Architecture

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by Ron Henderson (Author)Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of Suzhou, landscape architect and scholar Ron Henderson guides visitors through seventeen of these gardens. The book explores UNESCO world cultural heritage sites such as the Maste...

Early Art and Architecture of Africa - Paperback

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by Peter Garlake (Author)This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, and the East African coast--treating each in detail and setting them in their social and historical context. Garlake is long familiar with and has extensive p...

Elements of Style: Designing a Home and a Life - Hardcover

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by Erin Gates (Author)From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style. Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home can be an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the inte...

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by Ashley Gilbreath (Author), James T. Farmer (Foreword by)Creating homes that bring families together, where they can celebrate life's joys. Interior designer Ashley Gilbreath's fresh approach to Southern decorating is guided by her respect for family and tradition with an eye on practicality and warmheartedness. Her first book reveals the breadth of her casually elegant style. Whether it's in town, on the water, or in the countryside, each home exhibits thoughtful planning and attention to ...

Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China - Paperback

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by Benjamin Wood (Author)Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American South in the 1950s through to the glittering skylines of the 21st century. His design of the Xintiandi area of Shanghai set the standard for urban renewal across all of China's cities, but that's just the beginning of the ama...

Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China - Hardcover

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by Rainer Zerbst (Author)The life of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single spectacular church, La Sagrada Familia. In his youth, he courted a glamorous social life and the demeanor of a dandy. By the time of his death in a tram accident on the streets of Barcelona his clothes were s...

Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920 - Hardcover

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by Sally McMurry (Editor), Nancy Van Dolsen (Editor)The phrase Pennsylvania German architecture likely conjures images of either the continental three-room house with its huge hearth and five-plate stoves, or the huge Pennsylvania bank barn with its projecting overshoot. These and other trademarks of Pennsylvania German architecture have prompted great interest among a wide audience, from tourists and genealogists to architectural historians, antiquarians, and folklorists. Since the nineteent...

Defining Style: The Book of Interior Design - Hardcover

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by Joan Barzilay Freund (Author), Asad Syrkett (Introduction by)Discover 25 of the most recognizable design styles through 150 residential interiors from the world's leading designersFrom Coastal to Contemporary, Maximal to Mediterranean, Tailored to Textured, this inspirational lookbook guides beginners and enthusiasts alike through the most timeless interior design styles of the last century.Learn to identify and understand each style like an expert through introductory texts describing key...

Plants in Design: A Guide to Designing with Southern Landscape Plants - Hardcover

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by Brad Davis (Author), David Nichols (Author)Plants in Design emerged from Brad E. Davis's and David Nichols's love for plants and well-designed landscapes and a previous frustration with landscape design guidebooks. While most landscape and garden design resources focus either on design principles or on plant materials, the unique strategy of Plants in Design provides a palette of options organized by mature size and scale, covering many genres of plants from grasses to herbaceous perennial...

Ando. Complete Works 1975-Today - Hardcover

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by Philip Jodidio (Author)Discover the master of Modernist simplicity, Tadao Ando. Bringing our XXL-sized tribute to a smaller, more convenient format, this collection spans the architect's entire career--including new projects like the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico--and profiles each structure through photographs and... Number of Pages: 512 Publication Date: September 22, 2020

A Natural History of North American Trees - Paperback

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by Donald Culross Peattie (Author)A volume for a lifetime is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll l...

Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff - Hardcover

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by Myquillyn Smith (Author)Cozy Minimalist Home helps you go beyond décor trends to make your home beautiful, stylish, and comfortable on any budget. Myquillyn Smith's first book, The Nesting Place, teaches us that our homes don't have to be perfect to be beautiful. But how can we apply that lesson to our actual, day-to-day design decisions?Cozy Minimalist Home is the answer to that question. Writing for the hands-on woman who'd rather move her own furniture than hire a designer, Smith helps ...

