Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Architect: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own WordsIn this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects -- Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection. The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for...
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Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City LandscapesFrederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their...
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Social Formation and Symbolic LandscapeHailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and...
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Architectural Vessels of the Moche: Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient PeruElaborately decorated monumental architecture, royal tombs, and ritual human sacrifice have established the Moche of ancient Peru (AD 200-800) as a culturally rich and ideologically complex civilization. Because the Moche did not have a text-based writing system, their sophisticated works of art, which communicated...
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DocumentsAn exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Mir , Dal , and others against the canvas of their renegade times.In the Paris art world of the 1920s,...
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Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short IntroductionFrom Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the architecture of Egyptian temples and pyramids has attracted tourists to Egypt for centuries. But what did Egyptian art and architecture...
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Structural EngineeringHave you ever wondered how it's possible to build a skyscraper, a big bridge, a jumbo jet, or a cruise liner? Everything has structure. Structure is the difference between a random pile of components and a fully functional object. Through structure the parts connect...
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Aegean Art and ArchitectureThis is the first comprehensive introduction to the art and architecture of mainland Greece, Crete, and the Cycladic Islands from 3300 to 1000 BCE. Ancient Aegean culture has a particularly important place within European history and art history because of its profound links to...
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On ArchitectureIn De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an...
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Geometria Sagrada y ArquitecturaEste libro es producto de catorce a os de profundos cuestionamientos, investigaci n, an lisis, s ntesis y comprensiones del v nculo que tiene la Geometr a Sagrada - la matem tica de la vida -, con la Arquitectura Biol gica - los dise...
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Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic"A lively, open-ended study of the building of Chartres Cathedral. . . . Ball puts the fun back in medieval scholasticism." --Los Angeles TimesChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western...
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Mona LisaA narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world - and one of the most powerful cultural icons of our time. What has made the Mona Lisa the most famous picture...
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An English Library Journey: With Detours to Wales and Northern IrelandJohn Bevis is a writer and book-lover on an eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England. In a ten-year mission criss-crossing the country--from Solihull to Slough, from Cleveland to Cornwall--he enrolls at libraries of all shapes and sizes:...
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Sacred Santa Fe: Geomancy, Geometry, and Energetics of its ChurchesSacred Santa Fe is a book about geometry, geomancy, and the energetic qualities of four impressive churches. It takes a look at the masterpieces the mysterious European Master Builders left behind in Santa Fe. Most people don't understand what is involved in building a...
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The Routledge Handbook of Second Home Tourism and MobilitiesSecond homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies. They can directly and indirectly contribute a significant number of domestic and international visitors to destinations and may be part of longer-term retirement, lifestyle and amenity migration that can have...
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Missing Link: Strategien Einer Architekt*innengruppe Aus Wien / Srategies of a Viennese Architecture Group 1970-1980(Bilingual edition: English / German)Conceptual architecture from the 1970s This book offers an in-depth look at the work of one of the most important phenomena of Austria's avant-garde art and architecture scene of the 1970s, MISSING LINK. The group founded by Angela Hareiter, Otto...
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Mischung: Possible!: Experimentelle Quartiersentwicklung Am Nordbahnhof WienMischung: Possible! bietet Basiswissen über die Implementierung von Nutzungsmischung im konkreten Anwendungsfall einer Stadtteilentwicklung. Das Buch basiert auf einer vierjährigen experimentellen Intervention zur nachhaltigen innerstädtischen Stadtteilentwicklung durch Nutzungsmischung auf dem Areal des ehemaligen Nordbahnhofs, eines der grö ten Entwicklungsgebiete Wiens. Die Umsetzung der Nutzungsmischung...
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Lava Laboratory for Visionary Architecture: What IfMonograph questioning What if research, science and architecture were merged? LAVA is an architecture studio founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, and Alexander Rieck with offices in Germany, Vietnam, and Australia. The German Pavilion for Expo 20 is an example of the eloquence with...
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Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission-Driven DesignPractice with Purpose is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to address some of society's most urgent challenges: the climate emergency, racial and ethnic injustice, chronic homelessness, educational crises, and the preservation of the embodied carbon and culture of existing buildings. To successfully...
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Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore: Rethinking the 21st Century Public SchoolUrban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design.The central case study in this book, Henderson-Hopkins, is a PK-8 campus serving as the civic centerpiece of the East Baltimore Development Initiative. This...
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