Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Buffalo's Delaware Avenue:: Mansions and FamiliesWith a robust, four-part, 32-page Index by Buffalo History Museum Assistant Librarian Amy Miller and an Introduction to the Second Edition by Buffalo History Museum Research Librarian Cynthia Van Ness, there is finally excellent access to this encyclopedic book's amazing contents, street by street,...
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Dimensions of Citizenship"A colorful, digestible guide to the late 21st century and the role that architects play or don't play in shaping our collective understanding of citizenship." -Inc Globalization, technology and politics have altered the definition and expectations of citizenship and the right to place. Dimensions...
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Mexico City: Between Geometry and GeographyUnique in scope, scale, and civic aspiration, Mexico City is the ideal laboratory to test the capacity of urban design to construct a spatial synthesis from the geometric and organizational complexity of the city's layered urban scenarios. Between Geometry and Geography: Mexico City examines--through...
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Empire, State & BuildingThis book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This...
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Geographies of TrashIn the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the...
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Evolo Skyscrapers 3: Visionary Architecture and Urban DesignThe future of architecture and urban design unveiled by 150 innovative projects submitted to the world-renowned eVolo Skyscraper Competition. The third book in the Skyscraper Competition series showcases visionary designs that utilize the latest technological advances, offer sustainable architectural solutions, explore new territories, propose...
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Symbol of Divine Light: The Lamp in Islamic Culture and Other TraditionsSymbol of Divine Light surveys the history of the mosque lamp, describing the numerous variants made in different historical periods and containing more than 200 stunning color and b/w illustrations. The deep significance of light and the lamp in Islamic culture and other traditions--Jewish,...
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Siah Armajani: Follow This LineArmajani unites art and architecture, Persian calligraphy and abstract expressionism, American vernacular architecture and Russian constructivismIn Tehran, children walking home from school would scrape their pencils against the walls, tracing their paths through the city and chanting follow this line. Siah Armajani (born 1939)...
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Early Islamic Qiblas: A survey of mosques built between 1AH/622 C.E. and 263 AH/876 C.E.New archeological evidence clearly demonstrates that early Islamic mosques were not erroneously oriented as previously thought. Using modern technology and satellite imaging, Canadian historian Dan Gibson has discovered that early Islamic mosques were oriented to four different places. And they are not where Islam...
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Shipping Container Homes: The complete guide to shipping container homes, tiny houses, and container home plans!SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMESInside this book, you will discover exactly what shipping container homes are, what the benefits are, what permits you need to build one, and how to get started. Utilizing shipping containers in your building design doesn't only provide you will a unique...
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Prussian Socialism and Other EssaysOswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden forecast on the eclipse of Western Civilisation, The Decline of The West, struck a chord amidst a period of moral, cultural, social and economic decay, around...
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The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to UsIn the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. The Language of Clothes (Random House) came to be highly regarded in the literature of couture and design.Lurie has returned...
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The Bim Management HandbookAn authoritative and practical road map for those implementing and managing BIM workflows. With the 2016 deadline for BIM level 2 fast approaching and the growing realisation of the huge benefits BIM brings these skills are becoming industry essentials. Concentrating on the how rather...
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Age-Friendly Housing: Future Design for Older PeopleThis book embeds the principles of how we should approach the design of future housing for an ageing population, reminding us that this is not about 'other people', but about each of us. This book focuses on anticipating the needs and aspirations of the...
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The Honan Chapel: A Golden VisionThe strength of the book is its marvelously rich and detailed discussion of a 'case study' within the Arts and Crafts movement and the carefully constructed description of every aspect of the Chapel provides a coherency to Irish Arts and Crafts that enriches studies...
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Rockett St George: Extraordinary Interiors: Show-Stopping Looks for Unique InteriorsSelf-acknowledged 'design junkies' Lucy St George and Jane Rockett launched their online interiors store in 2007. Ten years on, Rockett St George has revitalized the interiors market with their quirky, glamorous and distinctive collections. Self-acknowledged 'design junkies' Lucy St George and Jane Rockett launched...
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Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 1939-73An up-to-date and accessible introduction to Coventry's post-war buildings.Author: Jeremy Gould, Caroline GouldPublisher: Historic England in Association with LiverpooPublished: 04/30/2016Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.20h x 8.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9781848022454About the AuthorJeremy Gould is an architect and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Plymouth University....
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Egypt in EnglandEgypt in England is the first detailed guide to the use of the Egyptian style in architecture and interiors in England. Fully illustrated, this engaging book is an accessible and practical guide for a general audience, but has enough depth to be useful to...
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The Building Site in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Arthur GibneyThis study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that has never been told so comprehensively before. What kind of contracts bound those involved?...
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The Wonder of the North: Fountains Abbey and Studley RoyalA history and tour of this exceptionally beautiful designed landscape in North Yorkshire. Dubbed "the Wonder of the North" in 1732, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate (now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most magnificent and beautiful...
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