Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Contemporary Creative Spaces for Children- An exciting selection of more than 30 contemporary case studies from around the globe, covering a wide variety of learning spaces (schools, afterschool care, and kindergartens), activity centers (clubs, cultural centers), and many more child-friendly environments- A richly photographed, informative must-have title for...
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Architecture Asia: Living in the 21st CenturyArchitecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within Asia from a global perspective. In the...
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The University of California Museum of PaleontologyThe University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) had a long and rich history even before California became a state.Formally established in 1921, UCMP was built with collections accumulated over 150 years. This treasure trove comes from all continents and ages; it is a...
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Teaching Towards Green Schools: Transforming K-12 Education Through Sustainable PracticesThis engaging and timely book showcases practical ways that PreK-12 teachers and school leaders can create and implement sustainability-focused projects and practices in their classrooms and schools, helping promote a healthy, sustainable environment and curriculum for students and leading the way towards becoming a...
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Marcel Breuer: Shaping Architecture in the Post-War EraThis book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer's aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific building and puts into context Breuer's other work and the contemporary movements/architects of the post-war era such...
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Mãe Luíza: Building OptimismOn the transformation of a favela--an urban success story on the Brazilian coast This illustrated volume documents the transformation of the favela Mãe Luíza, as an example of how to build community, create citizenship and identity, and promote initiative and participation. Alongside a story...
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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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