Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested SpacesHow might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities. This book argues...
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Metapolis. Topoi. Scenarios.: For Urban-Rural Sustainability in Lower SaxonyUrban and rural areas alike witness severe dynamics. Moreover, understandings of what constitutes the urban and the rural are changing, too. Metapolis conceptualizes the network of urban and rural settlements interconnected by flows of people, goods, and information. How can this Metapolis be understood...
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Technical LandsDesignating land as technical is a political act. Doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible. Technical lands are co-extensive with political and physical boundaries instrumentalized by their exceptional status. Their remote location, delimited boundary, and active management occlude their...
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Intimacies: The Architecture of Youssef TohmeFounded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment,...
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Urban Agricultural HeritageUrban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms...
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The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s. The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of...
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Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart CourtThe story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Life in the court of the House of Stuart has...
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20th Century Japan in 20 BuildingsThere is a long history in the West of viewing Japan through the twin lenses of orientalism and exoticism. This book argues that Japanese modern architecture emerged from identifiable events: political, social, economic, and historical events, and is as susceptible as any other architecture...
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African Modernism and Its AfterlivesThe legacy of colonial and postcolonial African architecture. This edited collection of essays and image-driven pieces by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and historians examines the legacies of African architecture from around the time of independence through examples from different countries. Drawing on ethnography, archival research,...
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Preston Hollow: A Brief HistoryIt takes only a brief drive past the stately homes that line Preston Hollow's winding tree-lined streets to understand the neighborhood's appeal. But the remarkable arc of its history remains largely unknown, even to lifelong residents. Glimpse the rich farmland that stunned Ira DeLoache...
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Byzantine Mosaic Decoration; Aspects of Monumental Art in ByzantiumThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge StreetA close look at urban change in the heart of Toronto. From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, and developers built ever bigger and taller....
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Towards a New Architecture; 0This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Urbanismo EcológicoSi bien el cambio climático, la arquitectura sostenible y las tecnologías ecológicas son cuestiones perfectamente asentadas en el imaginario colectivo, no ha ocurrido lo mismo con aquellos temas que afectan a la sostenibilidad de la ciudad. Este libro nace precisamente de la apremiante necesidad...
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Unbuilt ClemsonUnbuilt Clemson examines a selection of unrealized building projects throughout the history of Clemson University through the lens of campus development and planning, focusing on projects advanced to the building-design or site-plan stage. These projects reveal the evolving vision and direction of a state...
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Shipping Container Homes: A complete guide to designing and building a container homeSHIPPING CONTAINER HOMESLiving in the 21st century is not at all an easy feat. With the constant and consistent rise in the cost of living, it is becoming virtually impossible to live comfortably in a house you own. For many people, owning a house...
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Lives of HousesNotable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we...
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Sketching Savannah"Sketching Savannah" is a collection of exquisite full-color ink-and-watercolor sketches featuring over a hundred places of interest and charm throughout downtown Savannah, Georgia. The sketches, organized in serendipitous constellations, are accompanied by reliably-sourced historic captions and neighborhood maps that draw the reader into the...
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Lean Integrated Project Delivery: A Practitioner's GuideExceptional Read & Introduction to Lean/IPD/LPS. Tim Tuohy's book is an exceptional read. This book provides significant insight-and a clear pathway-to assist Lean-oriented project managers in their development of a collaborative team, breaking out and defining work, establishing requisite levels of team and participant...
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Encuentros Cercanos con Extraterrestres: Impactantes Historias Reales de Encuentros con Seres de Otros MundosHas mirado el cielo y te has preguntado si existen seres que nos podrían estar observando en ese mismo momento? Te has preguntado cuáles son los casos más impactantes de contacto con seres de otros mundos? Qué es lo que sucede cuando un ser...
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