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Lineage and Legacy

This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between...

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Architecture China Vol. 7

Focusing on the leading architectural designs with regional characteristics, Architecture China is a journal whose mission is to disseminate the creative works of contemporary Chinese architecture and...

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Reimagined Worlds

In Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose, Margaret Chandra Kerrison presents an indispensable manifesto, compelling designers of environments and experiences to embrace...

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City Making 101

City Making 101 is a base of knowledge for everyone to participate in the design of their cities. It is also a lively role-playing game to co-imagine, debate, then build consensus on design guidelines...

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Air Albania Stadium

Air Albania Stadium details the process from design to construction of the new stadium in Tirana, symbol of the renewal of the living conditions of a community that, while honouring its past traditions...

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Modern Houses in Black

This book explores the trend in black house design, with stunning photography accompanying interviews with architects, and will appeal to those who appreciate the daring and sophistication that black...

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Mountain to Coast

This lavishly photographed monograph, Mountain to Coast, showcases 20 magnificent residences designed by the renowned American firm Kelly|Stone Architects. These pages feature stunning scenic retreats...

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The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens

The genius of Edwin Lutyens is now universally recognised. When the acclaimed English architect passed away in 1944, three large volumes of his drawings and photographs were commissioned from the...

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Design for a Radically Changing World

Design for a Radically Changing World brings to light the impact of design on our everyday lives and offers innovative ways that design can help address some of the world’s most pressing issues and...

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Chinese Modern Architecture

This is a clear, accurate, readable survey of the dramatic transformation of Chinese architecture from 1840 through 2020. It narrates the change from a predominantly timber-frame tradition to...

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Noguchi’s Gardens

While sculpture remained central to his artistic practice, Isamu Noguchi’s (1904–1988) interests and production spanned an exceptionally broad terrain that included furniture and lamps, stage sets for...

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Robotics & Autonomous Systems 1

Robotics & Autonomous Systems 1: Integrated Approaches to Fabrication, Computation and Architectural Design presents design research from the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design’s...

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Source Books in Architecture No. 16

Source Books in Architecture No. 16: Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO focuses on the work of a Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO and is meant to expose the foundations and implications of the work in question. The practice...

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Civic Purpose

Time is a factor in urban design. Projects sometimes take decades to materialise. Some never make it. This monograph features three decades of urban design projects at Johnson Fain varying in type and...

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Designing the Regenerative School

Designing the Regenerative School profiling case studies from around the world that exemplify best practices in creating healthy, climate appropriate learning environments for early learners through...

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Imaginary Wilds

The myth of a wild, untouched landscape is persistent in American history. Imaginary wilds helped define an American identity in the early nineteenth century when Thomas Cole produced a series of...

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LA+

LA+ Botanic explores our evolving relationship with plants with contributions that reflect on the many natures and relations that are being materialised in plant conservation, botanic gardens, and...

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The North Atlantic Cities

The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of 400 years of architecture and urban development in...

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Hot Air

Hot Air is a monograph that situates and defines the hot air of the urban equator through the architecture and creative practice of Erik L’Heureux and the Office of Equatorial Intelligence. By...

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Rambusch

Rambusch: The First 100 Years, 1898–1998 chronicles the growth of an independent, workshop-based, family business now being run by a fourth generation. This book offers the definitive history of the...

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