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Sacred Sites. the Library of Esoterica

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Hundley, Jessica

Publisher: Taschen

Date Published: 08-2024

ISBN: 3836590603 | EAN: 9783836590600

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 520

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Revit Essentials for Architecture: 2021 and beyond

BasicBinding: Paperback

Publisher: G3b Press

Date Published: 08-2020

ISBN: 0578731061 | EAN: 9780578731063

BasicBinding: Paperback

Pages: 808

Annotation: Revit Essentials for Architecture combines a straightforward, reader-friendly style with detailed project-focused exercises that encourage you to learn by doing. Gain practical, firsthand experience with Autodesk(R) Revit(R) software purpose-built for Building Information Modeling (BIM)

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Atlas of Never Built Architecture

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Goldin, Greg

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Date Published: 05-2024

ISBN: 1838666532 | EAN: 9781838666538

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product | Pages: 368

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Curate: Inspiration for an Individual Home

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Heath, Ali

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

Date Published: 07-2021

ISBN: 1784727393 | EAN: 9781784727390

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 224

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Living in Japan. 40th Ed.

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Taschen

Date Published: 08-2021

ISBN: 3836588439 | EAN: 9783836588430

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Glossary, Multi-Lingual, Price on Product | Pages: 480

Annotation: Japanese homes are refuges of tranquility, crafted in a unique domestic aesthetic of Eastern minimalism. Traditional architecture features alongside contemporary dwellings in this collection of homes, with many never-before-seen photographs. Turn to the rising sun and discover the fluid simplicity of these spaces where Zen philosophy breathes.

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Modernist Icons: Midcentury Houses and Interiors

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Gestalten

Date Published: 11-2023

ISBN: 3967041190 | EAN: 9783967041194

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 320

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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life

BasicBinding: Paperback

Publisher: Island Press

Date Published: 08-2019

ISBN: 1642830186 | EAN: 9781642830187

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Illustrated, Bibliography, Price on Product | Pages: 256

Annotation: In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how cities with well-designed density can result in a higher quality of life. He presents ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions.

Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance in a highly visual package, for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.

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Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

BasicBinding: Paperback

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Date Published: 06-2022

ISBN: 1645021270 | EAN: 9781645021278

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Price on Product, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index | Pages: 224

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Barefoot Architect

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Van Lengen, Johan

Publisher: Shelter Publications

Date Published: 10-2007

ISBN: 0936070420 | EAN: 9780936070421

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Illustrated, Table of Contents, Glossary, Recycled Paper, Price on Product | Pages: 720

Annotation: A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started.

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Living in the Desert: Stunning Desert Homes and Houses

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Date Published: 11-2018

ISBN: 0714876895 | EAN: 9780714876894

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 256

Annotation: A carefully curated and beautifully photographed selection of 50 architect-designed houses that reflects contemporary concerns about the unique challenges presented by life in the desert's sensitive environment

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Outside in: Interiors Born from Nature

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Date Published: 03-2024

ISBN: 1423665104 | EAN: 9781423665106

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product | Pages: 248

Annotation: An honest, introspective essay introduces Paquette's second book, which represents the most recent steps in his evolution as an interior designer. Some are ground-up homes that he worked on from the iteration, some are remodels of existing spaces in various scales, and some are furnishings of existing homes for clients. Concise chapter introductions are followed by gallery-like displays of images that the reader can become immersed in and interpret for themselves. For the reader, this book will prompt keener observation of the natural surroundings and how to bring those poignant moments into their own homes.

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F.L. Wright

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Taschen

Date Published: 09-2015

ISBN: 3836560496 | EAN: 9783836560498

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Illustrated | Pages: 96

Annotation: From prairie houses to skyscrapers and the Guggenheim Museum, explore the life and work of one of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright. Sketches, plans, and photographs chronicle all of Wright's major works, celebrating his organic architecture philosophy, innovative use of industrial materials, and vision for a new way of American living.

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Decorate Like a Decorator: All You Need to Know to Design Like a Pro

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Monacelli Press

Date Published: 04-2024

ISBN: 158093630X | EAN: 9781580936309

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product | Pages: 264

Annotation: "The editors of Frederic [magazine] compile and interpret their work in the magazine's regular Design School column, creating a trove of lessons that both inform and inspire. Many of the chapters in this book began as one of those columns"--Page 7, Introduction.

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Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The Complete and Unabridged Full-Color

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Author: Jones, Owen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Date Published: 07-2016

ISBN: 0691172064 | EAN: 9780691172064

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Unabridged, Price on Product | Pages: 496

Annotation:

"Wonderful. This reissue of Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament, unabridged and in full color, will be welcomed by scholars as well as architects and desginers."--Alina Payne, author of From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

"Like the Crystal Palace, for which Jones himself designed the interior color scheme, this book is a riotous cornicopia of hue and form, a heroic attempt to come to grips with the entire world of things. The Grammar of Ornament is an object of beauty in its own right"--Tim Barringer, author of Reading the Pre-Raphaelites

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101 Things I Didn't Learn In Architecture School: And wish I had known before my first job

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: Lebner, Sarah

Publisher: Sarah Lebner

Date Published: 12-2019

ISBN: 0648693708 | EAN: 9780648693703

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated | Pages: 130

Annotation:

An essential resource offering 101 succinct lessons about construction basics, the business of architecture, and personal development. Readers understand concepts through 24 simple diagrams and friendly language that assumes no prior learning.

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Gourmand's Egg. a Collection of Stories and Recipes

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Taschen

Date Published: 10-2022

ISBN: 3836585898 | EAN: 9783836585897

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product | Pages: 288

Annotation: As Dalí's muse, Hitchcock's nightmare, and humble ingredient, the eternal egg weaves a fascinating tale back to antiquity. The first volume in TASCHEN's series with The Gourmand, sumptuously illustrated with exclusive photography and historic artworks, celebrates the link between food and art through original recipes and stories.

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Architecture of Happiness

BasicBinding: Paperback

Author: de Botton, Alain

Publisher: Vintage

Date Published: 04-2008

ISBN: 0307277240 | EAN: 9780307277244

BasicBinding: Paperback

Features: Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents, Price on Product | Pages: 288

Annotation: Bestselling author de Botton considers how individuals' private homes and public edifices influence how they feel, and how dwellings could be built in such a way as to promote a sense of happiness.

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Peter Marino: Ten Modern Houses

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Date Published: 06-2024

ISBN: 183866792X | EAN: 9781838667924

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product | Pages: 272

Annotation: In this new collection, internationally acclaimed architect Peter Marino shares a look inside his private, residential projects.

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Modern Architecture A-Z

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Taschen

Date Published: 08-2016

ISBN: 3836556316 | EAN: 9783836556316

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product | Pages: 696

Annotation: Explore the A-Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti's colored geometries to Zaha Hadid's free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features more than 280 profiles of architects, styles, movements, and trends that have shaped structures from the 19th to the 21st century.

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Disc Interiors: Portraits of Home

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Date Published: 04-2021

ISBN: 0847869989 | EAN: 9780847869985

BasicBinding: Hardcover

Features: Price on Product, Illustrated | Pages: 256

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