Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Illustrated Dictionary of Historic ArchitectureIn this volume, noted Columbia University Professor of Architecture Cyril M. Harris offers a unique tour through the entire history of architecture: an extraordinary compendium of clear, concise definitions for over 5,000 important terms. This thoroughly accurate and comprehensive gathering of architectural knowledge is...
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From Bauhaus to Our HouseAfter critiquing--and infuriating--the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects...
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Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in ChicagoHow did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront--its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as...
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Building Toys: An Architect's CollectionThe book Building Toys: An Architect's Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author's collection, from the mid-1800s to the present, from the U.S. and abroad. Each toy has an immersive two-page spread celebrating its unique features with photos of packaging graphics,...
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Decorate Happy: Bold, Colorful InteriorsThe first solo book by celebrated interior designer Anthony Baratta, Decorate Happy showcases Baratta's preppy-chic style in a pattern-filled guide to decorating with verve and style. Anthony Baratta's rooms are happy. Whether they are found in the country or the city, these maximalist rooms...
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Some Reasons for Traveling to ItalyAn idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author's own witty illustrations. In Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy, architect Peter Wilson offers a Grand Tour of Grand Tours, providing an idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of...
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Miracles in Concrete: Structural Engineer August KomendantThe first comprehensive tribute to Louis Kahn's and Moshe Safdie's structural engineer The Estonian-American civil engineer August Komendant (1906-1992) worked with numerous famous architects and engineers on several of the 20th century's most iconic buildings. Concrete was Komendant's passion through decades. He used his...
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Writing the City: Essays on New YorkThe eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. These include,...
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Truth and Lies in ArchitectureThis is a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural practice. The nature of the great cultural, social, political, environmental, and consumerist challenges facing the contemporary architect are explored, interpreted, and questioned, while drawing connections from architecture theory,...
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CabinsEver since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a cabin dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade,...
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Finding Home: The Houses of Pursley DixonIn their first book, acclaimed architects Ken Pursley and Craig Dixon explore how to create gracious homes with welcoming entryways, soulful interiors, inviting porches, and ebullient gardens. Founded on the simple principle "Build beautiful things," the architectural team of Pursley Dixon, like populist architects...
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Contemporary Japanese ArchitectureThe contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.Since Osaka World Expo '70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been...
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Shipping Container Homes: A Complete Guide to Building a Container Home and Tiny House LivingSHIPPING CONTAINER HOMESA shipping container home is a more affordable option for home ownership, as you can build a new construction for far less than it costs to build a conventional home. They require fewer materials to build, and the materials are often much...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto & Tomoyuki Sakakida: Old Is New: Architectural Works by New Material Research LaboratoryThe architecture of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tomoyuki Sakakida's New Material Research Laboratory revives ancient construction materials for the presentThe architectural practice of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tomoyuki Sakakida is informed by a simple paradox: "the oldest things are the newest." In 2008, Sugimoto and Sakakida...
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Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century Architecture: Volume 1Exploring a new century of architecture in the Windy City Chicago's wealth of architectural treasures makes it one of the world's majestic cityscapes. Published in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Center, this easy-to-use guide invites you to discover the new era of twenty-first-century architecture...
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Farrow & Ball - How to Decorate: Transform Your Home with Paint & PaperTransform your home with inspiration and advice from one of the world's leading home decorating brands, Farrow & Ball Set to become the bible of home decoration, Farrow & Ball How to Decorate provides a highly practical and inspirational guide to the successful use...
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Pedro Perfecto Y La Mansión Misteriosa / Iggy Peck and the Mysterious MansionContin an las aventuras de los Preguntones: Rosa Pionera, Ada Magn fica, Pedro Perfecto y Sof a Valdez. Pedro Perfecto es arquitecto de coraz n: cuando no est construyendo casas con su comida, tiene la cabeza en las nubes y sue a con nuevos...
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Koichi Takada: Architecture, Nature, and DesignThe first monograph on the Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect, celebrated for his innovative holistic approach to design, nature, and urbanism. Koichi Takada is part of a new generation of architects striving to bring nature back into the urban environment--an approach he developed after living in...
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Lost Las VegasLost Las Vegas traces the dizzying pace of change in America's fastest-evolving city. Lost Las Vegas traces the cherished places in the city that time and the brutal forces of economics have swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them...
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Ando. Complete Works 1975-Today. 2019 EditionDiscover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.Philippe Starck defines him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip...
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