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    • Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves cover image

      Girl on Girl

      Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves What happened to feminism in the 21st century? This question feels increasingly urgent after a period of reactionary cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and...
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      Notes to John

      For several months, Joan Didion recorded conversations with her psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was...
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    • Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe cover image

      Inessential Colors

      Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through color. Architectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in...
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    • Modern Architecture of Curacao

      Modern Architecture of Curacao

      Modernism is an important architectural style in which technological innovations are used for social purposes. The Curaçao chapter of the nonprofit organization DoCoMoMo (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement), dedicated to documenting and conserving modernist buildings, sites, and neighborhoods, was founded in September...
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    • The Art of Japanese Architecture: History / Culture / Design cover image

      The Art of Japanese Architecture

      The Art of Japanese Architecture: History | Culture | Design The Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book begins with a discussion of early prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of...
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    • Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & Forms cover image

      Japanese Architecture

      Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & Forms In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these stories encompasses the particular development, construction, function and symbolism inherent in historic architectural elements. Japanese architecture developed with influences from abroad and particular socio-political situations...
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    • Le Corbusier - Ronchamp: Die Kapelle Notre-Dame du Haut cover image

      Le Corbusier - Ronchamp

      One of the most renowned and controversial architects of the time was commissioned to design the new building in Ronchamp, an ancient place of Marian veneration: Le Corbusier. The client worked in the spirit of the journal L'Art Sacré, which discussed the connection between...
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    • Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook: Four Freedoms Memorial, Roosevelt Island, New York cover image

      Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook

      In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Louis Kahn's death, in March 1974, this facsimile edition presents the notebook in which the famous American architect sketched and wrote during his travels in the last year of his life. The centerpiece of the notebook is...
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    • Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing cover image

      Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing

      “The importance of a drawing is immense, because it’s the architect’s language,” famed architect Louis Kahn, one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, told his masterclass in 1967. While much of his built work has been heavily studied, this publication chooses...
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    • Roberto Burle Marx Lectures

      Roberto Burle Marx Lectures

      Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism Essential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as "the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environment Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94)...
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    • Your Private Sky – R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science cover image

      Your Private Sky

      This is an exuberant portrait of R. Buckminster Fuller, the visionary who exhorted us to "think global, act local" and devised the geodesic dome and the concept of Spaceship Earth. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller’s theories, ideas and projects,...
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    • Architecture and Plurality: Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 cover image

      Architecture and Plurality

      Architecture and Plurality: Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 Showcasing a curated selection of groundbreaking architectural projects from around the world, this volume highlights innovative design that responds to today’s complex social, cultural, and environmental realities. Rooted in the guiding principle of plurality, this...
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    • Thinking Architecture: Third, expanded edition cover image

      Thinking Architecture

      Peter Zumthor, winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture 2009, is considered to be one of the most extraordinary and controversial architects working today. Thinking Architecture allows readers a direct glimpse into his mind through a series of essays, titles such as “The Light...
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      Herzog & de Meuron

      Renowned for such prominent buildings as London’s Tate Modern, Beijing’s Bird’s Nest National Stadium and 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Herzog & de Meuron sits at the cutting edge of contemporary design. Founded in Basel more than 40 years ago, the Swiss architectural...
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      S, M, L, XL

      Presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas...
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    • Le Corbusier Public Buildings (Great Architects Redrawn) cover image

      Le Corbusier Public Buildings

      Through the process of redrawing the plans of a wide range of completed projects by Le Corbusier, this book offers a new interpretation of his architectural works. Redrawing all the technical drawings provides an insight into the thoughts of the architect when dealing with...
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    • The Women Who Changed Architecture: Women Who Changed Architecture cover image

      The Women Who Changed Architecture

      A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd...
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    • The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses cover image

      The Eyes of the Skin

      The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense―sight―so predominant in architectural culture and...
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    • Toward an ArchitectureToward an Architecture (Getty Research Institute) cover image

      Toward an Architecture

      Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to...
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    • Words Without Music: A Memoir cover image

      Words Without Music

      A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely...
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    • Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture cover image

      Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

      First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern...
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    • Modern American Homes: Prairie & Craftsman Architecture cover image

      Modern American Homes

      Modern American Homes: Prairie & Craftsman Architecture In 1913, a Chicago architect compiled this wonderful portfolio of American homes and buildings that he said embodied "the back to nature" movement of the times. Today, this faithful reprint is a treasure of Craftsman bungalow and...
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    • Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye cover image

      Ugliness and Judgment

      Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment―and its concern for ugliness―in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries...
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    • Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism cover image

      Women Architects at Work

      In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to...
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    • Le Corbusier (World of Art) cover image

      Le Corbusier: World of Art

      Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth century. The richness and variety of his work combined with his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had an immense impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through...
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    • The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) cover image

      The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical

      The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of...
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    • Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form cover image

      Learning from Las Vegas

      Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections...
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    • The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books) cover image

      The Architecture of the City

      Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest...
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    • The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1 cover imageThe Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1

      The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1

      How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront. The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and...
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    • A Pattern Language

      A Pattern Language

      A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely...
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    • Mies Van Der Rohe: Objects and Furniture Design (By Architects) cover image

      Mies Van Der Rohe: Objects and Furniture Design

      German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is, without doubt, one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Equally significant, if smaller in scale, is Mies' daring design of furniture, pieces that exhibit an unerring sense of proportion, as well as minimalist forms and...
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    • Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings cover image

      Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings

      Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as a Scarpa interior. Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa has in the past-half...
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    • Windows of Light cover image

      Windows of Light

      Light is a physical phenomenon and social connector whose meaning extends beyond what is visible. To capture that meaning, the research compiled in "Windows of Light" explores symbols, myths, innovations, and how light fundamentally shapes our biological, astronomical, and architectural environments. Anchoring the many...
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    • The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World cover image

      The Gift

      The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He...
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    • The Evolution of a Building Complex: Louis I. Kahn’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies cover image

      The Evolution of a Building Complex

      The first book to explore the entire Salk Institute complex, which is often considered to be Kahn’s most important commission. An in-depth examination, focusing on the design development, including the built Laboratory building, the unbuilt Meeting House and Visiting Fellows residences and the overall...
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    • Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan cover image

      Delirious New York

      At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle "the culture of congestion" and its architecture. "Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone... occupied by architectural...
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    • Carlo Scarpa: Classic format cover image

      Carlo Scarpa

      The work of Carlo Scarpa challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern architecture. While several books have been published on his work, none has approached the breadth and depth of this classic monograph by Robert McCarter, who is celebrated for his meticulously...
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    • Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World cover image

      Feminist City

      Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There...
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    • Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life cover image

      Soft City

      Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for...
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    • The Lesson of Japanese Architecture cover image

      The Lesson of Japanese Architecture

      This vintage book contains Jiro Harada's fascinating treatise on Japanese architecture; "The Lesson of Japanese Architecture". It contains numerous articles introducing Japanese architecture, along with black-and-white photographs of Japanese buildings and establishments - of which many were sadly destroyed during the Second World War....
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    • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Tenth Anniversary Edition) cover image

      Walkable City

      Over the past decade, Walkable City has become the definitive guide to urban transformation, sparking a nationwide conversation about how we design our communities. Translated into seven languages and widely influential, this groundbreaking book is now reissued with a major update—including eight new chapters...
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    • Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design cover image

      Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design

      Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time....
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    • The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture) cover image

      The Seven Lamps of Architecture

      In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a work that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of...
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    • Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope cover image

      Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

      A brave and imaginative memoir by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, detailing her healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard. Determined to not let her assault derail her goal of joining NASA after graduation, Nguyen opted...
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    • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design cover image

      Happy City

      Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can―and do―make us happier people. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea...
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    • The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams cover image

      The Oracle of Night

      The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon....
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    • Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds cover image

      Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

      This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python...
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    • Still Me: A Novel (Me Before You Trilogy) cover image

      Still Me

      Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik...
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    • The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times cover image

      The Light We Carry

      In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering...
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      Big Magic

      Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant...
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