Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Keto Instant Pot Cookbook: 600+ Healthy low carb and Delicious Recipes -1000Day meal plan- Lose up to 30 pounds in 4 weeks And 10 TipWould you like to feel young, healthy, attractive and sexy? Would you want to lose weight in a short time with no risk to your health, but continuing enjoying delicious food? Then keep reading... If you've been on any diet before, then you understand...
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The Making of Paris: The Story of How Paris Evolved from a Fishing Village Into the World's Most Beautiful CityParis has long been the world's most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world's most beautiful city - the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The Making of Paris is the story of how Paris evolved from...
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The Pyramids (New and Revised): The Archaeology and History of Egypt's Iconic MonumentsAn authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypt's and Sudan's pyramids, their historical and political significance, updated in a magnificent new edition A pyramid, as the posthumous residence of a king and the place of his eternal cult, was...
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Where Is Chichen Itza?Discover more about the amazing Maya by visiting the city of Chichen Itza. Although it's known more as an important tourist attraction today, the city of Chichen Itza was a powerful religious, political, scientific, and artistic center of the Maya people. Readers will learn...
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Biophilia: A Handbook for Bringing the Natural World Into Your LifeA natural design for living well. American psychologist Edward O. Wilson popularised the term Biophilia - meaning a love of nature and a need to connect to the natural world - in the 1980s, after observing how increasing rates of urbanization were leading to...
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Cool Is Everywhere: New and Adaptive Design Across AmericaEqual parts design inspiration and travelogue, this book highlights the rapidly growing adaptive reuse movement Cool Is Everywhere is a photographic survey of the adaptive reuse design movement in America's coolest cities. Michel Arnaud has been studying the spread of urban life into smaller...
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Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be ViewedKind Of is a book presenting the work of Paul Preissner in a form of manifesto looking at the loose and varied origins of ideas that make room for intuition, blandness and confusion resulting in work which takes on a different type of politics:...
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Floppy Logic: Experimenting in the Territory Between Architecture, Fashion and TextileFloppy Logic is an exploration into the 'architecture' of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to design and fabricate objects and space differently. A key concept here is the Floppy, defined...
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As Found Houses: Experiments from Self-Builders in Rural ChinaIn rural China, an informal wave of building jump-started by economic and social transformations over the past 40 years has rendered some villages unrecognizable. The resulting building boom, taking place in a context with very few regulations, has created densities more often found in...
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The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers SeriesHow will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trainsWith the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation...
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AA Women in Architecture: 1917-2017October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, AA Women in Architecture puts forward the stories of women who have...
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Adaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of LivingAdaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of Living examines computational frameworks that explore a time-based poly-scalar urbanism. The publication includes essays by Mark Burry, Brett Steele, John Frazer, John Henry Holland, Makoto Sei Watanabe, Patrick Schumacher, and David Ruy. Architecture finds itself having to cope with...
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Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold WarAn examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle...
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An Architect's Guide to Construction-Second Edition: Enduring Ways in the Age of ImmediacyReviewed by Sheri Hoyte for Reader Views (03/2020) "An Architect's Guide to Construction - Second Edition: Enduring Ways in the Age of Immediacy" is a practical guide for architects, written by author and architect, Brian Palmquist, who has over forty years of experience, and...
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Active Landscape Photography: Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape ArchitecturePhotographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks the complex relationship between landscape architecture and photography. It explores the influence of photographic...
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Picture Book of Stars: For Seniors with Dementia, Memory Loss, or Confusion (No Text)Picture Book of Stars: For Seniors with Dementia, Memory Loss, or Confusion (No Text) This calming picture book is designed to offer self-empowerment, hope, and dignity to people with dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or those rehabilitating after a stroke. It has 40 high quality, colorful...
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Dialogues in Space: Wendell Burnette Architects: Boxed Limited EditionDialogues in Space: Process and Ideas in the Work of Wendell Burnette Architects is the first multi-project monograph on this American architect's selective body of work. The title alludes to the architect's view that architecture is a constructed conversation between people, things, and time....
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From Pentelicon to the Parthenon: The Ancient Quarries and the Story of a Half-Worked Column Capital of the First Marble ParthenonThis book comprises two parts: the first presents, in the form of 22 full-page drawings, the story of a doric column capital (weighing some 12 tonnes) and of the men who hewed it from the quarry and transported it to the Acropolis. The second...
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Flourishing Foodscapes: Design for City-Region Food SystemsThe idea of the foodscape refers to the social and spatial organization of networks and food supply systems, taking into account the physical places and practices of food production, processing, distribution, sales, preparation and consumption.In an age when issues of food scarcity, unequal food...
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Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary WorldThe interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with...
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