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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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The Colony Club
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Someone Builds the Dream
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Accidentally Wes Anderson
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Victory Point
Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion (Questioneers Chapter Books, #3)
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
The Undercurrents
Architektki
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness (Italian Edition)
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: The Story of Architect I. M. Pei
Formgiving: An Architectural Future History
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
Szara godzina. Czas na nową architekturę
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Di chi sono le case vuote?
Dziury w ziemi. Patodeweloperka w Polsce
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
Betonoza. Jak się niszczy polskie miasta
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
Boxitects
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
Design: Building on Country
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse
Gothic: An Illustrated History
The Castle: A History
Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
Brutalisme
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.
Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Rakastan sinussa ihmistä – Aino ja Alvar Aallon tarina
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Futerał. O urządzaniu mieszkań w PRL-u
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
Sandfuture
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Ett hem: Carl och Karin Larssons värld
Patina Homes
The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
Software Architecture Metrics
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Witaj w świecie bez architektów
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures

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

Frank Lloyd Wright
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. ...more
Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House

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