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  • Pratt Sessions, Volume 3 by Erdman, David
    David Erdman

    Pratt Sessions, Volume 3

    Pratt Sessions presents conversations with notable names in architecture, discussions that unpack their work in non-standard ways, revealing new insight to familiar terms circulated in the discipline and profession. The two areas of focus--new architectural mediums and contexts--are timely issues in architecture that are...
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  • Multi-National City by Martin
    Martin

    Multi-National City

    Multi-National City follows three architectural itineraries through three cities and their histories. Like so many, these cities are caught within the feedback loops of globalization: Silicon Valley in northern California; New York's internal suburbias; and Gurgaon, a burgeoning corporate city outside of New Delhi....
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  • Constructing Europe: 25 Years of Architecture by Gray, Diane
    Diane Gray

    Constructing Europe: 25 Years of Architecture

    As a part of the activities that will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, this catalogue explains the value of the Prize as a platform for discovery and debate about two main...
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  • Verb Processing French by Salazar, Jaime
    Jaime Salazar

    Verb Processing French

    The shift from modern to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a deeper relationship between author and perceiver. From the classical work to the modern object and from the modern industrial to 'computerised' procedures, the interplay between author...
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  • Echos: University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design by Marcu, Mara
    Mara Marcu

    Echos: University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design

    The publication captures the work done at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design while showcasing student work, faculty research, co-op stories, study abroad programs, and snapshots from the many events happening at our school. ECHOS is a platform for simultaneous...
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  • Retrospecta #39: Yale School of Architectue 2015 - 16 by Brand, Dimitri
    Dimitri Brand

    Retrospecta #39: Yale School of Architectue 2015 - 16

    Retrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture. Each volume is a snapshot of evolving architectural and graphic design trends.Author: Dimitri BrandISBN-10: 1945150106ISBN-13: 9781945150104Publisher: Yale School of ArchitectureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2016Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 12.70h x 8.90w x 0.40d
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  • La+ Iconoclast by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    LA+ Iconoclast

    Issue 10 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ ICONOCLAST open design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to reimagine New York's Central Park, fictionally devastated by eco-terrorists protesting the loss of the world's forests. See what designers did when...
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  • Neil Denari: The Baumer Lectures by Wilke, Benjamin
    Benjamin Wilke

    Neil Denari: The Baumer Lectures

    Neil M. Denari / NMDA: The Baumer Lectures contains transcribed conversations that were part of Neil M. Denari's appointment as 2015-16 Baumer Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University and provide a close look at a few recent projects: the Sotoak Extension, the New...
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  • 100 Best Paintings in New York by Smith, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Smith

    100 Best Paintings in New York

    100 Best Paintings in New York combines art history, commentary, and tourists' guide to provide you with a deeper understanding and appreciation of New York's greatest works of art. The descriptions draw attention to fascinating details in each work and look at why, where,...
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  • Sandfuture by Beal, Justin
    Justin Beal

    Sandfuture

    An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986), who remains on the margins...
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  • The Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces by Zaera-Polo, Alejandro
    Alejandro Zaera-Polo

    The Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces

    The Ecologies of the Building Envelope theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies which have become embedded within it over the last century, analyzing the historical lineages, heroes and villains that helped define the complex...
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  • Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects by Zumthor, Peter
    Peter Zumthor

    Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects

    Author: Peter ZumthorISBN-10: 3764374950ISBN-13: 9783764374952Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2006Pages: 76Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.80w x 0.50d
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  • Treacherous Transparencies: Thoughts and Observations Triggered by a Visit to Farnsworth House by Herzog, Jacques
    Jacques Herzog

    Treacherous Transparencies: Thoughts and Observations Triggered by a Visit to Farnsworth House

    Treacherous Transparencies analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists. The publication looks at a few important works by selected artists and architects who work with...
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  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House by Betts, Stella
    Stella Betts

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House

    For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately...
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  • Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again by Saffron, Inga
    Inga Saffron

    Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again

    Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been--the "Next Detroit"--Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of...
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  • Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century by Soules, Matthew
    Matthew Soules

    Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the 21st Century

    "Soules's excellent book makes sense of the capitalist forces we all feel but cannot always name... Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin arms architects and the general public with an essential understanding of how capitalism makes property. Required reading for those who think tomorrow...
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  • The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Frampton, Kenneth
    Kenneth Frampton

    The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970

    A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness "[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement offers an opportunity to re-examine the Western canon of 20th-century architecture--which Frampton himself was crucial in...
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  • Big. Yes Is More. an Archicomic on Architectural Evolution by Taschen
    Taschen

    Big. Yes Is More. an Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

    Yes is More is the easily accessible but unremittingly radical manifesto of Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG.Unlike a typical architectural monograph, this book uses the comic book format to express its groundbreaking agenda for contemporary architecture. It is also the first...
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  • Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture by Koolhaas, Rem
    Rem Koolhaas

    Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture

    Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, fa軋de, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator and toilet: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail. The result is no single history, but rather the web...
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  • The Ten Books on Architecture: Volume 1 by Vitruvius
    Vitruvius

    The Ten Books on Architecture: Volume 1

    Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his "Ten Books on Architecture" were...
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  • Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde by Giovannini, Joseph
    Joseph Giovannini

    Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde

    Examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of "disruptors" such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. With an irregular format designed by celebrated graphic designer Abbott Miller of Pentagram. In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture...
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  • The Fundamentals of Interior Design by Dodsworth, Simon
    Simon Dodsworth

