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

Henry David Thoreau
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience

Günter Grass
They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.
Gunter Grass

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