Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Ryue Nishizawa / SanaaFollowing the example of music publication, Source Books in Architecture offers an alternative to the traditional architectural monograph. If one is interested in hearing music, he or she simply buys the desired recording. If, however, one wishes to study a particular piece in greater...
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Gathering: Bohlin Cywinski JacksonGood buildings require an understanding of the principles of structure, light, space, and material, but great buildings require an understanding of people. The most successful inspire through the interactions and connections made within them. Gathering is the latest book from the award-winning architecture firm...
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Sand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the GameSand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the Game explores what makes golf, and golf course architecture, so special on sandy terrain. Golf was born on sandy ground and the features of the game are a direct product of that terrain. Fairways and greens were...
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Art Deco New York Map: Guide to Art Deco Architecture in New York CityAn original guide to New York City's celebrated Art Deco architecture, this two-sided map, including photographs and details of over fifty buildings, features examples of the style's vibrant colors, eclectic influences, and geometric patterns from the tip of Manhattan to the Bronx. Edited by...
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Guide to the Crystal Palace and ParkFacsimile of 1856 edition of official Guide published by the Crystal Palace Company. Detailed descriptions and many illustrations make this Guide a comprehensive overview, together with descriptions of the special courts and galleries. It also offers a walking tour around the park's thematic gardens....
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Imagine Moscow: Architecture Propaganda RevolutionThe Soviet city that was never built: six visions of Moscow from the great architects of modernist RussiaAfter the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin moved the Russian capital from the imperial, westward-looking city of St. Petersburg back to Moscow, the traditional heart of Russia....
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Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's TomorrowThe past's visionary future of domestic design, from Alison and Peter Smithson to SuperstudioThe "home of the future" has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the...
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Interior Design: A Critical IntroductionThe practice of interior design has become ever more specialised as new technologies have expanded how designers can use light, space, colour and decoration. At the same time, the study of the interior - private, public and corporate - has become a complex field....
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The Modulor by Le Corbusier 1943-54. Revised and Extended Edition.This book is a revised and extended version of the article that I wrote and published in 1996, 22 years ago now, which for some time I have felt the need to update. Some parts of the text have been modified, others removed and...
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Shed Style: Decorating Cabins, Huts, Pods, Sheds & Other Garden RoomsIn Shed Style, Selina Lake reveals how even the smallest garden can be home to an outdoor retreat. From the traditional gardener's potting shed to a writer's cabin to an artist's studio, Selina explores sheds, cabins, huts, greenhouses, pods, and all manner of garden...
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Luggala: The Story of a Guinness HouseLuggala explores the scandals, intrigues, and heartbreaking beauty of one of Ireland's grandest homes (Mitchell Owens, Wall Street Journal) that has bewitched the imagination of poets, rock stars, dreamers, and the aristocracy alike. Luggala explores the scandals, intrigues, and heartbreaking beauty of one of...
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Love Color: Choosing Colors to Live withChoosing colors for your home can become an overwhelming and confusing process--there is just so much on offer. Love Color will help you to bring your favorite colors to life by successfully making all those challenging decisions. Renowned international color expert Anna Starmer takes...
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It's All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943In 1935 a fledging government agency embarked on a project to photograph Americans hit hardest by the Great Depression. Over the next eight years, the photographers of the Farm Security Administration captured nearly a quarter-million images of tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the South,...
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Secrets of the Great Golf Course Architects: The Creation of the World's Greatest Golf Courses in the Words and Images of History's Master DesignersThe tests a golfer faces on the course are the direct result of the challenges originally faced by the golf course architect, whether they're complicated terrain, forces of nature, budget limitations, demanding developers, or the difficult task of balancing the practical scientific needs of...
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Thinking with a Pencil"If you have enough skill with a pencil to write your own name, you can make a drawing." Finally back in print for the first time in 30 years, Henning Nelms' Thinking with a Pencil is truly a classic in its field. First published...
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Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Making Good DecisionsComing in 2020 EXCITING NEWS The app accompanying this book is being redeveloped by the author for a fuller, smoother experience, and will be relaunched as ''Simply Done '' In this smart and witty guide to building a home while keeping your sanity, architect...
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Paradise on the Hudson: The Creation, Loss, and Revival of a Great American Garden"Through her prodigious research and evocative prose, Caroline Seebohm recreates an era of New York life seen through the history and dazzling beauty of the restored Untermyer Gardens." --Paula Deitz, author, Of Gardens On a single day in 1939, more than 30,000 people visited...
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History and Class ConsciousnessHistory and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewu tsein: Studien ber marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher Gy rgy Luk cs, in which Luk cs re-emphasizes Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's influence on Karl Marx, analyses the...
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Remnants of the Gods: A Virtual Tour of Alien Influence in Egypt, Spain, France, Turkey, and ItalyBestselling author and iconoclast, Erich von Daniken, opens his photo archive with a full color exploration of ancient places. We live in an age of information. But there are things in our prehistory "about which we do not have the faintest idea," writes best-selling...
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Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies 1680-1780From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the...
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