Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Berkshires: Coach Inns to CottagesThose hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred fifty-year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the Berkshires played host to some of the most fascinating characters in American literature, politics, business, and...
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Whitemarsh Hall: The Estate of Edward T. StotesburyWhitemarsh Hall, known as "the Versailles of America," was one of the largest and most exquisite estates in North America. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, one of the wealthiest Philadelphians in the early twentieth century, commissioned renowned architect Horace Trumbauer to build the one-hundred-forty-sevenroom mansion in...
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Colour in the Flower Garden"Colour in the flower garden" is a vintage book on gardening that focuses on the use and variety of colourful flowers. It offers guidance for which flowers are best for each season, providing detailed descriptions, simple instructions, and expert tips to help the reader...
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Instant Wall Art - Butterfly Botanical Prints: 45 Ready-To-Frame Vintage Illustrations for Your Home DécorAdd style to any wall with forty-five vintage, colorful butterfly and botanical prints--a top design trend for 2017 according to Elle Décor and Better Homes and Gardens. Wall art adds instant style to any space, but paintings, prints, and posters can quickly eat up...
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Environmental Psychology for DesignHow does a room affect an occupant's behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents' health? Environmental Psychology for Design, 3rd Edition, explores these questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment. Awarded the 2006 ASID Joel Polsky...
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Building BridgesDiscover how bridges are made Through full-color photographs, easy-to-read text, and hands-on projects, young engineers and architects are introduced to the world of bridges, including the types of bridges, how they're built, and key terms. This fast-paced nonfiction book will engage budding engineers while...
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Drayton Hall: The Creation and Preservation of an American IconAs the most significant eighteenth-century estate assembled in the British American colonies still in existence, Drayton Hall is an icon of American history, design and preservation.Its story is told through archaeological artifacts, architectural research and documentary investigations, with a focus on the inhabitants and...
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Hudson River State HospitalFor 141 years, Hudson River State Hospital was home to tens of thousands of individuals suffering from mental illness.Famous architects Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux drafted the main building in 1869. The facility grew from a 208-acre parcel in 1871 with seven patients...
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Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed AmericaA rich, illustrated - and entertaining -- history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary. In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened...
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Notre-Dame de Paris: History, Art, and Revival from 1163 to TomorrowThis stunning photographic ode to one of the world's most beloved treasures pays tribute to Notre-Dame--its place in history and in culture, and its rebirth--in the wake of the tragic fire that nearly destroyed it. With its spectacular rose windows, majestic spire, soaring vaults,...
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Curious Constructions: A Peculiar Portfolio of Fifty Fascinating Structures (Construction Books for Kids, Picture Books about Building, CreatCurious about constructions? Inside this book, you'll come face-to-face with 50 incredible structures, including: a fire-breathing octopus sculpture; the skateboard ramp you'd need to jump the Great Wall of China; a whole community of tree houses in Costa Rica; and a lifesize X-Wing Starfighter...
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Modern Farm Buildings - Being Suggestions for the Most Approved Ways of Designing the Cow Barn, Dairy, Horse Barn, Hay Barn, Sheepcote, Piggery, ManurThis antiquarian book contains a comprehensive guide to the design, arrangement and construction of farm buildings, with information on remodelling, feeding stalls, open stockyards, covered yards, and much more. Written in clear, concise language and profusely illustrated, this timeless volume will be of considerable...
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Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in ItalyFollowing Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry....
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Build It: SkyscrapersEarly readers will be engaged as they find out how a skyscraper is built and what goes inside when it's completed. This nonfiction title features detailed, vibrant images, helpful definitions and diagrams, and simple, informational text. Readers will be eager to learn all they...
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Mod Mirage: The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho MirageNo longer overshadowed by neighboring Palm Springs, Mod Mirage reveals in photos and stories the historic homes and communities of Rancho Mirage that make up its significant midcentury heritage. Mod Mirage documents the architecturally innovative homes and communities that were built on and adjacent...
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Rockitecture: A symphony of river rocks the men who listened to their musicRockitecture is a journey of the building and endurance of Southern California's river rock homes, churches, castles, waiting stations, and water troughs-architecture crafted from the Golden State's indigenous, natural materials during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book explores the foothills, alluvial fans,...
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Who Saved the Parthenon?: A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek RevolutionIn this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821-33. Focusing particularly on the question of...
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Urban SensographiesUrban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings. The contributors to this fascinating volume...
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The Story of Utopias: 100th Anniversary EditionThis survey of utopias, which spans from Plato to the twentieth century, was Lewis Mumford's first success. He was particularly interested in what he calls utopias of reconstruction, models for reshaping an imperfect world. Beginning with a survey of famous utopian ideas and writings,...
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New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites: Learn about the Big Apple while looking at colorful engaging artworkHello and welcome to this marvelous collection of detailed colorful illustrations, along with useful facts of New York City's famous sites. You will feel like you are going on a tour of New York City and its surroundings.Here you will find artistic pictures and...
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