Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Row House in Washington, DC: A HistoryAuthor: Alison K. HoaglandPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 05/10/2023Pages: 278Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.77w x 0.55dISBN: 9780813949451
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Design For Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse WorldDesign is expression, a service, an act of creativity. But if designers design for everyone, how can there be so little diversity in the profession? In this book, Jessica Bantom examines the implications of design in everyday life, from spaces and products to images...
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Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed ChinaBen Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American...
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive SkyscrapersA fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires' Row--from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal "Deeply informative, delightfully entertaining, and addictively readable."--Diana B....
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Once Upon a Fairy Tale House: The True Story of Four Sisters and the Magic They BuiltThis nonfiction picture book tells the true story of four sisters who used their skills and creativity to bring storybook houses from their childhood fairy tales to life in 1930s Southern California. Mildred, Harriet, Brenda, and Wilma Moody grew up reading classic fairy tales...
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Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel TalesnikKenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his rich and influential career in the discipline. Spanning Frampton's early years as an architecture student at the Guildford School of Art to his nearly...
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Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making MORE Magic RealHow can you make dreams come true?Or transform a fantasy into a colorful, exciting world that visitors can move through, touch, and enjoy? Such fabulous work is the daily business of Walt Disney's Imagineers, a core group of creative and highly skilled professional wizards...
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The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best ArchitectsAs seen in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Forbes, ELLE Decoration, and Design MilkAn unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of stylesBrutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or...
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Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed ChinaBen Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin: How America's Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home StateAmerica's most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City's Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin's landscape, from affordable-housing...
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Built to Survive Natural DisastersStay safe in the storm! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about surviving natural disasters - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Built to Survive Natural Disasters is...
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100 Years of Building San Antonio: The People Who Built the Seventh Largest City in the USA, 1923-2023These are the stories behind the unique and iconic buildings that have shaped San Antonio-and the people who created them-helping it to become America's seventh-largest city. From the tallest skyscraper in Texas to the largest wildlife land bridge in the United States, construction over...
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2023 International Mass Timber ReportThe mass timber panel industry, most prominently exemplified by cross-laminated timber (CLT), is a new phenomenon. It integrates elements of mass timber design, manufacturing technologies, and construction and has not followed typical commodity-oriented forest products industry models. In fact, it would be difficult to...
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Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch 2023/German Architecture Annual 2023The German Architectural Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This year s edition of the annual presents the shortlist of 26 buildings selected by the jury for the 2023...
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50 Ultimate Sports Cars. 40th Ed.For the seasoned car collector or the awestruck newcomer, this volume is the consummate sports car anthology. Bringing together 50 of the most exquisite, desirable, and adrenaline-charging sports cars of all time, it recounts the enthralling endeavors in automotive design and engineering in pursuit...
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Lost Burlington, VermontSince Burlington was first settled over two centuries ago it has seen the establishment of a rich historic and architectural legacy, much of which has been lost. The Strong and State Theaters, St. Paul's Cathedral, Converse School, Cathedral High School, and a neighborhood lost...
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Old Brand New: Colorful Homes for Maximal Living [An Interior Design Book]A deeply personal and compassionate look at home ownership and rentership through more than 50 rooms designed by interior designer, photographer, and Instagram star Dabito. "Dabito's work is sculptural and beautiful--everything feels like an art piece! It is elevated yet functional--my fave combo."--Jessica Alba...
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Haute Bohemians: GreeceA glorious, intimate homage to the magical country of Greece, from bestselling photographer and writer Miguel Flores-Vianna. A land immortalized by poets for its otherworldly beauty, Greece is the birthplace of iconic monuments that are known the world over. Yet, at the same time,...
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Buffalo Art DecoSeveral movements helped to define the era known as the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition brought about the speakeasy, moonshine, the flapper, and the arrival of the jazz age, while the elegance and glamour of the period permeated design and architecture in the Art Deco or...
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SkyscrapersLearn all about the world's most amazing skyscrapers - from the first, to the tallest, to how they're built, and everything in between - in this new National Geographic Kids Reader. The Level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for fluent readers.Author: Libby...
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