Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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-mancer-mancer is a yellow phonebook for a familiar but improbable parallel civilization... it is a history as surmised by an artificial intelligence. Mike Corrao's second book with Inside the Castle.Author: Mike CorraoPublisher: Inside the CastlePublished: 06/09/2022Pages: 310Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x...
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Preserving BallardAs the first community to incorporate after Washington achieved statehood in 1890, the original city of Ballard has one of most storied histories in the state. Bordered by Salmon Bay, the famous Ballard Locks, a bascule bridge, and the Salish Sea, the longtime joke...
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Centre Court: The Jewel in Wimbledon's CrownA very special new edition of this beautiful and award-winning official coffee table book which celebrates one of sport's most historic and iconic venues as it celebrates its 100th birthday. The Centre Court at Wimbledon is known throughout the world and is famous for...
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Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and SignificanceCertain cities-most famously New York, London, and Tokyo-have been identified as "global cities," whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right....
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Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in MexicoThis book introduces a new generation of architects working in Mexico and their innovative housing designs. In the period following World War II, eminent Mexican architects such as Juan O'Gorman and Luis Barragán pioneered the adaptation of an international narrative in housing design to...
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What Is Critical Urbanism?: Urban Research as PedagogyA methodological and pedagogical toolkit for urban research. Understanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree of specialized and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time, city planners, architects, researchers, policymakers, and activists are deeply immersed in the chaotic and...
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La Atlantida en Español: Explora los Misterios de una de las Ciudades Pérdidas más Famosas de la HistoriaQué tanto sabemos y no sabemos sobre ese paraíso destruido por los dioses y olvidado bajo las frías aguas del tiempo? Te gustaría conocer donde comenzó su historia? Acaso hay evidencias que respalden el mito? Entonces sigue leyendo..."La Atlántida, que se sumergió en el...
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Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living ThingsHow Richard Riemerschmid's designs of everyday--but "extraordinary"--objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism. At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by the advent of World War I, had become an important modern architect....
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New Mexico Ghost TownsPromises of riches from gold, silver, copper and zinc ores attracted thousands of treasure seekers to the Land of Enchantment. Boomtowns blossomed across the rugged wilderness until the trifecta of the Silver Panic of 1893, World War I and the Great Depression collapsed the...
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American DreamThe transformations of the Strip--from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to "starchitecture"--and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury...
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Imagination and Participation: Next Steps in Public Library ArchitectureA manifesto for the future of the library, featuring conversations with leading architects and designersIn Imagination and Participation, Dutch librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important recent changes in public library design through conversations with experts and architects who have designed...
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Oxford: An Architectural GuideFew cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century to the present. In Oxford: An Architectural Guide,...
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A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, Texas: Bypassed, Forgotten, and Preserved Volume 30Located just west of the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, the community of Glen Rose, on the banks of the spring-fed Paluxy River, has attracted people for a century and a half, not only for the shaded quiet of its streets and its historic structures, but...
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Chicago Catholic Churches: A SketchbookIt began as the hobby of a lifelong Chicagoan. Twenty-five years and more than three hundred freehand church sketches later, it acts as an archive for centuries of architectural and religious history. The pen-and-ink drawings meticulously capture the details of each individual church down...
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Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and ArchitecturePennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots. In the tense days leading up to the 2020 American elections, then-candidate...
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Fading Ads of the Twin CitiesOn brick buildings throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul, overlooked, fleeting symbols chronicle the cities' past.Champion, John Deere, and International Harvester still tout their agricultural equipment, and Gold Medal and Pillsbury Flour remind everyone where these now global companies began. Weathered proclamations from Grain Belt,...
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Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist ItalyDuring the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architecture to educate the masses, exploiting its symbolic prowess as a powerful tool for achieving political consensus. Mussolini, Architect examines Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943 and...
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Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon VisnuA fully illustrated archaeological and art historical analysis of one of the most important artworks of Angkor, rewriting the chronology of the royal capital. In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor...
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The Art of Landscape Lighting: A Designer's CompanionFollowing on from the critically acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, this is the lighting design companion every professional and student in landscape architecture needs. Written by an award-winning internationally renowned landscape lighting designer, with over 40 years' experience in professional practice, The Art of...
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G. E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural PhotographyGeorge Everard Kidder Smith (1913-1997) was a multidimensional figure within the wide-ranging field of North American architectural professionals in the second half of the twentieth century. Although he trained as an architect, he chose not to practice within the conventional strictures of an architecture...
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