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

Feng Shui Modern
The Colony Club
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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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On Housing
20 books — 3 voters
Paul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy by Paul  StuartA Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena de BlasiThe Tuscan Secret by Angela PetchNow and Then in Tuscany by Angela PetchUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Tuscany
49 books — 35 voters

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Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Winston S. Churchill
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston S Churchill

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