Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Simply Scandinavian: Calm, Comfortable and Uncluttered HomesSimply Scandinavian is an inspirational survey of 20 homes ranging from tiny cabins to elegant apartments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark. Scandinavian interior design is admired the world over for its simplicity and understated elegance. Rooms are typically airy, light, and bright. Furnishings...
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Your Creative Work Space: The Sweet Spot Style Guide to Home Office + Studio DecorDesign the ideal home office to fit your space, your personality, your work, and your dreams We are all born with an innate desire to creatively express the essence of who we are. This desire is embedded into our soul, a gift at birth,...
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Strange NetworksAn exquisitely crafted, large format volume featuring new and previously unpublished artwork by legendary architect Thom Mayne, principal of Morphosis Architects. Strange Networks debuts a new body of artwork and studies by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne. Emerging from the same interests that shape...
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Decorative Art 70sPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors...
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Arkansas Made, Volume 1, Volume 1: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950Arkansas Made is the culmination of Historic Arkansas Museum's exhaustive investigations into the history of the state's material culture. Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume survey of cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and other artisans working in communities all...
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Modern RusticRustic isn't what it used to be. Gone are the days when rustic style meant fusty dried flower arrangements, antlers over a stone fireplace, and acres of plaid. At its heart, the modern rustic look celebrates the fabric of a home, from the roof...
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Unless: The Seagram Building Construction EcologyDissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building. In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material,...
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The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged EditionThe profusion of medieval churches in Norfolk provides not only examples of beautiful church architecture, but also records life in their communities and offers an insight into the history of medieval England. The third revised and enlarged edition of The Guide to Norfolk Churches...
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Gio Ponti: Archi-DesignerThe prolific architect, designer and Domus editor reinvented the look of everyday life from the spoon to the cathedralWith more than 100 buildings and scores of design objects to his name, Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti revolutionized postwar architecture and opened up prospects...
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The Wonders of FlorenceThe first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in colored pages shaped into Florence's most celebrated landmarks...
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Empire Style: The Hôtel de Beauharnais in ParisThis monograph dedicated to the most spectacular example of Parisian First Empire interior architecture retraces the history of the building and the lives of its residents. The H tel de Beauharnais, constructed in 1713, gained renown during the Consulate period. In 1803, Josephine Bonaparte...
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Housing and Interior DesignHousing and Interior Design introduces students to foundational principles and skills characteristic to housing and interiors professions. Geared toward high school students and courses, the text addresses both interior and exterior design and introduces students to the phases of the design process. Concepts include...
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The Octagon House: A Home for AllIn the mid-19th Century America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes-as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses-were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has...
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Terrain: Ideas and Inspiration for Decorating the Home and GardenNamed one of the Wall Street Journal's Best Interior-Design Books to Give as Holiday Presents Founded in a historic nursery in southeast Pennsylvania, Terrain is a nationally renowned garden, home, and lifestyle brand with an entirely fresh approach to living with nature. It's an...
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Be in a Treehouse: Design, Construction, Inspiration"With its stunning photos of fanciful houses, Nelson's book will appeal to anyone who ever read Peter Pan or The Swiss Family Robinson. . . . To browse through Nelson's book is to fantasize about life in midair." ―Washington Post, Book World Pete Nelson,...
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Chicago: Architectural GuideA Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to 2025Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched...
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Proportion: In Art & ArchitectureWhat is the difference between ratio and proportion? Do pentagons, hexagons and heptagons really each have their own characters? What is the most beautiful rectangle? Is there a secret to great art? In this beautiful little book, art educator Michael Schneider presents a groundbreaking...
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As You Go ...: The Roads Under Your Feet, Towards the New FutureAssessing the regional implications of China's latest global infrastructure initiativeThis volume presents a long-term research inquiry into the Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure plan launched by the Chinese government in 2013, and examines how it will alter everyday life in local contexts,...
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Hampstead & HighgateHampstead and Highgate boast some of the most exclusive and expensive addresses in London and artists such as John Constable and George Romney used Hampstead as their base. Émigrés such as Lubetkin, Breuer, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy and Goldfinger all left eastern europe for Hampstead and...
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Feine Fassaden: Tektonik Schweizer Stadthäuser- Students at the University of Lucerne explored the range of architectural means of construction and expression of Swiss townhouse façades. This anthology presents a selection of around 80 buildings - Fully illustrated with 101 images and 88 plans / axonometric diagrams Form and...
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