Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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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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Land Administration and Practice in Hong KongAuthor: Roger NissimPublisher: Hong Kong University PressPublished: 06/06/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.24dISBN: 9789888754069About the AuthorNissim, Roger: - Roger Nissim was a surveyor in England before coming to Hong Kong in 1973. From 2007 until 2018, he was an adjunct...
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Manuel Cervantes Estudio and Macías Peredo Arquitectos: Avancer TowerThoroughly avant-garde, thoroughly Mexican: two firms collaborate on a new office buildingThe Avancer Tower, an office building in San Luis Potosí, is a collaboration between two Mexican architectural firms, Manuel Cervantes Estudio and Macías Peredo Arquitectos, each of whom takes differing approaches toward the...
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Plastic: Remaking Our WorldThe complex life of plastic, from global success story to ecological conundrum and beyondPlastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress and even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet...
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Deichman Bjørvika: Oslo Public LibraryThe story of a dazzling new public library in Norway--a triumph of crystalline, sculptural grandeurDeichman Bj rvika, Olso's new public library, was completed and opened in summer 2020 after a lengthy period of planning and construction. Located opposite the city's Opera House and the...
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Systems Upgrade: (Re)Fabricating Tectonic PrototypesThe book submits that a deep study of legacy material artifacts, through the lens of contemporary digital design can constitute a valuable bridge between design history and contemporary creative practice. Systems Upgrade focuses on an investigation into the ways that we may re-describe and...
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Iaac Bits 10 - Learning Cities: Collective Intelligence in Urban DesignThe digital intelligence that is inevitably starting to penetrate every aspect of our previously analogue systems of living, working or social interacting calls for new models of designing our city and opens new territories of experimentation in the processes related to urban design. While...
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Designing Spaces for Children: A Child's Eye ViewMeeting children as equals, on their own level, is not only a question of educational theory. Räume für Kinder shows how architecture and interior design can promote childhood development. Based on historical and current concepts of progressive education, the book sketches design principles for...
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Im Fokus: Herzogin Anna Amalia BibliothekAuthor: Klassik Stiftung WeimarPublisher: Deutscher KunstverlagPublished: 07/31/2022Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 5.91h x 8.98w x 0.63dISBN: 9783422987173Language: German
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Tsk: Selected Works- Provides a comprehensive insight into a wide selection of TSK's stunning works of architecture, design, and innovations in sustainability, including a foreword written by Aaron Betsky (curator and critic) - Presents a vivid and yielding portrayal of TSK's sense of sensitive regional modernism,...
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Imagining Antiquity in Islamic SocietiesA history of Islamic interest in the material past of the ancient world. The tragic destruction of cultural heritage performed by ISIS in Syria and Iraq is often superficially explained as an attempt to stamp out idolatry or as a fundamentalist desire to revive...
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The Lost Treasures of LondonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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