Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Modern Chair: Classic Designs by Thonet, Breuer, Le Corbusier, Eames and OthersIn this profusely illustrated study, a noted furniture designer brings together more than 40 examples of chairs that combine practicality and elegance to transcend the confines of period and fashion. Featured are such modern classics as Thonet's Bentwood armchair, Breuer's Wassily chair, van der...
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Gothic Architecture: 158 Plates from the Brandons' Treatise, 1847This comprehensive study of Gothic architecture traces the distinctively beautiful elements of Gothic style through the medieval churches of Europe. Gathered from a rare two-volume Victorian classic, over 700 meticulously rendered details and illustrations display every intricate aspect of Western culture's most magnificent ecclesiastical...
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100 Turn-Of-The-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor PlansWhen Brickbuilder, an early 20th-century trade publication, sponsored a major nationwide competition for bungalow designs, over 600 drawings were submitted by architects and draftsmen from around the country. This book, reprinted from a rare catalog published in 1912, contains the 100 winning entries from...
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Craftsman Homes296 architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs illustrate 40 different kinds of Mission-style homes from The Craftsman (1901-16), voice of American style of simplicity and organic harmony. Thorough coverage of Craftsman idea in text and picture, now collector's item.Author: Gustav StickleyPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 03/01/1979Pages:...
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The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture"This books introduces landscape architecture students to professional practice topics and serves as a sourcebook for emerging professionals looking to start and manage their own firms. It covers topics such as financial management, office administration, and legal regulations, as well as new information on...
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City on a Grid: How New York Became New YorkWinner of the 2015 New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate ManhattanYou either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story.Praise for City on a Grid"The...
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Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar LandscapeThe first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the post-World War II American landscape Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States,...
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Architecture DependsPolemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends--on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book,...
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of ElsewhereOn the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place...
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The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault ErectionJohn Fitchen systematically treats the process of erecting the great edifices of the Gothic era. He explains the building equipment and falsework needed, the actual operations undertaken, and the sequence of these operations as specifically as they can be deduced today. Since there are...
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Structural Engineering FormulasPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.PRACTICAL, PORTABLE, AND PACKED WITH UP-TO-DATE STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORMULASThoroughly revised with more than 300 new formulas, this compact...
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Oase 111: Staging the MuseumHow museums facilitate their visitor experiences through programming and interior designThis issue of OASE examines how museums not only facilitate but also manipulate encounters between visitors, objects and stories through the staging of their own tours and activities, as well as the intentional design...
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Out of Architecture: The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional PracticeOut of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education, and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills, passions, and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways.Written by design professionals and expert career...
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Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271-1368Comprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools like rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately....
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Amazing LibrariesIn this book, early fluent readers will learn about the technology behind the world's coolest libraries, covering how they are planned, designed, and constructed by architects and engineers. Crisp, fullcolor photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more. An...
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Building Between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Lands: Construction Processes and Transmission of Knowledge from Late Antiquity to Early IslamThis book explores the construction processes and the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge between the eastern and western Mediterranean lands from the late Roman period to the early centuries of Islam.Author: Piero GilentoPublisher: BrillPublished: 10/19/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004516793This title is not returnableThis title...
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn- Brand new guide to the world's oldest theater site in continuous use - Published to mark the reopening of the theater following the major renovation project which has restored the theater's Georgian glory - Tells the rich history of this great London theater...
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What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest Through Workplace EthnographiesPresenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments.The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and...
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2g: Smiljan Radic: HousesFourteen exquisite innovations in domestic architecture from the acclaimed Chilean virtuosoThe work of Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) has found international acclaim following his superb 2014 Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London. This 2G issue features a selection of the houses built by Radic...
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American CityThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough--ravaged in the 1970s and '80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists--Jill Jonnes returns...
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