Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st CenturyThe practice of comprehensive planning is changing dramatically in the 21st century to address the pressing need for more sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities. Drawing on the latest research and best practice examples, The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st...
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Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the WorldDesigning private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a HouseFor reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately...
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Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar EnergyThe definitive history of solar power and technology Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuels a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York...
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Developing: My LifeIn 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. "Manhattan's most active real-estate developer," a judgment borne out by Zeckendorf's fascinating memoir. The second generation of a legendary family of developers, "Bill" Zeckendorf was a developer with a social conscience, not only putting...
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Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra's Hassrick HouseIn the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, just beyond the northern boundary of the Thomas Jefferson University's East Falls campus, stands the Hassrick House (1958-61), designed by celebrated architect Richard Neutra, an icon of mid-century modern style. Often described as an East Coast interpretation...
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Creatures Are Stirring: A Guide to Architectural CompanionshipCreatures Are Stirring is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and co-habitable future. The book reconceptualizes buildings as our friends by amplifying architecture's creaturely qualities--formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organizational strategies that...
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Interior: Louise BradleyLouise Bradley has been designing timeless, elegant interiors for thirty years. Her distinctive style - combining classic influences with a contemporary edge - has secured her position as one of the UK's leading interior designers, and has won her international recognition. Today, Louise's name...
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Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in ChicagoHow did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront--its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as...
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Blue: Architecture of Un Peacekeeping MissionsThe book is part of FAST's ongoing activism, research, design, and advocacy work. It builds on earlier presentations, including the exhibition BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions for the Dutch Pavilion of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. At the intersection of architecture, urban planning,...
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Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright confronted us with two challenges when he wrote of his buildings that certain "basic principles behind the effects" "give to them all such vitality, integrity, and magic as they have." The first challenge: to uncover these principles; and, the second, to...
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Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public HousingThis book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often...
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Inspiring Family HomesFamilies create homes, and homes keep families together. Inspiring Family Homes will explore what it means to live and share the space with those closest to us from a design perspective. Inspiring Family Homes will take the reader around the world, opening the doors...
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The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean ConstructionsThe Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the careless building practices of the present....
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Forgotten Nova ScotiaA collection of photographs showing the legacy of Nova Scotia. The stunning images found in Forgotten Nova Scotia offer a window into our past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have...
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Notes on Decor, Etc.Interior design legend Paul Fortune opens his design portfolio and shares his inimitable worldview in this monograph-cum-memoir. Arriving in Los Angeles from London during the 1970s, Paul Fortune gradually made his way as a graphic artist, art director of music videos, and even nightclub...
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Le Corbusier Public Buildings- Includes detailed technical drawings of 80 architectural projects by Le Corbusier- Offers a new insight into the master architect, Le Corbusier, and his work- Provides a firm basis for the understanding of modernist architecture in the 20th century- Characteristics and design details of...
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Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York CityThe first detailed study of "Neo-Antique" architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City's structures Since the city's inception, New Yorkers have deliberately and purposefully engaged with ancient architecture to design and erect many of its most iconic buildings and...
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A House in a Week: Prefab HousesAs the need for affordable, eco-friendly housing continues to rise, so does the bar for attractive, easy-to-construct designs from today's architects. In A House in a Week: Prefab Houses we've gathered the most innovative and thoughtfully planned homes, prefabricated to perfection. From a desert...
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The Guide to Being a Good Human for the Earth: How to Live SustainablyThis is a guide to being a good human for the earth. How can we live on this planet sustainably so we can have a good quality of life for many generations to come? This book provides quick and practical information on how to...
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