Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The National Museum of Oslo: The Construction of a LandmarkA unique portrait of Oslo's new national museum and the people who built it Photographer Ken Opprann has followed the construction of Oslo's new National Museum, taking over 115,000 photographs documenting all phases of the construction project. Interviews with architects, contractors, subcontractors and construction...
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Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works ArchitectureThe story of one of the world's most comprehensive single-artist museums, from conception to realizationThe Clyfford Still Museum in Denver was created as a home for the vision of American Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still. Though acknowledged as one of the country's most significant...
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On a Cliff: A History of Third Cliff in Scituate, MassachusettsThis richly illustrated book is the first devoted to scenic Third Cliff, a magical meeting place of land, river, and sea, and to those who have called it home. It traces the transformation of seacoast Scituate from a colonial town of the 1600s into...
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Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in LondonThis book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning, Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning...
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Post-Growth Planning: Cities Beyond the Market EconomyThis book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth. It sketches out a path towards planning theories and practices that can break the cyclical...
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Teaching in the Built Environment: Creating Transformational Active Learning ExperiencesTeaching in the Built Environment: Creating Transformational Active Learning Experiences offers a blueprint for teaching success from an award-winning team of educators, with classroom-ready strategies for maximizing undergraduate learning in built environment disciplines. Drawing on the authors' years of experience as education researchers and...
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Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Birds from WindowsBirds behave as if sheet glass is invisible to them. They kill themselves striking clear and reflective panes in all types and sizes of human-built structures the world over. The killing is indiscriminate, taking the fit and unfit species, of any age category- both...
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Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal CityWhat happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed, or privileged due to urban restructuring? In what ways are the interpretations and performances of 'the past' linked to urban gentrification, marginalization, displacement, and social responses? Authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt...
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Unter Den Linden Ecke Charlottenstraße: Geschichte Eines Traditionsreichen Berliner BankhausesDie Berliner Architekturhistoriker Wolfgang Schäche und David Pessier untersuchen die bewegte Geschichte des an der prominenten Ecke Unter den Linden / Charlottenstra e gelegenen Gebäudekomplexes, der heute von der Deutschen Bank genutzt wird. Sie rekonstruieren die Herausbildung und Entwicklung dieses im 19. Jahrhundert von...
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The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and FrogThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Making of a Mosque: Djamaa Al-Djazaïr - The Grand Mosque of Algiers by Ksp EngelComprehensively introduces Algier's new Grand Mosque, the Djamaa al-Djazaïr, as an intercultural undertaking as well as a unique religious, cultural, and economic center. Symbol of Islam, a monument of superlatives, and the heart of an entirely new metropolitan district: the Djamaa al-Djazaïr is an...
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La+ GreenIn the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between the binary extremes of black and white it's not gray, as you might expect, but green. And within green's bandwidth there are more tonal variations than any other color can make. Maybe this is why--envy, naivete,...
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Survey of London: Whitechapel: Volumes 54 and 55The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district In these volumes, the Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, covering Aldgate to Mile End Green, and Brick Lane...
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Hyde-Murphy CompanyThe Hyde-Murphy Company was one of the largest and most renowned specialty woodworking mills in the United States. The company was a producer of high-quality architectural millwork and constructed elegant homes, businesses, and public buildings around the country, with offices in New York, Philadelphia,...
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Roma Traversata: Tracing Historic Pathways Through RomeRoma Traversata analyzes pathways to decipher the complexity of Rome's urban layout. Nearly all of the prehistoric country paths converging on what was to become the Roman Forum (the ancient city center) are still traceable in the modern city. To these were added other...
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London, the Unique CityThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Dreyfuss + Blackford: Seventy YearsWith offices in San Francisco and Sacramento, Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture has 48 employees and has been in continuous operation since 1950. The firm achieved international recognition early on with the design of several notable game-changing landmark structures, including the recently rehabilitated SMUD Headquarters...
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Architecture Thinking across Boundaries: Knowledge transfers since the 1960sWhile most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted. Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of...
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Alvar Aalto and the Architecture of Finland; 4This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Experiencing ArchitectureThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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