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| Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon | | This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features so that, unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive colour photographs illustrate each of the main building types, from forts to churches, stately homes to skyscrapers. The individual structural elements and materials common to all buildings are then explained, whether in Classical, Gothic or Modernist style, before delving into the inner architectural details such as doors and windows, roofs and staircases. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1856697363
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| The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture | | The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture is the first major work of reference to be published on Australian architecture. This book documents and analyses Australian architecture and architects from indigenous beginnings to colonial, modern and contemporary eras. With over 1000 entries from 200 contributors, and 500 photographs and drawings, The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture provides an unparalleled compendium of architectural knowledge. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0521888573
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| London Buildings: An Architectural Tour | | This exquisite book contains 45 stylish depictions of London's best buildings, created by influential design duo Robin Farquhar and Hannah Dipper of People Will Always Need Plates. This long-awaited collection covers a range of architectural styles, from Sir Christopher Wren's 1675 Greenwich Royal Observatory to Richard Rogers' 2000 Montevetro development, taking in the glorious 19th-century Victoria and Albert Museum, 20s modernist masterpieces such as the Isokon Building and 1960s concrete Brutalist icons like the National Theatre. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1849940231
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| Testing to Failure | | Testing to Failure contains a wide selection of research and work from the MIT Department of Architecture, produced between 2009 and 2011. Including student work, the work of professors' own practices, contributions from visiting critics, transcripts from the MIT150 Celebration Symposia, and more, what is presented in this book is a sequence of 'forums,' knots of discussion where the various threads that run through the department reach asymptotically towards definition. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0983665400
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| Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion | | Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion uncovers Hadid's commercial designs, made between 1995 and 2011, as a means of exploring the interrelationships among architecture, urbanism, and design that define her work. The texts, photographs, and drawings demonstrate Hadid's groundbreaking use of technology in digital design and manufacturing, and the methods and processes that propel her revolutionary formal language. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0300179820
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| Transport Facilities | | This book offers the reader a superb selection of today's finest examples in the field of transport architecture. Carefully considered projects proposed by renowned architects and designers provide effective solutions for over-crowded airports, busy train stations and major transport links. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8492796871
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| Hyperbody: First Decade of Interactive Architecture | | Hyperbody, initiated by Kas Oosterhuis and headquartered at the Delft University of Technology, is a think-tank on new ways of designing and creating non-standard and interactive architecture. This book is the first time Hyperbody has published its collaborative projects and experiments within the real world of design and construction. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9490322091
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| Material Strategies | | Blaine Brownell's best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of these materials achieve such transformations. Chapters based on fundamental material categories examine historical precedents, current opportunities, and future environmental challenges. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1568989865
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| Light in Architecture | | Light design in architecture has become more lively and also more colourful in the last few years. The projects selected here show how good architecture is improved with the right light. | astore.amazon.com/detail/303768092X
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| Writing the Modern City | | Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have shaped the world today. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0415591511
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| Designing Architecture: The Elements of Process | | Designing Architecture is an indispensable tool to assist both students and young architects in formulating an idea, transforming it into a building, and making effective design decisions. This book promotes integrative and critical thinking in the preliminary design of buildings to inspire creativity, innovation, and design excellence. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0415595169
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| Inspiration | | Inspiration provides a comprehensive overview of new design methods and techniques that are emerging in the field of architecture. The book showcases hundreds of examples, models, sketches, and renderings of architectural designs within dozens of different methodologies. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9063692676
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| Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity | | Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap that separates short-term emergency needs from long-term sustainable recovery. Beyond Shelter features 20 generously illustrated reports from the field, written by the founders of some of the world's most provocative architecture and engineering firms and studios; accomplished nonprofits and research centers; and leaders of prominent organizations as the Red Cross, UN-Habitat and the World Wildlife Fund. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1935202472
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| Architecture and Space | | Architecture and Space: Design Concepts in the 20th Century introduces 30 spatial concepts by significant 20th-century architects. The individual studies are the result of an extensive survey conducted at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and cover designs by pioneers of Modernism such as Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as well as spaces and volumes by contemporary architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and PeterZumthor. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3869221801
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| The Great Court at the British Museum | | From initial sketches to final project, this book documents the "reinvention" of the British Museum's Great Court. Numerous photographs reveal the court from a variety of perspectives and show the cutting-edge technology of the spectacular glazed canopy that shelters what is now the largest covered public space in Europe. The project and this book illuminate Foster Partners' holistic and ingenious approach to contemporary design. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3791345907
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