Architecture
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How Architecture Works
$25.99 Add to cartAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing.- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534829
- Language: English
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100 Contemporary Wood Buildings
$29.17 Add to cartNot so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by n
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 3836561565
- Language: English
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Monochrome Home: Elegant Interiors in Black and White
$45.00 Read moreDecorating in black and white is perennially popular and eternally chic. Hilary Robertson demonstrates how, whether used alone or together, these contrasting shades can create dramatic effects at home… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1849756139
- Language: English
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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City
$44.95 Read moreFrom skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skysc… [more below]
- Author: Leslie, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0252044959
- Language: English
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Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
$29.99 Read moreOne of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construc
- Author: Goldhagen, Sarah Williams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0062996045
- Language: English
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Le Corbusier
$23.33 Add to cartBorn Charles-?douard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ide
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Cohen, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560356
- Language: English
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Vermeer
$23.33 Add to cartThough numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Schneider, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836504898
- Language: English
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Quiet Spaces
$65.00 Add to cartThe interiors in Quiet Spaces were made for private contemplation: calm places in which to read a book, listen to music, or have dinner with friends. Showcasing the possibilities of sophisticated, low
- Author: Smalley, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0500343691
- Language: English
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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
$39.95 Add to cartThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Amaza Le- Author: Taylor, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048345
- Language: English
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Coloring St. Louis: A Coloring Book for All Ages
$9.95 Read moreThis new coloring book offers a hands-on look at St. Louis’s architectural history.
St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, with beautiful, strange, and fascinating structures of every size and- Author: Wanko, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Beyond the Canyon: Inside Epic California Homes
$65.00 Add to cartAn industry insider’s look at glamorous, eccentric, captivating, and storied modern homes that embody California cool
For more than twenty years, globe-trotting English-born, Los Angeles-based photogra
- Author: Davies, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1580936059
- Language: English
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Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property
$39.00 Add to cartWhat does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical … [more below]
- Author: Howard, J. Myrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1469677008
- Language: English
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
$35.00 Read moreSince its publication – Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas’s celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the variety of human behavior
At the
- Author: Koolhaas, Rem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1885254008
- Language: English
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How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts
$28.42 Add to cartFinally, a practical guide to building castles in the air.
- Author: Stiles, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1493036734
- Language: English
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Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise
$80.00 Add to cartPaying homage to the seminal mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, this luxurious book showcases historic jet-set homes designed by legendary talents such as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, an… [more below]
- Author: Street-Porter, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0847861872
- Language: English
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The Nature and Art of Workmanship
$29.95 Add to cartThe Nature and Art of Workmanship is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacturing. Cutting through a c… [more below]
- Author: Pye, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0713689315
- Language: English
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Building Practice
$35.00 Read moreBuilding Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and pol… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1957183497
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture A-Z
$116.67 Read moreExplore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti’s colored geometries to Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements… [more below]
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 18 2022
- ISBN10: 383658316X
- Language: English
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Lessons for Students in Architecture
$45.00 Read moreLessons for Students in Architecture, written by Dutch architect and educator Herman Hertzberger (born 1932), was first published in 1991 as an elaborated version of lectures Hertzberger had given sin… [more below]
- Author: Hertzberger, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 9462083193
- Language: English
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Art at Home: An Accessible Guide to Collecting and Curating Art in Your Home
$35.00 Read moreFilled with expert advice and inspiring images, this informative guide by Grazia lifestyle editor Rachel Loos will give you the confidence to buy and display art, whatever your budget.
Art brings colo- Author: Loos, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1788795628
- Language: English
