Most Read This Week In 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

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The Colony Club
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Feng Shui Modern
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Świątynia i śmietnik. Architektura dla życia
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Someone Builds the Dream
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
Bauhaus. L'idea che ha cambiato il mondo
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Patina Homes
Cathedral
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Gothic: An Illustrated History
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Di chi sono le case vuote?
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Sandfuture
Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity
Dziury w ziemi. Patodeweloperka w Polsce
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Design: Building on Country
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Software Architecture Metrics
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: The Story of Architect I. M. Pei: An Inspiring Chinese-American Biography About Modern Buildings for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
The Castle: A History
Facilitating Software Architecture
Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps.
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
The Undercurrents
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
Witaj w świecie bez architektów
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Rakastan sinussa ihmistä – Aino ja Alvar Aallon tarina
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Niezniszczalny. Bohdan Pniewski. Architekt salonu i władzy
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Ett hem: Carl och Karin Larssons värld
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Město pro každého: Manuál urbanisty začátečníka
Szara godzina. Czas na nową architekturę
Software Architecture in Practice
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and Creating Calm: An Interior Design Book
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures
Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
I Am I.M. Pei
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
Architektki
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly. ...more
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heaven, Texas

Karl Lagerfeld
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
Karl Lagerfeld

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