Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Pacific Spaces: Translations and TransmutationsDelving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected. The contributors to this book - architectural practitioners, architectural and spatial design theorists, anthropologists and historians - show not only...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Knights and CastlesAll about magnificent medieval fortresses and the people who lived in them. Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about medieval knights and their castles - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to...
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Finn Juhl: Life, Work, WorldThe first-ever comprehensive monograph on one of Denmark's most influential Modernist design pioneersDanish architect, interior-, and industrial designer Finn Juhl is best known for his furniture. Credited in the creation of the international 'Danish design' phenomenon of the 1940s and 1950s, his interior for...
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SpectrumGlobally acclaimed miminalist architect, John Pawson, celebrates colors through 320 inspiring photographs."Pawson is a lot more than just an architect; he's also handy with a camera and has a good eye for what makes a nice picture." --MonocleGlobally acclaimed architectural designer John Pawson takes...
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Concrete, Mini FormatA visual exploration of the world's most extraordinary and inspiring concrete architecture - in a stylish and compact format."Yes, concrete can be cold and imposing - but as the structures in the book attest, it can also be colourful, playful, and delicate." --Wall Street...
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Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest MasterpieceThe untold story of Michelangelo's final decades--and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and...
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Jim Henson: The Works: The Art, the Magic, the ImaginationThe ultimate gift for Muppet lovers everywhere, this extraordinary tribute celebrates 40 years of Henson's creative genius--from his best-known inventions to his lesser known but equally fascinating notions for everything from designs for futuristic nightclubs and homes to experimental films. 500 color illus.Author: Christopher...
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Buddhas of BamiyanFor 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by...
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Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of ArtFrom Simon & Schuster, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a unforgettable autobiography for any arts and culture fans. A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine...
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Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is...
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Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning: With a Translation of the 1889 Austrian Edition of His City Planning According to Artistic PrincipleFirst published in 1889, this revolutionary text by a noted Austrian architect and urban planner ignited a new age of city planning. Inspired by medieval and baroque designs, Camillo Sitte emphasized the creation of spacious plazas, enhanced by monuments and other aesthetic elements.Numerous illustrations...
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Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old SouthIn this profusely illustrated book the reader will journey through a wide section of the South with an architect as ... companion: from Lexington to Nashville, then along the Natchez Trace and down the great Mississippi River to New Orleans, with little by-way excursions...
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Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and DevelopmentEver since Herodotus stood in awe before the Great Labyrinth of Egypt and its 3,000 rooms, men have been fascinated by labyrinthine puzzles, constructions, and mazes. This book explores the subject in full, with a complete illustrated account of labyrinths and mazes of all...
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Such Places as MemoryThe poems of an architect whose affection for urban reality and imagined space is as evident in his writing as in his buildings and drawings.The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical...
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Be a Successful Building ContractorPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.This books helps you to set up and manage a profit-making building contractor businessTHE BUSINESS OF BUILDINGCovering the...
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The Unwritten Rules of GolfFrom New York Times bestselling author, etiquette expert, and golf enthusiast Peter Post comes a field guide to social intelligence for golfers--both new and seasoned--that will help you play your best game Golf is the only sport where how you treat the other people...
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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us about the Future of Urban Life2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherIn the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose--a visionary in urban development and renewal--champions the role of...
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Mobility Design: Die Zukunft Der Mobilität Gestalten Band 2: ForschungClimate change and increasing resource scarcity together with rising traffic volumes force us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. New forms of smart mobility are becoming possible thanks to the expansion of digital information systems, and we will soon be able...
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Landscape Architecture Frontiers 053: Cognitive Sciences and Landscape DesignCognitive sciences that aim at establishing scientific and explicit interpretations can diversify approaches to exploring users' feelings and experiences of a specific environment. For example, people's emotions and feelings change with their environment, closely related to people's sensory processes and brain wiring, personal experiences,...
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Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, Patronage and Churchgoing in England 1790-1840How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality. This book is the first comprehensive study of late-Georgian church-building. After centuries of post-Reformation inactivity, the Church of...
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