Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Venedig Von Oben: Die Lagunenstadt in LuftaufnahmenVenedig - ein Sehnsuchtsort, dessen Faszination ungebrochen bleibt. Der vorliegende Band bietet einen vollig neuen Zugang zu dieser ungewohnlichen Stadt, namlich mit Luftaufnahmen, die in einer eigenen Fotokampage angefertigt wurden.Author: Riccarda Cantarella, Armando Dal Fabbro, Maria Giulia MontessoriPublisher: Schnell & SteinerPublished: 08/31/2015Pages: 288Binding Type:...
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Valparaiso School: Open City GroupSince 1950 the avantgarde architect Alberto Cruz has had such a defining influence on the Faculty of Architecture at the Catholic University in Valparaiso that the phrase Valparaiso School was soon coined. Out of this work emerged in 1970 the anonymous group "Open City...
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Die Villa Hügel: Unternehmerwohnsitz Im Wandel Der ZeitAuthor: Renate Kohne-LindenlaubPublisher: Deutscher KunstverlagPublished: 01/29/2019Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsISBN: 9783422980174Language: GermanAbout the AuthorDr. Renate Köhne-Lindenlaub, Essen.This title is not returnable
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Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the RegionWhat if we stopped dividing the US and Mexico, and instead saw the border as one region? This book envisions the cultural and industrial cohesion of the areaAt a moment when migration has returned as a hot-button political issue and NAFTA is being renegotiated...
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Climates: Architecture and the Planetary ImaginaryThis book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is...
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Formless: Storefront for Art and Architecture Manifesto Series 1Struggles to escape form as a manifestation of various norms and constraints are as old as architecture itself. But the formless is also increasingly in the air today, explicitly as in discussions of the "formless" quality of the city, and implicitly in talk of...
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Kazunari Sakamoto: VortragKazunari Sakamoto (born 1943) has mainly been working on smaller residential buildings, in which he questions and explores the principles of architecture. His buildings and theoretical works have had a big influence on the contemporary Japanese architecture. The lecture is about his search for...
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Passivhaus-Bauteilkatalog: Neubau / Details for Passive Houses: New Buildings: Ökologisch Bewertete Konstruktionen / A Catalogue of Ecologically RatedAuthor: Österreichisches Institut Für BaubiologiPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 12/01/2018Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.75lbsSize: 13.60h x 9.30w x 1.20dISBN: 9783035616866Language: GermanAbout the AuthorIBO - Institut für Baubiologie und Ökologie, Forschung und Wissensverbreitung im Bereich Baubiologie und Bauökologie.
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Architecture Design Data: Practice Competency in the Era of ComputationAuthor: Phillip BernsteinPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 11/01/2018Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.70dISBN: 9783035611885About the AuthorPhillip G. Bernstein, Lecturer and Associate Dean at Yale School of Architecture, former Vice President at Autodesk, Inc.
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Historic Houses of Paris Compact Edition: Residences of the AmbassadorsA unique glimpse inside a world of luxury, tradition, and splendor. Many historic homes in Paris serve as residences to foreign ambassadors; these historical sites are closed to the general public. From a seventeenth-century h tel particulier, to a Belle Epoque palace, to a...
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Bordeaux Grands Crus Classés 1855: Wine Châteaux of the Médoc and SauternesStep inside the ch teaux of the fabled red wines of the M doc and white wines of Sauternes on this insider's tour, complete with tasting notes for the great vintages. The landmark creation of the Grands Crus Class s in 1855 set the...
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New Vintage French InteriorsCombining bucolic charm and modern elegance, this new collection of French country interiors provides boundless inspiration for interior design enthusiasts and home decoration aficionados. This charming volume features a dozen interiors which bring together vintage and modern styles, for the ultimate in French country...
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101 Tiny House Designs: The Ultimate Collection of Tiny House Design101 Tiny House Designs is a book of ideas and illustrations for tiny house dreamers. Designing tiny houses is a balancing act, especially for the smallest homes. Each house is the result of a series of choices and compromises.Inside you'll find 101 design concepts...
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Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes. Volume IILong Island's Gold Coast, more than any other section of the country, has captured the imagination of America. This, in part, is attributable to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.This revised and updated two-volume analysis of the North Shore families documents over 1,700 estate...
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Faux MountainsArtificial mountains are a worldwide reality. Burial sites use, very frequently, the intimidating shape of the man-made mountain. Incense burners in ancient China evoked the Five Sacred Mountains. Mount Parnassus in Greece became an important element in European garden history and a symbol of...
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Buffalo's Delaware Avenue:: Mansions and FamiliesWith a robust, four-part, 32-page Index by Buffalo History Museum Assistant Librarian Amy Miller and an Introduction to the Second Edition by Buffalo History Museum Research Librarian Cynthia Van Ness, there is finally excellent access to this encyclopedic book's amazing contents, street by street,...
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Dimensions of Citizenship"A colorful, digestible guide to the late 21st century and the role that architects play or don't play in shaping our collective understanding of citizenship." -Inc Globalization, technology and politics have altered the definition and expectations of citizenship and the right to place. Dimensions...
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Mexico City: Between Geometry and GeographyUnique in scope, scale, and civic aspiration, Mexico City is the ideal laboratory to test the capacity of urban design to construct a spatial synthesis from the geometric and organizational complexity of the city's layered urban scenarios. Between Geometry and Geography: Mexico City examines--through...
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Empire, State & BuildingThis book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This...
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Geographies of TrashIn the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the...
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