Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Architecture of Stanley D. Anderson, with James Ticknor and William BergmannStanley D. Anderson's standard of architecture has sustained the test of time. His designs for residences, commercial buildings, schools, and Gentlemen's Farms are still praised today for his attention to detail, solid design work, and high-quality standards. This picture book illustrates through historic photos...
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Arquitectura Moderna A-ZWith almost 300 entries, this architectural A to Z offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. Covering modern architecture from the 19th into the 21st century, pioneering architects are each featured with a portrait and a concise...
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NEW YORK Usa: A Captivating Coffee Table Book with Photographic Depiction of Locations (Picture Book)This coffee table book is a fascinating literary creation that depicts the attributes and characteristics of the region through photographic means. Experience a journey through different graphical interpretations and travel through the captivating and interesting parts with this exceptional collection of images. The material...
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China DialoguesSince the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice independently from government run design institutes, a new kind of architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics, has emerged. China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of insightful interviews that the book's author Vladimir Belogolovsky...
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The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and ProfitabilityThe Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helped designers create successful businesses, from branding...
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Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a Social and Ecological UrbanismA plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecologyThe pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build new neighborhoods, we transform old industrial areas and renew the existing city. Right now, the focus lies on energy-neutral...
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Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the WorldDesigning private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The...
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My House Is Better Than Your HouseThe house is commonly used as a vehicle to get at larger architectural debates. Such is the case in this book, with a dialogue between Nader Tehrani and Preston Scott Cohen whose collaboration in academia has often resulted in two very different approaches to...
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Make Yourself at HomeHave you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a tree house? Or how cozy it must be to sleep in an igloo? Have you noticed that some houses are extremely old and were built centuries ago and other houses can...
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The Homes We Build: A World of Houses and HabitatsLearn how humans have built dwellings to suit all kinds of habitats.Adapting themselves to all kinds of landscapes and climates, over the centuries humans have used their architectural ingeniousness to build amazing dwellings: find them here, from houses on stilts and igloos to tree...
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The Luminous GroundChristopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature...
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José Zanine CaldasA handsomely produced survey on Brazilian design polymath Jos Zanine CaldasOne of the most important figures in Brazilian material culture, Jos Zanine Caldas (1919-2001) left behind a diverse legacy in architecture, design and art. His oeuvre includes maquettes built for architecture, industrial and handcrafted...
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Connective Tissues: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001-2016This is not another treatise on the heroic nature of the Jeffersonian imagination. Rather, it offers another reading generated by Joseph Campbell's reluctant hero in The Hero of A Thousand Faces as offered by Jeffrey Hildner in his prescient Epilogue "Labyrinth R.U.N." It is...
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Weak and Diffuse Modernity: The World of Projects at the Beginning of the 21st CenturyIn Weak and Widespread, modernity stands as a contrasting operative practice when compared to that of the 20th century, which was based on finding definitive solutions to old and new problems of industrial society. Today's architecture and urban planning tends to operate through reversible...
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Landscape and ArchitectureThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located twenty miles north of Copenhagen, Denmark, is famous for its enchanting seaside setting, distinctive architecture and welcoming, unpretentious atmosphere. Constructed around a park, the museum occupies the grounds of a nineteenth-century estate, Louisiana, established by a beekeeping...
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Albert FreyL'architecte Albert Frey (1903-1998) a fait vivre l'utopie moderniste dans le désert. Né à Zurich, il a suivi l'enseignement de Le Corbusier en Europe avant d'émigrer aux États-Unis en 1930, convaincu que l'avenir de l'architecture s'y jouait. En visite à Palm Springs, il tombe...
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CalatravaPersonnalité visionnaire, l'Espagnol Santiago Calatrava est un architecte, ingénieur en structure, sculpteur et artiste reconnu dans le monde entier. Célèbre pour ses ponts autant que pour ses bâtiments, il s'est fait connaître par des structures néo-futuristes qui combinent prouesses d'ingénierie et effet visuel spectaculaire.Du...
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Domus 1930sOffering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the "living diary" of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major themes and movements of industrial, interior, product, and structural design with an...
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Landscape as Territory: A Cartographic Design ProjectLandscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age, ' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a 'political technology,...
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The Spirit of Stone: 101 Practical & Creative Stonescaping Ideas for Your GardenNatural stone is the new garden "fashion statement." Stone paths, walls, steps, dry streams (and more) are low maintenance and enhance a homeowner's property like no other landscape feature. The element of stone in a garden has two important qualities: function and beauty. It...
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