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Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City

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Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City

Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City
by Scott Colman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350068020 | 391 Pages | True PDF | 21 MB

The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses

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The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses

The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses
by James S. Ackerman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691252319 | 306 Pages | True PDF | 35 MB

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39

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Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 by Gavin Stamp
English | October 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 1800817398 | 592 pages | True EPUB | 51.93 MB

British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War.

A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949–1987

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A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949–1987

A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949–1987
by Danyal Ahmed
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032504048 | 236 Pages | True PDF | 14 MB

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

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Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution by Wayne Kalayjian
English | March 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1639365869 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 72.40 MB

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians to help, whose revolutionary ideas spark a chain of events that will change the world of architecture forever.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond

Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond by Anthony Alofsin
English | December 22nd, 2023 | ISBN: 0520211162 | 298 pages | True EPUB | 24.48 MB

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully.

A Guide to the Medieval Castles of England

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A Guide to the Medieval Castles of England

A Guide to the Medieval Castles of England
by Malcolm Hislop
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399001108 | 314 Pages | True PDF | 73 MB

Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

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Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

Chicago's Historic Hyde Park by Susan O'Connor Davis
English | July 9, 2013 | ISBN: 0226138143 | True PDF | 504 pages | 21.5 MB

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

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Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1324020326 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 36.30 MB

A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building.

God's Own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century

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God's Own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century

God's Own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century by Karl Kinsella
English | June 13, 2023 | ISBN: 0262047748 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 4.7 MB

Creating a Planetary Culture: European Science, Chinese Art, and Indian Transcendence

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Creating a Planetary Culture: European Science, Chinese Art, and Indian Transcendence

Creating a Planetary Culture: European Science, Chinese Art, and Indian Transcendence by Jan Krikke
English | July 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 9786164560543 | 136 pages | True EPUB | 3.46 MB

Europe, China, and India had distinct world views and inclinations. Europe excelled in science, China tended to art or aesthetics, and India's forte was religion or spirituality. Their mutual influence, which started in earnest in the 19th century, is shaping our planetary culture.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin: How America's Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin: How America's Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State

Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin: How America's Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State by Kristine Hansen
English | June 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1493069144 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 73.52 MB

America's most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City's Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin's landscape, from affordable-housing prototypes in Milwaukee to his summer home and architecture school in rural Spring Green.

Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past

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Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past

Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past by Jim Leary
English | August 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 1837730245 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 0.45 MB

Archaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting “archaeology of movement”

Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear

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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear

Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear by John Darlington
English | April 25th, 2023 | ISBN: 030025928X | 304 pages | True EPUB | 23.56 MB

Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or sands, and the carcasses of twentieth-century buildings which serve as reminders of the destructive power of war.

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers by Katherine Clarke
English | June 13th, 2023 | ISBN: 9780593240076 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 31.16 MB

A fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal