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Living in Paradise: 97 Tips for Architects

Living in Paradise: 97 Tips for Architects

Author: Ondrej Slunecko
ISBN: 9788027076529
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Become a better architect! With this book, you will learn many tips, tricks and techniques used by architects all...  Read More >>

The City Reader

The City Reader

Author: Richard T. LeGates (San Francisco State University, USA) ,  Richard T. Legates
ISBN: 9780367204792
Format: Paperback
$131.00

The 7th edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings...  Read More >>

Ppi Are 5.0 Mock Exams All Six Divisions, 2nd Edition - Practice Exams for Each Ncarb 5.0 Exam Division

Ppi Are 5.0 Mock Exams All Six Divisions, 2nd Edition...

Author: David Kent Ballast ,  Holly Williams Leppo, Aia
ISBN: 9781591266846
Format: Paperback
$401.28

A must-have book in preparation for each of the six divisions of ARE 5.0 ARE 5.0 Mock Exams contains six mock exams...  Read More >>

The Golden City: An Argument for Classical Architecture

The Golden City: An Argument for Classical Architecture...

Author: Henry Hope Reed ,  Catesby Leigh
ISBN: 9781580935395
Format: Hardback
$59.95

A controversial manifesto on the role of classical principles in architecture critically examined for relevance...  Read More >>

Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past

Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past

Author: Reyner Banham ,  Todd Gannon
ISBN: 9781580935401
Format: Hardback
$69.95

A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire...  Read More >>

The Property Issue: Politics of Space and Data

The Property Issue: Politics of Space and Data

Author: ARCH+ ,  Anh-Linh Ngo
ISBN: 9783035621068
Format: Paperback
$60.00

"""Who owns the land?"" is a central question because space is a resource as vital as air and water. Today, however,...  Read More >>

Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier

Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier

Author: Flora Samuel ,  Inge Linder-Gaillard
ISBN: 9783035621716
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen trainieren: Ein Arbeitsbuch für Architekturstudierende

Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen trainieren: Ein Arbeitsbuch...

Author: Andri Gerber
ISBN: 9783035622102
Format: Paperback
$67.27

Das räumliche Vorstellungsvermögen lässt sich erwiesenermaßen durch Übung verbessern. Dieses Ziel verfolgt das Arbeitsbuch,...  Read More >>

Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture

Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture...

Author: Robin Schuldenfrei
ISBN: 9781138392489
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process...  Read More >>

Future Tempos: Conversations on Architecture Across Time and Media

Future Tempos: Conversations on Architecture Across...

Author: Lluis Ortega ,  Maite Borjabad, Isabel Concheiro, Penelope Dean, Ricardo Devesa, Albert Ferré, Fabrizio Gallanti, Moises Puente, Pier Paolo Tamburelli
ISBN: 9781948765534
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The dissemination of architectural discourse is a fundamental component in the constitution of the discipline as...  Read More >>

The Architect as Magician

The Architect as Magician

Author: Albert C. Smith ,  Kendra Schank Smith
ISBN: 9781138326712
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. This book argues that architects...  Read More >>

Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas

Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas

Author: Stanislaus von Moos ,  Martino Stierli
ISBN: 9783858818201
Format: Paperback
$116.44

An intellectual panorama about the significance and lasting effect of Learning from Las Vegas, a classic of modern...  Read More >>

Architectural Policy in Finland: Architecture as Civic Education

Architectural Policy in Finland: Architecture as Civic...

Author: Turit Fröbe
ISBN: 9783868596168
Format: Paperback
$85.00

A book by Turit Froebe on Finland's official architectural policy and explores how successful it has been.  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City

The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature...

Author: Jonathan Charley (University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9780367517762
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature,...  Read More >>

Landscape Architecture Criticism

Landscape Architecture Criticism

Author: Jacky Dr. Bowring (Lincoln University, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781138324268
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture,...  Read More >>

The Rise And Fall of the Modern: Architecture and the City from WWII to the End of the Cold War

The Rise And Fall of the Modern: Architecture and the...

Author: Alexander Tzonis ,  Liane Lefaivre
ISBN: 9780713991154
Format: Hardback
$64.69

This is a history of the interactions between buildings, architectural theory and the ideas of public and private...  Read More >>

Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn

Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn

Author: Elisabetta Barizza (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) ,  Marco Falsetti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9780367532215
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn expands the current discourse on this celebrated 20th century architect, ideal...  Read More >>

Learning by Design: Live Play Engage Create

Learning by Design: Live Play Engage Create

Author: Roni Zimmer Doctori ,  Richard F Elmore
ISBN: 9780976267065
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A major premise of this book is that the physical environments in which we learn should reflect our most powerful...  Read More >>

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body: Buildings and Metaphors

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body: Buildings...

Author: Charalampos Politakis (Artist and Researcher, Greece)
ISBN: 9780367207922
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores how the human body was an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through...  Read More >>

Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration

Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration

Author: Mirjana Lozanovska (Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367524982
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Migrant Housing examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Houses are pivotal...  Read More >>

Projective Ecologies

Projective Ecologies

Author: Chris Reed ,  Nina-Marie Lister
ISBN: 9781940291123
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Ecological research applied to current architectural practice  Read More >>

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