Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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American Buildings and Their Architects: Volume 5: The Impact of Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyFuturism, Art-Deco, the International Style, non-objective art, and other European-originated art forms radically changed the direction of American architecture in the twentieth century. Beginning with Rockefeller Center, the culmination of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Jordy examines in Volume 5 the influence of modern art on...
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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle ClassThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century. Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith,...
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Fair Park Deco: Art and Architecture of the Texas Centennial ExpositionAuthor: Jim Parsons, David BushPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublished: 10/26/2012Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.65lbsSize: 10.10h x 10.20w x 0.90dISBN: 9780875655017About the AuthorJIM PARSONS is the director of special projects and walking tours chair for Preservation Houston. He also works as a freelance writer, editor,...
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Academia: Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United StatesThe Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America's relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash-up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave...
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A House That Made History: The Illinois Governors Mansion, Legacy of an Architectural TreasureIn an extraordinary restoration project, Michael S. Smith, interior designer for the Obama White House, recently redecorated the Illinois Governor's Mansion in collaboration with First Lady MK Pritzker, utilizing the best of Illinois's long tradition of fine craftsmanship to allow the mansion's prodigious history,...
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Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir OssipoffAn illuminating study of the architecture of one of the 20th century's most important tropical modernists Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998), known as the "master of Hawaiian architecture," was at the forefront of the postwar phenomenon known as tropical modernism. Although he practiced at a time...
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Bonstra Haresign Architects: Designing CommunityThis book celebrates over 20 years of BonstraHaresign Architects' community-focused practice. It documents the growth and success attributable to the firm's philosophy and methodological approach.Author: Bonstra Haresign ArchitectsPublisher: Oro EditionsPublished: 08/29/2023Pages: 276Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.28lbsSize: 12.20h x 10.20w x 1.10dISBN: 9781957183107
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Herzog & de MeuronAn affordable overview of the built and unbuilt works of Herzog & de Meuron, acclaimed by the New York Times as "one of the most admired architecture firms in the world"Renowned for such prominent buildings as London's Tate Modern, Beijing's Bird's Nest National Stadium...
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Star Style: Interiors of Martyn Lawrence BullardMartyn Lawrence Bullard, the designer to the stars, takes you inside celebrity homes in Star Style, a collection of sensational, eclectic interiors. Foreword by Cher Martyn Lawrence Bullard's broad-ranging, sophisticated yet eclectic style is sought the world over and has won him unrivaled acclaim...
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John Stefanidis: A Designer's EyeThis long-awaited monograph brings together fifty years of work and demonstrates how the interiors guru has drawn on a global range of influences for his designs as well as his furniture and fabric collections. John Stefanidis established his design practice in Chelsea, London, in...
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Leaf Supply: A Guide to Keeping Happy House PlantsA beautiful and practical book on choosing and caring for over 100 easy-to-find houseplants, as well as inspiring plant styling advice and much more.Fresh flowers are great--everyone loves receiving them. But inevitably they're already on the way out the door (and into the trash)...
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Sawyer / Berson: Houses and LandscapesThe first book from SawyerBerson illustrates the award-winning firm's quintessential pairings of modernism and classicism in seaside houses, metropolitan residences, and spectacular garden retreats. Treating architecture, landscape, and interior design as complementary endeavors, Brian Sawyer and John Berson have been ahead of their time...
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Martha's Vineyard: Contemporary LivingEach year the pristine beaches, lush pine forests, and picturesque New England towns of Martha's Vineyard draw tens of thousands of admirers to this beautiful island. Some of these visitors have become part-time residents, building contemporary homes alongside the traditional Victorian cottages, sea captains'...
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Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form2009 Reprint of the original 1912 edition. Paperback 327pp. With 302 illustrations by the author. Baumring's Top Pick for an Understanding of Harmonic Order of Nature. Beautiful Analysis of the Harmonic Structure of All Types of Forms in Nature Clearly Showing the Order of...
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Climatic Architecture: Philippe Rahm ArchitectesThis book is about climate and architecture. Written by the Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, it is at the same time a monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of the office "Philippe Rahm architectes", a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global...
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Exploring Vancouver: Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings (Fifth Edition)This new edition of the classic urban guidebook brings the city's architectural story up to date. Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, long-time chroniclers of Vancouver, offer an authoritative and highly readable book about Vancouver's most interesting places and explain how, why and by whom...
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Alexa Hampton: Design, Style, and InfluenceFrom Alexa Hampton, one of today's greatest interior designers and owner of Mark Hampton LLC, comes a beautifully photographed memoir about her journey into design and the inspirations that shaped her iconic style. The anatomies of my chosen surrounding are rich with meaning, authentic...
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Farrow & Ball How to Redecorate: Transform Your Home with Paint & PaperAn extensively revised edition of one of the bestselling interiors books of the last decade - from the internationally renowned paint company that keeps on growing. The second edition of Farrow & Ball: How to Decorate, now titled How to Redecorate, brings the invaluable...
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Palm Beach Style: The Architecture and Advocacy of John and Jane VolkPalm Beach style is the expression of elegance and romance everywhere evident in this paradise and epitomized in the lives and work of architect John Volk and artist-preservationist Jane Volk. Together they conjured up much of the magic that now makes the place. The...
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New Heights: Transforming Seattle's Iconic Space Needle- A beautifully presented narrative detailing the enthralling process of renovation the Space Needle, the first tower in the world to boast a revolving restaurant, and a structure that changed notions of engineering and construction - The process of renovation from planning, construction to...
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