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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

The Colony Club
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness (Italian Edition)
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Accidentally Wes Anderson
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
Boxitects
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Towards a New Architecture
The Architecture of Happiness
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Thinking Architecture
The Poetics of Space
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Ten Books on Architecture
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
In Praise of Shadows
The Image of the City
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
Paul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy by Paul  StuartA Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena de BlasiThe Tuscan Secret by Angela PetchNow and Then in Tuscany by Angela PetchUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Tuscany
45 books — 30 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
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Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanCannery Row by John Steinbeck
Novels Set in California
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Architecture for the Shroud by John Beldon ScottIn the Shadow of the Temple by Meir Ben-DovHomeplace by Michael Ann WilliamsPneumatic Structures  by Thomas HerzogNeoclassicism and Romanticism by Rolf Toman
Dwella'ponics
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Alain de Botton
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

Karl Lagerfeld
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst � you need them both.
Karl Lagerfeld

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