The Nature of Design

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Finally, here's a design basics book that works the same way a designer's brain does-visually. This innovative guide sets itself apart from all those text-heavy, introductory titles on the market by showing creatives how to find inspiration in their everyday surroundings. Readers will learn all the rules of design with a look at how everything from graphics and architecture to fashion and product design shape the world. These are the fundamentals that help desi... More >>

The Nature of Design

SolidWorks For Dummies

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Whether it’s your first venture into 3D technical drawing software or you’re switching to SolidWorks from something else, you’re probably excited about what this CAD program has to offer.   Chances are, you figure it’s going to take awhile to get the hang of it before you can begin cranking out those perfectly precise 3D designs. SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edition, can help you dramatically shorten that get-acquainted period!SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edi... More >>

SolidWorks For Dummies

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

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Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features. Carl Smith’s fascinating history reveals the Plan’s central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself.

His concise and accessible narrative begins with a sur... More >>

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Pure California: 35 Inspiring Houses in the New California Tradition

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This inspiring and beautiful book takes the reader on a journey of 35 of the most recent homes designed by Bassenian/Lagoni Architects of Newport Beach, CA. From an early Cailfornia home in Coro de Caza, to a California Cottage on Balboa Pennisula, to an Old World Tuscan Adaptation in Rancho Santa Fe, this collection reveals some of the finest examples of what admiring critics are calling "The New California Tradition" in American housing.... More >>

Pure California: 35 Inspiring Houses in the New California Tradition

Encyclopedia of Window Fashions: 1000 Decorating Ideas for Windows, Bedding and Accessories

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The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions is the best-selling window decorating book in the world, with 1000 decorating ideas for windows, bedding, and accessories, and tons of practical information. Chapters include: Draperies (90 drapery styles), Valances (97 styles), Swags and Cascades (68 styles), Cornice Boxes (102 styles) to name a few. It offers the largest scope of decorating ideas of any book available.... More >>

Encyclopedia of Window Fashions: 1000 Decorating Ideas for Windows, Bedding and Accessories

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

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This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of... More >>

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

The Ethical Function of Architecture

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Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the ... More >>

The Ethical Function of Architecture

Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation

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A detailed examination of the hottest areas of architectural design today. Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice, and construction of architecture. But behind the photorealistic renderings of projects that are never built is an entire body of design research that informs the latest innovations in design and construction.

Edited by a pioneer of the digital revolution, this new book takes ... More >>

Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation

Architectural Lighting Design

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Get the definitive, holistic guide to transforming space with light.There are no shortcuts to designing beautiful and effective architectural lighting. Lighting is both an art and a science that impacts occupants' health and well-being, the Earth's resources, a project's cost, and user satisfaction in the built environment. If you are serious about lighting, Architectural Lighting Design, Third Edition is the one source for all the technical skills, aesthetic fundam... More >>

Architectural Lighting Design

Architexts: Volume 1

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Architexts tells the story of the employees of the fictitious architectural firm, Franklin + Newbury Architects. The projects at Franklin + Newbury Architects aren’t all that exciting; mostly tenant fit-outs, small commercial renovations, feasibility studies... not much new construction. It’s pretty much a typical architectural firm. The lack of exciting design work makes the young production staff jaded and cynical. Every day is a new struggle with their mundan... More >>

Architexts: Volume 1

Simplified Irrigation Design, 2nd Edition

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The Second Edition of this best-selling academic guide to irrigation design has been completely rewritten so you can understand it easily. Created for the irrigation designer and installer, as well as students, Simplified Irrigation Design clearly explains irrigation design and related hydraulics, without the need for interpretation by teachers. Each chapter builds on the other, presenting all the fundamentals of irrigation design before getting into the more compli... More >>

Simplified Irrigation Design, 2nd Edition

Red-Tile Style

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Virtually no other form of American architecture is as widespread or as popular as the Spanish Revival style. From bungalows and mansions to gas stations and government buildings, its influence-and its fans-can be found everywhere. Yet there has never been a single comprehensive survey of this diverse category of design.

In Red Tile Style, Arrol Gellner describes the rich history and fertile permutations of Spanish Revival architecture. Packed with more tha... More >>

Red-Tile Style

Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer

• ISBN13: 9780131720633
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"Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer, Second Edition" takes readers step-by-step through the design graphics process. Written at an accessible level, readers will learn basic drafting tools, lettering and drawing techniques; commonly used textures and symbols; how to read plan graphics; how to develop effective designs; and how to assemble professional portfolios. This edition is filled with new sample drawings, updated photographs and descriptive desig... More >>

Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer

Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker

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In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age and permanence. She uses her extensive knowledge of antiques and the decorative arts to create finely detailed, inviting rooms that perfectly complement both... More >>

Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker

Architecture Now! 4

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Architects at the cutting edge

"Some really inspirational buildings from some of the most cutting-edge architects around. Beautifully presented. A joy to read." - IDFX, London

Architecture Now! Volume 4 proves that the best keep getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, b... More >>

Architecture Now! 4

Domicilium Decoratus

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An acclaimed interior designer and author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Modern Glamour, Kelly Wearstler presents sumptuous photographs of one of her most incredible design achievements yet -- her family home, the Hillcrest Estate With her impeccable taste, fearless technique, and discerning eye for color, shape, pattern, and texture, Kelly Wearstler's status as an internationally acclaimed interior designed is unparalleled. With buoyant ease, she will confi... More >>

Domicilium Decoratus

Fellowship, The: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

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Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where... More >>

Fellowship, The: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

Constructing a New Agenda: Architechtural Theory 1993-2009

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Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s propractice movement, with its mandate to focus on the realities of building, has shifted architectural theory away from utopian ideals and heavy-handed cultural critiques toward the realities of architecture and building. This transition renders theory's immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought and practice.
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Constructing a New Agenda: Architechtural Theory 1993-2009

Maison--Christian Liaigre

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Christian Liaigre's epoch-defining interiors include the Mercer Hotel in New York, offices for Valentino Couture in Paris, and Selfridges department store in London, as well as private residences for Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and Kenzo. His luxurious dark-wood minimalism and masculine palette of creams, browns, and grays have redefined modernism, supplanting the Scandinavian blond timbers on white that just a few years ago were the sine qua non... More >>

Maison--Christian Liaigre

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice

• ISBN13: 9780393732733
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Historic preservation, which started as a grassroots movement, now represents the cutting edge in a cultural revolution focused on “green” architecture and sustainability. This is the only book to cover the gamut of preservation issues in layman’s language: the philosophy and history of the movement, the role of government, the documentation and designation of historic properties, sensitive architectural designs and planning, preservation... More >>

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice

Home Decorating for Dummies

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Worried about spending a fortune decorating your house but ending up with more of a mess than a makeover? Let Home Decorating For Dummies spark your imagination and help bring your ideas and enthusiasm to life with practical, money-saving suggestions on space planning, furniture selection, window treatments, and accessorizing your own home. Give your home that million-dollar makeover easily and economically with this wonderful hands-on guide to creating your own sen... More >>

Home Decorating for Dummies