Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Thirteenth, Greatest of CenturiesAll the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth century are reviewed at generous length-the rise and character, the curricula, and the influences of the early universities; the steps taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the development of letters; the great...
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Petworth: The People and the PlaceAuthor: Christopher RowellPublisher: National TrustPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.30h x 7.60w x 0.70dISBN: 9780707804200
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Instruments of Land Policy: Dealing with Scarcity of LandIn dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to...
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Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library BuildingsThis updated, practical and accessible book is an invaluable guide for practitioners who are approaching the daunting task of creating a new library or major refurbishment of existing facilities.Author: Ayub Khan, Stella ThebridgePublisher: Facet PublishingPublished: 07/06/2022Pages: 222Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781783305711About the AuthorAyub Khan is...
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Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament: David Boswell Reid and Disruptive EnvironmentalismRebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control system in parliament. This book retraces...
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Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable FuturesNo single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings. The climate crisis encompasses a broad register of "symptoms" - increased global temperatures and sea-level rise, droughts and extreme bushfire events, salinification and desertification of fertile land, and the...
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Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative UrbanismIstanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey - Karanfilköy and Fatih Sultan Mehmet - to examine how generatively built structures and neighbourhoods can be successfully realized in a modern, burgeoning urban context. Generative development processes adapt to...
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Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate CrisisUrbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change.The book offers strong, straightforward...
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The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian PerspectiveArchitecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem, and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant...
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Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape: Blood, Soil, BuildingThis book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape.For the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was indeed a heritage resource,...
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Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century ChinaThis book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. It questions whether the fusion of international influences with the local Chinese design vocabulary in late 20th century China has created...
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Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis: A Global ResponseRebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan. The book draws together expert contributions from countries across three continents - Asia,...
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Milan: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban Change: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban ChangeAs a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and contemporary productions - old and new manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and cultural economy - and investigate...
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The Complexities of John Hejduk's Work: Exorcising Outlines, Apparitions and AngelsThis book traces the development of John Hejduk's architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what, why and how we build, which allowed for more open discourse and enhance...
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The City Makers of Nairobi: An African Urban HistoryThe City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period. Although Nairobi was a colonial construct with lasting negative repercussions, the African population's impact on its history and development is often overlooked. This book shows how...
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Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and MythsWriting Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician;...
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Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India: Approaches and ChallengesHeritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to position the conservation profession within historical, theoretical, and methodological frames to demonstrate how the field has evolved in the postcolonial decades and follow its various trajectories in research, education, advocacy, and practice.Split into four sections, this book...
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Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and UrbanismThis book considers the architect Le Corbusier's encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated...
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Daylight, Design and Place-MakingDaylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture. Shifting from a purely technical approach to daylighting, this book places importance on the creation of meaningful aesthetics through an understanding of context and...
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Designed to Sell: The Evolution of Modern Merchandising and DisplayDesigned to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of postwar philosophies of retail design that embodied aesthetics and function and new modes of merchandise display, resulting...
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