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The Best Design Books for Everyone on Your Gift List

Dwell

There are few things more satisfying than leafing through a beautifully designed and thoughtful book about a subject that is dear to your heart, as design is to mine. The books on this list are a great resource for anyone interested in design, architecture, color, or the way all three inform the way we look at the world around us.

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Amber Book ARE 5.0 Review – Video Tour

Young Architect

Amber Book ARE 5.0 If you are looking to sign up for Amber Book, Click here to learn more about the Young Architect Amber Book Discount. In recent years, The Amber Book has made a profound impact on how people study for the ARE 5.0 resource, product, book or study guide. Amber Book vs ARE Boot Camp?

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European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) by noa* network of architecture

aasarchitecture

To reach it, one ascends a one-of-a-kind elevator, a proper tower of books, picked up as needed by an automated system. Through this astonishing landscape of moving books, the highest point of the BEIC is reached. Accessibility diagram. Sustainability diagram. Image © noa* network of architecture. Ground Floor Plan.

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Virginia Folk Housing, an update

Jane Griswold Radocchia

84 in Glassie's book.* The geometric diagrams I drew in May 2014,** were accurate but much too complex for these houses. In the diagrams below: 1) B-C is the radius of the circle. The book includes more information, drawings, and a photograph of the house. I don't want this information to be lost again.

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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Monographs are an unavoidable part of architecture books.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Covey – This is a universally loved book by people in every field. It is no surprise why.

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Teaching Practical Geometry

Jane Griswold Radocchia

Here, the points divide the large square into 9 small squares - the diagram used on cellphones - or 3 equal rectangles. The drawing is Plate 56 in Owen Biddle's pattern book, The Young Carpenter’s Assistant , published in 1805, by Benjamin Johnson, Philadelphia. I ended with these Lines in Sebastiano Serlio's Book I, c.