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The first book ever to tell the whole story of design; from prehistoric times to the present day, this is an essential book for vocational and university students, as well as for adults seeking a comprehensive, yet accessible guide.

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The transformations of the Strip--from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to "starchitecture"--and how they mirror America itself.

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This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.

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A gorgeous, illustrated book designed to inspire readers to create a home that is full of things that are meaningful and reflect personalities--by the design expert who rose to fame on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and through his own daytime talk show.

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This beautifully illustrated and practical guide provides the history of the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which draws many thousands of visitors each year.

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Using hundreds of clear line drawings, "The Vaastu Workbook" takes you through every conceivable vaastu situation, exploring the dos and don'ts of window and door placement, interior design, street focus, directional facing, landscaping, and much more.

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Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others.

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"Things that Move presents eight interconnected essays that collectively explode the myth of architecture as the realm only of the static, and instead advocates movement as the single dynamic for understanding architecture's recent and distant past"--

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Part practical how-to, part lushly illustrated design inspiration, Tin Can Homestead follows the story of one couple as they build themselves a new life in an old Airstream trailer.

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"Part photographic survey, part theoretical inquiry, Tokyoids focuses on the field of robotic aesthetics from a conceptual point of view, and identifies the robotic face as a critical apparatus of modern culture"--

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Documenting the extraordinary breadth of architectural production by American artist Tony Smith (1912 1980), this comprehensive book reveals the depth and complexity of Smith s work in architecture.

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To create enough living space on the typically rather small pieces of land, the rooms in townhouses have to be layered and connected. These prerequisites are main characteristic features of townhouses. This volume presents projects in very different contexts, showing the great diversity of their functional and design possibilities.

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This is a generously illustrated and enjoyable guide to Christ Church Cathedral, a place of worship in the centre of Dublin for almost 1,000 years.

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A leading authority on treehouse design takes readers on an around- the-world journey of treehouses, discussing how they are designed, built, and enjoyed in numerous cultures, in a volume that showcases thirty-five treehouses and discusses their role in environmentalism. Includes Australian example.

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The East German engineer Ulrich Muther contributed an important chapter to the European history of shell construction. His career of more than 30 years saw many milestones which are described in this book. This book was awarded the DAM Architecture Book Prize in 2009.

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There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. In this book, through charts and maps generated from satelite images various city structures are compared across five different dimensions and their influence on the city's identity through the lived experience of the inhabitants is discussed.

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A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city.