Architectural DetailingFunction Constructability Aesthetics

The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings Aesthetics are a vital part of good design. Great design emerges from a deep understanding of the functionality and constructability of details. Good details provide clear, complete, and correct information to the wide variety of users that need them. Architects guide a project from design idea to buildable reality by working …

Architecture in Indianapolis1820–1900

As a planned community, Indianapolis boasted finished frame and brick buildings from its beginning. Architects and builders drew on Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Gothic, Romanesque, and Italian Renaissance styles for commercial, industrial, public, and religious buildings and for residences. In Architecture in Indianapolis: 1820–1900, preservationist and architect…

Die älteste Baugeschichte der Nikolaikirche in Alt-Berlin

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Tips from the TopArchitects Share Their Advice for Success

Tips from the Top is a collection of advice from more than sixty architects who have earned the respect of their peers and are willing to share their knowledge on building a successful and meaningful career in architecture. This book compiles more than sixty tips from a broad range of successful architects and design professionals from around the world. Organized by theme in seven broad catego…

White City, Black CityArchitecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa

'Gripping' Economist 'A fascinating exposé' Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks 'Path-breaking and brilliant' Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture and author of Hollow Land Tel Aviv, the Zionist project's 'White City', is said to have risen from the sands of the desert. Acclaimed worldwide for its architectural heritage and gleaming Bauhaus-inspired Modernism, it is ost…

Arquitectura urbanaEl ámbito público en Lima

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Rupturing ArchitectureSpatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Viol…

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023. Written by an Iraqi architect who has lived through the trauma of several wars, 10 years of UN-imposed sanctions, an invasion, and the subsequent violence, this book captures a broad spectrum of spatial res…

How Architecture WorksA Humanist's Toolkit

The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture (Booklist, starred review). We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the Vi…

The House the Rockefellers BuiltA Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentiet…

What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family One hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt's 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detest…

Embroidered GroundRevisiting the Garden

A memorable book about making a renowned garden work In Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden, the acclaimed author and garden designer Page Dickey writes of the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and myriad pleasures of the twenty-nineyear-long process of creating her own remarkable garden, Duck Hill, in upstate New York. This winning book details the evolution of one especially loved and ca…