Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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San Francisco: A Map of PerceptionsSan Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From North Beach, to Chinatown, to the cold, rough surf of Ocean Beach, to Marin, both visitors and lifelong residents have endless opportunities to explore new neighborhoods, buildings, environments, and cultures just by getting...
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Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance ItalyFor Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In this...
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Cities for a Small PlanetNothing else damages the earth's environment more than our cities. As the world's population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment worsened. Meanwhile, from the isolated, gated communities within Houston and Los Angeles, to the millions of residents of...
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Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 18-193The materials that decorate our homes and protect us from cold, light, and prying eyes reveal as well as conceal. Drapery and curtain designs tell the story of great shifts in home and work life that accompanied innovations in textile manufacturing technology and the...
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Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-Tonks, and Dance HallsFrom backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs. Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south...
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Hanok: The Korean HouseAppreciate the understated glamour and traditional comfort in this collection of the most excellent examples of timeless Korean architecture. Hanok: The Korean House provides new insights on the stylish traditional Korean homes that are experiencing a resurgence of popularity in Seoul today. While the...
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The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania: Architecture & Preservation, Built 1750-1900For anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this is the story of that barn and many others in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, the hearth, the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One...
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A Graveyard Preservation Primer, Second EditionA Graveyard Preservation Primer has proven itself to be a time-tested resource for those who are seeking information regarding the protection and preservation of historic graveyards. It was first written to help stewards of early burial grounds responsibly and effectively preserve their graveyards. Much...
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Hygge: The Danish Art of HappinessBring Hygge into your home this year with this beautiful and essential guide to the globally celebrated Danish art of happiness 'At these times it is crucial for me to have hygge. Hygge time with family and friends, hygge moments with myself and a...
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Le Corbusier Le GrandA spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier - one of the twentieth century's most influential architectsA decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life...
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Snøhetta: Collective IntuitionThe first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working todayWith offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Sn hetta's architecture, landscape, interior, and branding design projects are created across political boundaries,...
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WoodWood is a fresh, insightful and surprising look at the world's best timber architecture.With 170 structures from the last 1,000 years, Wood features projects from some of the world's most celebrated architects. Renzo Piano's otherworldly New Caledonian Cultural Centre is found alongside projects from...
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The Future of Architecture Since 1889: A Worldwide HistoryThe highly acclaimed history of the architecture of the twentieth century and beyond - now in paperbackJean-Louis Cohen, one of the world's leading architectural historians, serves up a compelling account of the developments that have shaped the world in which we live today. This...
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Sou FujimotoThe first comprehensive monograph on Japan's most creative, experimental and visionary architect, Sou FujimotoOccasionally an architect emerges whose vision is so fresh that it causes us to reconsider the very nature of architecture. Sou Fujimoto is one of those architects. Guided by instinct and...
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30:30 Landscape ArchitectureIn 30:30 Landscape Architecture, 30 of the most renowned landscape architects explore the work of the 30 of the world's top emerging architects with more than 500 illustrations.This book captures the essence of how the world is designed around us. A global and influential...
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Toyo ItoToyo Ito (b. 1941) is one of the most important Japanese architects working today, and has grown to be one of the most influential in the world. He is famous for ambitious and stunning projects such as the Sendai Mediatheque, TOD'S Omotesando, Tama Art...
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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist HistoryThe story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly...
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the PresentA sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start...
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Borromini (Revised)Francesco Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial effects. Here is the first book in English to survey the whole work of the master. The author, former Director of theAuthor: Anthony...
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Sylvia's Book SmugglerAfter a traumatic break up with her boyfriend in Chicago, Sylvia is persuaded to go on a trip to Lithuania, the land of her ancestors. She doesn't expect to find new friends who take her to some of the most beautiful places in the...
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