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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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Colony Club
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Feng Shui Modern
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
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Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and Creating Calm: An Interior Design Book
Someone Builds the Dream
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Dziury w ziemi. Patodeweloperka w Polsce
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
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Szara godzina. Czas na nową architekturę
Bauhaus. L'idea che ha cambiato il mondo
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Software Architecture Metrics
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
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)
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
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Cathedral
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
The Undercurrents
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Rakastan sinussa ihmistä – Aino ja Alvar Aallon tarina
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
Architektki
Niezniszczalny. Bohdan Pniewski. Architekt salonu i władzy
Město pro každého: Manuál urbanisty začátečníka
Patina Homes
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Di chi sono le case vuote?
Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity
Software Architecture in Practice
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Design: Building on Country
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
I Am I.M. Pei
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
The Castle: A History
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
Sandfuture
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.
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Paris and Her Cathedrals
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
Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse
Witaj w świecie bez architektów
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

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

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

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