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The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard  Publisher Comments 'The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. \"A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will...
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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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Nature of Order Book 4: The Luminous Ground
by Christoph Alexander Publisher Comments The Luminous Ground, the fourth book of The Nature of Order, contains what is, perhaps, the deepest revelation in the four volume work. Here is a geometrical view of space and matter seamlessly connected to our own private, personal, experience as...
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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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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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Why Buildings Stand Up : the Strength of Architecture (80 Edition)
by Mario Salvadori Synopsis The alliance between architecture and structure and the people who forged it is the topic of this book. The author provides an introduction to building methods from ancient times to the present day....
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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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Harvard Design Magazine Readers #01: Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
by William S Saunders Publisher Comments More than ever, architectural design is seen as a means to promote commercial goals rather than as an end in itself. Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, for example, simply cannot be considered apart from its intended role as a catalyst for...
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Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (Architext Series)
by Jane Rendell Synopsis This book brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. It guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in...
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The Production of Houses
by Christoph Alexander Publisher Comments As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, the Oregon Experiment, and The Linz Cafe--defined a radical and...
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Domesticity at War
by Beatriz Colomina Publisher Comments In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an entirely new mode of operation, with original and captivating designs made in the USA. In Domesticity at War, Beatriz...
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Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life
by Christopher Alexander Publisher Comments The processes of nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, each one beautiful. The same is true for daffodils, streams, and stars. But man-made creations-especially the towns and buildings of the 20th century-have only...
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Symbolic Essence and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture
by William H Jordy Publisher Comments Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917–1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy...
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Chambers for a Memory Palace
by Donlyn Lyndon Publisher Comments This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an...
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Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
by Christopher Day Publisher Comments Our surroundings affect us physically and spiritually: they can contribute to stress and general malaise or balance and strengthen us. Although personal preferences differ widely, there is a level of aesthetic response that we all share. If we look...
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Analysing Architecture
by Simon Unwin Synopsis Analysing Architecture is a unique "notebook" of architectural strategies which presents an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author's original drawings, examples are drawn...
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by John Ruskin Publisher Comments Classic work by the great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions about the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. This authoritative edition includes reproductions of the 14 original plates of Ruskin's superb drawings of architectural...
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