Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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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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Facades: Beauty. Utility. PerformanceFacades: Beauty. Utility. Performance illustrates the depth and breadth of the many innovative exterior wall facades that were designed from 2007-2020 at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG). The featured projects, both built and unbuilt, are explored through photographs, renderings, model images, detail...
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The Greater Key Of SolomonSolomon wrote the book for his son Rehoboam, and commanded him to hide the book in his sepulchre upon his death. After many years the book was discovered by a group of Babylonian philosophers repairing Solomon's tomb. None could interpret the text, until one...
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Berghotels 1890-1930: Südtirol, Nordtirol Und Trentino: Bauten Und Projekte Von Musch & Lun Und Otto SchmidFundamentals of hotel construction Around 1890, the advance of alpinism and Alpine tourism necessitated the building of accommodation for visitors to the mountain worlds of South Tyrol and neighboring regions. Hotels were built in remote high-mountain landscapes. These were integrated into the regional context,...
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Introduction to Project Management: A Source Book for Traditional PM BasicsThis book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format. It is targeted principally at those who are learning or desiring to learn project management as well as those who are already taking project management as a course of...
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Europe by Night: Great Buildings in Great CitiesJulian Wicksteed's love of travel, history, and architecture has seen him crisscross the European continent many times over the years. His love of wandering the deserted streets after the daytime crowds have disappeared is illustrated in this book of night time long-exposure images of...
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High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban CenturyThe first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real...
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Walla WallaWalla Walla is a town that has seen elegant buildings erected during a period of early prosperity and has benefited from a determined commitment to preserve these architectural treasures more than 100 years later.Author: Susan MonahanPublisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)Published: 04/04/2022Pages: 98Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...
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Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland: Stadtkartierung Und Heritage Making Im Wiederaufbau Um 1945Der Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten bereitet erstmals einen bedeutenden Quellenbestand für die Stadtforschung auf und präsentiert in gro formatigen Darstellungen Karten der 1940er und 1950er-Jahre zu Nürnberg, Hamburg, Hannover, Freiburg, Leipzig und Essen. Einführende Aufsätze widmen sich der Entwicklung der Kriegsschadensaufnahme und diskutieren die Bedeutung von...
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Figments of the Architectural ImaginationGathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and incisive treatments of some of the most important projects, practices, and polemics at work making contemporary architecture contemporary....
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