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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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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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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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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Villa Cetinale: Memoir of a House in TuscanyAfter inheriting a seventeenth-century Tuscan villa, Ned Lambton and his wife, Marina, lovingly restored the estate as a retreat for family and friends. With newly commissioned photographs by Simon Upton, Lambton brings to life the rich history of the villa, its redecoration, its raucous...
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener"Literary legend" (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many "nobodies" who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Upper East Side brownstone--and himself--rather than give up his...
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Scrap Cities: Joyful Modern Architecture-Inspired QuiltsEvery interesting building and city offers quilters an enthralling challenge: How to capture the essence while having a very good time! Inside this 96-page book, you'll find: Illustrated step-by-step instructions for 25+ buildings in a wide assortment of styles and techniques; plus guidance and...
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Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses After the DissolutionThe gripping story of how monasteries were swept away and their buildings adapted to secular use after the English Reformation. Five short years after Henry VIII's break with Rome, his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, masterminded the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was one of...
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African American Architects: Embracing Culture and Building Urban CommunitiesMelvin Mitchell believes that the 2016 opening of the NMAAHC signals either a black architect renaissance or the demise of the black architect-practitioner corps in the U.S. by 2040 if not earlier...along with the demise of Black America's cultural, political, and spatial beachheads in...
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Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or BarbarismGermany 1918-33 was one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Following the revolution in Russia, the German workers and soldiers attempted to seize power in November 1918. Unfortunately, the revolution was betrayed by the Social Democratic leaders.Further revolutionary convulsions rocked Germany from 1919...
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