Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Shipping Container Homes: A complete guide to designing and building a container homeSHIPPING CONTAINER HOMESLiving in the 21st century is not at all an easy feat. With the constant and consistent rise in the cost of living, it is becoming virtually impossible to live comfortably in a house you own. For many people, owning a house...
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Lives of HousesNotable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we...
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Life of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. OrationThe Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico, his nephew,...
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Sketching Savannah"Sketching Savannah" is a collection of exquisite full-color ink-and-watercolor sketches featuring over a hundred places of interest and charm throughout downtown Savannah, Georgia. The sketches, organized in serendipitous constellations, are accompanied by reliably-sourced historic captions and neighborhood maps that draw the reader into the...
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Lean Integrated Project Delivery: A Practitioner's GuideExceptional Read & Introduction to Lean/IPD/LPS. Tim Tuohy's book is an exceptional read. This book provides significant insight-and a clear pathway-to assist Lean-oriented project managers in their development of a collaborative team, breaking out and defining work, establishing requisite levels of team and participant...
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Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and ResistanceA new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion....
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Encuentros Cercanos con Extraterrestres: Impactantes Historias Reales de Encuentros con Seres de Otros MundosHas mirado el cielo y te has preguntado si existen seres que nos podrían estar observando en ese mismo momento? Te has preguntado cuáles son los casos más impactantes de contacto con seres de otros mundos? Qué es lo que sucede cuando un ser...
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Retrospecta 44: Yale School of Architecture 2020-21Retrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture. Each volume is a snapshot of evolving architectural and graphic design trends. The book demarcates events such as lectures, publication releases, and outstanding circumstances that have uniquely impacted the academic, social, and political environment at...
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Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban PlanningAuthor: John MacDonald, Charles Branas, Robert StokesPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 06/07/2022Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 6.06h x 8.90w x 0.55dISBN: 9780691234434
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Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical IconThis study uncovers how Saint Cecilia came to be closely associated with music and musicians. Until the fifteenth century, Saint Cecilia was not connected with music. She was perceived as one of many virgin martyrs, with no obvious musical skills or interests. During the...
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Cultivating the Renaissance: A Social History of the Medici Tuscan VillasBy exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the...
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The Damask Rose: The Rose Trilogy'You lay hands on a princess of the realm? It is treason.''But this princess disobeys her King. Treason indeed.' A beloved wife. A hated queen. A journey to her destiny . . . If you love JOANNA COURTNEY, ELIZABETH CHADWICK and PHILIPPA GREGORY, you'll...
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Worldview Guide for The Canterbury Tales"Spring has arrived, prompting folks from all stations of medieval life to pilgrimage together to the shrine of Thomas Becket. Because long trips tend to be rather dull, the travelers begin a storytelling competition featuring roosters, murders, bewitched hags, banished wives in barrels, plenty...
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For Lord and LandGreed and ambition threaten to tear the north apart.War rages between the two kingdoms of Northumbria. Kin is pitted against kin and friend becomes foe as ambitious kings vie for supremacy.When Beobrand travels south into East Angeln to rescue a friend, he unwittingly tilts...
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Young Projects: Figure, Cast, FrameThis first monograph from New York-based Young Projects explores a new approach to spatial design that combines digital and analog methods at the intersection of exploration and architecture. This monograph introduces the cutting-edge research and work of Young Projects, founded by Bryan Young, where...
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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the...
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Paolo Veneziano's Coronation of the VirginThe eighth volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on a stunning fourteenth-century painting, pairing an essay by Frick deputy director Xavier F. Salomon with a fascinating contribution from contemporary composer Nico Muhly. According to Muhly, The Coronation of the Virgin is "a panel...
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The King's Anatomist: The Journey of Andreas Vesalius5-star Goodreads Reviews for The King's Anatomist★★★★★ "This is a well-conceived novel with an interesting narrative approach that is surprisingly successful. Switching back and forth in time and using a narrator who is not the primary subject of the story is a risk that...
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Perspecta 54: AtopiaAtopia as both the site of architecture's critical confrontation with hegemonic systems and the theoretical space in which its own processes can be challenged. A literal no-place, atopia represents the spatial end-product of a society seemingly flattened by supra-territorial flows of information and material....
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Platform Urbanism and Its DiscontentsA critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores the ongoing transformation of urban spaces brought about by platform technologies. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Amazon are not only...
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