Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for SerenityAlthough his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in distinctive buildings around the world. In his adopted home of Detroit, where he lived and...
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Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred SpaceHow should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book offers a wide,...
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The Planetary Garden and Other WritingsCelebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the Musée du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener. To care for and cultivate a plot of...
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Masterpieces of the Mineral World: Treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural ScienceThe collection of natural mineral crystals housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the finest and best known in the world. Now the treasures of this singular collection are shown in resplendent photographs that will seduce both the connoisseur of beauty and...
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Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field MuseumGeorge Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintigs of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by Sutton. The exquisite watercolrs, housed in the Field Museum of...
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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail MovementThe story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the...
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Small Eco Houses: Living Green in StyleFresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challenges of limited living space will find inspiration in this survey of the latest trends in environmentally sensitive, small-scale residential designs. More...
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Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of RomeNot Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome is a unique, unconventional guide and a deeply felt homage to Rome and its extraordinary 2,500-year history. Moving beyond the names, dates, and statistics of ordinary guidebooks, George Sullivan's eye-opening essays celebrate the special...
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Construction Zone"Will be fascinating for the burgeoning builder. . . . This intriguing project gives an amazingly broad overview of the entire building process." -- Kirkus Reviews Caution Construction zone ahead Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a big building going up -- and...
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The Architecture of Sunderland: 1700-1914Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coalmining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion and development. Once known as the 'largest shipbuilding town in the world', Sunderland's proud and distinctive identity is embodied in its historic buildings and in its...
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Ruin and Redemption in ArchitectureLost, forgotten, reimagined, and transformed: the compelling beauty of abandoned, reinvented, and rescued architectureThis book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life - demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed, and...
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Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast USAA curated list of more than 250 must-see destinations organized geographically from Maine to FloridaFeaturing architecture by some of the biggest Mid-Century names, including Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Philip Johnson, each of the more than 250 buildings is located...
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Ornament Is Crime, Modernist Architecture: Modernist ArchitectureAn unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present dayAuthor: Albert Hill, Matt GibberdPublisher: Phaidon PressPublished: 06/19/2017Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.60lbsSize: 11.40h x 9.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9780714874166About the AuthorMatt Gibberd is a Founding Director of The Modern House, a London-based...
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Landscape as Urbanism: A General TheoryA definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanism It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another--or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by...
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Roman ForumOne of the most visited sites in Italy, the Roman Forum is also one of the best-known wonders of the Roman world. Though a highpoint on the tourist route around Rome, for many visitors the site can be a baffling disappointment. Several of the...
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Store Design: A Complete Guide to Designing Successful Retail StoresAs a professional working with retail clients and their facilities, Store Design is an invaluable resource for all project stakeholders in the retail environment. It's a concise but complete overview of the design perspectives critical to creating spaces that excite, energize, and, most importantly,...
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Warehouse Home: Industrial Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century LivingAs space for land development in cities shrinks and city dwellers tire of cookie-cutter apartment towers, a love for historical buildings has returned. The initial interest in lofts began in SoHo, New York, in the 1970s, and the love of warehouse buildings--often in attractive...
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A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to SkyscrapersRoman architect and engineer Vitruvius defined architecture's characteristics to include firmitas, utilitas, and venustas--essentially, structural integrity, usefulness, and beauty. Amazingly, all three Vitruvian characteristics can be found one way or another in most buildings and constructions from antiquity through the present. A Chronology of...
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Victor Horta: The Architect of Art NouveauIn the decade following the success of his design for the H tel Tassel in Brussels in 1893, Victor Horta, the creator of Art Nouveau architecture, produced more than forty buildings--and a movement. Prepared in close collaboration with the Horta Museum, Brussels, Victor Horta:...
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The Gargoyle Book: 572 Examples from Gothic ArchitectureAmid the soaring grandeur of arches and spires lurks a more down-to-earth architectural flourish: the grinning head of a gargoyle. Singly and clustered, these intriguing creatures form as distinctive an element of Gothic architecture as the flying buttress. Nowhere are they more prominent than...
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