Methods & Materials
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Shelter Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartAn inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn’s 1970s countercultural self-build manuals
DIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend
- Author: Banchini, Leopold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 3959054904
- Language: English
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Operative Design: A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs
$16.99 Read moreThe core idea for this book is the use of operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective … [more below]
- Author: Di Mari, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 9063692897
- Language: English
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Carpentry and Construction, Sixth Edition
$97.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
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- Author: Miller, Mark R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: February 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1259587428
- Language: English
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Kengo Kuma: Substance
$75.00 Add to cartKengo Kuma: Substance explores the work of the acclaimed Japanese architect through six materials–wood, bamboo, metal, paper, textile, and stone–and presents the ideas behind each work.
Kengo Kuma’- Author: Kengo Kuma and Associates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1864709928
- Language: English
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Architectural Fantasies: Artist-Built Environments
$49.00 Add to cart“Profiles more than 60 dwellings and monuments built by artists.” —Publishers Weekly
From Miami’s Coral Castle to LA’s Watts Towers, Architectural Fantasies explores over 60 dwellings across more tha- Author: Farb Hernandez, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 196209829X
- Language: English
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The Spaces That Make Us: Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World
$27.99 Add to cartCreate a better life by creating better design. Did you know that. . .
. . . the arrangement of your living room could improve your relationship with your partner?
. . . the layout of your child’s clas
- Author: Kurani, Danish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1400249120
- Language: English
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African Fabbers Atlas: Manual of Synthetic Vernacular Architecture
$34.95 Add to cartA compendium of essays, conversations and paradigmatic projects conceived as an adaptive platform on synthetic-vernacular architecture in Africa and its potential role as cultural driver for global s… [more below]
- Author: Cascone, Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1948765624
- Language: English
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Earthen Floors, Second Edition: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice
$49.99 Add to cartThe essential guide to making, installing and living with beautiful, all-natural earthen floors – now fully revised and updated
This full-color guide includes complete step-by-step instructions for in
- Author: Crimmel, Sukita Reay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1774060086
- Language: English
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Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures. a Handbook
$78.99 Add to cartThe English 5th Edition of the Handbook
Systematically structured and didactically prepared, the book conveys in one volume the necessary basic technical and constructive building knowledge to en
- Author: Deplazes, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3035626669
- Language: English
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A Moratorium on New Construction
$22.00 Add to cartA massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.
To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. Fr- Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice
- Author: Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1915609003
- Language: English
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Rendering in Pen and Ink: The Classic Book on Pen and Ink Techniques for Artists, Illustrators, Architects, and Designers
$29.95 Add to cartArthur L. Guptill’s classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct… [more below]
- Author: Guptill, Arthur L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0823045293
- Language: English
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Stone: Ancient Craft to Modern Mastery
$50.00 Add to cartIn this perceptive and illustrative look at the expressive and practical use of stone throughout history, Richard Rhodes unlocks the underlying principles of this ancient material–and explains the cl… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1797230085
- Language: English
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Concrete Architecture: The Ultimate Collection
$79.95 Read moreThe ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 years
A singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the most incredible and in
- Author: Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1838667113
- Language: English
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Thomas Heatherwick: Making
$50.00 Add to cartWallpaper* once described Thomas Heatherwick as having “the world at his feet,” and the designer’s bestselling monograph puts his world at ours. Filling almost 650 pages, this fully revised and updat
- Author: Heatherwick, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500297169
- Language: English
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Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years
$69.99 Read moreThis is a clear, accurate, readable survey of the dramatic transformation of Chinese architecture from 1840 through 2020. It narrates the change from a predominantly timber-frame tradition to construc… [more below]
- Author: Steinhardt, Nancy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1961856077
- Language: English
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Be a Successful Building Contractor
$38.00 Read morePublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
This books h… [more below]
- Author: Woodson, R. Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0071441743
- Language: English
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Fran Silvestre Architects
$75.00 Read moreA stunning selection of projects from the Spanish architect and interior designer Fran Silvestre, known for his sleek, luxurious aesthetic.
In 2005, Fran Silvestre founded his Valencia-based interior- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872718
- Language: English
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The Art of the Stonemason
$24.95 Add to cartDrawing on five generations of family tradition as stonemasons in his Native Scotland, Ian Cramb created this masterful work to pass on his knowledge and experience to craftsmen who wish to learn the
- Author: Cramb, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0811739805
- Language: English
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Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, Future
$46.00 Read moreWood as the essential building material for the 21st century–ecologically, economically and technologically
Wood is the building material of the 21st century. Understanding this material and its poten
- Author: Ferrer, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 3037786981
- Language: English
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Container Architecture: Modular, Pre Fab, Affordable, Movable and Sustainable Living
$55.00 Read moreThe ultimate in sustainable architecture, containers provide a cheap and resilient building material with a myriad of possible applications. Modular, these self contained units are easy to attach to a… [more below]
- Author: Bach, David Andreu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 8499366627
- Language: English
