Architecture

A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home....

Thirty years after its publication, this book was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning"....

This program is read by the author. “This is a great audiobook for nature lovers, carpenters, and people who dream of their hobby becoming their day job.”—AudioFile A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly...

A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park that became at once the greatest piece of urban design in the United States and the world's most prosperous tourist attraction, as told like never before....

With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny.

Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.

The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States....

Breathe Cleaner Air & Create a Healthier Home with the Power of Indoor PlantsDid you know indoor air can be up to five times more polluted than outdoor air? Harmful toxins, allergens, and low humidity levels can negatively impact your sleep, health, and overall well-being.

“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.” — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair “An essential book . . . a page-turner. Blume...

In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest man-made barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live....

With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own....

In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586—one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance....

This is a book for homeowners, home makers, interior designers, cooks, armchair historians, and for anyone who - like John Ota before them - is looking for inspiration for a renovation....

A great Ruskin book that is better listened to than read because of the complexity and detail of his writing....

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction....

Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these 75 influencers are creating change from the ground up....

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education, and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills, passions, and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways....

California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West.

From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s, to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime....

Capturing an era - and preserving the stories they have told their daughters, their mentees, their husbands, and their friends - a dozen women Imagineers have written personal stories from their decades designing and building the Disney worldwide empire of theme parks....