Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Guidebook Selected French Gothic Cathedrals and ChurchesThis substantive yet easy-to-use guide to selected French gothic churches and cathedrals provides profiles of fourteen important religious buildings. They are located in different parts of France, were constructed at different times and in different styles, and include both well-known and less well-known churches...
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Second Home: A Different Way of LivingOn a remote island, among sand dunes, adjacent to a lake, and on a rocky beach--these are just some of the stunning sites of the architect-designed contemporary houses featured in this celebration of getaways that connect strongly with nature. Renowned architecture and design commentator...
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Country Life: Homes of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson ValleyA celebrated photographer focuses his lens on distinctive period and contemporary residences amid the natural beauty of New York's Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley The majestic panoramas, lush vegetation, and bucolic vibe of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley in upstate New...
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Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa-Gatineau RegionThe many and varied threads of Canada's national life come together in its capital region. Where the Rideau River flows into the Ottawa River, an Algonquin community was visited by French explorers and settled by British colonists. The town grew into a city, spilled...
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Ralph Lauren a Way of Living: Home, Design, InspirationA stunning celebration of Ralph Lauren's signature home collections--including the designer's own homes--which have inspired the world of interior design for nearly half a century. The cinematic vision of Ralph Lauren is brought to life with a stunning and intimately written book that spans...
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Dream Cottages: From the Editors of the Cottage Journal MagazineAuthor: Katie EllisPublisher: 83 PressPublished: 08/15/2023Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 11.57h x 10.31w x 1.02dISBN: 9798987482018
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Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945Author: Jean-Louis CohenPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 09/19/2023Pages: 432Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780262047982About the AuthorJean-Louis Cohen is Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and author of more than 30 books on architectural history. Christina E. Crawford...
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Heavy Timber Structures: Creating Comfort in Public SpacesIn the triumvirate of dominant structural building materials--wood, metal, and masonry--each has its advantages, but none are as intertwined with the human spirit as wood. Thirty-five public buildings illustrate how heavy timber framing can address familiar programmatic issues such as structure, economics, aesthetics, and...
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Early Christian and Byzantine ArchitectureBy now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans, and from Egypt...
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Building PracticeBuilding Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and politics of building, capturing critical and formative moments associated with building a practice.Author: Kyle MillerPublisher: Applied Research & DesignPublished: 06/01/2023Pages: 400Binding...
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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World HeritageRising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio's Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen complex ever known. In the two thousand years of their existence, they have served...
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Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and CultureDressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism, and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that...
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The Bootleg Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright: His Clandestine Work RevealedUncover the secret Chicago laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style. Before Frank Lloyd Wright officially launched America's most famous architectural career, he was designing the building blocks of his legendary prairie style on the side. In violation of his contract with his employers,...
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Blueprint Notebook: Architectural MasterpiecesBlueprint Notebook: Architectural Masterpieces is more than a notebook. Each page features a beautiful blueprint of an iconic world-renowned building. The bright blue high quality paper is perfect for taking notes and writing down your thoughts and what-to-do lists. Get inspired by the shapes...
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Footmarks: A Journey Into Our Restless PastArchaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting "archaeology of movement"All too often we think of the past as static, "frozen in time," and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary's expert eye we explore...
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Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of ConsumptionIn Mallparks, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first century. Grounded in Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's spatial theories...
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Everyday Streets: Inclusive approaches to understanding and designing streetsEveryday Streets analyses everyday streets across the globe through the lens of inclusivity.Author: Agustina MartirePublisher: UCL PressPublished: 05/25/2023Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781800084414About the AuthorAgustina Martire is an urbanist and senior lecturer in architecture at Queen's University Belfast. Birgit Hausleitner is an architect and urbanist...
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Digital (In)justice in the Smart CityThis book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of "smartness" altogether.Author: Debra MacKinnonPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 02/08/2023Pages: 444Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x...
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How to Attract MoneyWanting money is a fundamental right of every human being. They want to live a decent life which is possible only with money. It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life, and to be happy, radiant, and...
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The Light of Kailash. A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet: Volume Three. Later Period: TibetThis summa of Ch gyal Namkhai Norbu's researches is dedicated first and foremost to his fellow countrymen and women and to Tibetan youth in particular. The text was originally conceived as a set of university lectures that Ch gyal Namkhai Norbu was invited to...
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