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Vendor: De B. Randolph 1841-1914 Keim
Washington: Its Public and Private Edifices, Interiors, Monuments and Works of Art
"Washington: Its Public and Private Edifices, Interiors, Monuments and Works of Art" offers a detailed look at the capital city in the late 19th century. This book explores the architectural grandeur and artistic treasures of Washington D.C., providing insights into its significant buildings, both...- $15.95
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Vendor: Banister Fletcher
Model Houses For The Industrial Classes (1871)
Model Houses for the Industrial Classes is a book written by Banister Fletcher in 1871. The book is a guide for architects and builders on how to design and construct affordable housing for the working classes during the Industrial Revolution. The book includes detailed...- $23.95
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Vendor: Anonymous
Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering Volume 2
Explore the intricacies of civil engineering with "Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering Volume 2," a comprehensive resource dating back to 1919. This volume delves into various aspects of civil engineering, offering insights into historical practices and methodologies. It serves as a valuable reference for those...- $26.95
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Vendor: Francis Bacon Crocker
Electric Lighting: A Practical Exposition of the Art, for the Use of Engineers, Students, and Others Interested in the Installation Or Operation of El
Electric Lighting, Volume 1, by Francis Bacon Crocker, offers a detailed and practical exploration of electric lighting technology as it stood at the beginning of the 20th century. Designed for engineers, students, and anyone involved in the installation or operation of electrical plants, this...- $27.95
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Vendor: B. C. Peck
Recollections of Sydney, the Capital of New South Wales
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...- $22.75
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Vendor: Stephen Denison Peet
Ancient Village Architecture In America (1883)
Ancient Village Architecture in America is a book written by Stephen Denison Peet and published in 1883. The book is a comprehensive study of the architectural styles and structures of ancient villages in America. Peet has explored the ancient villages of various Native American...- $22.95
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Vendor: John Henry Parker
On The English Origin Of Gothic Architecture (1870)
On The English Origin Of Gothic Architecture is a book written by John Henry Parker and published in 1870. The book explores the origins of Gothic architecture and argues that it originated in England, rather than in France as is commonly believed. Parker uses...- $24.95
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Vendor: Clough Williams-Ellis
The Pleasures of Architecture
This 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,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Russell Sturgis
European Architecture: A Historical Study (1896)
European Architecture: A Historical Study is a comprehensive book written by Russell Sturgis in 1896. The book provides a detailed account of the history of European architecture, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the Gothic and Renaissance periods, and up to the 19th...- $47.95
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Vendor: Richard Smailes
Building Chan Chan: The Application of Construction Project Management to the Analysis of Ancient Architecture
Abstract: How to apply construction industry methodologies to estimate the time and labor input of ancient architecture using Chan Chan, Peru as a case study. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the...- $93.00
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Vendor: Iain Boyd Whyte
Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism
Bruno Taut was the leading architectural theorist in Germany during the years 1914-1920. The architectural and social premises which he developed in this seminal period were to be of paramount importance in the subsequent development of modern architecture in Germany in the 1920s. The...- $52.00
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Vendor: Camille Luttrell
Opening the Black Cube
Black sun reflections, solar dejection, dark star inflection; the void of revelation.This story demonstrates the reflection of two opposites. It shows the opposition of two principles, defying one another by their absence. It explores the dejected aspects of creation, revealed out of sight. Opening...- $11.00
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Vendor: Roger Greeno
Mitchell's Introduction to Building
Introduction to Building is recommended for students of all construction-related courses, including architecture, building technology, construction management, building surveying, quantity surveying, and estate and facilities management.Author: Roger GreenoISBN-10: 0273738046ISBN-13: 9780273738046Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2012Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.69d- $79.99
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Vendor: Robert Onfray
Paradise Preserved: A History of Forestry on Fraser Island
For over a century, Fraser Island's majestic forests provided the timber that helped build Queensland - and shaped the lives of those who lived and worked beneath its towering satinays and blackbutts trees.Paradise Preserved uncovers the untold story of forestry on the world's largest...- $40.00
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Vendor: Maria Kramer
Live Projects - Live Practice
Studio as Book No. 11: Live Projects - Live Practice critically documents the social, pedagogical, and physical dimensions of Live Projects undertaken between 2017 and 2025 in studios DS3.2 and DS20 at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, led by Maria...- $32.50
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Vendor: Vincent R. Lee
The Last of the Old West
This is the story of the part played by the author in the utter transformation of a remote, beautiful and largely unspoiled Rocky Mountain ranching valley into a high-voltage, world-renowned mega-resort named 2014's Richest County in America.For thirty-four years, pretty much the middle half...- $25.00
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Vendor: Eric Guibert
A Carrier Bag of Regenerative Design Scores
This edition of studio-as-book reflects on the regenerative pedagogy and design methods used in B.A. Design Studios DS.3(2) & DS.2(4) tutored by Eric Guibert, Anthony Powis, Michael Spooner, Bruce Irwin, and Christopher Daniel between 2018 and 2024. The book is conceived as a CARRIER...- $29.70
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Vendor: John Beldon Scott
Fascism's Urban Epicenter: Remaking Rome in the Era of Charismatic Politics
A reconstruction of the relationship among architecture, urban form, and mass mobilization at Rome's Piazza Venezia, site of Mussolini's command center; the analysis stresses the concept of charismatic leadership and its impact on buildings, space, and crowdsAuthor: John Beldon ScottISBN-10: 9004743510ISBN-13: 9789004743519Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $140.00
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Vendor: Anton Cho
Temporal Architecture: Designing Spaces for Time Perception
"Temporal Architecture: Designing Spaces for Time Perception" unveils the profound influence our built environment exerts on our experience of time. This book argues that architecture transcends mere aesthetics and functionality; it shapes how we perceive and interact with time itself. Temporal architecture, the focus...- $29.99
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Vendor: Christian Boucharenc
Design for a Contemporary World: A Textbook on Fundamental Principles
Design for a Contemporary World is a textbook that presents the theory and practice of design fundamentals. Design plays a significant role in environmental, ethnical, economic and cultural arenas, and contributes to people's wealth, cultural identity and quality of life. Drawing on a rich...- $45.00
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Vendor: Romano Del Nord
Healthcare Facilities in Times of Radical Changes. Proceedings of the 23rd Congress of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE), 25
The realization of the 23rd IFHE Congress, from October 13th to 16th, 2014, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an old wish of the Argentine Association of Hospital Architecture and Engineering (AADAIH), not only of its present members but also of earlier members, among them...- $50.00
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Vendor: Owen John Dullea
The Thames: Oxford to London
The Thames - Oxford to London is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...- $19.90
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Vendor: Simona Di Cicco
Hospitals for Patient's Healing and Well Being
This book defines the design guidelines to support Health and Well Being in Hospitals. Design-aids, and examples are given to illustrate these guidelines. A building model shows how such a hospital could be realized, highlighting the changes that should be introduced in design for...- $85.32
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Vendor: Henry Sanoff
Democratic Design
Participatory design is an attitude about a force for change in the creation and management of environments for people. Its strength lies in being a movement that cuts across traditional professional boundaries and cultures. Its roots lie in the ideals of a participatory democracy...- $73.44
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Vendor: Henry Sanoff
Community Participation in School Planning
In education, as in other institutional systems, decisions about school facilities tend to be made by a few people who are not the direct building users, often ignoring the direct involvement of teachers and students. This book presents guidance for creating a constructive dialogue...- $63.72
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Vendor: Dr Zehra Tugce Kazanasmaz
Planimetric Design Efficiency of Hospitals
As cited in literature, the history of hospital design in both practice and theory is rife with proposals that lay claim to improving efficiency.The overall aim was to obtain not only lowest possible construction, maintenance and operational costs, but also highest possible patient satisfaction,...- $63.72
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Vendor: Maziar Asefi
Transformable and Kinetic Architectural Structures
This book explores the genre of transformable architecture.It examines the development of the type from ancient times to the present day, including early transformable objects, through to the most innovative solutions.The major types of transformable structures are classified and examined in terms of structural...- $85.32
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Vendor: Milton Feferman
Figures of Death and Life in the Architecture of Grandjean de Montigny
The central theme of this book is that many architectural works produced at the end of the eighteenth century in France, while programmatically distinct, incorporate images drawn from a common set of ideas and images. One observes that during a long historical period, philosophical,...- $85.32
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Vendor: Mary Murphy
Preservation Values in the United States
This study is an analysis of the preservation values evident in three historic lighthouses: The Roanoke River Lighthouse in Plymouth, North Carolina; the Old Plantation Flats Lighthouse in Cape Charles, Virginia; and the Old Roanoke River Lighthouse in Edenton, North Carolina. These three lighthouses...- $63.72
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Vendor: Elma Durmisevic
Green design and assembly of buildings and systems
