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Cities and Metaphors: Beyond Imaginaries of Islamic Urban SpaceIntroducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed. In the context of 'Islamic city' studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the urban...
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Walled GardensBBC presenter Jules Hudson (Countryfile, Escape to the Country) is passionate about walled gardens. In this book, he looks at walled gardens throughout England and Wales and explores their history, innovative design and cultural heritage.The walled garden was once an essential component of every...
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The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp-Lime Volume 5A comprehensive practical manual for professionals and self-builders, this innovative book explains the many benefits of building with hempcrete. Hempcrete is a building material with excellent, environmentally friendly properties. It's made from lime and hemp shivs (a waste product from hemp fibre growing) and...
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Designing ChangeChange is the only constant in an ever-progressing world. Recognizing this, DP Design explores how designing an interior space goes beyond a direct, strategic response to a building's intrinsic architectural form across all its projects, to examine and embody the evolving relationship between man...
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Modern Vienna Map / Wiener Modernismus Stadtplan: Guide to Modern Architecture in Vienna, AustriaExplore extraordinary examples of Modern architecture built across Vienna between 1900 and 2000 with this new guide map. Featuring over fifty buildings, this two-sided guide includes photography, building details and an introduction. Written by, and with original photography by, author and photographer Gili Merin....
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Herzog & de Meuron: Architektur Und Baudetails / Architecture and Construction DetailsBilingual Edition English / German4rd edition (revised and extended new edition)Architecture and construction details This monograph documents 21 built projects designed by Herzog & de Meuron, from the Royal College of Art in London to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, as well as the Ricola-Kräuterzentrum...
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Frank Lloyd Wright 12-Month 2024 Planner CalendarThe Frank Lloyd Wright 12-Month 2024 Planner showcases stunning decorative patterns originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, presented in vibrant new colors. The official Frank Lloyd Wright 12-Month 2024 Planner Calendar is a hardcover, spiral-bound, interactive planner that showcases not only a dynamic...
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House Histories for BeginnersPopular television programmes are highlighting the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and interest in the subject is growing. Archives, too, are becoming ever more accessible under the impetus of the internet. As the subject covers a broad field,...
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Universal Principles of Architecture: 100 Architectural Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and ImaginariesUniversal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world. Divided into Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries, each of the five sections in the book introduces in 20 principles architecture at different...
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François Halard 3: New VisionFor the past four decades François Halard has had the most privileged view on the world of art, interior design, and culture. From his perch as the photographer of choice of Vogue to World of Interiors, he has captured many of the world's most...
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Follies: Fabulous, Fanciful and Frivolous BuildingsAuthor: Gwyn HeadleyPublisher: National TrustPublished: 10/09/2012Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 6.00h x 7.70w x 0.50dISBN: 9781907892301About the AuthorGwyn Headley has spent over thirty years researching follies, and is the co-author of Follies, Grottoes and Garden Buildings. He is also the co-founder of the Folly...
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Jean-Michel Wilmotte: DesignMore than 50 years of product and furniture design from an iconic French architectThis is the first publication on the product and interior-design oeuvre of French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte (born 1948). After founding his own firm in Paris in 1975, Wilmotte became a highly...
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