Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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21st Century Lighting DesignLights fascinate. From functionality to style, the design of lighting is an area of design that is in a constant state of flux, with technologies allowing designers to now create lighting that can now manipulate and play with form, establishing the discipline to hold...
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Homes of Hollywood StarsHomes of Hollywood Stars highlights the souvenir postcards and folders that were sold to millions of tourists who visited Hollywood between 1920 and 1970--an era known as the Golden Age of Hollywood. Some of the actors of those years permitted their elegant residences to...
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San Diego's KensingtonThe mid-city San Diego neighborhood of Kensington was conceived as a streetcar suburb. Composed of several subdivisions, the first was Kensington Park, mapped on April 8, 1910. The principals involved in developing Kensington were also involved in creating the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa...
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Historic Magnolia CemeteryNew settlements require proper resting places for their dead. Around 1763, British troops officially gained control of Baton Rouge and established a small fort on the Mississippi River there. However, since 1719, soldiers and white explorers had been buried near Native American mounds. Baton...
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O Glorious City: A Love Letter to San FranciscoO Glorious City is an exuberant love letter to San Francisco from Jeremy Fish, a beloved artist who enjoys a massive fan base for his edgy artwork. When Fish was invited to create 100 new works of art in honor of City Hall's 100th...
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Better Living Through Origami: 20 Creative Paper Projects for a Beautiful HomeTake papercraft to a new creative level and turn your home into a designer haven with this mindful DIY interiors book by Dutch design duo Studio Snowpuppe. Learn how to create 20 items of functional home decor using simple, origami inspired paper folding and...
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American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Grain ElevatorsOn a visit to Buffalo, New York, the French poet Dominique Fourcade was awed by the huge concrete grain elevators that line the city's river and lakefront. Turning to his guide, the poet Susan Howe, he exclaimed, The American Chartres! Taking Fourcade's exclamation as...
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National Geographic Kids Everything Castles: Capture These Facts, Photos, and Fun to Be King of the Castle!Young readers will be spellbound by this story of fierce battles, dark dungeons, secret passageways, and medieval characters, made all the more vivid by true tales from experts in the field. Fun facts and photos, including reenactment shots, illuminate the lives of the inhabitants...
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French RefreshedSimplicity is the new era of chic.Despite the grandeur in which Louis XIV and his descendants Louis XV and Louis XVI lived in the magnificent Château de Versailles, extravagance rarely suggests elegance these days. Befitting spaces less assumedly scaled than the vast palace, alluring,...
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Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio's "Ten Books on Architecture" is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture from antiquity and for hundreds of years influenced major buildings around the world. Dating to the first century B.C., the "Ten Books on Architecture" are not only...
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Carlos Ferrater: Projects 1979-2004The first complete monograph on the career of Carlos Ferrater. Carlos Ferrater's early buildings showed how the expression of modern architecture -- with its abstraction, repetition, transparency and use of industrial materials -- could be brought into line with Mediterranean classicism, with the rigor...
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Architect of Letters: Reading HilberseimerNews on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functional urbanism. This set of accomplishments still dominates the public image of the architect, urban planner, teacher and...
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Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and MeditationIn Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grave, offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted to generate a laudable memory and prompt meditative reflections on life, death, and...
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Amidaji: Emperor Antoku's Mortuary Temple and Its CultureHow do you reconstruct a tradition of religious art wiped out by another religion? Naoko Gunji takes up this challenging question in Amidaji. Amidaji was a Buddhist temple in western Japan that, from the twelfth century onwards, overlooked the strait of Dannoura and commemorated...
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Emscher 20 21+: Die Neue Emscher Kommt: Sozial-Ökologischer Umbau Einer Regionalen StadtlandschaftFor a long time, the Emscher was Germany's dirtiest river. Now, however, it runs clear again. This volume documents the social and ecological restoration of the Emscher, which flows through the northern Ruhr area for 81 km. Used as a mining wastewater system during...
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A+u 22:01, 616: Feature: Dwelling Studies and Japan's Women Architectsa+u's January issue traces the extraordinary achievements by women architects in Japan and examines dwelling studies as a unique approach to the design of environments, centered upon living and relationship among people. The field began as a curriculum on "clothing, food, and housing" established...
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D'Arcy Jones Architects: 12 BuildingsD'Arcy Jones Architects: 12 Buildings presents the work and methods of this highly-regarded Vancouver firm. These buildings emerge from a dialogue between concept and situation, material and function. Each project develops "from the inside out," through an iterative design process centered around human comfort...
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THink: Pen Zen DiariesThe book is the recording of the interactive genesis of the poetic and the factual in architecture, generated by targeted intuition, so the tangible, materially manifestable result would be really the testimony of its opposite, the ephemeral, infinite space. This genesis is easily readable...
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Il Percorso Museale Dell'ospedale Santa Maria Nuova Di FirenzeThe ancient Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova is a multi-faceted structure, within which the medical activities comes to merge with the religious, economic-political, and cultural roles. This guide to the new museum itinerary, inaugurated in 2019, is the overview of a treasure of...
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Architectural Documentation: Built Environment, Modernization, and Turkish NationalismAgainst the backdrop of building a new country, this study explores and evaluates the documentation culture in early republican Turkey. Having fought the Turkish War of Independence (1919-22) against the Allied Powers, the revolutionaries led by legendary leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) came to...
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