Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Carroll Quigley: Life, Lectures and Collected WritingsProfessor Carroll Quigley was a top American historian and theorist on the evolution of civilizations. He believed that knowledge cannot be divided into parts, that the world can be viewed only as an interlocking, complex system. This view complemented his life: he had reveled...
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Captain Marvel Soars Above (a Marvel Hello Heroes Book)Every day is epic with Captain Marvel in this first book in a stellar new series created by Marvel and bestselling design studio Hello!Lucky! Super Heroes are people, too, just like us! Explore the galaxy--and all things ordinary--with Captain Marvel as the beloved Kree...
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Bold Visions: The Architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum"If architecture fails, if it is pedestrian and lacks imagination and power, it tells only one story, that of its own making: how it was built, detailed, financed. But a great building, like great literature or poetry or music, can tell the story of...
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Arne Jacobsen: Designing DenmarkAn exploration of the world of Arne Jacobsen, one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and designers The Danish architect Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) is renowned both within and outside Denmark's borders. Celebrated for his iconic chairs, Jacobsen was also an avid photographer and...
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A Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of the Physical-Virtual ContinuumA Purple Architecture is an edited collection of essays and projects investigating Purpleness, as a quality independent from the virtual and physical, the material and immaterial, and mundane and exotic. Purpleness thus serves as a theoretical framework to investigate the impacts of technological mediation...
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222 Cemeteries to See Before You DiePerfect for budding cemetery armchair travelers and serious taphophiles, this hauntingly beautiful guide to the world's most interesting and unusual cemeteries has been revised and updated to include 23 additional locations. Every year, millions of tourists flock to cemeteries around the globe to uncover...
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WickiupsSome American Indians used grass, wood, and other materials to build wickiups. Learn all about wickiups, including the tools used to build them and the people who called them home.Author: Riley FlynnPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2015Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.40h x 3.50w x 0.10dISBN:...
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What If Women Designed the City?: 33 Leverage Points to Make Your City Work Better for Women and GirlsWhat if Women Designed the City? offers a unique perspective on urban development through the eyes of women from diverse backgrounds. Author May East identifies 33 leverage points for all those engaged with city design to create greener, wilder, more inclusive, liveable and poetic...
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Walking Broadway: Thirteen Miles of Architecture and History'As pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot.' - Library Journal'Two ingredients make this title as pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot: the author's exceptional sense of how to capture the particular personality of a building in words and images and...
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Urban Andes: Design-Led Explorations to Tackle Climate ChangeFirst volume in the new series LAP Landscape and Architecture Projections an innovative series on architecture, urbanism, and landscapeClimate change in the Andes is affecting the relation between urban development and the landscape. Design-led explorations are reframing landscape logics and urbanisation patterns within the...
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Truck and Trailer Systems (Pb)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The most complete visual guide to servicing medium- and heavy-duty truck systemsWritten by an expert with decades of...
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Tropical Living: Dream Houses in Punta CanaThis beautiful volume celebrates a dreamy vacation-and-escape destination, showcasing the most exclusive homes in the Caribbean tropical paradise of Punta Cana. This book takes us on a tropical adventure through Punta Cana Resort & Club's most exclusive seaside homes. The stunning homes featured in...
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Traces of Forgotten Places: An Artist's Thirty-Year Exploration and Celebration of Texas, as It WasPresents a collection of seventy works of art that the author created for the Miller Blueprint calendars. This book features recordings of buildings from farmhouses to industrial plants, from shanties to mansions in Texas county.Author: Don CollinsPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublished: 03/26/2008Pages: 176Binding Type:...
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The Sources of Modern Architecture and DesignThe turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the International Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by tracing the...
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The Eye of the Architect: Photographs by Alfonso López BazA leading Mexican architect's photographic panorama of the past century's greatest buildings This beautifully designed volume offers an architect's portrait of modern and contemporary architecture. Through the lens of Alfonso Lopéz Baz (born 1947), cofounder of the leading Mexican firm Grupo LBC Arquitectos, great...
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The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, CultureThe comprehensive story of an icon of modern architecture: the Edith Farnsworth House, designed by Mies van der Rohe One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that seems to float above its site, the Edith Farnsworth House...
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The Disputed Islands Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times The San Juans, 1850-1874An American farmer shoots an English pig, sparking a war over an international boundary. Explore the disputed islands through the ordinary lives of the multi-ethnic, polyglot communities that lived in the San Juans during this conflict: how these islanders make their homes, work and...
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Royalty and ArchitectureOn the intersection of royalty and architecture throughout the agesThis volume looks at the robust link between architecture and royalty--from palaces and gardens to ornamental interiors and other artworks--and presents historical examples in which leaders of European nobility or aristocracy served as surprisingly active...
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Ride: Antoine Predock: 65 Years of ArchitectureRecipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement and the AIA Gold Medal, Antoine Predock is an icon of American architecture. This book is the comprehensive consideration of his life's work. A trailblazing original, Predock is his own tour de force....
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Residing with Nature: The Houses of Kaa DesignA highly anticipated monograph of recent houses by a leading California architecture and landscape firm that celebrates sophisticated modern living and represents the pinnacle of the California Dream. Residing with Nature features one-of-a-kind homes, crafted in sensuous materials and dramatically sited to enhance views,...
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