STORY OF ARCHITECTURE
An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors "Rybczynski's expansive account traces...
BUILDING TOYS: AN ARCHITECT'S COLLECTION
The book Building Toys: An Architect's Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author's collection, from the mid-1800s to...
Architecture Surveys
HOW TO BUILD A SKYSCRAPER
Written by Hill, John
An architectural expert tours 46 of the world's most significant skyscrapers. "A useful ready-reference work and a treat for architecture buffs." -- Booklist
FREE STREET MANIFESTO
Seit über 70 Jahren dominiert das private Auto den öffentlichen Raum deutscher Städte. Mit dem Manifest der freien Straße stellt eine kreativ-wissenschaftliche Allianz dieses Dogma grundsätzlich infrage und thematisiert vergessene und unerkannte Qualitäten und Möglichkeiten der Straßennutzung.
HIROSAKI MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Written by Tane, Tsuyoshi
The Complete Record of the Revival and Transformation of a 100-Year-Old Brick Warehouse into a Museum of Contemporary Art.
CONCRETE JUNGLE: TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS SURPRISING ORIGINS
Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.
BOCA ROCOCO: HOW ADDISON MIZNER INVENTED FLORIDA'S GOLD COAST
Written by Seebohm, Caroline
Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs. In the paperback release of Boca Rococo, Caroline Seebohm's successful biography on the flamboyant architect is more accessible now than ever as it reaches more readers interested in the man himself.
STORIED STONE: REFRAMING THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART'S SOUTH INDIAN TEMPLE HALL
Written by Mason, Darielle
A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of historical Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent.
HIGH LIFE: CONDO LIVING IN THE SUBURBAN CENTURY
Written by Lasner, Matthew
The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house.
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