Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Still Standing: The Ti Kais of DominicaStill Standing tells the story of the traditional wooden homes (known as ti kais) of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean. This gorgeously illustrated book pays tribute to these humble buildings that have withstood hurricanes and earthquakes since the end of slavery. Often ignored and...
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Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar BritainReconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain by Paula Derdiger assesses the impact of World War II and the welfare state on literary fiction by focusing on one of the defining issues of the postwar period: housing. Through compelling close readings and...
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The Pictorial Directory of Scotland's CastlesThe Pictorial Directory of Scotland's Castles is a unique publication. Over a three-year period, I have compiled a list of over 1000 Scottish castles. I decided some time ago that I would attempt something which, to the best of my knowledge, had never been...
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Tiny Living Spaces: Innovative Design SolutionsExciting and surprising approaches of how living spaces reduced to a minimum can enhance the quality of life to a maximumThe trend towards the Tiny House - and also the Micro Flat - is more than just a short-term hype. It is an attitude...
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Somewhere to Live: Rising to the Global Urban Land and Housing ChallengeDespite millions of people being lifted out of poverty during recent decades, finding somewhere decent and affordable to live is proving increasingly difficult in urban areas around the world.This is not by accident, but by design, since the forms of economic management that have...
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Temples of the Last PharaohsIt was the great work Description de l'Egypt, published in Paris in 1809-1928, that first drew Western attention to Egyptian art and architecture. Using this work as his primary source, Dieter Arnold has reconstructed and redrawn all of the lost buildings of the Late...
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China: José Gelabert-Navia - Clamshell Box- 20 original drawings - The beauty of regional China captured with exquisite mastery - Exhibition quality production - An homage to one of the world's richest artistic traditions - A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian...
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David M. Schwarz Architects: 1976-2020- The firm has developed significant experience on a broad and diverse body of project types including civic, institutional, cultural, commercial and retail, office and residential, educational, sports and entertainment, healthcare, and planning projects, as well as historic preservation- This book is richly illustrated...
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Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge: Vol. 2, No. 3/2022: Species of Theses an Other PiecesPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublished: 01/31/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9783837659207
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Letters from the Grief Club: How We Live with LossWelcome to the club you never wanted to join. When someone you love dies, it may seem impossible to know what will happen next and how you will cope. Losing someone in early adulthood, you may feel even more alone, when no-one around you...
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The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-PalestineSeeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel-Palestine and beyondThe Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and struggling over specific territories and populations. Focusing on the geopolitical complexity of Israel-Palestine and the...
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After Suburbia: Urbanization in the Twenty-First CenturyAfter Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical...
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Urban Lessons of the Venetian SquaresThe first part of the book is both an homage to the nature and appeal of the squares of Venice and an analysis of their physical qualities in urbanistic terms. The Venetian settings were chosen for their freedom from auto traffic, streets, or peculiarities...
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Preservation, Sustainability, and EquityPublisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the CityPublished: 04/05/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70dISBN: 9781941332702
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Eero SaarinenThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Dennis Creffield: Art and LifeHugely admired by artists and writers, from Henri Cartier Bresson to the Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson, the extraordinary life and work of painter Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) are explored in this, the first major monograph on the artist. The narrative traces the artist's 'Dickensian'...
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Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big PlanFrom citrus trees to spring breakers, Transforming the Irvine Ranch tells the story of Orange County's metamorphosis from 93,000 acres of farmland into an iconic Southern California landscape of beaches and modernist architecture. Drawing on decades of archival research and their own years at...
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Architectural Principles in the Age of HumanismThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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AA Book 2021The AA Book 2021 celebrates the depth of research and plurality of practice pursued at the Architectural Association (AA) during the 2020-21 academic year. The publication features hundreds of projects by students from every unit and program within the school, which together document the...
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The Pink House: The Legendary Residence of Edwin Bradford Hall and His Succeeding Generations in Wellsville, New YorkThe history of The Pink House is unique because it is one of the few Victorian-era residences to remain in the possession of the same family for four generations. Victorian residences are 19th century fantasies created as monuments to their original owner's financial success...
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