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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Feng Shui Modern
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The Colony Club
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Accidentally Wes Anderson
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness (Italian Edition)
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
Najlepsze miasto świata. Warszawa w odbudowie 1944-1949
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
House Lessons: Renovating a Life
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Niezniszczalny. Bohdan Pniewski. Architekt salonu i władzy
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
Betonoza. Jak się niszczy polskie miasta
The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe
Always Italy
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Di chi sono le case vuote?
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Rakastan sinussa ihmistä – Aino ja Alvar Aallon tarina
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Szara godzina. Czas na nową architekturę
Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
Cathedral
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home
Software Architecture Metrics
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Witaj w świecie bez architektów
Dziury w ziemi. Patodeweloperka w Polsce
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Ett hem: Carl och Karin Larssons värld
Brutalisme
The Undercurrents
Architektki
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
Design: Building on Country
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
The Castle: A History
Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: The Story of Architect I. M. Pei
Gothic: An Illustrated History
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time

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

Ezra Pound
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
Ezra Pound

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