Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century ArchitectureComposed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to...
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Imagining Mit: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First CenturyThe story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche.In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down...
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Domesticity at WarWhen American architects, designers, and cultural institutions converted wartime strategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domestic bliss became another kind of weapon.In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an...
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Early Art and Architecture of AfricaThis new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West...
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Modern ArchitectureColquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the...
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European Architecture 1750-1890This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll...
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Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building ConstructionPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook...
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Intimacy Exposed: Toilets, Bathrooms, RestroomsA meditation on the space, evolution, and function of the bathroomThis book presents a series of scientific and artistic interventions reflecting on the evolution of toilets, public and private, and on their many functions today, including those of transgressive, informal meeting places and spaces...
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YakimaArising from sagebrush in 1884, Yakima, Washington, became an instant city within its first year of existence. With the initial placement of more than 100 moved structures and rapid construction of new ones, the city's downtown vicinity expanded rapidly in its first few decades....
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Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our PresentThe theme of "modernity" was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionizing our way of life. By causing in its development absolutizations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyone's life were...
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The Little Theater of Vincent DarréA whimsical scrapbook celebrating the confluence of style and decor from France's most original interior designer. This handsome oversized volume is a lavish scrapbook bursting with creativity that presents twenty recent projects, inspiring encounters, and ephemeral decor created by designer Vincent Darré. Quirky and...
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The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient WorldComplementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly 'the very symbol of democracy itself', instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how?In this book...
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Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and the Transnational Politics of Postcolonial NationalismNew directions for comparative research into "difficult heritage" as a concept. Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on the notion of heritage, this collection advances our understanding...
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Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers: Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance DesignRenewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high performance and net zero energy buildings, with a practical focus on the design and integration of these systems. This textbook and convenient reference offers a...
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Emilio Ambasz: Curating a New NatureA timely reevaluation and synthesis of this ecologically minded trailblazer and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design. Famously labeled the "father, poet, and prophet" of green architecture and a proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or...
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Urban Nature: Enriching Belonging, Wellbeing and BiocultureThis book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design. Urban nature has up...
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Palm Beach LivingExplore the pleasures of life in the homes and gardens of the legendary tropical island of Palm Beach From charming bungalows to sleek minimalist houses and apartments to restorations of iconic Mediterranean Revival residences to a garden dotted with oversized insect sculptures, the homes...
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Design DisruptedDesign Disrupted captures your attention as the author opens your mind to an intrinsic correlation between the human body and functional space! Design Disrupted brilliantly deconstructs the interior design process to help others understand the symbolism between body and space.As my (Dawn Stafford) design...
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Cincinnati's Lost Architects: Joseph and Bernard SteinkampJoseph and Bernard Steinkamp carried on the family tradition of their grandfather and father, designing at least 300 structures in and around the Cincinnati area and as far away as Charleston, West Virginia. Some of the more well-known structures in the Cincinnati area include...
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Joslyn CastleIn the spring of 1893, media titans George and Sarah Joslyn bought a farm in Omaha, Nebraska, that would prove to be one of the city's most noteworthy real estate transfers. On this land, the Joslyns would construct a transformational home that would become...
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