Adventures in Architecture for Kids: 30 Design Projects for Steam Discovery and Learning - Paperback

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by Vicky Chan (Author)Design Genius Jr.: Adventures in Architecture for Kids introduces kids to the design challenges faced by architects today, including choosing materials, designing for diverse users, and considering the environment. Offering a world of possibilities for learning math, engineering, history, social studies, planning, geography, art, and design, this rich educational resource includes hands-on projects that allow kids to experiment, design, build, succeed, fail, and try agai...

The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis - Hardcover

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by James Douet (Author)Steam pumping stations are exceptional buildings, a rousing, eloquent architecture designed by engineers, and an industrial edifice intended to express civic pride. They were invented, perfected and superseded in barely a century during the determined struggle to overcome the historic threat to urban life posed by industrialization. Of the buildings of the industrial period only train stations can compete with waterworks for stylistic bravura, carried over into the cool...

Establishing Home: Creating Space for a Beautiful Life with Family, Faith, and Friends - Hardcover

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by Jean Stoffer (Author), September Vaudrey (With)What is your unique path to a more beautiful and fulfilling life? Walk alongside award-winning designer Jean Stoffer as she chronicles her own surprising, unhurried journey and be encouraged that there's plenty of time to discover yours.When Jean Stoffer's husband announced he was quitting his extremely stressful job to look for another career, she suddenly needed to bring in a lot more of the family income. The problem was, while she had a de...

Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses Around the World - Hardcover

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by Philip Jodidio (Author)Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places like E...

Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Field Guide - Paperback

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by Simon C. Green (Author)This field guide, a companion to Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective, reviews key blockhouses left standing in South Africa. A first-of-its-kind guide, it can be used for virtual visits to learn more about these military structures, or better still to get 'boots on the ground'. Its main aim is to put the blockhouse sites on the battlefield tour map and to encourage professional guides and amateurs alike to explore them in detail or make the...

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by Lauren Markham (Author)"Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."--Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing public imagination into generative realms."I am in need of a word," writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an organization that coins neologisms. She des...

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by David Frazer Lewis (Author)A.W.N. Pugin transformed the Gothic Revival from an architectural style into an international movement. He decorated and furnished the Houses of Parliament, creating one of the icons of modern British identity in the process. His church designs were vastly influential, and although he was staunchly Roman Catholic, he did much to set the aesthetic tone of modern Anglicanism. The house he designed for himself at Ramsgate transformed the Victorian Gothic villa, demo...

100 Interiors Around the World - Hardcover

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by Taschen (Editor)Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, this edition rounds up some of today's most exceptional and inspiring interiors across six continents. From rustic minimalism to urbane eclecticism, the selection celebrates a global spectrum of styles, united by authenticity, a love of detail, and a zest for individual expression that will never go out of fashion. Includes interiors in Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Gre...

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by Diana Murray (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)Hunt for shapes of all kinds on this journey through a bustling city, illustrated by four-time Caldecott Honoree Bryan Collier From shimmering skyscrapers to fluttering kites to twinkling stars high in the sky, everyday scenes become extraordinary as a young girl walks through her neighborhood noticing exciting new shapes at every turn. Far more than a simple concept book, City Shapes is an explosion of life. Diana Murray's richly crafted...

Architecture and Children: Integrated Design Education Using the Designed and Built, Natural and Cultural Environment, New Edition - Paperback

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by Anne Taylor (Author)This guidebook presents an educational framework for studying and understanding essential architectural concepts, including the physics that govern the principles of structure, design in nature, and similarities found in built and fabricated structural systems. This is a curriculum for teaching and learning about the design process, the process of learning through visual thinking, use of hypotheses, problem-solving, analysis, idea generation and communication through dr...

