Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AAAuto-destructive art is a comprehensive theory for action in the field of the plastic arts in the post-second world war period. The action is not limited to theory of art and the production of art works. It includes social action. Auto-destructive art is committed...
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The House of Light and Entropy: Architecture Words 11Formerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American...
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Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to CaliforniaGreta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999) was a prolific designer working within the male-dominated world of mid-century modern design, whose status and influence has been largely ignored. Grossman was the ultimate polymath: an industrial designer, interior designer, and architect working within the fascinating contexts of Scandinavia...
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Architecture and Structuralism: The Ordering of SpaceThe Dutch Architect and writer Herman Hertzberger (born 1932) is internationally recognized for both his built work and his written work. His buildings (such as Centraal Beheer in Apeldoorn, built in 1972) and his publications (such as his widely translated Lessons for Students in...
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Isay Weinfeld: An Architect from BrazilBauhaus Minimalism meets tasteful elegenace.Author: GestaltenPublisher: GestaltenPublished: 04/15/2018Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.65lbsSize: 12.05h x 9.69w x 1.34dISBN: 9783899559316
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BreuerEn 1956, le magazine TIME le nommait parmi les plus grands donneurs de forme du XXe siècle. Aujourd'hui, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) demeure une figure incontournable du modernisme pour les architectes comme pour les designers. Dès le début, le travail de ce pionnier du Bauhaus...
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The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What Is the Power of Shit?From Aqualungs to the Eden Project: a history of closed systemsWhat do outer space capsules, submarines and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system--a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary prohibiting the transfer of matter...
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Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design ScienceThis is an exuberant portrait of R. Buckminster Fuller, the visionary who exhorted us to "think global, act local" and devised the geodesic dome and the concept of Spaceship Earth. -House & GardenIn light of the reawakening interest in R. Buckminster Fuller's works and...
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Architecture and Modelbuilding: Concepts, Methods, MaterialsAuthor: Alexander SchillingPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 11/01/2018Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.90w x 0.70dISBN: 9783035614794About the AuthorAlexander Schilling, Dipl.-Ing., Architekt und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Gebäudelehre an der Uni Karlsruhe.
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Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret: Chandigarh, IndiaThis beautiful, comprehensive volume documents Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's massive Chandigarh project--the buildings and the furniture (today considered masterpieces of twentieth-century architecture and design), the plans, sketches and maquettes as well as reproducing both archival and contemporary photographs. In 1947, shortly after India...
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Hamptons GardensThe Hamptons are known as a glamorous playground of the rich and famous, but since its earliest days as a sleepy summer colony, the area has also been at the epicenter of American garden design, boasting a vast collection of lushly innovative, private landscapes-and...
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Axel Vervoordt: Stories and ReflectionsEminent tastemaker Axel Vervoordt recounts the pivotal moments in his life that formed the foundation of his mindful philosophy and signature aesthetic.Axel Vervoordt is one of the world's foremost tastemakers. Revered for his discerning eye in art and interior design through a career that...
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Midwest Architecture Journeys"The Midwest finally gets its due through essays penned by architects and critics, who shine a much-deserved spotlight on the region's architecture, from its celebrated landmarks to its lesser-known projects." Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright may be the Midwest's (and the nation's) most...
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France SketchbooksFor centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of France: its cities and countryside, streets and cafes, ancient ruins, vineyards,...
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Preserving Old Barns: Preventing the Loss of a Valuable ResourcePreserving Old Barns is a wonderful resource for barn owners to assess, care for, and celebrate their special structures. This illustrated, full color second edition features over two hundred pictures, one hundred pages of new information from author John Porter, and barn preservation techniques...
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The Solar House: Passive Solar Heating and CoolingPassive solar heating and passive cooling--approaches known as natural conditioning--provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand...
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New York Subway Architecture & Design Map: Guide Map to the Architecture, Art and Design of the New York SubwayDiscover more than 100 years of the finest architectural and visual elements of the New York City subway with this two-sided cartographic guide. Edited by Sandra Bloodworth and Linda Tonn, with original photography by Jason Woods, this guide leads you to iconic, influential and...
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Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your CommunityContrary to accepted wisdom, rapid urban growth can leave communities permanently scarred, deeply in debt, with unaffordable housing, a lost sense of community, and sacrificed environmental quality.In Better NOT Bigger, Fodor explodes the fundamental myth that growth is good for us and that more...
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True To The Earth: Pagan Political TheologyMuch more than traditions and customs are lost when an animist culture is suppressed or destroyed. Into the abyss of forgetting goes also an entire way of seeing humans, animals, gods, and the rest of nature, as well as the relationships these things constantly...
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Our Minnesota State Capitol: From Groundbreaking Through RestorationThe Minnesota State Capitol is both an architectural masterpiece and a revered public building. This beautiful Renaissance Revival structure is the heart of the state's civic life, a place for celebrations, demonstrations, arguments, and accomplishments. It's where history happens.Completed in 1905, the capitol is...
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