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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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Maintenance of Everything: Part One
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
The Colony Club
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
Feng Shui Modern
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Cathedral
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Bauhaus. L'idea che ha cambiato il mondo
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
Świątynia i śmietnik. Architektura dla życia
Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Facilitating Software Architecture
Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles
Szara godzina. Czas na nową architekturę
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Gentrifier: A Memoir
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
Dziury w ziemi. Patodeweloperka w Polsce
Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
Territorios improbables: Historias sobre sitios que (casi) no sabías que existían
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
OLD KHATA BOOK
Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and Creating Calm: An Interior Design Book
Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Sustainable Structures: 15 Eco-Conscious Buildings Around the World (Books for a Better Earth)
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
The Architecture Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: The Story of Architect I. M. Pei
Rakastan sinussa ihmistä – Aino ja Alvar Aallon tarina
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time
Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
The Intimate City: Walking New York
Software Architecture Metrics
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
The Undercurrents
The Castle: A History
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Architektki
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Di chi sono le case vuote?
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
Witaj w świecie bez architektów
Gothic: An Illustrated History
The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
Design: Building on Country
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps.
Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
I Am I.M. Pei
Someone Builds the Dream
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Patina Homes
Město pro každého: Manuál urbanisty začátečníka
Sandfuture
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Rebecca Solnit
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go. ...more
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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