Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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New Signage Design: Connecting People & SpacesThis book is a selection of projects from across the world in which the graphic signage system stands out not only for its meticulous form but its unmistakable illustrative function. Public spaces where a large number of people need to find their way such...
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Miguel Fisac & Alejandro de la Sota: Parallel ViewsThis book surveys the work of Miguel Fisac and Alejandro de la Sota (born 1913), two of the most important modern Spanish architects of the twentieth century. It includes drawings, models, photographs, pictures of furniture and objects, in an extensive tour of both masters'...
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Zumthor in Mexico: Swiss Architects in MexicoThe first in a new series celebrating the historical and cultural ties between Mexico and Switzerland through architectureIn 2017, as part of the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943) was invited to Mexico City to participate in a series of public...
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A+u 15:11, 542: Rcr Arquitectes - Journey-Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes are featured in a]u 15:11, which reflects on the diverse influences and how it shapes their design philosophy The winners of the 2017 Pritzker Prize are featured in a+u 15:11 RCR Arquitectes - Journey. Founded by Rafael Aranda, Carme...
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Kyoto Gardens: Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener's Art"Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens." --HGTV Gardens Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. In their...
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New Japan Architecture: Recent Works by the World's Leading ArchitectsFeaturing dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors. The past five years are widely considered to have been the most innovative period in contemporary Japanese design history. The projects featured in...
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Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian ModernismWith Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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LightopiaAn investigation into the development of light design within a broad cultural and historical contextLightopia investigates the development of light design, taking a novel perspective by placing the current paradigm shift in the larger context of cultural history. The starting point for the book...
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Helsinki: Architectural GuideHelsinki is an architectural hub between East and West. The influence of nearby St Petersburg is just as palpable as that of European neo-classicism of the early nineteenth century. Creativity is a pervasive feature of this Nordic magnet for friends of good design and...
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Tezuka Architects: The Yellow BookBuilding on the wide interest in the popular TED talk, "The Best Kindergarten You've Ever Seen," delivered in 2015 by Japanese architect Takaharu Tezuka (born 1964), Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book is an in-depth, monographic study of the work and design philosophy of Tezuka's...
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Slavutych: Architectural GuideSlavutych, a Ukrainian provincial city north of Kiev, seems in many respects to belong to a different era. Built after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 to replace the contaminated dwellings of workers from the plant, Slavutych is the last "ideal" planned city of...
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The Essence of Light: Centre for International Light Art UnnaA celebration of the Centre for International Light Art's 10-year anniversary, this beautiful catalog presents fascinating photos of the museum's light installations accompanied by explanatory texts and artist biographies. The book details the space's effective presentation of works created specially for the former Lindenbrauerei...
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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in DialogueSigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto,...
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Prefab HousesA prefab is a mass-produced house, constructed in a factory and assembled on-site in a few days or weeks. Once regarded as a cheap, easy solution for urgent housing problems, the prefab has evolved to become a synonym for ambitious design and sophisticated detailing...
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CabinsEver since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade,...
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Arts & Architecture 1945-49From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study...
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PalladioAndrea Palladio (1508-1580) is widely considered the father of Western architecture. Strongly influenced by formal temple designs in Ancient Greece and Rome, he pioneered a revival of Classical symmetry and perspective, and with it created a universal architectural language.From his humble beginning as a...
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Michel-Ange. l'Oeuvre Peint, Sculpté Et Architectural CompletAvant d'atteindre le jeune âge de 30 ans, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) avait déjà sculpté la Pietà et David, deux des oeuvres les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire de l'art. Sculpteur, mais aussi peintre, dessinateur et architecte, les créations de ce maître absolu de la...
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PianoWhile some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form.Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of...
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TurnerL'oeuvre de Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) déclenche une émotion proche d'une acquisition soudaine de la vue. Ses paysages terrestres et marins aux couleurs et lumières enchanteresses brûlent la rétine avec une force fondamentale, élémentaire, comme si le soleil lui-même brillait hors du cadre.Pertinemment...
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