When the Cathedrals Were White
By: Le Corbusier
3.71
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
In his brilliant and incisive style, Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York.…
Want to Read"Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
"Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
"Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
"Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
- design
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
By: Marina Abramović
4.56
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more
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- art
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"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
3. Architects' Data
By: Ernst Neufert
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Architects' Data provides an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building … read more
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- architecture
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- nonfiction
- design
4. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
5. Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
By: Francis D.K. Ching
4.33
Format: None pages,
Hand-lettered explanations demonstrate the principles of form, space, and order that underlie archi… read more
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- design
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- architecture
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- nonfiction
- design
7. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
By: Charles Montgomery
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Charles Montgomery's Happy Citywill revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades … read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
- design
8. Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
By: Colin Ellard
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Library of Science Book Club selection Discovermagazine "What to Read" selection "A really great bo… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
9. 13 pięter
By: Filip Springer
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
Po odzyskaniu niepodleglosci w 1918 roku Polska cierpiala na gigantyczny glod mieszkaniowy. Problem… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
Similar categories in Jan Gehl's Cities for People book and Le Corbusier's When the Cathedrals Were White
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11. Le otto montagne
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more
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12. Women Who Run With the Wolves
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
4.13
Format: 537 pages, Paperback
Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more
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"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"Failure is a greater teacher than success"-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
13. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
By: Matthew Frederick
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks… read more
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14. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
By: Rem Koolhaas
4.16
Format: None pages,
In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Archi… read more
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15. Źle urodzone. Reportaże o architekturze PRL-u
By: Filip Springer
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Ksiazka roku 2012 radiowej Trojki!Dworce w Warszawie i Katowicach, poznanski okraglak, obserwatoriu… read more
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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
17. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
18. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.89
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more
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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
19. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
By: Silvia Federici
4.14
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more
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- nonfiction
"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
20. Feminist City: A Field Guide
By: Leslie Kern
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
21. When the Cathedrals Were White
By: Le Corbusier
3.71
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
In his brilliant and incisive style, Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York.… read more
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- architecture
- art
- travel
- nonfiction
- design
"Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
"Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
"…the schist pyramids can leave us contrite. Greatness is in the intention; and not in dimensions."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
"A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe."-Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
