Archive for January, 2018

January 8, 2018

Be Seated

 

Grids: Chicago

 

Haifa: City of Steps

 

Michael Graves: Design for Life

 

DFW Deco: Modernistic Architecture of North Texas

 

Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities

 

Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium

 

Imminent Commons: Urban Questions for the Near Future

 

It's Not Easy Being Green

 

Lawrence Halprin

 

Legal Handbook for Architects, Engineers, and Contractors 2016/2017

 

Making Design Theory

 

Now You See It and Other Essays on Design

 

Richard Meier, Architect 2013/2017

 

Risomania: The New Spirit of Printing

 

Square Foot Costs: 2018

 

The Art of Type and Typography: Explorations in Use and Practice

 

The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

 

The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings

 

The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence

 

Thinking in Icons: Designing and Creating Effective Visual Symbols

 

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January 8, 2018

Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Art

 

Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War

 

The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

 

Black: Architecture in Monochrome

 

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

 

Buildings for a Sustainable America: Case Studies

 

Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward Minded Retrospective, Volume 1: Projects

 

Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward Minded Retrospective, Volume 2: Articles and Talks

 

Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985

 

Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

 

Homes fit for Heroes: The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain

 

Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History

 

Landscape Theory in Design

 

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

 

Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life

 

Robert Venturi's Rome

 

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design

 

The Earth the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race

 

The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms

 

20 Iconic Film Posters by Saul Bass

 

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

 

The Politics of Design: A (not so) Global Manual for Visual Communication

 

The Vitra Campus: Architecture, Design, Industry

 

Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture

 

The Visual History of Type

 

The Typography Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters

 

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January 8, 2018

A Companion to Greek Architecture

 

Writings

 

A-Z of Design and Designers

 

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

 

California: Designing Freedom

 

Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life

 

Creative Strategy and the Business of Design

 

Dom Hans van der Laan: Works and Words

 

Emergent Timber Technologies: Materials, Structures, Engineering, Projects

 

Empire, State and Building

 

Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale

 

2018 International Mechanical Code

 

Merrick House

 

Multifamily Housing Development Handbook

 

New Architecture London

 

Pedro de Lemos: Lasting Impressions: Works on Paper, 1910-1945

 

Philippe Meyer: Villa QDC 175

 

Retrospecta

 

River and Road: Fort Myers Architecture from Craftsman to Modern

 

Robot House: Instrumentation, Representation, Fabrication

 

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

 

Tham and Videgård Arkitekter: The Operative Elements of Architecture

 

Timber in the City: Design and Construction in Mass Timber

 

X Agendas for Architecture

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January 8, 2018

50 Urban Blocks

 

100 Years of Architecture

 

150 Best Tiny Home Ideas

 

Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography

Against the Grain: Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich

Archigraphy: Lettering on Buildings

Architect's Pocket Book

Architecture and Ritual: How Buildings Shape Society

 

Architecture and the Unconscious

 

Architecture History and Theory in Reverse: From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning

 

Architecture, Mentalities, and Meaning

 

Better Buildings: Learning from Buildings in Use

 

BIM for Landscape

 

Brutalism Resurgent

 

Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers: Integrative Data Research Methods

 

Chaos and culture : Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens

 

Cities in Time: Temporary Urbanism and the Future of the City

 

Concrete from Archeology to Invention, 1700-1769 : the Renaissance of Pozzolana and Roman Construction Techniques

 

Construction Manager's BIM Handbook

 

Craft Becomes Modern: The Bauhaus in the Making

 

Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods

 

Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture

 

Elements of Venice

 

Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work

 

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

 

Furnitecture: Furniture that Transforms Space

 

Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston

 

Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World

 

Interior Landscapes: A Visual Atlas

 

Introduction to Construction Contract Management

 

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Making Homes: Ethnography and Design

 

Material Imagination in Architecture

 

New Museums

 

Patkau Architects : Material Operations

 

Planning Atlanta

 

Prototyping for Architects

 

Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach

 

Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism

 

Renovate Innovate: Reclaimed and Upcycled Homes

 

The Rhetoric of Pier Luigi Nervi: Concrete and Ferrocement Forms

 

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

 

Site and Composition: Design Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism

 

Site Work and Landscape Cost Data

 

Sketching for Engineers and Architects

 

Solid Wood : Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology, and Design

 

Studio Piet Boon

 

The Complete Zaha Hadid

 

The Hard Life

 

The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

 

The Inspired Landscape : Twenty-one Leading Landscape Architects Explore the Creative Process

 

The Pencil Perfect: The Untold Story of a Cultural Icon

 

The Planting Design Handbook

 

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture: Air, Comfort, and Climate

 

The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment

 

The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Politics, Values, and Actions in Contemporary Practice

 

The Work of Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects : Economy as Ethic

 

Thinking Tools: Design as Process: On the Creation of Writing Utensils

 

Turning Point in Timber Construction: A New Economy

 

Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience

 

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products

 

Urban Loopholes: Creative Alliances of Spacial Production in Shanghai's City Center

 

Urban Waterfront Promenades

 

Wright's Writings : Reflections on Culture and Politics 1894-1959

 

Zaha Hadid Architects: Redefining Architecture and Design

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January 8, 2018

A New History of Modern Architecture

 

Architecure's Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

 

An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film

 

Cities of the Global South Reader

 

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany

 

Contractor's Pricing Guide: Residential Repair and Remodeling Costs

 

Convenience Stores and Retail Fuel Properties : Essential Appraisal Issues

 

Design-Build: Design-Build Essentials

 

Great Houses of Havana: A Century of Cuban Style

 

Historicizing Infrastructure

 

How Architects Write

 

 

Icelandic Lessons : Industrial Landscape

 

Mies in Berlin

Mies van der Rohe: Interior Spaces

 

Nordic Modernism : Scandinavian Architecture, 1890-2015

 

Reading in Planning Theory

 

Reporting from the Front: Biennale Architeturra 2016

 

Sambuichi and the Inland Sea

 

Scarcity in Excess: The Built Environment and Economic Crisis in Iceland

 

Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification

 

Sejima Kazuyo + Nishizawa Ryūe / SANAA : works 1995-2003

 

Self Storage Economics and Appraisal

 

Simplified Structural Analysis and Design for Architects

 

Site Work & Landscape Costs with RSMeans Data

 

Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings

 

Square Foot Costs

 

A Sustainable Bodega and Hotel: John Spence, Patrick Bellew, and Andy Bow

 

The Anatomy of the Architectural Book

 

The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World

 

The Oxford Companion to Architecture

 

 

Tragic Design : the Impact of Bad Product Design and How to Fix It

 

Urban Geography

 

Valuation and Market Studies for Affordable Housing

 

Who's Afraid of Architecture: Take One, Venezia

 

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