Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Tino Zervudachi: Interiors Around the WorldA unique immersion into the world of an acclaimed decorator with an eclectic aesthetic. Over the past forty years, Tino Zervudachi has earned an international reputation for elegance. Sought after for his bold approach and sensual classicism, he has established an illustrious clientele that...
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Max Alioth: Architect, Draughtsman, TrailblazerThe first book on the Basel-based Swiss architect Max Alioth. Basel-born architect Max Alioth (1930-2010) was a prominent figure in the Swiss architecture and culture scene. Alioth was a cofounder of Basels' Architecture Museum in 1984, which in 2006 became the Swiss Architecture Museum...
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The Story of Follies: Architectures of EccentricityA beautifully illustrated history of these quirky ornamental buildings in gardens across the globe. Are they frivolous or practical? Follies are buildings constructed primarily for decoration, but they suggest another purpose through their appearance. In this visually stunning book, Celia Fisher describes follies in...
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Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It Is the Green Way or the HighwayCircular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice. The book is structured...
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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global SunbeltThis volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes...
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What Makes an Assembly?: Stories, Experiments, and InquiriesA crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies. Assemblies are ancestral, transcultural ways of coming together as a community. Over the past decades, multiple social movements have reappropriated these forms of collective organisation as a prominent...
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Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and Artificial IntelligenceAI is already part of our lives even though we might not realise it. It is in our phones, filtering spam, identifying Facebook friends, and classifying our images on Instagram. It is in our homes in the form of Siri, Alexa and other AI...
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The Clock Tower: A History of Benicia's Mighty FortressAuthor H. Allan Gandy presents a comprehensive depiction of the Army's Storehouse, a three-story sandstone fortress built in 1859. What is now renowned as a treasured event hall was once an ominous fortress perched high upon Army Point overlooking an important water passage east...
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Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture: The Nordic CountriesShare: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture - The Nordic Countries is the first book in a new global series of investigative interviews about the modern architectural process. Initiated and undertaken by the Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders, the Nordic Countries edition features interviews with 30...
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Black Turtleneck, Round GlassesAccording to a recent American study, sexism and racism are so widespread in architecture that there is a distaste for these topics within the branch itself. What are the reasons for this exclusionary working culture? Even in Germany, most architecture graduates since the turn...
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Living in Morocco. 40th Ed.Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone's throw from Spain's southernmost tip, Morocco couldn't possibly be farther away.With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and welcoming...
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LincolnThe village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska's first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load...
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City, Civility and Capitalism: A Historical PerspectiveHow architecture and trade foster civic and urban health, from the Renaissance to BrexitWhat role does architecture and trade play in creating civilized societies? How can we create urban environments where the individual can flourish? These questions have taken on a new significance as...
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Giovanna Silva & Paolo Rosselli: Islamabad TodayA documentary account of the 1962 construction of Pakistan's government headquartersIn 1962, the architect firm of Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design the government ministries for Pakistan's new capital, Islamabad. Here, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) travels to this site with Paolo...
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Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes BasinThreatened by issues of environmental health, climate change, population growth, and industrial demands, the coastal zone of the Great Lakes reflects an increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the people of the basin and the resources that support them. Perhaps no place is the physical manifestation...
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Architecture as Living ACT: Leonardo RicciThis book, the first monograph on Leonardo Ricci's work, uses archive materials, some of which have never been published, to investigate the entire range of his activity by examining some of his most interesting projects, and putting them into the context of the current...
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Long Island's Prominent South Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and IslipThe revised edition of Long Island's Prominent South Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip joins the critically acclaimed five-volume series about Long Island's estate era and follows the same modified "Who's Who" format found in the...
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Lost Country Houses of Norfolk: History, Archaeology and MythNorfolk is a county sadly rich in "lost" country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them. Winner of the general non-fiction category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2016. The country houses lost from the landscape since the late nineteenth...
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Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary ArchitecturePrecision is necessary in the field of architecture, and new technologies have increased demands for accuracy, particularly when the smallest errors can have outsized consequences. However, the importance of precision, or exactitude, has not received the consideration it merits. While themes of sustainability, performance,...
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Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic WorldPandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely. Space, Structures, and Design in...
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