Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Urban Design Lab Handbook: Dialogue-Oriented Urban Transformation Processes and Practical Approaches from Latin America and the CaribbeanAfter North America, the second-most urbanized region in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean, 78% of whose population lives in cities. The result of five years of recent research by Vienna's Urban Design Lab, this handbook contextualizes emergent planning issues at hand...
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Albert FreyArchitect Albert Frey (1903-1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving to the United States in 1930, convinced it was the land of architectural opportunity. On a visit to Palm Springs, he...
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ProuvéFrench-born Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was the 20th century's leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. As a designer, he captured the midcentury spirit of innovation, expansion, and growth, developing techniques...
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Álvaro Siza: Bouça: Residents' Association Housing, Porto 1972-77, 2005-06, O'Nfm Vol.1From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect lvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bou a Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he...
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Tragsysteme/Structure SystemsBack in print--the standard work on Heino Engel's structure systems. The hundreds of drawings and photographs reproduced in this hardback volume offer almost endless variations on the many structural systems that can keep buildings together: within a few pages of one another, tents, domes...
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Infinite Span: 90 Years of Brazilian ArchitectureIn architecture, a span is something to be conquered, a challenge to be overcome. But span, or v o in Portuguese, also means a project or an action that ends in failure: something that was done in vain. In Brazil, modernization was touted as...
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Le Corbusier: Architect of Books 1912-1965Meet Le Corbusier--book designer. Coined the "Architect of the Twentieth Century," Le Corbusier's buildings have long been a part of the canon of modern architecture. He was a challenging figure who mainly designed based on his "five points of new architecture," in order to...
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Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture Between Metrics and NarrativesArchitecture accounts for one third of global carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste. Buildings are increasingly understood to impact broader ecologies. Yet embodied energy - the various forms of energy required to extract raw matter, to produce and transport building materials and to assemble...
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Domestic Thresholds: Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos: Bewohnte ZwischenräumeThis volume shows the diverse ways in which Emiliano L pez and M nica Rivera, a young architectural couple from Barcelona, have addressed the question of optimum space utilization. It includes a series of photographs that the couple took while traveling, presented alongside their...
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Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological DesignBasics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects. It explores the concepts and themes important to the contemporary practice of ecological design and planning in a highly accessible and richly illustrated format. Focusing primarily on...
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Trianon and the Queen's Hamlet at Versailles: A Private Royal RetreatExceptional new photography brings readers behind the scenes of the Trianons and Marie Antoinette's Hamlet at Versailles--including areas usually closed to the public. Life in the Château de Versailles was dense with pomp and circumstance, and the royals often craved a quiet moment with...
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A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume II: System Dynamics Modeling and Dynamic Scenario PlanningThis two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food...
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Unboxing New YorkUnboxing New York is a collaborative testimony to the realities architecture faces in the evolving landscape of New York City. In a collection of 50 short texts, richly illustrated with detailed diagrams and photo essays, ODA weaves together the stories, inspirations, and methodologies it...
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The Diary of a Dude WranglerThe dude ranch world of Struthers Burt was a romantic destination in the early twentieth century. They transported people back to the Wild West. These ranches were and still are popular destinations.The historic Bar BC Ranch is located on the Snake River in Grand...
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Working Water: Reinventing the Storm DrainWorking Water demonstrates better approaches of managing urban water resources in ways that support more efficient water use, clean urban runoff, support natural systems, and enhance the vitality and livability of our cities. Exploring the potentials of urban water resources is an important part...
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Our Voices II: The De-Colonial ProjectOur Voices II: the DE-Colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities...
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Ways of Knowing CitiesTechnology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today, the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of projects to grasp and reshape urban life. Ways of Knowing Cities considers the...
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Inspired by PlaceThe philosophy of CLB, Inspired by Place, permeates all the firm's design work, from public projects to bespoke homes. Their portfolio projects -- timeless, thoughtful, distinct, and beautiful -- are examples of how to tread softly on the land in some of the world's...
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Neil Denari: The Baumer LecturesNeil M. Denari / NMDA: The Baumer Lectures contains transcribed conversations that were part of Neil M. Denari's appointment as 2015-16 Baumer Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University and provide a close look at a few recent projects: the Sotoak Extension, the New...
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The Generic SublimeSkyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, high-rise housing, mixed-use developments, luxury condominiums, airport hubs, suburban office enclaves, industrial and technology parks, hotel complexes and resorts, conference and financial centers, entertainment venues, gated communities, theme parks, branded cities, new central districts, and satellite cities: extra-large architectural typologies...
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