Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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India Hicks: Island StyleFrom India Hicks, a beautifully illustrated guide to achieving her famously undone, gloriously bohemian decorating style. Born from British and design royalty, India Hicks has forged a design empire from her family's enclave in the Bahamas. In India Hicks: Island Style, she invites readers...
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Steven Gambrel: PerspectiveTop interior designer Steven Gambrel's luxe aspirational cloth-bound tome showcases his latest home interiors. Using a classical approach injected with contemporary touches and vibrant color, he creates spaces for today rooted in the past. A connoisseur of historical styles, Gambrel's designs feature compelling reinterpretations...
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Builders and BreakersExperience the bustling energy of an urban construction site with Steve Light's colorful celebration of builders, breakers, and the machines they use. When their dad forgets his lunch box on his way to the construction site, a young brother and sister set out to...
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Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People: Houses, Gardens, PeopleLavishly illustrated in full color, a book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens--whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society--drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers. Vogue Living:...
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Hartwood AcresNearly a century ago, the framework was laid for a stately English Tudor-style home that would rise above the rolling hills of both Indiana and Hampton townships to become the site known today as Hartwood Acres. The home resounded with the love and laughter...
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A History of Alcatraz Island Since 1853As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history since 1853.The small island known in sea charts by its Spanish name Isla de los Alcatraces or Island of Pelicans laid essentially dormant until the 1850s, when the...
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Lighting Beyond Edison: Brilliant Residential Lighting Techniques in the Age of LEDsAs incandescent lighting continues to diminish, the creative use of LEDs requires a new approach to residential lighting. Written in a conversational voice by an award-winning interior designer, Lighting beyond Edison is structured to be a comprehensive guide for everyone from consumers to designers...
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Cities of the Dead: The World's Most Beautiful CemeteriesDiscover the fascinating stories of the world's most beautiful cemeteries, featuring spectacular photography, unique histories and famous residents. Cities of the Dead takes us on a tour of memorial sites, ranging from monastic settlements to grand cathedrals, Shinto shrines to Gothic chapels, tombs and...
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Building Wisconsin's BarnsBarns are noble structures that highlight our rural landscape. They remain an enormous source of pride for the people of Wisconsin. Many realize that no other visible human achievement reflects the long relationship they have had with the land. However, little information is available...
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Korea StyleSimplicity, tradition and a deep respect for all things natural--these are the essential elements of Korean design underpinning the nation's fast-growing creative scene. Influences from China, Japan and the West have filtered into Korea, but the peninsula has always maintained its own identity. Spatial,...
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Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to Connect and InnovateThere are few more powerful questions than, "Where are you from" or "Where do you live?" People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to other people who feel that same connection. In order to understand place - and understand human settlements generally...
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Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas: Volume 23Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic...
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Autobiography of a GardenAutobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster's twenty-five-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that challenges what a garden is, or can be. A unique, personal memoir, this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from...
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Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without AuthorityA groundbreaking look at sixty works of anarchist architecture. This book documents and illustrates sixty projects, past and present, that key into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organized ways of building. They are what this book calls "anarchist" architecture, that is, forms...
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Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: AfterOrganized around a timeline that demonstrates the range of "presents" and "afters" we find ourselves contemplating, this volume of the Cornell Journal of Architecture considers our terrestrial occupations from a variety of real and imagined perspectives, from the prehistoric to the future-imperfect. It seems...
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The Northwest Gardens of Lord and SchryverForeword by Bill Noble Published in Cooperation with the Lord & Schryver Conservancy Lord & Schryver, the first landscape architecture firm founded and operated by women in the Pacific Northwest, designed more than two hundred gardens in Oregon and Washington, including residential, civic, and...
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Sears Modern Homes: 19132021 Reprint of the 1913 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Reproduced from a rare 1913 edition, this volume features 112 designs for homes of "comfort and refinement. These authentic plans offer a wealth of information...
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Urbanism Beyond 2020: Reflections During the Covid-19 PandemicUrbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and human wellbeing interrelated? How can leadership and governance help bridge gaps in our unjust cities? How might we renew our relationship with...
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Constructed Atmospheres: Philippe Rahm ArchitectesThe original vision on contemporary design and the encounter with other disciplines opens the architecture of Philippe Rahm to multiple possibilities. Constructed Atmospheres provides a selection of projects in which light, temperature, pressure, humidity, represent the 'brick' for a new discipline that can be...
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Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence2022 PROSE Award Winner in Architecture and Urban PlanningThe Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast 2022 Summerlee Book Prize in NonfictionSoutheast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) 2022 Summerlee Best Book Prize The Creole architecture...
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