Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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First Additions: Strategies for Adding onLike many small residential practices Cohen & Hacker Architects have made a career of doing house additions. In a practice spanning almost forty years they have evolved strategies for making additions that represent both a theoretical and philosophical position about altering older buildings. They...
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Everlasting PlasticsHow can we live without plastics? But, also, how can we live without plastics? These two questions, which index a different set of urgent concerns, haunt Everlasting Plastics. Exploring the infinite ways in which plastics permeate our bodies and our world, the book offers...
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Elizabeth Roberts Architects: Collected StoriesThe first book by the New York-based AD100 architect Elizabeth Roberts compiles photographs, sketches, and even vignettes of fiction, to showcase her award-winning workOver the past decades, Elizabeth Roberts Architects has built a practice of specificity. Whether breathing new life into a historic townhouse...
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Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in ArchitectureIn a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuse As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin...
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Dfw Deco: Modernistic Architecture of North TexasVivid imagery and original research are the hallmarks of DFW Deco: Modernistic Architecture of North Texas, the latest in Jim Parsons and David Bush's series of books documenting Art Deco and Art Moderne design in the Lone Star State. DFW Deco examines a vibrant...
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Cottage for Sale: Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a HomeWhen Kate Whouley saw the classified ad for an abandoned cottage that had to be moved, she began to dream. Transport the cottage...attach it to my three-room house...create more space for my work and life....Smart, single, and self-employed, Whouley was used to fending for...
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Contemporary San Francisco Architecture Map: Architecture Guide by Aia SF and Blue Crow MediaHighlights of contemporary architecture across San Francisco from 1980 to today are featured on this limited edition map presented by Blue Crow Media and the SF chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The guide includes an introduction and 50 buildings selected by professor...
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Compliments to Our Brave Architect!: The Netherlands' First Women ArchitectsThe stories of Staal-Kropholler, Wolffensperger and 20 other women architects who transformed the Netherlands in the early 20th centuryThis publication provides a comprehensive overview of the first female architects in the Netherlands. Margaret Staal-Kropholler, Grada Wolffensperger and 20 other women who received architecture degrees...
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Classic Greenwich HousesElegant and welcoming houses in bucolic settings by Charles Hilton, a leading traditional architect in Greenwich.This book presents nine spectacular houses, each responding to an equally spectacular site. They are the work of Charles Hilton, a leading traditional architect in Greenwich, Connecticut, whose firm...
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Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals"Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals" examines the hardships and major challenges faced by the hospital system today and presents innovative models and solutions in healthcare architecture. Through critical, scientifically based discourse, a variety of authors examine healthcare systems and hospital architecture, what...
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Building Time: Architecture, Event, and ExperienceWhile most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is...
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Brooklyn Storefronts: Illustrations of the Iconic NYC Borough's Best-Loved SpotsFrom the authors of NYC Storefronts comes a sprawling collection of intimately rendered shops that line the streets and sidewalks of the Big Apple's most populous borough Nowadays, Brooklyn is both destination and home to so many New Yorkers that shopping, eating out, doing...
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British Architecture: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring British Architecture: A Very Short Introduction presents an original and engaging overview of the architecture of the British Isles, from medieval times to the present day. Avoiding the traditional approach of a chronological survey of architects and architectural...
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Blenheim: 300 Years of Life in a PalaceThe most important, most visited, and most renowned of all of Britain's stately homes, Blenheim has been home to the Churchill family for more than 300 years. Regarded as perhaps the greatest of the stately homes and the finest example of baroque architecture in...
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Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910-1973"Utopia" is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao...
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Atlas of Mid-Century Modern MasterpiecesAn innovative and original survey of the best Mid-Century Modern architecture from around the world Featuring 450 of the very best works of Mid-Century Modern architecture from every continent, the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces showcases how the architects of the time harnessed the...
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A Short History of GreenvilleA concise and engaging history that traces Greenville's development from backcountry settlement to one of America's best small citiesToday, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists of the best cities and places to live in the United States. The present-day site of technological...
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A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and CultureThis books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF...
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Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare StateTaking on Finland as its main case study, Urban Inequality in a Nordic Welfare State investigates urban governance, land and housing policies and the uneven development of the built environment. It analyses city strategies, policy documents and interviews with urban authorities to show how...
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Tuning Architecture with Humans: Neuroscience Applied to Architectural DesignThrough thousands of years of evolution, features of the natural environment helped to mold human behavior. As social beings, early humans also found resonance with each other in relation to their surroundings, and even developed emotional templates for certain situations, such as climbing a...
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