Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Active Building Energy Systems: Operation and ControlThis book provides a comprehensive study on state-of-the-art developments in the control, operation, and market participation of active buildings (ABs). Active buildings can support the broader energy system by intelligent integration of renewable-based energy technologies for heating, cooling, electricity, and transport. This important reference...
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John Ike: 9 Houses/9 StoriesFeaturing beautiful photographs, John Ike: 9 Houses/9 Stories explores the creativity and the craft of nine stunningly singular projects by the renowned architect. A signature shingled house in a New York suburb, a renovated mid-century modern house in San Diego, a glass-and-brick house near...
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Frank Lloyd Wright 2024 Wall CalendarUniverse Publishing is proud to present a partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright 2024 Wall Calendar showcases twelve stunning decorative patterns originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, presented in vibrant new colors. The official Frank Lloyd Wright 2024 Wall...
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Richard Rogers Complete Works Volume 3This book examines the work of the Richard Rogers Partnership from 1994 to 2005, picking up from Volume Two, published in 2001. This third volume of the Complete Works looks at the most recent period of the practice through its dramatic culmination of high...
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Life Cycle AssessmentLife Cycle Assessment addresses the dynamic and dialectic of building and ecology, presenting the key theories and techniques surrounding the use of life cycle assessment data and methods.Architects and construction professionals must assume greater responsibility in helping building owners to understand the implications of...
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Sustainable Timber DesignThis new resource covers the material selection, structural design and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings through: consideration of the nature of wood and the heritage of timber construction, including the importance of forestry and conservation a review of modern techniques to improve...
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Built to Survive Natural DisastersStay safe in the storm! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about surviving natural disasters - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Built to Survive Natural Disasters is...
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Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas CityThis book documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth ethnographic research in Kansas City, Chhaya Kolavalli explores how urban food projects--central to the city's approach to green urbanism--are...
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The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans, and the Painting of the BasilicaFor a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan...
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The Magnificent 92 Indiana Courthouses, Revised EditionDuring the last quarter of the 19th century, architects designed new courthouses all over Indiana and a flurry of construction began. About 60 of Indiana's 92 courthouses were built during this time. The years between 1900 and 1930 produced 23 more. By the 1970s,...
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A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural InterventionEssays on the navigation of new sociospatial relations, from murky digital spaces to contested monumentsFeaturing essays by Helen Hester, Joanne McNeil, Ann Neumann, Nina Power and Jen Schradi, A Section of Now offers a meditation on new behaviors, rituals and values and their spatial...
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Le Corbusier: Album Punjab, 1951Sketches and notes for Chandigarh from Le Corbusier's first reconnaissance trip to IndiaThis facsimile edition of the notebook kept by Le Corbusier (1887-1965) from his two-week stay in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab,...
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Sakralität Im Wandel: Religiöse Bauten Im Stadtraum Des 21. Jahrhunderts in DeutschlandOver the past decades, the religious spaces in German cities have grown in number. Alongside established institutions, new voices are jostling for participation in the engagement with and the coexistence of different religious ideas--and their architectural expression. Using Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious buildings...
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Butterfield's Overland Mail Co. as REPORTED in the Arkansas Newspapers of 1858-1861The newspapers of Arkansas did an amazing job of covering the news around Butterfield's Overland Mail Company. Frequently the newspaper editors would draw their information from their exchange of newspapers across the country to bring to their subscribers the most accurate and comprehensive description...
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Empathy as Function: The Schools by Emil JauchUntil now, Emil Jauch (1911-1962) has been a little-known protagonist of Swiss post-war architecture. Shaped by the Scandinavian Modernity of the 1930s, his buildings are characterized by a remarkable sensitivity. This book demonstrates the Lucerne architect's empathetic design method by presenting his constructed school...
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Next New YorkOver the last 500 years, a range of innovative, responsive, and pragmatic civic actions have helped to generate, define, and maintain New York City's global significance. From early on much of these actions were responses to population density and the accompanying challenges for health...
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The Building of Adare Manor: A Family ChronicleThe Building of Adare Manor tells the story of the trials and triumphs of house building at Adare Manor, County Limerick. Home of the Quin family (later Earls of Dunraven) since the mid-17th century, the building underwent a dramatic transformation. James and George Richard...
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Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in SingaporeA richly illustrated account of the development of Singapore's modern built environment. Everyday Modernism is the first comprehensive documentation of Singapore's modern built environment. Through a lens of social, cultural, and architectural histories, the book uncovers the many untold stories of the Southeast Asian...
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Experiments with Body Agent Architecture: The 586-Year-Old Spiritello in Il Regno DigitaleExplore the human figure as an agent of design through scholarly analysis and fiction narrative. Experiments with Body Agent Architecture proposes the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate, and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture....
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Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re)Defining the FieldA comprehensive introduction for scholars and practitioners to the state of Islamic architecture as a field of inquiry and a snapshot of the issues and challenges facing the field today. This book brings together established experts, designers, and emerging scholars from the broad world...
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