Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-Tonks, and Dance HallsFrom backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs. Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south...
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The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania: Architecture & Preservation, Built 1750-1900For anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this is the story of that barn and many others in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, the hearth, the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One...
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A Graveyard Preservation Primer, Second EditionA Graveyard Preservation Primer has proven itself to be a time-tested resource for those who are seeking information regarding the protection and preservation of historic graveyards. It was first written to help stewards of early burial grounds responsibly and effectively preserve their graveyards. Much...
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Hygge: The Danish Art of HappinessBring Hygge into your home this year with this beautiful and essential guide to the globally celebrated Danish art of happiness 'At these times it is crucial for me to have hygge. Hygge time with family and friends, hygge moments with myself and a...
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Le Corbusier Le GrandA spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier - one of the twentieth century's most influential architectsA decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life...
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Snøhetta: Collective IntuitionThe first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working todayWith offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Sn hetta's architecture, landscape, interior, and branding design projects are created across political boundaries,...
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The Future of Architecture Since 1889: A Worldwide HistoryThe highly acclaimed history of the architecture of the twentieth century and beyond - now in paperbackJean-Louis Cohen, one of the world's leading architectural historians, serves up a compelling account of the developments that have shaped the world in which we live today. This...
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Sou FujimotoThe first comprehensive monograph on Japan's most creative, experimental and visionary architect, Sou FujimotoOccasionally an architect emerges whose vision is so fresh that it causes us to reconsider the very nature of architecture. Sou Fujimoto is one of those architects. Guided by instinct and...
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30:30 Landscape ArchitectureIn 30:30 Landscape Architecture, 30 of the most renowned landscape architects explore the work of the 30 of the world's top emerging architects with more than 500 illustrations.This book captures the essence of how the world is designed around us. A global and influential...
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Toyo ItoToyo Ito (b. 1941) is one of the most important Japanese architects working today, and has grown to be one of the most influential in the world. He is famous for ambitious and stunning projects such as the Sendai Mediatheque, TOD'S Omotesando, Tama Art...
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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist HistoryThe story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly...
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the PresentA sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start...
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Borromini (Revised)Francesco Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial effects. Here is the first book in English to survey the whole work of the master. The author, former Director of theAuthor: Anthony...
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Sylvia's Book SmugglerAfter a traumatic break up with her boyfriend in Chicago, Sylvia is persuaded to go on a trip to Lithuania, the land of her ancestors. She doesn't expect to find new friends who take her to some of the most beautiful places in the...
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Where Is the Parthenon?Discover the ruins of the Parthenon, one of the most famous and beautiful places in the world Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people...
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The Civil War: a Comprehensive TextbookAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 to 1860 was fueled by an influx of immigrants into the North and Northcentral, and the 800,000 immigrants into the North between 1861-65...
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Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural ProcessHow were the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects carried out in practice? Each major phase of the building process is considered in the building histories of the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, and the great temples at Baalbek. New hypotheses...
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The Tile Book: History, Pattern, DesignThis striking book gathers together an extensive collection of ceramic tiles from around the world and explores their rich history, purpose, and decorative qualities. For centuries, tiles have been used for both functional and aesthetic purposes on the fac, ades and interiors of buildings....
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The Minbar of Saladin: Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic ArtThe minbar of Saladin, an intricately designed wooden pulpit, was one of the masterpieces of Islamic art. Made in the 12th century, on Saladins conquest of Jerusalem, it was placed in the al-Aqsa Mosque, where it remained for almost 800 years. Then, in 1969,...
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The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the PresentFeaturing one hundred of the most spectacular interiors across the world, this richly illustrated overview spans the entire twentieth century to the present day and includes interiors assembled by leading artists, fashion designers, architects, and interior and set designers. Bringing together diverse design talents,...
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