Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Rancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy of an Historic Land Grant RanchRancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy on an Historic California Land Grant Ranch celebrates the spectacular landscape, fascinating history, colorful characters, and timeless traditions of one of California's last intact Mexican land grant ranches. The ranch's 37,000 acres extend from the edge of the Los Padres...
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Hidden Architecture: Buildings That Blend in- An inspired selection of buildings that blend into their environment - Highlights 50 of the world's most important projects by leading architects worldwide - By expert Alyn Griffiths, a regular contributor to magazines such as Wallpaper* and Dezeen and author of The Future...
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At Home with Art: A Beginner's Guide to Collecting on Any BudgetA beginner's guide on how to start your own art collection on any budget--to create a unique home that reflects your individual style. A work of art--whether it is unexpected, groundbreaking, or one of a kind--can personalize your interior and transform it into a...
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Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Homes and BungalowsA remarkable collection of Stickley home designs. In 1901, Gustav Stickley created the first uniquely American style of furniture and home design--known as Craftsman. A leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in homebuilding and a major influence on Frank Lloyd Wright, Stickley created...
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Project Without Form Oma: Rem Koolhaas and the 1989 LaboratoriumOn a daring late-'80s experiment in form by Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan ArchitectureIn 1989, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture developed a new architectural typology helmed by the Dutch architecture firm's founder Rem Koolhaas (born 1944). The goal of this endeavor was to enact...
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Frank Gehry: The MasterpiecesAn authoritative compendium on the main masterpieces of Frank Gehry, including 480 illustrations and photographs, produced in collaboration with Cahiers d'Art. Experimenting with a range of materials from cheap mass-produced items to space-age titanium, and using 3D computer modeling as an architectural tool, Frank...
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Gilles & BoissierThe French design duo Gilles & Boissier presents their sumptuously chic interiors and the artistic inspirations behind them. In 2004, Patrick Gilles and Dorothée Boissier--partners both at work and in life--founded their Paris-based interior design studio and furniture line, Gilles & Boissier. The maturity...
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Light Space Life: Houses by SaotaLight Space Life is the first monograph from internationally recognized South African architecture studio SAOTA, known for crafting exceptional modern buildings that forge powerful connections to their extraordinary settings. Presenting memorable and distinctive residences selected from its wide-ranging global output, the book celebrates thirty-five...
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Bamboo Contemporary: Green Houses Around the GlobeIn this globetrotting tour of fourteen houses, discover how bamboo, one of the most sustainable building materials on the planet, can be used in ingenious ways in residential design. Bamboo is a perennial grass that grows rapidly and rivals steel, concrete, and wood in...
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Junya Ishigami: Freeing ArchitectureA large-format, storybook-like celebration of Ishigami's elegant, light-filled landscape architecture and buildingsJapanese architect Junya Ishigami (born 1974) sees his architectural masterworks as landscapes in and of themselves rather than mere accessories to the land. At the heart of his design ethic are several guiding...
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Understanding Architectural Details - CommercialUnderstanding Architectural Details - Commercial, is dedicated to steel and concrete construction. The book is packed full of over 150 construction details in 2D, and 150 construction details in 3D.We look at the principles behind construction detailing, and delve deep into each area of...
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The Big Asian Book of Landscape ArchitectureThis book provides one of the first comprehensive discussions of contemporary landscape architecture practice across the Asian region. Bringing together established designers, writers, and thinkers with those of the new generation, Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann explore what it means to design, do business,...
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A Botany of Violence: 528 Years of Resistance & ResurgenceFrom germ theory to plantation logic, this book tracks 529 years of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America. Smuggled and stolen by the Jesuits and the Spanish Monarchy in the 17th century, transplanted by Britain...
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Off Grid House PlansOff-Grid House Plans has more than 250 floor plans, sections, sketches, and elevations, as well as all the construction details in all projects. An Off-Grid system allows you to live without using a utility company, generating your own energy. A well designed system also...
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Gianni Pettena: 1966-2021A half-century of multimedia works from a protagonist of Italy's Radical Architecture movementGianni Pettena (born 1940) was a central figure in the Italian Radical Architecture movement in the 1960s and '70s. His multimedia works, defined in opposition to the rationalism and functionalism of 20th-century...
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Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in AmericaHow American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studiesA New York Times critics' pick Best Art Books 2021 Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing...
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Outdoor Domesticity: On the Relationships Between Trees, Architecture, and InhabitantsTrees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in...
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Where Is Chichen Itza?Discover more about the amazing Maya by visiting the city of Chichen Itza. Although it's known more as an important tourist attraction today, the city of Chichen Itza was a powerful religious, political, scientific, and artistic center of the Maya people. Readers will learn...
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Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196x to 197xAn explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a...
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Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & FormsThick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat--each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story. In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these stories encompasses the particular development, construction,...
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