Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Routledge Handbook of Second Home Tourism and MobilitiesSecond homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies. They can directly and indirectly contribute a significant number of domestic and international visitors to destinations and may be part of longer-term retirement, lifestyle and amenity migration that can have...
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Missing Link: Strategien Einer Architekt*innengruppe Aus Wien / Srategies of a Viennese Architecture Group 1970-1980(Bilingual edition: English / German)Conceptual architecture from the 1970s This book offers an in-depth look at the work of one of the most important phenomena of Austria's avant-garde art and architecture scene of the 1970s, MISSING LINK. The group founded by Angela Hareiter, Otto...
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Mischung: Possible!: Experimentelle Quartiersentwicklung Am Nordbahnhof WienMischung: Possible! bietet Basiswissen über die Implementierung von Nutzungsmischung im konkreten Anwendungsfall einer Stadtteilentwicklung. Das Buch basiert auf einer vierjährigen experimentellen Intervention zur nachhaltigen innerstädtischen Stadtteilentwicklung durch Nutzungsmischung auf dem Areal des ehemaligen Nordbahnhofs, eines der grö ten Entwicklungsgebiete Wiens. Die Umsetzung der Nutzungsmischung...
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Lava Laboratory for Visionary Architecture: What IfMonograph questioning What if research, science and architecture were merged? LAVA is an architecture studio founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, and Alexander Rieck with offices in Germany, Vietnam, and Australia. The German Pavilion for Expo 20 is an example of the eloquence with...
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Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission-Driven DesignPractice with Purpose is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to address some of society's most urgent challenges: the climate emergency, racial and ethnic injustice, chronic homelessness, educational crises, and the preservation of the embodied carbon and culture of existing buildings. To successfully...
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Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore: Rethinking the 21st Century Public SchoolUrban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design.The central case study in this book, Henderson-Hopkins, is a PK-8 campus serving as the civic centerpiece of the East Baltimore Development Initiative. This...
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Polly And The Historic PreservationistOn a bright sunny day, Abigail and her best friend Polly the poodle go to the center of old town to meet their friend, Ms. Ludlow, the historic preservationist. Abigail wonders why people would want to save old buildings when new and fun things...
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Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western HemisphereCoinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in...
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Controlling London's Growth: Planning the Great Wen, 1940 - 1960The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis that, faced with an urgent need to rebuild its war-damaged central areas while still at war, prepared a notable set of...
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Co-Curating the City: Universities and Urban Heritage Past and FutureA significant contribution to knowledge about university spatial development in urban contexts. Co-Curating the City explores the role of universities in the construction and mobilization of heritage discourses in urban development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study sites ranging from...
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Building the Classical World: Bauforschung as a Contemporary ApproachThis multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung. Written by established and emerging experts in this field, the chapters focus on the architecture of the Classical...
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A History of Western Architecture Seventh EditionIn this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the late twentieth century. For this seventh edition, revising author Owen Hopkins provides a new introduction contextualizing Watkin's approach. The final...
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The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect's Blueprint for Shaping Your HomeA TV architect brings you inspiring architectural ideas and design solutions for updating your home without breaking the bank. Packed with architectural solutions and designs, this book will guide you on how to best optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune....
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LincolnThe village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska's first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load...
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Studio Indigo: Architecturally Creative InteriorsA stunning portfolio of residential and commercial projects from award-winning internationally renowned design house Studio Indigo Founded in London in 2005 by architect and creative director Mike Fisher, Studio Indigo is a multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary collective of architects, interior designers, technical experts, and project managers,...
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Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in EnglandThe essential annotated edition of Frederick Law Olmsted's first book Before he ever dreamed of becoming a landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted visited southern England and Wales during a month-long walking tour. A gifted writer, he recorded his impressions of the trip in a...
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Carmody Groarke / Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Hill House - Not ForeverAn affordable introduction to a Scottish modern masterpiece of residential designCharles Rennie Mackintosh's (1868-1928) residential masterpiece, Hill House was designed and built for the publisher Walter Blackie between 1902 and 1904. Mackintosh and his wife Margaret created everything from the building itself to the...
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Sri Harmandar Sahib: Architecture - Engineering - Aesthetics (Golden Temple, Amritsar)Sri Harmandar Sahib: Architecture - Engineering - Aesthetics (Golden Temple, Amritsar) is based on the author's doctoral research for which he was conferred his third PhD by the Panjab University in 2008. This holy shrine is the only example of Religious Architecture in the...
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Oriental LifestyleOriental Lifestyle will take you on a journey that explores astonishing artistic and architectural worlds, captured by a poetic eye. Like an enchanter, Guillaume de Laubier brings the ochre of the desert alive and highlights the splendor and wonders of palaces and residences rich...
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Living in Bali. 40th Ed.Loved by travelers for its lush tropical scenery and charming people, Bali is one of the most magnificent places on Earth. Spirituality and nature are integral parts of everyday life for the Balinese, so one can easily see why the island's traditional architecture has...
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