    The Fundamentals of Interior Design

    The second edition of The Fundamentals of Interior Design provides a thorough introduction to the key elements of interior design and the ideas that underpin them. The book describes the entirety of the creative process, from researching initial ideas to realizing them in three-dimensional...
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  • How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Brand, Stewart
    Stewart Brand

    How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

    A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell. When a building is finished being built, that isn't the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time--if they're allowed to. Buildings adapt...
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  • The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Hailey, Charlie
    Charlie Hailey

    The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature

    Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one...
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  • Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196x to 197x by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196x to 197x

    An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a...
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  • Hip-Hop Architecture by Cooke, Sekou
    Sekou Cooke

    Hip-Hop Architecture

    "This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion,...
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  • Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change by Axel, Nick
    Nick Axel

    Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change

    Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings,...
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  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Wittkower, Rudolf
    Rudolf Wittkower

    Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

    A brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this styleAuthor: Rudolf WittkowerISBN-10: 0393005992ISBN-13: 9780393005998Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1971Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.94h x 5.05w x 0.61d
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  • Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design by Beltramini, Guido
    Guido Beltramini

    Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design

    Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time....
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  • Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics by Preciado, Paul
    Paul Preciado

    Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics

    Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle through the construction of a series of utopian multimedia spaces -- from the Playboy Mansion and fictional...
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  • Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Venturi, Robert
    Robert Venturi

    Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

    Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.This revision includes the full texts of...
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  • The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History by Waite, Diana S.
    Diana S. Waite

    The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History

    Diana S. Waite is president of Mount Ida Press in Albany, New York. She is the author of Ornamental Ironwork: Two Centuries of Craftsmanship in Albany and Troy, New York and editor of Architects in Albany and Albany Architecture: A Guide to the City.Author:...
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  • The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Kushner, Marc
    Marc Kushner

    The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings

    The founder of Architizer.com and practicing architect draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture. We're asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our...
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  • Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning by Roth, Leland M.
    Leland M. Roth

    Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

    This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.Author: Leland M. RothISBN-10: 0813349036ISBN-13:...
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  • The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright by Schrenk, Lisa D.
    Lisa D. Schrenk

    The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

    Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architectural historian Lisa D. Schrenk...
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  • Domesticity at War by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    Domesticity at War

    When American architects, designers, and cultural institutions converted wartime strategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domestic bliss became another kind of weapon.In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an...
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  • Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Lewis, Philippa
    Philippa Lewis

    Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

    The imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues. Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers,...
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  • Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed by Preissner, Paul
    Paul Preissner

    Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed

    Kind Of is a book presenting the work of Paul Preissner in a form of manifesto looking at the loose and varied origins of ideas that make room for intuition, blandness and confusion resulting in work which takes on a different type of politics:...
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  • The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso by Caruso, Adam
    Adam Caruso

    The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso

    Key writings by a principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. JohnA principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. John, "Gritty Brit" Adam Caruso has been writing intensively since the mid-1990s. His essays, published in The Architect's Journal, OASE, Blueprint and Tate,...
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  • The Octagon House: A Home for All by Fowler, Orson Squire
    Orson Squire Fowler

    The Octagon House: A Home for All

    In the mid-19th Century America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes-as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses-were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has...
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  • A Global History of Architecture by Ching, Francis D. K.
    Francis D. K. Ching

    A Global History of Architecture

    A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING! The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of...
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  • Drawing for Architecture by Krier, Leon
    Leon Krier

    Drawing for Architecture

    Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or...
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  • In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism by Hogrefe, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Hogrefe

    In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism

    Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between the African diaspora and social space in America Richly illustrated with vintage adverts, maps, posters and architectural plans, and organized thematically, this anthology, edited...
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  • A Philosopher Looks at Architecture by Guyer, Paul
    Paul Guyer

    A Philosopher Looks at Architecture

    What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid...
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  • Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books by Hill, John
    John Hill

    Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books

    This unique volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. The author, John Hill, is the founder of the hugely influential architecture blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, which recently shifted course to focus entirely on architecture books of all kinds. His selection...
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  • Architecture in the 20th Century by Gossel, Peter
    Peter Gossel

    Architecture in the 20th Century

    From Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank O. Gehry to Antoni Gaudí, Shigeru Ban and all the best in between, this essential guide celebrates 100 years of the finest architecture. Large-format photos, drawings, and floor plans, along with a chronological overview, reveal the ideas and...
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  • Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House by Paul, Linda Leigh
    Linda Leigh Paul

    Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House

    A celebration of the uniquely vibrant architecture and interiors of classic and new Spanish-style houses in the southwestern and southern United States, Mexico, and Spain. Casa Bohemia showcases a collection of some of the most beautifully preserved Spanish style houses, from restored haciendas in...
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  • Mid-Michigan Modern, Expanded Edition: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie by Bandes, Susan J.
    Susan J. Bandes

    Mid-Michigan Modern, Expanded Edition: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie

    From 1940 to 1970, mid‐Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture by well‐known architects and regional firms. Through Susan Bandes's archival research and oral histories, the reader will see a picture emerge in the portrayal of buildings of various typologies, from...
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  • Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by de Graaf, Reinier
    Reinier de Graaf

    Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year "Sharp, revealing, funny."--The Guardian "An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more...
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  • Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: After by Warke, Val
    Val Warke

    Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: After

    Organized around a timeline that demonstrates the range of "presents" and "afters" we find ourselves contemplating, this volume of the Cornell Journal of Architecture considers our terrestrial occupations from a variety of real and imagined perspectives, from the prehistoric to the future-imperfect. It seems...
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