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The use of glass as a building material was encouraged in particular by garden design, as the protection of exotic plants required the construction of greenhouses and orangeries. In a record time o...
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Wood is organic, it is regarded as warm, as making human surroundings cosy. In addition, it can compete with any hi-tech material: wood has an extraordinarily good weight-to-strength ratio, has out...
| By Svetland Boym - $27.95 - add to cart | |
Svetlana Boyms "Architecture of the Off-Modern" is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third International of 1920. Gen...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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...
| By Timothy Brittain-catlin - $32.95 - add to cart | |
Churches and cathedrals contain a wealth of fascinating architectural detail as well as symbols that are often hard to interpret. This insightful guide explores the extraordinary richness and diver...
| By Thomas Campanella - $38.95 - add to cart | |
China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled...
| 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...
| By Jeroen Boomgaard - $31.00 - add to cart | |
The Zuidas area of Amsterdam is currently being developed as a vibrant new urban center, which will house office space, residential properties, restaurants and shops, among other facilities. The de...
| By Cristina Paredes - $38.95 - add to cart | |
The materials used in the construction of single-family residences are increasingly important and on many occasions become the focal point of the construction. Advances in the composition, fabricat...
| By Anthony Kiendl - $65.00 - add to cart | |
Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture is a compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post 9/11. This collection creates an alternative p...
| 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 ...
| 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...
| By John Lorinc - $18.00 - add to cart | |
Shaped by immigration, and demographics, our hub cities demonstrate what’s best about Canada: our commitment to education, tolerance, culture, and innovation. Since the early 1990s, however, troubl...
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