British Fortifications, 1485-1945: An Illustrated History - Paperback

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by Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage (Author) This book details British fortifications used from the Tudor period beginning in 1485 through the end of World War II in 1945. With the advent of firearms, the Tudor period indeed opened a new chapter in the histories of Britain, fortification and warfare. By 1500 AD, Britain and Europe at large entered a new phase, marked by the foundation of colonial empires and a broadened sphere of influence and rule. During the following centuries, British sailors, rut...

Living Spaces: The Art and Methods of Interior Design - Paperback

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by Yang Jin (Author), Jin Wang (Author), XI Chen (Author)"LIVING SPACES: THE ART AND METHODS OF INTERIOR DESIGN" explores the art and methods of designing contemporary indoor living spaces. As living standards rise, the expression of personalized lifestyles becomes increasingly important, encompassing choices such as decor style, spatial layout, color schemes, and furniture arrangement. The book unfolds over six chapters. The first four chapters focus on design principles, starting with basic...

The Holistic House: A sanctuary for health and wellbeing - Hardcover

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by Jean-Marie Gobet (Author)"Music", as Johan Wolfgang von Goethe wrote "is liquid architecture and architecture is frozen music", and just as music can elevate the soul, so can architecture. Is it possible to design a house that would nourish and promote the development of the inhabitants' well-being and mindfulness? The architect-priests of ancient Egypt not only believed buildings should embody our social values and individual tastes but strived for them to have their own soul. They used t...

Robinson's Golden Rule Wallpapers Sample Book - 1949-1950 Styles: A Vintage Collection of Authentic Mid-Century Designs for Creative Projects - Paperback

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by Robinson's Golden Rule Wallpaper (Author)Robinson's Golden Rule Wallpapers: 1949-1950 StylesA Vintage Collection of Authentic Mid-Century Designs for Creative ProjectsStep back in time and experience the unvarnished charm of mid-20th-century design with Robinson's Golden Rule Wallpapers: 1949-1950 Styles. This exclusive collection features original wallpaper samples from the iconic Robinson's Golden Rule collection, offering a window into the vibrant aesthetics of the late 1940s and early ...

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by Diana Maldonado (Author)El libro est? compuesto por cuatro cap?tulos. En el primer cap?tulo se habla de geograf?as artificiales y geo-espacios, se revisa la informalidad urbana como discurso y modelo de producci?n espacial, y tambi?n se piensa en espacios-frontera. En el segundo cap?tulo, se reescribe la cr?nica de una muerte anunciada (breve historia del planning), se establece una relaci?n directa entre el espacio sedentario y los procesos de colonizaci?n, y se piensa en alternativas de ...

Inside the Design Industry: Navigating Your First Steps in Commercial Architecture, Interior Design, and Environmental Branding - Paperback

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by Brittney Herrera (Author)Turn your passion for design into a successful career!Politics. Unwritten rules. Your talent is undeniable, but succeeding in a leading design firm requires more than just skill-it demands an understanding of complex team dynamics.Brittney Herrera understands the real-world challenges junior designers face. Inside the Design Industry serves as a mentor to every junior designer, demystifying the competitive world of commercial architecture, interior design, and envi...

How a Log Cabin is Built - Engineering Books for Kids Children's Engineering Books - Paperback

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by Baby Professor (Author)Did you know that when your ancestors were your age, they have already begun to learn building log cabins? In this book, you're going to learn the theories that will hopefully push you to act and create your own log cabins too. Engineering is fun. You just need to have the right tools to see it that way. Secure a copy of this book today! Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2024

Recollections of a Southern Landscape Architect: Celebrating the Design of Landscapes and Communities - Paperback

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by Ronald R. Huffman (Author)This retrospective looks back at the work of a landscape architect based in Atlanta, Georgia. The work is presented with background information about the clients and the unique challenges that are often involved in public projects. The author adds background narrative to explain the thought process, design ideas and the marketing skill needed to win some of the projects. More than 50 projects are presented with a combination of more than 280 plans, sketches and ph...

Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD - Paperback

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by Ricardo Gonz?lez-Villaescusa (Author)This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from ...