Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms: Step-By-Step Realistic Line Drawing - A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists and DesignersFeaturing more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers....
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Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban AgricultureCarrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. Focusing on the need and desire to grow food within the city to supply food from local...
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Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America's CitiesKen Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for historic preservation shares how Los Angeles has led the nation in historic preservation and how other cities can do the same with his Los Angeles Times bestseller.2021...
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The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal"Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playbook on successful activism that will inspire countless others for...
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Coastal Blues: Home Decorating Ideas Inspired by Seaside LivingCoastal Blues is a magnificent celebration of shoreside homes around the globe, offering decorative inspiration for all of us who love the ocean or dream of living by the sea. Covering homes from as far apart as the Bahamas and Denmark, authors Sally Hayden...
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Tom Kundig: Working TitleStriking, innovative, and dramatically sited, the twenty-nine projects in Tom Kundig: Working Title reveal the hand of a master of contextually astute, richly detailed architecture. As Kundig's work has increased in scale and variety, in diverse locations from his native Seattle to Hawaii and...
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CalatravaSpanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofuturistic structures that combine deft engineering solutions with dramatic visual impact.From the Athens 2004...
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Mysterious Monuments: Encyclopedia of Secret Illuminati Designs, Masonic Architecture, and Occult PlacesA sinister and curious Architectural Colossus is exploding across every continent on earth. The United States of America is at the heart of this incredible surge. Monuments, statues, and buildings are being created everywhere with evil intent and magical purpose. Designed by visionary illuminist...
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Philip Guston: A Life Spent PaintingDriven and consumed by art, Philip Guston painted and drew compulsively. This book takes the reader from his early social realist murals and easel paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, to the Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s and early 1960s, and finally to...
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Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities: ICC A117.1-2009Accommodating people with disabilities is not only an important factor when designing buildings - it's the law. As a result, it is imperative that you have a solid grasp of the specifications of the INTERNATIONAL CODES COUNCIL'S A117.1 2009 ACCESSIBLE AND USABLE BUILDINGS AND...
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Look at That Building!: A First Book of StructuresLearning about buildings and how they are constructed has never been so much fun. This gem of a book introduces young readers to basic construction concepts through the eyes of five friends keen on building a doghouse for their pet pooch, Max. To find...
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My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation48 Techniques to Boost Your Creativity at Home, According to ScienceCreativity isn't all in your head. Sometimes it's in what's around you--especially when you're at home. For over twenty years, scientists have been discovering connections between our physical surroundings and the creative mind. Written...
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Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-Of-WarLook inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas. Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's...
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My French Country Home: Entertaining Through the SeasonsEntertaining at home in gracious French style. Born from her experience of everyday living in France, Sharon Santoni reveals the gracious, easy French way of entertaining guests at her countryside home, year-round. Personal stories evoke the spirit of the French lifestyle, while gorgeous photos...
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Reclaimed Wood: A Field GuideThe first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and design ideas Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, barns, water tanks, and boardwalks has become a valuable commodity, treasured for the patina that gives witness to its history. Our ancestors built well,...
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Ancient ArchitectureAncient architecture includes structures that were built long ago by early civilizations. This book showcases astounding ancient buildings--from ziggurats and pyramids to palaces and temples--and the architects who built them. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, design activity, and sidebars.Author: Joyce MarkovicsPublisher:...
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Industrial ArchitectureIndustrial architecture includes structures where products are made or that support industry. This book showcases interesting industrial buildings--from factories and offices to warehouses and distribution centers--and the architects who built them Includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, design activity, and sidebars.Author: Joyce...
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Smart ArchitectureSmart architecture includes buildings that use advanced technology. This book showcases cutting-edge smart buildings--from apartments and houses to offices and factories--and the architects who built them. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, design activity, and sidebars.Author: Joyce MarkovicsPublisher: Cherry Lake PublishingPublished: 01/01/2023Binding...
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AA Book 2022: On LocationThe AA Book: On Location highlights the agendas and practices that have intersected both physically and metaphorically throughout the Architectural Association (AA) during the 2021-22 academic year. The publication features hundreds of projects by students from every unit and programme within the school, which...
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Living with Nature: Decorating with the Rhythms of the SeasonsInvite nature inside by decorating the home with an ever-changing seasonal array of interior design accents--flowers, buds, fronds, seed heads, fruits, and other natural materials--gathered and repurposed from the garden, farm stand, fields, woods, and nature trails. Author Marie Masureel is an interior stylist...
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