Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean WorldA major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November...
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The Opera HouseOn a sacred site on the land of the Gadigal people, Tubowgule, a placeof gathering and storytelling for over 60,000 years, now sits the SydneyOpera House. It is a breathtaking building recognised around the worldas a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj...
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Baltimore Then and Now(r)Archival photographs of Baltimore from the 19th and 20th centuries have been matched with specially commissioned colour photos to reveal the past and present of this fascinating and historic city. Baltimore Then and Now chronicles changes across the city since the dawn of the...
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The Feeling of Things by Adam CarusoKey writings by a principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. JohnA principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. John, Gritty Brit Adam Caruso has been writing intensively since the mid-1990s. His essays, published in The Architect's Journal, OASE, Blueprint and Tate,...
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Our Voices: Indigeneity and ArchitectureOur Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors from Aotearoa NZ, Canada, Australia, and the USA explore the making and keeping of places and spaces...
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Native Places: Drawing as a Way to SeeNative Places is a collection of 64 watercolor sketches paired with mini-essays about architecture, landscape, everyday objects, and nature. The sketches relate the delight found in ordinary places. The short essays, rather than repeat what is visible in the sketch, illustrate ideas and thoughts...
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Pale & Interesting: Decorating with Whites, Pastels and Neutrals for a Warm and Welcoming HomeIn Pale & Interesting, stylist Atlanta Bartlett and designer Dave Coote reveal their passion for decorating with a muted palette of subtle shades, resulting in a stylish yet comfortable home. In Pale & Interesting, stylist Atlanta Bartlett and designer Dave Coote reveal their passion...
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Small HousesIn this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their...
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent KidsNothing short of spectacular . . . A secret guidebook to a landscape in which we all dwell, but so often fail to see. --Tom Vanderbilt, bestselling author of TrafficFrom building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical...
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Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United StatesThe year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state preservation offices and local commissions,...
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Midcentury Houses TodayThis is the story of American modernism that has not been told in full before. Midcentury Modern Houses takes on the unparalled concentration of residential modernism in New Canaan, Connecticut, and demonstrates how the houses are experienced and lived in today.Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel...
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Hotel to Home: Industrial Interiors Inspired by the World's Most Original HotelsStylish hotels are super places to seek ideas for interior design in the home. The influence of the industrial aesthetic in particular can be found in numerous hotels worldwide, from former factories to warehouse conversions. This book explores how to draw modern and vintage...
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Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie SpacesMichigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. What Purple Gang member still hangs out in Clare? What spirits lurk at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village?This book is the perfect glove compartment companion for exploring those paranormal parts of the...
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A+u 22:10, 625: Feature: Charles Rennie Mackintosha+u's October issue features the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born in 1868, in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow grew rapidly into a modern industrialized city in the latter half of the 1800s. With this urban development came a generation of students from Glasgow School of...
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Early-20th-Century Los Angeles Bungalow ArchitectureLos Angeles, California, shaped the nation's culture in the 20th century with the city's bungalow style of mass middle-class housing. The style made the novelty and easy climate of Los Angeles into a force for living according to new standards of health and well-being,...
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The French Country HouseNow in paperback, this book is a gorgeous celebration of warm, intimate and quintessentially French country retreats. Epitomizing what the French call l'art de vivre (the art of good living), The French Country House is a breathtaking invitation to share the charm of these...
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Palm Springs: A Modernist ParadisePaying homage to the seminal mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, this luxurious book showcases historic jet-set homes designed by legendary talents such as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and Paul Williams, as well as private residences by today's leading tastemakers.Since Gary Cooper built one...
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The Authentics: A Lush Dive Into the Substance of StyleFrom renowned photographer Melanie Acevedo and founding editor of domino magazine Dara Caponigro, comes a lush dive into the private worlds and gorgeous homes of creative trailblazers in art, design, and fashion around the world. The Authentics is a deep exploration into the substance...
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In Miami in the 1980s: The Vanishing Architecture of a "Paradise Lost"A loving excavation of Miami's colorful but neglected architectural style of the 1980sThis publication celebrates a lost vision of Miami: the architectural golden age it enjoyed in the 1980s, when the subtropical city experienced a profound synergy between art and architecture. In these years,...
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Temples and Towns: The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned TownsThis book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the...
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