Architecture

Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing, and construction, usually of buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. ...more

The Colony Club
Feng Shui Modern
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Architektki
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Someone Builds the Dream
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Towards a New Architecture
The Architecture of Happiness
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Thinking Architecture
The Poetics of Space
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Ten Books on Architecture
In Praise of Shadows
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
The Image of the City
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
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Archidolia Understruction
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Audrey Niffenegger
Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Frank Lloyd Wright
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. ...more
Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House

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