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  • The American Vitruvius

    This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment. Drawing upon the ideals that inspired the great Roman architect, it promotes the Vitruvian maxims of longevity, beauty, and commodity. It also defines the thinking behind modern American city planning.First published in 1922, The American Vitruvius arose from a ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Louis Kahn

    A Life in Architecture

    The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born in what is now Estonia, immigrated to America, and became one of the towering figures in his adopted country’s built world. His works are unmistakable in their elegance, monolithic power, and architectural honesty.Written by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Place of My Own

    The Architecture of Daydreams

    A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work“A room of one’s own: Is there anybody who hasn’t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn’t turned those soft words over until they’d assumed a habitable shape?”When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. In A Place ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fallingwater Rising

    Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

    Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • PreFab Houses DesignSource

    by Marta Serrats ...
    For many, the idea of prefab housing may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life. But this idea couldn't be more wrong! Rather, the newest trends in prefab have emerged as a great way for a design- (and cost-) conscious generation to achieve the dream of home ownership. Today, prefab houses are manufactured to the highest standards of construction and aesthetics. And ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A vertical forest / Un bosco verticale

    Instructions booklet for the prototype of a forest city / Libretto di istruzioni per il prototipo di una città foresta

    by Stefano Boeri ...
    “In quei mesi del 2007 stavo iniziando il progetto di due torri alte nel centro di Milano e di colpo – le idee interessanti e nuove arrivano all'improvviso – mi venne in mente di progettare (come reazione alle centinaia di grattacieli in vetro che spuntavano nel mondo) due torri biologiche, due torri rivestite di foglie. Foglie di piante, di arbusti, ma soprattutto foglie di alberi. Due torri ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    A Life

    Series series Penguin Lives
    Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architectRenowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Towards a New Architecture

    by Le Corbusier ...
    Series series Dover Architecture
    For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manual of Section

    Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of Section fills this void.Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis have developed seven categories ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Early Period (1893-1909)

    Series series Dover Architecture
    "I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building — or the significance of those buildings I have already built." — Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections of designs with commentary that temperamentally parallel that work: irascible, radical, powerful and ... Read more

    $15.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mies van der Rohe

    A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

    An “excellent” new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos (Booklist, starred review).Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and “the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best,” while the Christian Science Monitor noted that “Schulze has both the gift of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palladio

    Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 54 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The founder of the nineteenth century French school of Neo-Impressionism, Georges Seurat devised the technique of Pointillism, portraying the play of light with tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours. A man of studious habits and a scientific mind, Seurat employed his original technique to create huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antoni Gaudí

    by Jeremy Roe ...
    Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brunel

    The Man Who Built the World

    A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being.Brunel's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Perfect House

    A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

    "Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Building Art

    The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

    From Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture in his innovative use of materials, design, and form, and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Stalin's Architect

    Power and Survival in Moscow

    by Deyan Sudjic ...
    The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture.What would an architect do for the chance to build the tallest building in the world? What would he sacrifice to stay alive in the midst of Stalin’s murderous purges?This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College

    Series series Florida History and Culture
    Florida Southern College in Lakeland boasts the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. With eleven buildings planned and designed by Wright, the campus forms a rich tableau for examining the architect's philosophy and design practice.In this fully illustrated volume, Dale Allen Gyure tells the engaging story of the ambitious project from beginning to end. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Louise Blanchard Bethune

    Every Woman Her Own Architect

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Winner of the 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives ConferenceAs America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm ... Read more

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  • Leisure Architecture of Wayne McAllister

    by Chris Nichols ...
    The work of late commercial architect Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) is responsible for much of the character of Southern California today. His Fred-and-Ginger nightclubs and glinting-steel-and-blazing-neon circular drive-ins brought Hollywood to life. His Sands Hotel in Las Vegas became the home of the Rat Pack; the mythology of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. owes a great deal to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La belleza. La Iglesia

    Prólogo de Etsuro Sotoo

    Series Book 71 - Bolsillo
    "Benedicto XVI nos dice dos palabras sustanciales para comprender el Misterio de la salvación cristiana. la primera es la palabra belleza. Ésta revela la inexorable nostalgia del hombre por la verdad, la justicia y el bien, es decir, la nostalgia de Dios (...) La segunda es la palabra Iglesia. La Iglesia es el lugar a través del cual cada hombre encuentra el acceso al Padre y se hace hijo de Dios ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ornament and Crime

    by Adolf Loos ...
    Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Gaudí

    Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (18521926) was an important and influential figure in the history of modern Spanish art. The use of colour, wide-ranging materials and introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art: The colours used in architecture have to be intense, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus