Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Future AirportsFuture Airports features writing from professionals who specialize in the design, engineering, and funding of the most important airport projects around the world including Skidmore Owings and Merrill, ARUP, and Zaha Hadid Architects. Future Airports re-examines the relationship between the growth of capital and...
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The Urban Block: A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town PlannersThe block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets. It is the nature of the interface between the two, which has a critical impact on the quality of the spaces between those buildings. The importance of the block to...
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Chamberlin, Powell and BonThe Barbican is one of London's landmarks and Britain's largest listed building, yet its architects, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon (CPB), are little known today. Little of their archive survives, but detective work has revealed a complex story about three determined characters and a surprising...
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A+u 18:08, 575: SelgascanoJos Selgas and Lucia Cano started their firm with one goal: to build. Selgascano were not distracted by writing, starting a publication, or teaching, which many young firms engage in to earn a living Out of necessity, they questioned established construction methods due to...
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With Intention to Build: The Unrealized Concepts, Ideas, and Dreams of Moshe Safdie- A unique account of how the architectural titan Moshe Safdie's body of unrealized works might have changed the course of historyMoshe Safdie explains that probably more than half of his lifetime design work is unbuilt, and he considers his unbuilt work to be...
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How to Build Camps and CottagesWith the help of his son, architect Charles D. White spent seven years building the perfect family retreat. Christened "Dunwurken" the vacation cottage became a beloved refuge from the bustle of city life and the source of fun and adventure. After many eager inquiries...
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Critical ReadingsIn 2000 my first book O lugar da cr tica. Ensaios oportunos de arquitetura, was published. It gathered some texts written as a journalist and architectural critic, during the last decades of the 20th century. And it ended a cycle and opened another: then,...
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Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018: The History of Architectural Practice in the Middle EastUsing Kuwait as a case study and Pan Arab Modernism as a lens, this book comes to fill two voids in the literature on Middle Eastern architecture: one is in practice and the other is in history. The current practice of architecture in Kuwait,...
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Archive, Matrix, Assembly: The Photographs of Thomas Struth 1978-2018Archive, Matrix, Assembly: The Photographs of Thomas Struth 1978-2018 presents the first comprehensive, systematic theory of contemporary German artist Thomas Struth's main body of photographic work from its beginnings in the late 1970s until his most recent work in 2018. The book presents a...
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Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract ArtThe acclaimed overview of Black abstract art, now in an expanded edition with nearly 100 additional color platesThe Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by artists of the African diaspora...
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Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt: Architectural Words 9This collection of a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and writer Mark Rakatansky proposes an innovative framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and culture space. Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections:...
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Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of ArchitectureLike America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or engineered landscape of the New World. So can there be an "American School" of architecture? The most legitimate claim...
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Rut-Busting Book for AuthorsTHINKING OF WRITING A BOOK BUT CAN'T GET OUT OF YOUR RUT AND DO IT? Are you unsure how to get started--or keep going? Are you wondering what publishing option to choose: traditional, hybrid or indie? Are you confused about how best to market...
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Hexagonal Graph Paper Notepad: Hexagon Notebook (.2 per side, small) - Draw, Doodle, Craft, Tilt, Quilt, Video Game & Mosaic Decoration Project CompoHexagon Paper Composition Notebook Features: 120 pages small hexagons measure .2" per side. Measures 8.5" wide x 11" high, perfect size for all your drawing, gaming, flooring, decorating, arts & crafts needs Durable matte cover, professionally bound, to protect your book from damage Ideal...
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Architecture for HealthHospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments do we offer caregivers? How does the hospital fit into our cities? When it comes to planning a hospital, architects are not only faced with...
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Art DecoThe Art Deco style, named after the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, reached its peak in the 1920s. A new artistic language driven by a formidable vital impulse born of recent peace, left its mark on urban and domestic architecture, but also on all...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Plans Drawn to a Common ScaleBorn in Bear Valley, Wisconsin, raised in nearby Richland Center, then Massachusetts before settling in south central Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright always knew that he would be an architect. He wanted to create a Democratic American Architecture. With his Prairie homes, he achieved the...
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Baghdad Arts Deco: Architectural Brickwork, 1920-1950Despite dictatorship, international sanctions, and the ravages of war, Baghdad endures with a surprisingly exceptional modern architectural heritage. This beautifully illustrated study reveals the splendors of early twentieth-century architecture that still stand on the streets of Iraq's capital. Caecilia Pieri's documentation foregrounds the physical...
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The Magical Path to the AcropolisThe Magical Path to the Acropolis studies the work of the eccentric perfectionist-architect/proto-ecologist Dimitri Pikioni, who, one year short of seventy, was suddenly tasked with a work of major historical and psychological weight: to create new paths to the ancient monument of the Acropolis....
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Model Making: Conceive, Create and ConvinceThis book is a step-by-step guide about how to create convincing architectural models. Borne out of the authors' experience and enjoyment in the use of models in education and in professional practice, it is an essential manual for students of spatial disciplines, such as...
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