Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Adjaye: Africa: Architecture: Compact EditionEducated in England, David Adjaye's lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent's built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colorful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites, and public spaces, and letting each building speak...
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Traditional Ironwork DesignsFrom an exceptional collection of the finest examples of German ironwork comes this rich source of royalty-free images for artists and craftspeople. More than 270 illustrations depict a broad variety of magnificent ironworks from the city of D sseldorf, with finely rendered examples of...
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Baroque Ornament and DesignsBaroque art and architecture -- extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail -- flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism and its mood of barely suppressed passion. In the architecture of...
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Japanese Homes and Their SurroundingsThis work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens,...
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Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd WrightGenius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover.--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them...
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Why Preservation MattersCommemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement--and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks...
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Why Architecture MattersNow in paperback after five printings, a remarkable journey through the built world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic and "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture" (Tracy Kidder) Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the...
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Modernity and the Architecture of MexicoSince the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of...
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The Four Books on ArchitectureThe Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings...
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Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 1: Designing for EmergenceTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world--rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the...
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Drawing for ArchitectureDrawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or...
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Landscape ArchitectureLandscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city...
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American Architecture: A Thematic HistoryLeading historian Dell Upton's American Architecture: A Thematic History reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional...
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Small House Living: Design-Conscious New Zealand Homes of 90m2 or LessSmart, space-efficient houses are becoming the way of the future. Small House Living showcases an inspiring collection of homes measuring less than 90m2 from around New Zealand. Family homes, baches, and apartments are included in the line-up, all of them demonstrating ingenious ways to...
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Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In Ho UseIn her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America's fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house's original owner, Walter...
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Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Manual of Environmental Planning and DesignPublisher'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.The most comprehensive, current guide to the theoryand practice of landscape architectureFor more than 50 years, this pioneering...
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The Smart Growth ManualPublisher'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.Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city...
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150 Best New Eco Home IdeasDiscover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles.Architects, designers, and homeowners today looking for comfortable, beautiful...
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Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis"Instantly my favorite guide to the city. Walsh has a phenomenal eye and an almost fanatical attention to detail." -- Luc Sante, author of Low LifeAn urban exploration of the oddities and artifacts of New York City's past that are hidden in plain view...
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Serious Fun: Architecture & GamesAn imaginative inquiry into the spatial implications of 20th-century games, from doll houses to SimCityThis volume examines architecture and urban design games that have been conceived and created by architects, urban designers, artists and game developers since the end of the 20th century, from...
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