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Luis Barragan Gardens of El Pedregal

The name Luis Barragan evokes images of Latin American modernism - brightly colored plain surfaces set off against lush foliage. His 1,250-acre Gardens of El Pedregal, begun in 1945 on the lava fields of south of Mexico City, were dotted with houses and plazas, fountains and ponds, cacti and pepper trees.
Luis Barragan Gardens of El Pedregal

Barragan: Space and Shadow

Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-1988) is famous throughout the world for his charming treatment of colour and space, and he has been a focus of general interest for many years.
Barragan: Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour by Danièle Pauly

Bauhaus

The Dessau Bauhaus encapsulates the ethos of that design school’s revolutionary new thinking. With its interlocking cubic forms, reinforced concrete frame and glass curtain walls, it was the first large building to crystallize the Modern Movement’s conception of form and space.
Bauhaus by Dennis Sharp

Bauhaus and America

The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar in 1919 by the German architect Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932, and was dissolved in 1933 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe under political duress. Although it existed for a mere fourteen years and boasted fewer than 1,300 students, its influence is felt throughout the world in numerous buildings, artworks, objects, concepts, and curricula.
Bauhaus and America

Beguinages

Beguinages are a typically Flemish phenomenon. Nearly every Flemish town of any importance had one or more beguinages. A beguinage consists of a number of small houses within a courtyard enclosed by walls. Twenty-six of them have survived and are protected by law. The beguinages reveal unique architectural qualities.
Beguinages

Binch

The town hall of Binch in Belgium and its belfry constitute one and the same Gothic construction. The main facade is put up in Bavay sandstone and bricks and sandstone. This structure is probably standing on the spot where the first "maison dou bourc" was situated.
Binch

Blow-Up: Inflatable Art, Architecture, and Design

Inflatable forms have been around for centuries, but scientists, architects, artists, and manufacturers keep rediscovering this deceptively simple technology. Some of its first applications were extreme environments, where it appealed to scientists and the military. But in the 1960s artists such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, and design collectives such as Utopia and Archigram, used pneumatic forms to challenge conventional assumptions about the role of materials in art and architecture.
Blow-Up: Inflatable Art, Architecture, and Design

Blueprints for Modern Living

Essays by Reyner Banham, Dolores Hayden, Thomas Hine, Thomas S. Hines, Esther McCoy, Helen Searing, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Kevin Starr. One of Southern California's most significant contributions to modern architecture was the Case Study House program sponsored by John Entenza's Art & Architecture magazine.
Blueprints for Modern Living

Blur

When the visionary American architectural team of Diller + Scofidio won a commission for Swiss EXPO 2002, they reinvented the tradition of creating spectacular buildings for World's Fairs by creating an empty one - an ephemerally beautiful yet eerily vacant pavilion.
Blur: The Making of Nothing by Elizabeth Diller

Marcel Breuer Houses

The Hungarian-born architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) rose to prominence as a student under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, and became a master as head of the furniture workshop. He emigrated to the United States in 1937, where he taught at Harvard University, influencing a generation of practitioners.
Marcel Breuer Houses

Brussels Grand' Place

The Grand' Place is the architectural and historical heart of Brussels. It is a unique place, where five centuries of history of Belgium and the Netherlands are concentrated in an impressive ensemble, which attracts numerous visitors year after year.
Brussels Grand' Place

Brunelleschi's Dome

By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. Filippo Brunelleschi also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore-a feat of architectural daring that we continue to marvel at today-thus securing himself a place among the most formidable geniuses of the Renaissance.
Brunelleschi's Dome

Buckminster Fuller Anthology for a New Millennium

R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor, thinker and architect, was one of the best known Americans of the 20th century. Often compared to Leonard da Vinci and called "the planet's friendly genius," he was the inventor of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term "spaceship earth", and an educator without parallel. Yet today, most of his books are out of print.
Buckminster Fuller Anthology for a New Millennium

Buckminster Fuller : Works and Ideas

One hundred years after his birth, Fuller's ideas, discoveries and inventions offer solutions to many of the world's most severe problems.
Buckminster Fuller: Bucky Works, Ideas for Today

Buckminster Fuller Universe

Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology of the 20th century.
Buckminster Fuller: Universe: His Life and Work

Building Construction Illustrated

For twenty-five years, Building Construction Illustrated has offered an outstanding introduction to the principles of building construction. Now this Third Edition has been expertly revised and updated to address the latest advances in materials, building technology, and code requirements.
Building Construction Illustrated

Building Type Basics for Housing

Building Type Basics for Housing presents knowledgeable, real-world advice for architects, planners, engineers, and developers to create superlative design projects for a variety of housing types. Award-winning design firm Goody Clancy provides guidelines, planning concepts, and lessons learned from a variety of housing projects - ranging from single-family detached units and townhouses to multi-family, mid-rise and high-rise buildings, and housing in mixed-use buildings.
Building Type Basics for Housing

Building Type Basics for Senior Living

Building Type Basics for Senior Living covers the essentials for the planning and design of housing and care environments for the elderly. Authored by architects whose firm has handled hundreds of such projects, this nuts-and-bolts guide provides need-to-know information on a range of building subtypes, including active adult communities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living, adult day care, skilled nursing facilities, and more.
Building Type Basics for Senior Living