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Nirvana, The Spread of Buddhism Through Asia - Jeremy Horner

A photographic journey tracing the origins of Buddhism and following its evolutionary paths from its birthplace at Bodh Gaya, India to northeast Asia, along the Silk Road through China, down to Sri Lanka, and across to southeast Asia. 

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The Most Beautiful Gardens - Jane Gilette

Wander through a selection of literature's most beautiful gardens, from Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, the ever-mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphilito, Chinese masterpieces as the Chin P'ing Mei and Cao Xuequin's Story of the Stone to the works of famous English, European, Australian, and American writers, uncovering the sublime, and sordid decadence of human nature.

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Public Art / Public Space The Sculptural Environments of Barbara Grygutis Sculpture LLC Introduction by Jack Becker Essay by Linda Bolton, PhD

Public Art / Public Space chronicles the work of Barbara Grygutis, a pioneering public artist whose large-scale sculptural environments shape the spaces they inhabit. This book features twenty groundbreaking works accompanied by retrospectives from public art professionals on Grygutis herself, her work, and what her extensive contributions could mean for the works of tomorrow.

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The Visual Biography of Color - Frank Jacobus

This book examines color through various periods of time by using information graphics and other forms of data visualization to visually describe color’s cultural role within society at large.

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La+ Journal - Tyranny

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Austere Garden - Marc Treib

Austere Gardens suggests another way to look at the landscape, the garden, and perhaps the entire world around us. It suggests that being open to other ways of observing and sensing can yield new insights and rewards, and that interest is found in places unassuming and overlooked as well as those complex and assertive. Perceiving is only one half the story, however. Realizing places using simple acts and reduced means is the other half.

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Episodic Urbanism (The RMIT Urban Spaces Project 1996-2015) - Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design

A book about the transformation of two city blocks in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. It tells the story of how Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design has worked, over the course of nearly two decades, to turn RMIT University’s inner city premises from what was essentially a private fortress into a public-spirited urban campus.

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Elegy from the Edge of a Continent - Austin Granger

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Elegy from the Edge of a Continent by Austin Granger

Ten years in the making, Austin Granger’s Elegy from the Edge of a Continent: Photographing Point Reyes is an earnest paean to an extraordinary place. It is a book about Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind, Miwok Indians and eucalyptus trees, sea lions and elk. It is a book about wind and fog, lupine and firs, starfish and granite and daffodils. Combining haunting black and white photographs with wide-ranging prose that is at turns penetrating, humorous, and poignant, Elegy from the Edge of a Continent is both a heartfelt memoir about a singular land, and a luminous meditation on how we make and are made by the world around us. It is, above all, a work of love.

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UNFOLDED: How Architecture Saved My Life by Bartholomew Voorsanger & Alastair Gordon

"There's a secret trapdoor, a kind of magic key into every project," says Bartholomew Voorsanger, whose life and work are chronicled in UNFOLDED. The book, written by an award-winning author Alastair Gordon, is more of a personal memoir than a conventional monograph. It traces the architect's picaresque journey from an orphanage in the Bronx to an adoptive family in San Francisco, to the ivied halls of Princeton and Harvard, to an apprenticeship with architect I.M. Pei and the establishment of an independent practice in 1978.

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POG: Pod Off-Grid by Jason Pomeroy

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Draw It (Tools, Techniques, and Methods) - Lynn Craig with Cary Perkins

A compact, portable drawing resource book of over 200 highly illustrated pages of sketching and drawing techniques. This book is crafted to be a companion tool which can be tucked in your travel gear and be referred to regularly.

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Places - HCMA Architecture + Design

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The Restorative Home - David Hertz

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Uncommon Ground - Thomas Balsley

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Jigsaw City -  Daniel Elsea & Clare Jacobson

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Jigsaw City - Daniel Elsea & Clare Jacobson

Exploring the phenomenon growth of urbanization in Asia