Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin JohnstonAn illustrated account of the life and work of the pioneering photographer The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) draws on original papers and photographs from the Library of Congress to document the extraordinary life and nearly seventy-year career of this pioneering photographer....
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Dream Homes: Unique Urban, Suburban, and Vacation Homes Designed by the Nation's Leading ArchitectsDream Homes is a book of over 1000 photographs of luxurious primary residences as well as vacation properties in all sizes, styles, and function imagined and designed by leading architects across the country. Dream Homes presents these homes in nine functional chapters: Single family...
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Aia Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."--Mid-Atlantic CountryThis lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450 of Washington, DC's, most noteworthy buildings and monuments. Organized into 19 discrete walking tours, plus one general tour of...
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An Encyclopedia of Japanese CastlesJapanese castles cast a spell on all those who set their eyes on them. They are the product of a people whose history might be steeped in blood and drama, yet whose hands produced works of breathtaking refinement.This groundbreaking encyclopedia is the first work...
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Mies at Home: From Am Karlsbad 24 to the Tugendhat HouseMies at Home is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohe's career, from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas- ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of the...
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The Affordable Housing ReaderThis second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color. The authors highlighted in this updated volume...
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Detroit Tiki: A History of Polynesian Palaces & Tropical CocktailsA fun-filled and nostalgic exploration of Polynesian Pop in the Motor CityWhen the South Sea craze swept over the nation in the mid-twentieth century, the wave of island-themed décor and tropical cocktails did not pass by Detroit. The Tropics and Club Bali offered a...
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Chartierdalix: Built Work 2008-2021The first two volumes of a multipart monograph on successful Paris-based design studio ChartierDalix. Paris-based firm ChartierDalix, founded in 2008 by Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix, can look back on a successful first twelve years of design practice. They have garnered attention at various...
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Modern Heritage: Reuse, Renovation and RestorationModernism is the most defining architectural expression of the 20th century - a movement that transformed built environments around the world in an unprecedented way. Many of these buildings are in need of repair now or their original function is no longer needed. This...
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Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971-2021Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971-2021 surveys 50 years of visual and conceptual explorations by artist and writer Nancy Goldring. Material is arranged according to predominating themes throughout her career: Thresholds, Sites, Sets, Perspectives, Dreams and Visions, and Chiaroscuro. The book reveals her...
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Vacant Spaces NYVacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and their...
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Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High ResolutionIn the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient Nabatean civilization located on the Arabian Peninsula to propose the first Saudi resort in the...
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In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard That Shaped LondonThe extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the...
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Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown ProjectsArchitect and artist Marshall Brown is making space for the future by remixing the legacy of modern architecture in this exploration of his visionary urban ideas, brought to life through extraordinary collages, drawings, models, and photographs. Groundbreaking architect Marshall Brown presents a vision of...
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Cmf Design: The Fundamental Principles of Colour, Material and Finish Design- This is the first book that outlines the key principles of this emerging discipline - Includes Q&As with CMF design experts - Case studies of companies that successfully apply CMF design make this a thorough reference book - Specialized source of information for...
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Anti-Modernist Papal EncyclicalsSix authoritative encyclicals of the Catholic Church condemning and critiquing liberalism, modernism, religious indifferentism, capitalism, communism and the state of the modern world. In this volume, four different popes offer the Catholic defense of marriage, traditional scholastic and Thomistic learning, distributed private property and...
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Living the City: Of Cities, People and StoriesOn the personal narratives that exist alongside architecture Cities are full of stories--running in parallel, contradictory, overlapping and inseparably linked. Such stories are told in Living the City, referencing various projects from architecture, art and urban planning. The book aims to show processes and...
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David Chipperfield: A Book about a Large Building Recently Built in Asia: Amorepacific Headquarter by David Chipperfield Architects BerlinPlans, documentation and photographs from David Chipperfield's massive Amorepacific complex in KoreaThis book compiles 860 documents produced by David Chipperfield Architects during the planning and construction process of the Amorepacific headquarters in Seoul. These are complemented by two series of photographs by architectural photographer...
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Building a Body of Knowledge in Construction Project Delivery, Procurement and ContractingThis book aims to consolidate, structure and articulate collective knowledge on construction project delivery, procurement and contracting, so that it can serve as a gateway to the contiguous topics of construction project delivery. In addition to supporting the education of student researchers, as well...
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Chernobyl: A Stalkers' GuideDrawing on unprecedented access to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone--including insights gained while working as a tour guide and during an illegal "stalker" hike--Darmon Richter creates an entirely new portrait of Chernobyl's forgotten ghost towns, monuments and moreSince the first atomic bomb was dropped, humankind...
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