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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick  Publisher Comments This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and...
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Programs and Manifestos on 20TH-century Architecture (70 Edition)
by Ulrich Conrads Publisher Comments The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural...
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Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture
by Sanford Kwinter Synopsis In this work, Kwinter ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture, offering an extended meditation on infrastructure, war, computation, the mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity....
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand 
Publisher Comments Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. Architects (and architectural historians) are interested only in a building's original intentions. Most are dismayed by what happens later, when a...
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Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing After Ethics and Aesthetics
by Alberto Perez-gomez Publisher Comments The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has...
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Verb Crisis
by Mario (edt) Ballesteros Synopsis Current architectural intervention demonstrates a tendency towards the production of the superficial. "Verb Crisis" tackles the conflict that marks the collision between the physical nature of the architectural commission. It presents projects and...
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The National Park Architecture Sourcebook
by Harvey H. Kaiser Publisher Comments For over a century, The National Park Service, private individuals, and small businesses have constructed a variety of structures on America's national parklands. Some were guided by the architectural style of the day while others looked to the...
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Space Between People: How the Virtual Changes Physical Architecture
by Stephan (edt) Doesinger Synopsis If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by...
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A Field Guide to American Houses
by Virginia Mcalester Publisher Comments For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to...
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Architecture Form Space & Order 3RD Edition
by Francis D Ching Publisher Comments This classic visual reference has helped over 400,000 readers understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment. Using his trademark meticulous drawing, Ching shows the way...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture 2 Volumes
by Gordon Campbell Publisher Comments The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture spans every art form, medium, and civilization the fall of the Roman Empire, The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical ArtandArchitecture is a comprehensive reference source on this important field of...
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Layered Urbanisms
by Carole Burns Publisher Comments Critical discussions and illustrations of urban research and design analysis as carried out in advanced studios. Layered Urbanisms presents three innovative young architects—Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP, Galia Solomonoff, and Mario Gooden of Gooden...
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments I, like you, drive too much. I buy too much--of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs the...
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How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles
by Carol Davidson Cragoe Publisher Comments This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building's style, history, and evolution. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also the story of who designed it, who it was built for...
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Mary Gilliatt's Dictionary of Architecture and Interior Design: Essential Terms for the Home
by Mary Gilliatt Publisher Comments An acclaimed international interior designer demystifies terms, presented in 12 easy-to-use subject areas....
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The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of...
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The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
Powells.com Staff Pick Alain de Botton writes with a fluid, lyrical style about the aesthetics of environment — architecture, furniture and landscape design, city planning — and its direct relationship to our quality of life. As in his other works, de Botton proves...
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Massive Change a Manifesto for the Futur
by Bruce Mau Publisher Comments A modern illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. 25/02/04 ADVISED BY PUBLISHER PUBLICATION MOVED TO AUTUMN 2004 - NO DATE....
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Architectural Graphic Standards, Abridged (10TH 08 Edition)
by Ramsey Synopsis This Student Edition, carefully abridged from the Eleventh Edition of Architectural Graphic Standards, features the richly detailed graphics and texts that have made Architectural Graphic Standards a classic, updated and reorganized in a way that is...
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Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius Publisher Comments The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation....
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