Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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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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Jardin Médiéval Et BiodiversitéFrench Text Reconstructing a medieval garden is part of the concerns of the modern man conscious of biodiversity, the environment and the balance of nature. Plant biodiversity is not confined to the maintenance of species currently cultivated, it consists of reintroducing plants formerly grown...
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Identite, Filiation Et Parente Dans Les Romans Du Graal En ProseAuthor: Claire SerpPublisher: Brepols PublishersPublished: 06/15/2015Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsISBN: 9782503554945Language: FrenchThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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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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On MagicPublished only posthumously, Giordano Bruno's essays collected here present a window into late 16th century thinking about natural philosophy as an emerging discipline that would eventually give rise to the Scientific Revolution. Bruno is currently most well known for his cosmological theories, theological heresies,...
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The House on the Borderland (Heathen Edition)William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author best known for The Night Land (1912) and, this, his second novel, The House on the Borderland. Noted by H. P. Lovecraft as "a classic of the first water," it is considered a literary milestone that...
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The MacKinnon's BrideFrom a New York Times Bestselling Author, The MacKinnon's Bride brings us love, honor, suspense, passion--all the good things we love in a Highlander Romance. When laird Iain MacKinnon's young son is captured by the English, the fierce Scottish chieftain retaliates in kind, capturing...
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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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The Phantom of the OperaUnabridged English value reproduction of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This wonderfully spellbinding drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate in different ways reading after reading. Is the Phantom real? Does he deserve pity? Can he be loved?...
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Viking and Slavic Ornamental Designs: Volume 3This volume is based on three pillars - photos, new publications and the Internet. The author has constructed Volume III of the Viking and Slavic Ornamental Design with a new set of 266 or so ancient designs. There In recent years, mass culture has...
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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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Medieval Canon LawCanon law is an unavoidable theme for medieval historians. It intersects with every aspect of medieval life and society, and at one point or another, every medievalist works on the law. In this book, Kriston Rennie looks at the early medieval origins and development...
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Medieval Imagery in Today's PoliticsThe election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of old Europe and tradition to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return...
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