Architecture

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Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural Fictions - trade paperback
By Keith Mitnick - $27.95 - add to cart

Author Keith Mitnick's first glimpse of an architectural drawing came through the underside of a glass kitchen table. Overcome by the sight of blueprints created for an addition to the family's tra...

 

Bridge - trade paperback
By Peter Bishop - $27.00 - add to cart

Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. Now in Bridge, Peter Bishop pr...

 

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe - hardcover
By Michael Hays - $50.00 - add to cart

From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms “spaceship earth” and “synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was to create living environments that minimized co...

 

Conversations with Mies van der Rohe - trade paperback
By Moises Puente - $21.95 - add to cart

It has been said that modernist legend Mies van der Röhe's thirty years spent working in America reflected his most consistent and mature efforts toward achieving his goal of a new architecture for...

 

Insight and On Site: The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt - hardcover
By Jack Diamond - $60.00 - add to cart

Part manifesto, part architectural monograph, one of the world’s leading architecture firms addresses today’s most pressing urban issues. Defiantly urban and socially responsible, the buildings ...

 

Le Corbusier: The Chapel at Ronchamp - trade paperback
By Daniele Pauly - $26.50 - add to cart

The pilgrimage church Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp (195054), an icon of modern architecture, represents one of the central buildings of Le Corbusiers late period. Located on a high plateau in t...

 

Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty; A Guidebook on Peak Oil and Global Warming for Local Governments - trade paperback
By Daniel Lerch - $30.00 - add to cart

Post Carbon Cities examines how peak oil and global warming are creating new uncertainties for cities of all sizes. It explains how local decision makers can address the energy and climate challeng...

 

Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral - hardcover
By Philip Ball - $29.95 - add to cart

Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thir...