
4a Architekten: Setting Locations, Forming Spaces, Giving Light, Showing True Colors
Wolfgang Bachmann, Wladimir Kaminer and Simone Voigt
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Stuttgart-based 4a Architekten have gained much recognition especially for their public swimming...

A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience
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A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth...

Durability in Construction: Rebuilding Traditions in 21st Century Architecture
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This book includes thoughts and experiences from contemporary architects who promote durability in...

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice
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Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative pragmatist agenda that will inspire...

Holkham: The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Country House
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Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled...

Pictures of the Floating Microcosm: New Representations of Japanese Architecture
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Depiction is quintessential to the conception of an architectural project. Its way of representation...

The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts
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First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. As Owen Jones, its...

Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism
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Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of...

More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Liza Kirwin and Richard J Wattenmaker
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Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't...