Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Building for DementiaAs the average human lifespan increases, it is increasingly necessary for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people, particularly those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a...
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Open House: Designing Spaces for LivingLooking beyond the popular fascination with trendy tiny houses, this book is a much-needed, substantial contribution to international debates about temporary housing. The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates as much as designing a home and is currently trending in various media. Yet interest in...
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100 Contemporary Brick BuildingsOf all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired brick first made its appearance in about 3500 BC. Since then, the trusty brick has shown amazing resilience...
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Shigeru BanDes abris d'urgence à une cathédrale de carton et des espaces d'exposition dans des conteneurs de transport, l'architecte Shigeru Ban, lauréat du prix Pritzker, s'est fait connaître par sa réactivité et son inépuisable créativité face aux situations et aux matériaux comme par son action...
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Interior Design Review: Volume 18A new volume of the yearly series coined 'the bible of interior design'.Author: Andrew MartinPublisher: Te Neues Publishing CompanyPublished: 10/01/2014Pages: 496Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 8.02lbsSize: 12.92h x 9.39w x 1.90dISBN: 9783832798635This title is only available via back order
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KleeFort de ses théories minutieuses et de milliers de tableaux, dessins et aquarelles, Paul Klee (1879-1940) est considéré comme l'un des chefs de file les plus cérébraux et les plus prolifiques de l'art européen au XXe siècle. Même s'il a souvent créé des petits...
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Hans Döllgast, Karljosef Schattner, Josef Wiedemann: Creative ReconstructionThe Bavarian architect Hans D llgast (1891-1974) was accepted into the international canon of modern architecture quite late, but then remained a part of it all the longer. His most important achievements were his creative restorations of buildings in Munich after World War II,...
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Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati and Written by Markus BreitschmidMore than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols of something outside themselves. Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new architecture. It brings together two...
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And It Came to Pass--Not to StayLyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster FullerFirst published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay brings together a selection...
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Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for 20th-Century IconsDie weltweite Verwendung von Stahl-Glas-Gebäudehüllen ist eine der charakteristischen und bestimmenden Eigenschaften moderner Architektur. Bei vielen dieser Gebäude der Vor- und Nachkriegszeit gibt es Mängel in der Bausubstanz, die Ma nahmen zur Erhaltung der Gebäude notwendig machen. Dabei spielen architektonische, bauphysikalische und den Denkmalschutz...
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Facades: Design, Construction & TechnologyThe fa ade is the "skin" of a house. It forms the boundary between interior and exterior, between form and function, between user and pedestrian. In addition to aspects of function, construction, design and urban space, increasingly sustainability parameters are gaining importance. So fa...
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Breathe: Investigations Into Our Environmentally Entangled FutureAuthor: Klaus LoenhartPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 07/31/2021Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsISBN: 9783035612103About the AuthorKlaus Klaas Loenhart, Professor of Architecture and Landscape, Munich/Graz
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Planning Architecture: Dimensions and TypologiesAuthor: Bert BielefeldPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 10/24/2016Pages: 568Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 5.95lbsSize: 12.10h x 9.30w x 1.80dISBN: 9783035603248About the AuthorBert Bielefeld, Professor für Bauökonomie und Baumanagement, Universität Siegen; Inhaber bertbielefeld&partner, Dortmund.
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Elements in Landscape: Areas, Distances, DimensionsAuthor: Astrid ZimmermannPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 02/01/2020Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsISBN: 9783035618570About the AuthorAstrid Zimmermann, landscape architect and lecturer at various universities in Germany
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Jean Prouvé Architecture: 5 Volume Box Set No. 2Jean Prouv began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouv to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame...
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility GuidelinesAppendix A to Part 1191 - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities This document contains scoping and technical requirements for accessibility to buildings and facilities by individuals with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. These...
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Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of RelativityStarting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi's reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical's research on mass-production civilization to the "infinite territories", proposing new territories...
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Fifty Paintings: Anthony Ames ArchitectThis volume presents fifty paintings (1985-2020) with brief references for each. The paintings--executed in acrylic latex paint on two inch deep wooden panels--refer to or are informed by a particular way of looking at architecture. They are abstract in nature, and representative in subject...
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Olmsted's Elmwood: The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, a Model for America's CitiesThe fascinating story of the historic Elmwood District is told for the first time, from the arrival on the Niagara Frontier of Joseph Ellicott, through the role played by Fredrick Law Olmsted's parks and parkways, and into the decline and renewal during modern era....
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Ellsworth Kelly: AustinThe only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly's most enduring legacyIn January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building with...
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