Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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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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At Home in New England: Royal Barry Wills Architects, 1925 to PresentThe now venerable firm of Royal Barry Wills was founded in a one-room office on Boston's Beacon Street in 1925. Initially fueled by word of mouth and occasional newspaper exposure, the firm gained admiration for Wills's fresh take on various New England styles, including...
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National Geographic Kids Everything CastlesYoung readers will be spellbound by this story of fierce battles, dark dungeons, secret passageways, and medieval characters, made all the more vivid by true tales from experts in the field. Fun facts and photos, including reenactment shots, illuminate the lives of the inhabitants...
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The House at Capo d'OrsoRocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family's life and art, suspended in memory. How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a practice of living? Architect Sebastiano Brandolini invites readers on...
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My Adventures Building a Straw Bale House: A Home of My Own"My Adventures Building a Straw Bale House," culminates a life long interest and study of alternative housing construction methods and materials, specifically straw bale material.Each phase of construction is included within these pages. From breaking ground to final paint Edna tells the reader how...
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