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  • The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

    by John Ray ...
    John Ray tells the story of the building of Alexandria dominated by the towering Pharos and explores the technology which underlay its workings. It was only one of the achievements of that city, the New York of the ancient Mediterranean, with its museum and greatlibrary; its slot machines and the health service for Greeks only; the mathematician Eratosthenes calculating the circumference of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Literary Landscapes: New York

    A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile – a blend of quirky bookstores, authors’ favourite bars, storied hotels, grand libraries, on- and off-Broadway theatres ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Sustainable and Regenerative Materials for Architecture

    A Sourcebook

    Architects! Lead the change in responsible and creative material use.There is a creative explosion of work taking place in architecture and design schools exploring materials such as mycelium, clay/earth, engineered timber, bio-based plastics and algae. This handbook of low and no carbon materials for architects and designers focuses on sustainable materials, their sourcing, technical properties ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Albert Kahn Inc.

    Architecture, Industry, and Labor, 1905–1961

    A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies—that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.In Albert Kahn Inc. Claire Zimmermanprovides a history of second-wave industrialization associated with the growth and development of the United States’ auto industry ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Das Bauhaus

    Werkstatt der Moderne

    Series Book 2883 - Beck'sche Reihe
    Das Bauhaus – heute ein Synonym für Architektur und Design der klassischen Moderne – wurde 1919 von Walter Gropius als Reformschule in Weimar gegründet. Zu den Mitgliedern zählten so berühmte Namen wie Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Marianne Brandt und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Sie alle wirkten mit, ein ganzheitliches Konzept zu entwickeln, um Kunst und Design, Handwerk und Technik miteinander zu ... Read more

    $9.74 USD

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  • CABIN

    Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

    A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s an address, for a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state.To say Hutchison ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Housing India

    Programmes, Policies and Governance

    In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India. Contributions contextualise and conceptualise the Indian housing paradigm with an integrated perspective, covering diverse regions and themes related to housing, such as:Financial constraints to adequate housing in IndiaPolicy implementation ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Power and the Glory

    Life in the English Country House Before the Great War

    A spirited history of the English country house in its golden ageFor generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by the end of the nineteenth century, members of elite society found themselves, for the first time, in the company of arrivistes. Their new neighbors—from chorus girls to millionaire greengrocers to guano ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Tokyo Before Tokyo

    Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

    by Timon Screech ...
    A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun’s city that became modern Tokyo.Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture—but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called Edo, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics, and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Don't Build, Rebuild

    The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture

    by Aaron Betsky ...
    In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuseAs climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we ... Read more

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  • A Short History of British Architecture

    From Stonehenge to the Shard

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Architecture wields great power – a beautiful building inspires awe, an ugly building can oppress – and is an art form unique in being all around us, all the time. But despite its importance and its ubiquity, architecture is a mystery to all but the elite few. In this spectacular history, Simon Jenkins reveals why Britain looks the way it does.Starting with the earliest neolithic structures that ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Start with the Art

    The Smart Way to Decorate Any Room on Any Budget

    From the lead designer on Magnolia’s Artfully Designed, a smart, accessible, and fun guide to transforming any space into a room you love.Most interior design books make you put a picture on the wall last. But Natalie Papier has you start with the art. After all, if you want to make a room that is full of heart, you need to start with something that moves you.Art is everywhere, and Natalie shows ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Hidden Landmarks of New York

    A Tour of the City's Most Overlooked Buildings

    by Tommy Silk ...
    Discover dozens of underappreciated landmarks and the stories behind them in this unique history on New York City, written and photographed by Landmarks of NY creator, Tommy Silk.New York is a city of landmarks – more than 37,000 of them. Visitors and New Yorkers walk by hundreds of these landmarks daily, often never knowing the rich history behind each of these buildings. One of these New Yorkers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Natural History of Empty Lots

    Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

    A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect. To do this, we must challenge our assumptions of nature itself.During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, ... Read more

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  • Graph Vision

    Digital Architecture’s Skeletons

    How a protean mathematical object, the graph, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture.In Graph Vision, Theodora Vardouli offers a fresh history of architecture’s early entanglements with modern mathematics and digital computing by focusing on a hidden protagonist: the graph. Fueled by iconoclastic sentiments and skepticism of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • How to Think and Design in the Third Dimension

    by Paul Jackson ...
    A unique introduction to the principles of 3D symmetry for designers who think and create in three dimensions.From paper folding genius Paul Jackson comes his latest book How to Think and Design in the Third Dimension.We live in a 3D world, but most 3D objects are designed from a series of 2D side elevations and plan views. This book will teach you how to think and design in the third dimension. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker

    A History of the High Street

    by Annie Gray ...
    'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray leads the pack' JAY RAYNERGoogle 'the future of the high street' and you'll be confronted by opinion pieces debating the ethics ofvegan cafés, spiralling economic projections and the rush to online shopping. But what about the history of the high street?Historian Annie Gray walks us down the road and through the ages - from the dawn of the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Socializing Architecture

    Top-Down / Bottom-Up

    With a focus on deepening inequality across this world, this richly illustrated monograph of social practice in architecture shows how to catalyze productive change in the world’s border regions.Situated at the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to intervene in the contested space between public and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Slow Down

    For The Love of Home

    by Leanne Ford ...
    Designer and HGTV personality Leanne Ford shares design secrets and personal reflections on how she creates her warm, chic, and easy-going aesthetic—and how you can do the sameLeanne Ford’s imperfectly perfect designs inspire more than half a million social media fans daily. In this very personal design book, she shares her decorating philosophy, wry humor, and advice to live by. The Slow Down ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Designing Aspen

    The Houses of Rowland+Broughton

    In this luxurious and aspirational home design book, the founders of renowned Colorado firm Rowland+Broughton share a selection of their extraordinary residential projects, with Aspen and the Rocky Mountains as the dazzling backdrop.Rowland+Broughton is known for shaping the town of Aspen with their visionary work in urban design and historic preservation. Here, founders John Rowland and Sarah ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • English Country House Style

    Traditions, Secrets, and Unwritten Rules

    An interior design guide to creating English country house style wherever you may dwell, from property expert Katy Campbell and acclaimed photographer Mark NicholsonThe authors of At Home in the Cotswolds return with a new book full of English charm and style savvy. English Country House Style explores the signature rooms and furnishings that are synonymous with this comfortable, sumptuously lived ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

    An eye-opening exploration of one of the little-known levers that control our world—zoning codes—and a call-to-arms for using them to improve American society at every level.Zoning codes have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, determining how we experience our cities. Yet zoning remains invisible. In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin reveals ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Brief Histories: Ancient Greece

    Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age of Athens, charting the incredible rise and fall of the Greek world and revealing just how much the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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