The conventional way of construction has become a burden to the dynamic and changing society of the 21st century. Developers and real estate managers warn that there is a miss-match between the existing building stock and changing demands with respect to the use of...- $85.32
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Vendor: Joel Robinson
Life in Ruins
Among the most lasting works of architecture are the tomb and the monument. The fact that these have outlasted other kinds of edifice would suggest that the question of death was historically of paramount importance to architecture - at least in the West. But...- $73.44
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Vendor: Justin Perdue
Scratches and Indentations - Architecture and the Importance of Home
What is home, and why are we drawn to spaces which elicit this feeling within us? Why is it that we are immediately able to achieve a type of rapport with some spaces, while others remain indifferent to us? What is it about home...- $52.92
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Vendor: Larry Barrow
The Global Housing Crisis
World population is projected to increase from approximately 5 billion in the year 2000 to 8 billion inhabitants by 2050; primarily in developing countries that are shifting from a rural agrarian to urban information society. Literally, millions of persons are homeless, live in inadequate...- $85.32
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Vendor: Pavel Sinha
Speech Enhancement: Algorithm and Architecture
This thesis presents algorithm and architecture for simultaneous diagonalization of matrices. As an example, a subspace-based speech enhancement problem is considered, where in the covariance matrices of the speech and noise are diagonalized simultaneously. In order to compare the system performance of the proposed...- $63.72
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Vendor: Zhenhong Gu
Approaches to Energy Efficient Building Development
With the development of the world economy, the situation of Energy Crisis and Environmental Impact is serious. The high energy con-sumption and climate change are being big challenges to human being's development. Many developed countries have been leading the forefront in the energy efficient...- $52.92
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Vendor: Robert Bradley
The Architecture of Kuelap The Art and Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Chachapoya
This book is a detailed study of the enormous pre-Columbian ruin Kuelap in the Department of Amazonas, Peru. The text provides a description of this area of northeastern Peru and a narrative historiography of the ruin. From the time of Kuelap's introduction to the...- $85.32
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Vendor: Scott Drake
A Well-Composed Body - Anthropomorphism in Architecture
This work examines how changing conceptions of the human body have been interpreted within architectural theory since the writings of Vitruvius in the first century AD. It will examine how measures of the body have affected ideas of architectural composition, and how they are...- $85.32
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Vendor: Ali Vakili-Ardebili
Ecological Building Design; Fuzzy Approach
Current sustainable design paradigms do not represent the time dimension of design nor do they deal with the balance between needs and limitations of user through the life cycle of the building design process. Designers try to find optimum design solutions from a system...- $85.32
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Vendor: Wilfried Karel
Creating Architectural Photo Models using Close Range Photogrammetry
Virtual 3-D models of architecture featuring metric surface texture ori-ginating from photographs are becoming wanted data sets, combi-ning the geometric and photographic documentation of building con-ditions. Whenever demands on quality shall be complied with, these must be considered from data capture on. Objective quality...- $52.92
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Vendor: Efe Gonenc
Public Spaces and Istanbul
Author: Efe GonencISBN-10: 3639040899ISBN-13: 9783639040890Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2008Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d- $52.92
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Vendor: Bernhard Lucke
Demise of the Decapolis
Author: Bernhard LuckeISBN-10: 3639006135ISBN-13: 9783639006131Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2008Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d- $85.32
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Vendor: Norman MacPherson
Notes on the Chapel, Crown and Other Ancient Buildings of King's College, Aberdeen
Notes on the Chapel, Crown and Other Ancient Buildings of King's College, Aberdeen is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...- $19.90
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Vendor: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...- $19.90
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Vendor: Nick Dunn
The Ecology of the Architectural Model
Models are a designer's currency. They are so common in the exchange and development of ideas as to feature without attention and are used often without question. Architectural practice and its history are paralleled by a history of models, as varied in form as...- $131.65
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Vendor: Victor Deupi
Pavilion Living: Architecture, Patronage, and Well-Being (Hardcover in Slipcase)
Pavilion Living, Architecture, Patronage, and Well-Being, looks at the architecture of three recently completed pavilions by Peter Zimmerman Architects on the gardens of a large private house on Philadelphia's Main Line, and the associated characteristics that accompany these beautifully conceived and carefully built structures....- $95.00
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Medieval Art and Architecture at Ely Cathedral
This is the second volume in the series launched by the British Archaeological Association in which are to be published the transactions of the annual conferences devoted to the study of a major medieval monument and its surrounding area. As in the case of...- $57.99
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Vendor: Parween Karim
An Investigation into How the Design of Health Centres can Promote Psychological Healing
Physical environment design plays an important role in psychological healing value. So the research focus on Analysis and design colour, daylight, art, sound, and natural view in a range of key areas: the lobby, reception, waiting area, and children consulting room in a type-B...- $38.14
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Vendor: Peter Abui
My Journey to Safety: From South Sudan
My life was full of many unexpected experiences. Some were good, and some were bad. During that time of war, mostly bad times occurred more often than good times. Those good times didn't last longer. I think there is a reason why things happen...- $17.99
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Vendor: J. Paul Guyer
Model Specifications: Rough Carpentry
This publication provides a model specification for rough carpentry for buildings and other infrastructure.Author: J. Paul GuyerISBN-10: 149545696XISBN-13: 9781495456961Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2014Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.11d- $17.00
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Vendor: Chris R. Pownall
Spanning a Lifetime: A book about bridges with associated stories
'Spanning a Lifetime' is a book about bridges with associated stories. Chris has always had an interest in bridges, both from an engineering design perspective, as well as an appreciation of their aesthetic qualities, and architectural style. All the bridges featured in this book,...- $7.99
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Architecture Books
Architecture books are collections of literature dedicated to the study, exploration, and appreciation of architecture. Architecture books provide an extensive and comprehensive understanding of architectural concepts and principles. They delve into the evolution of architectural styles, from ancient civilizations to contemporary architecture, highlighting key contributions and milestones in the field. These books often include detailed analyses of famous architectural works, offering insights into their design philosophies, structural systems, and spatial organization.
Furthermore, architecture books explore various theoretical approaches and design methodologies, helping readers expand their creative thinking and problem-solving skills. They discuss influential architectural theories, such as functionalism, postmodernism, deconstructivism, and sustainable design principles, providing a well-rounded understanding of the different philosophies that shape the built environment. In addition to theoretical aspects, architecture books also focus on practical aspects of architecture. They provide information on construction techniques, building materials, and sustainable building practices, equipping readers with the knowledge required to execute architectural projects effectively. These books often include architectural drawings, plans, and photographs, enabling readers to visually understand and interpret different architectural concepts.
Many architecture books also showcase the works of renowned architects and firms, offering insights into their design process, creative inspirations, and innovative approaches. These publications often feature beautiful illustrations, photographs, and architectural renderings, allowing readers to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of buildings and spaces.
Popular Architecture Books
The world of architecture is a captivating realm that combines creativity, functionality, and artistry all in one discipline. Aspiring architects and enthusiasts alike have long turned to books to delve into the intricacies of architectural design, history, and theory. In the vast collection of architecture books, a few have emerged as true classics and popular must-reads among professionals and amateurs alike.
Highly popular and indispensable reference for architects is "Architectural Graphics" by Francis D.K. Ching. Known for his clear, concise, and visually appealing illustrations, Ching covers the essential principles of architectural representation, providing a comprehensive guide to drafting, sketching, and rendering techniques. This book is a treasure trove of practical knowledge for architects, helping them communicate their ideas effectively through drawings and diagrams.
For those seeking inspiration in architectural design, "The Autopoiesis of Architecture: A New Framework for Architecture" by Patrik Schumacher is a must-read. Schumacher challenges traditional architectural theories and proposes a new framework that embraces parametric design, digital technologies, and emergent systems.
When it comes to exploring architectural history, "The Ten Books on Architecture" by Vitruvius is a timeless gem. Dating back to the first century B.C., this treatise outlines the fundamental principles of architecture, covering everything from materials and construction techniques to the design of temples, theaters, and aqueducts. Vitruvius' writings offer fascinating insights into the architectural practices of ancient Rome and continue to be studied and cherished by architects around the world.
These popular books in the architecture collection provide invaluable knowledge, inspiration, and a deeper understanding of the world of architecture. Whether you are an aspiring architect, a seasoned professional, or simply intrigued by the art of buildings, these books offer a treasure trove of wisdom and a path to discovering the captivating world of architecture.
The architecture book collection at White Rain Book House is carefully curated to offer a comprehensive array of topics related to the field. From textbooks and reference materials to coffee table books featuring stunning architectural marvels, customers can find something suiting their interests and needs.

