Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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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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Delicious Places: New Food Culture, Restaurants and InteriorsContemporary food goes way beyond avocado and quinoa salads. Delicious Places presents the new wave of caf s, restaurants and entrepreneurs that are writing a fresh chapter on culinary culture. Food culture has come a long way. New restaurants, bars and caf s are...
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Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit"This inspiring 288-page volume from Metropolis Books captures the convivial atmosphere the authors found at Detroit's Lafayette Park, a housing development designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ... an intriguing glimpse of how personal style rarely conforms to strict Modernism. -Helena Grdadolnik Azure...
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Stone Craftsmanship: Conservation and PossibilitiesOver a hundred stone craftsmen have worked for over three years on the Humayun's Tomb conservation project. They have used the same tools and techniques that would have been used by craftsmen who built the Tomb in the 16th century. Though sandstone craft skills...
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The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated EditionOne of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free...
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Modernist Detroit MapDiscover Detroit's celebrated Modernist architecture with this two-sided map and guide. Buildings by Albert Kahn Associates, the Saarinens, Stonorov, Yamasaki, Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, Birkerts, Kessler, Johnson and others are featured on this map, edited by Michael Abrahamson and with original photography by Jason...
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Brussels Art Nouveau: Architecture & DesignThis volume offers a detailed look at the city that could rightly claim to have been the capital of Art Nouveau-Brussels. The first comprehensive overview to the Art Nouveau experience in the city, it presents close looks at key buildings in eleven different parts...
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Fresno's Wilson Island and Rosanna Cooper Wilson, the Woman Behind ItThe story of Fresno's Wilson Island begins with its creator, Rosanna Cooper Wilson. She is an example of the often-forgotten role of women in the early development of California's Central San Joaquin Valley. A descendant of Alta California land grant families, Rosanna was a...
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History and Class ConsciousnessHistory and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewu tsein: Studien ber marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher Gy rgy Luk cs, in which Luk cs re-emphasizes Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's influence on Karl Marx, analyses the...
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The Decoration of HousesIndividuality in house-furnishing has seldom been more harped upon than at the present time. The cheap originality which finds expression in putting things to uses for which they were not intended is often confounded with individuality; whereas the latter consists not in an attempt...
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Build It! Things That Float: Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite Lego(r) PartsSpeedboat, kayak, super yacht...what will you build today? From the popular Build It series of 16 visually rich instruction books for LEGO(R) creations, this book highlights sailboats, sports boats, canoes and kayaks, fancy yachts--even Jet Skis--all things that float on water. Customized for children...
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Build It! Volume 3: Make Supercool Models with Your Lego(r) Classic SetWith simple, step-by-step directions and a visually rich design, the Build It! unique series of instruction books for LEGO(R) creations helps young children learn and have fun simultaneously.Inside Volume 3 you'll find a range of creative models to put together--from neighborhood scenes to exotic...
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