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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System Design Interview – An insider's guide
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Colony Club
Feng Shui Modern
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness (Italian Edition)
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
Someone Builds the Dream
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Architektki
Najlepsze miasto świata. Warszawa w odbudowie 1944-1949
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Dziury w ziemi. Patodeweloperka w Polsce
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World
Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Di chi sono le case vuote?
House Lessons: Renovating a Life
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Always Italy
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
Boxitects
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show
Lithuanian Architects Assess the Soviet Era: The 1992 Oral History Tapes / Lietuvos architektai pasakoja apie sovietmetį: 1992 m. įrašai
Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
Béton. Arme de construction massive du capitalisme
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion (Questioneers Chapter Books, #3)
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
Bunker: Building for the End Times
Szara godzina. Czas na nową architekturę
Design: Building on Country
Brutalisme
Victory Point
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Rakastan sinussa ihmistä – Aino ja Alvar Aallon tarina
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
Accidentally Wes Anderson
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
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
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
The Undercurrents
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home
Software Architecture Metrics
Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: The Story of Architect I. M. Pei
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Ett hem: Carl och Karin Larssons värld
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
The Castle: A History
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams

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

Robertson Davies
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies

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