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  • Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

    Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Urban Raptors

    Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities

    Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper issues around how these birds make their urban homes. New research provides insight into the role of raptors as vital members of the urban ecosystem and future opportunities for protection, management, and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Obsolescence

    An Architectural History

    In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient—and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world, in order to make way for a taller skyscraper. The New York Times puzzled over those who would ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

    Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • The Story of the Country House

    A History of Places and People

    by Clive Aslet ...
    The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the presentThe Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A City for Children

    Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

    by Marta Gutman ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Kemp: An Arrow for the Crown

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 5 - Arrows of Albion
    There’s no way out this time… An unputdownable medieval adventure from a master of the genreHaunted by guilt and his sins, archer Martin Kemp is in Scotland to collect on a debt when war breaks out afresh. The border erupts in bloody violence.Stalked through heather and forest by French men-at-arms sent to stir up the Scots against the English, Kemp and his friend Ieuan find themselves roped into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City on a Grid

    How New York Became New York

    Winner of the 2015New York City Book AwardThe never-before-told story of the grid that ate ManhattanYou either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story.Praise for City on a Grid"The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Time... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kemp: Warriors in the Snow

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 6 - Arrows of Albion
    Isolated, frozen to the bone and with no way out… Kemp is backBurnt Candlemas. King Edward III invades Scotland in the dead of winter to punish the Scots for their recent attack on Berwick.When the fleet bringing supplies for his army is scattered by a storm, it seems God himself is punishing the English for the arson of a Scottish church. Wrongly blamed for the fire, archer Martin Kemp finds ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Structural Engineering for Architects

    A Handbook

    This book provides an understanding of the fundamental theories and practice behind the creation of architectural structures. It aids the development of an intuitive understanding of structural engineering, bringing together technical and design issues.The book is divided into four sections: 'Structures in nature' looks at structural principles found in natural objects. 'Theory' covers general ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Museum Space

    Where Architecture Meets Museology

    by Kali Tzortzi ...
    Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Real Life of the Parthenon

    Series series 21st Century Essays
    Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull of ownership, and it is these stories that urge ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • John H. Kampmann, Master Builder

    San Antonio's German Influence in the 19th Century

    Travel back and take a close look at what it meant to be an architect in the 19th century.Although relatively unknown in modern day Texas, John H. Kampmann was the master craftsman of his time. Explore Kampmann's lasting legacy alongside Maggie Valentine as she reveals how one man changed the face of the city. From an adobe Spanish village to a city of stone and mortar, Kampmann used his skills as ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building the Italian Renaissance

    Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The American Vitruvius

    This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment. Drawing upon the ideals that inspired the great Roman architect, it promotes the Vitruvian maxims of longevity, beauty, and commodity. It also defines the thinking behind modern American city planning.First published in 1922, The American Vitruvius arose from a ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

    You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures

    by Moira Dann ...
    Told in 21 objects—including furnishings, artwork, and tools—this approachable museum guide takes readers into the family history, local lore, and oddities of one of Victoria's most famous landmarks.Craigdarroch Castle, built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir for his wife, Joan, and their family, was completed in 1890. Following Joan's death, the castle was put up for sale in 1908, and later housed a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Urban Theory

    New critical perspectives

    Edited by Mark Jayne, Kevin Ward ...
    Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities.The introduction outlines the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair

    A Century of Progress

    by Bill Cotter ...
    Series series Images of America
    It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen. The Century of Progress Exposition, better known as the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the amazing progress that had been made since the founding of the city just 100 years earlier. Many of America's largest companies joined with countries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golden Gate

    The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

    by Kevin Starr ...
    The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople

    Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries

    This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, hagiographic and historical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastic typika and testaments to integrate the architecture of the medieval churches of Constantinople with liturgical and ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

  • AIA Guide to New York City

    Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    Series series Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)
    Using architecture, sculpture, culture and history, Adams humanizes the medieval period and provides valuable insight on religious philosophy. Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes provides a background and description of the construction of two French landmarks built in the 11th century. The Mont-Saint Michel cathedral was built during a militant time; it was not enough to simply be steadfast in one’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus