Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Adaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of LivingAdaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of Living examines computational frameworks that explore a time-based poly-scalar urbanism. The publication includes essays by Mark Burry, Brett Steele, John Frazer, John Henry Holland, Makoto Sei Watanabe, Patrick Schumacher, and David Ruy. Architecture finds itself having to cope with...
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Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold WarAn examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle...
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An Architect's Guide to Construction-Second Edition: Enduring Ways in the Age of ImmediacyReviewed by Sheri Hoyte for Reader Views (03/2020) "An Architect's Guide to Construction - Second Edition: Enduring Ways in the Age of Immediacy" is a practical guide for architects, written by author and architect, Brian Palmquist, who has over forty years of experience, and...
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Active Landscape Photography: Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape ArchitecturePhotographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks the complex relationship between landscape architecture and photography. It explores the influence of photographic...
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Picture Book of Stars: For Seniors with Dementia, Memory Loss, or Confusion (No Text)Picture Book of Stars: For Seniors with Dementia, Memory Loss, or Confusion (No Text) This calming picture book is designed to offer self-empowerment, hope, and dignity to people with dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or those rehabilitating after a stroke. It has 40 high quality, colorful...
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Dialogues in Space: Wendell Burnette Architects: Boxed Limited EditionDialogues in Space: Process and Ideas in the Work of Wendell Burnette Architects is the first multi-project monograph on this American architect's selective body of work. The title alludes to the architect's view that architecture is a constructed conversation between people, things, and time....
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From Pentelicon to the Parthenon: The Ancient Quarries and the Story of a Half-Worked Column Capital of the First Marble ParthenonThis book comprises two parts: the first presents, in the form of 22 full-page drawings, the story of a doric column capital (weighing some 12 tonnes) and of the men who hewed it from the quarry and transported it to the Acropolis. The second...
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Flourishing Foodscapes: Design for City-Region Food SystemsThe idea of the foodscape refers to the social and spatial organization of networks and food supply systems, taking into account the physical places and practices of food production, processing, distribution, sales, preparation and consumption.In an age when issues of food scarcity, unequal food...
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Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary WorldThe interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with...
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The New Papyrological PrimerThe New Papyrological Primer is a fully revised and expanded edition of David and Groningen's 1964 standard introduction to Greek papyrological texts. The current edition contains 81 Greek texts, arranged in a chronological order, which illustrate various aspects of life in Hellenistic, Roman and...
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The Disintegration of Natural Law Theory: Aquinas to FinnisThis book focusses on conceptual shifts in the successive formulations of natural law theory by Aquinas, Suárez, Grotius, Pufendorf, and Finnis, and reveals the accumulation of problems, inherent in natural law and theory, which ultimately led to its demise.Author: WestermanPublisher: BrillPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 328Binding Type:...
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Villa Adriana Architettura Celeste: I Segreti Dei SolstiziThis is a book that all students of Hadrian's Villa will want to read and ponder. It may well open a fresh approach to understanding the layout and design of other areas of the Hadrian's Villa, especially as computer technology makes it easier to...
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Eat and Stay: Restaurant Graphics & InteriorsAfter our successful Eat and Go book, centered on the branding of takeaways, our new title Eat and Stay showcases more than 120 outstanding international branding and interior design solutions for restaurants, bars, cafes, and food shops.Author: Wang ShaoqiangPublisher: PromopressPublished: 04/05/2016Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Juan O'Gorman: Casa O'Gorman 1929Mexican architect and painter Juan O'Gorman (1905-82) had a spectacular debut as an architect, designing his own house at the age of 24. On the strength of this building, Diego Rivera commissioned O'Gorman to design a pair of studio-houses for himself and Frida Kahlo...
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Computational Design- Computational Design offers an informed overview of the impact of computational techniques on architectural design today, providing a snapshot of the latest developments in the field, drawing upon the leading experts in architectural practice and education from across the world - Publication accompanies...
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Dem Himmel Nahe: 750 Jahre Kloster Neuzelle 1268-2018Schon bei seiner Grundung war das Zisterzienserkloster Neuzelle in der Niederlausitz dem Himmel nahe, wurde es doch nicht wie sonst ublich in einer Niederung, sondern auf einem Bergsporn angelegt. Mit uber 150 Veranstaltungen und Konzerten feiert das Kloster 2018 sein 750-jahriges Bestehen. Einer der...
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Sep Ruf, Kanzlerbungalow, BonnThe German Chancellor's former residential and reception building in Bonn, better known as the >KanzlerbungalowAuthor: Andreas Schatzke, Joaquin Medina WarmburgPublisher: Axel MengesPublished: 08/01/2009Pages: 47Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 11.80h x 11.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9783932565724This title is only available via back order
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Scenography/Szenografie: Making Spaces Talk/Narrative Raume: Projects/Projekte 2002-2010A pioneer of scenography its project and methods. Current trends in museum and exhibition design. More than 825 photos, graphics and plans. Scenography: Atelier Brckner 2002-2010: Make Spaces Talk is the handbook on scenography edited by a pioneer of scenography. Guided by its philosophy...
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Small Homes, Grand Living: Interior Design for Compact SpacesDiminutive rooms, grand possibilities. Small Homes, Grand Living shows how to make use of a limited space and turn a small apartment into a design marvel. Small Homes, Grand Living's assortment of projects and homes pays homage to the iconic innovation within modest living...
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Inside Utopia: Visionary Interiors and Futuristic HomesRadical. Visionary. Poetic. Inside Utopia shows the future of living that architects and designers have envisioned. Spectacular and reflective, unpretentious and efficient: the breathtaking Elrod House by John Lautner; the Lagerfeld Apartment near Cannes that seems like a set from a science fiction film;...
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