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
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Świątynia i śmietnik. Architektura dla życia
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
The Undercurrents
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Facilitating Software Architecture
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Someone Builds the Dream
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

Erik Pevernagie
We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)
Erik Pevernagie

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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