Architecture category: 43274 books
The Chicago School of Architecture
Building the Modern City, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago...
Hotel Lobbies and Lounges
The Architecture of Professional Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture.
Hotels occupy a particular...
by Pierre Chabat
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
This sumptuous book presents 541 beautiful full-color illustrations of a distinctive architectural style that enlivened the cities and countryside of Europe in the Victorian era. Widely considered the book on brickwork, and unavailable elsewhere, it documents the ways in which that style incorporated...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 21: Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and...
Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White
Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential, far-reaching architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine...
Island Style
Tropical Dream Houses in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
With over 350 beautiful photographs and insightful commentary, Island Style reveals the lush, tropical architecture and interior design of Indonesia.
A tropical island inspires thoughts of warm breezes, crystal clear water and white beaches stretching as far as the eye can see. But tropical...
The Modern Thai House
Innovative Designs in Tropical Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
With rich photography and insightful commentary, this Thai architecture and interior design book showcases some of the finest modern masterpieces in Southeast Asia.
A tremendous body of sophisticated and sensitively designed architectural work has been produced in Thailand in the first decade...
The Florentine Villa
Architecture History Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day.
Defying...
Bayou Built
The Legacy of Louisiana's Historic Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Louisiana, the Bayou State, is famous for many things, including savory cuisine, great music, and a resident population whose mantra is laissez les bons temps roulerlet the good times roll! The place is also noted for its historic architecture, which ranges from simple forms such as the shotgun house...
by Richard Hansley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Asheville, known for its architectural diversity and intriguing Art Deco style, has been fortunate in attracting brilliant architects who, with imaginative foresight and design expertise, have created lasting testaments in brick and stone. Local architectural enthusiast Richard Hansley recounts the history...
Up from Zero
Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and...
Elegant Small Homes of the Twenties
99 Designs from a Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In 1927, the Chicago Tribune sponsored a competition for "trained men of talent, incorporating into the small home ideas of real worth, types of rare charm, and the best possible plans for comfort and convenience." This collection spotlights the challenge’s top results, presenting the nineteen prize-winning...
by Nancy V. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Nestled on the banks of the Hudson River, Rhinebeck, New York, is a shining example of American architectural history. Lifelong resident and Town Historian Nancy Kelly scrutinizes Rhinebeck's eclectic structures, from modest cabins to Victorian estates, framed colonial homes to elaborate Beaux Arts mansions....
by Richie Herink
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Cars were one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s great obsessions, along with Architecture and Japanese Prints. The last two have been well documented, but the Cars have not been covered at all … until this book.
This unique visual history of Wright’s 85 cars and one motorcycle uses original magazine...