Architecture

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Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism - Hardcover

$171.00

by Ira M. Lapidus (Editor)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969. Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication D...

Untold Architectural Black History of Tampa, Florida: My 36-Year Architectural Career in Tampa - Hardcover

$39.92

by Ronald Lee Harden (Author)The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Gaither and Bloomingdale High Schools, the Harbour Island project, Mobley Park, and Osbourne Landing apartments are just a few of the projects Architectural Project Manager Ronald L. Harden has been a part of that have helped the community of Tampa expand both economically and culturally in 36 years. These projects have helped create homes, jobs, and cultural events for the African-American and other mixed communities in the c...

A Place Steeped in Prayer: Envisioning a Parish House and Chapel at Saint John's Cathedral, Denver - Paperback

$31.61

by Juliana S. Fletcher (Author)Saint Martin's Chapel and Parish House are approaching their hundredth anniversary as part of the architectural complex of Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral in Denver, Colorado. Although motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians see them daily when traveling west on East Fourteenth Avenue to downtown Denver, they may not know much else about them. Now, the history of these two Gothic-inspired structures has been documented by Juliana S. Fletcher in an engaging, well-i...

The Builder's Director, or Bench-mate: Being a Pocket Treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic Orders of Architecture, ... By Batty Langley, Archite - Hardcover

$47.45

by Batty Langley (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are avail...

$68.38

by Dan Droz (Artist), Peter Frank (Author), Virginia Broersma (Author)"Behind the Fold" documents the background, recent work and unique methods of sculptor, Dan Droz, who, at the age of 69, after a career as a designer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, became a full-time sculptor. Despite his late start and exhibition constraints related to Covid, Droz has, in a few years, created a national reputation for a new formal language and innovative fabrication methods, documented in thi...

$90.70

by Nicolas Whybrow (Editor)Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings. The contributors to this fascinating volume seek to draw conclusions about the constitution, character and morphology of urban space as public, habitable and sustainable by monitoring the reactions of the human body as a form ...

Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts - Paperback

$90.70

by Liu Yan (Author)This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a kind of "universal uniqueness," challenging widespread viewpoints on its origin and genealogy.Taking this argument as its main thread, the book traces the histories of different woven-arch-bridge-cultures and in...

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by Catherina N. Brown (Author)Serving as fun for the whole family, What's Cooking Tonight tells the story of an intergenerational family in New Orleans, Louisiana. Join Hendrix, Astrid and their parents as they take a road-trip around town, gathering ingredients for the family dinner - their grandma's very own recipe. As the children open their eyes to the sights, they learn about the history of the city and realize the true importance of family. No one can resist a home-cooked meal, after al...

Who Saved the Parthenon?: A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution - Hardcover

$139.61

by William St Clair (Author), David St Clair (Editor), Lucy Barnes (Editor)In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821-33. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores ...

Shipping Container Homes: How to Build a Homemade and Eco-friendly Living (Avoid Daily Stress and Live in Your Dream Home With Your Family) - Paperback

$21.55

by Harold Willis (Author)Design your dream home and discover the benefits of low-cost building with the wonders of shipping container houses!Are you searching for a cheap, eco-friendly alternative to traditional housing?Have you always wanted to get stuck in and build a shipping container home, but you never knew where to begin? Here's just a little of what you'll discover inside this ultimate guide: Top tips and tricks for choosing your location and starting your project Essential advice on...

The Rise of Awards in Architecture - Hardcover

$152.64

by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Editor), Carmela Cucuzzella (Editor), Georges Adamczyk (Editor)This book is the first scientific study to focus on awards in architecture and the built environment investigating their exponential growth since the 1980s. The celebration of excellence in architecture and related fields remains a phenomenon on which there is strangely little scientific scrutiny. What is to be understood from the plethora of award-winning projects, award-winning buildings and awarded profes...

The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley - Hardcover

$169.29

by Harold Donaldson Eberlein (Author), Edward Renehan (Introduction by)A classic guide to the history and architecture of the historic manors and homes of the Hudson River ValleyHarold Donaldson Eberlein's The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley has been considered an essential and elegant resource ever since its first publication by J.B. Lippincott in 1924. Profusely illustrated with drawings, classic prints, and photographs (many of the latter taken by the author himself), the bo...

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Then and Now: My Travels with Pen and Paper - Hardcover

$35.98

by Robert H. Ludlow (Author), Margherita Buzzi (Cover Design by), Robert H. Ludlow (Illustrator)A charming collection of exquisite drawings and wryly amusing anecdotes. Part One traces the adventures of a young architect wandering the world in the eighties. Part Two takes you from the canals of Burgundy to the hill towns of Italy. Whether it is sipping a cappuccino in an Italian piazza, or cycling along a canal in the Netherlands, the drawings and writing place you right there in the moment. ...

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by Nikki Clinton (Author), Elaine O'Brien (Cover Design by), Cory Hester (Illustrator)Buildings protect us, help us and inspire us, but do you ever wonder what they would say if they could talk? Do they have feelings? Are they happy to see us? Does it hurt when we stomp? This imaginative children's book contemplates what would happen if the buildings that surround us suddenly piped up to tell us what's on their minds. Written by Nikki Clinton and illustrated by 14 real-life architects and des...

New Indian Architecture - 1947-2020 - Hardcover

$102.60

by Sarbjit Bahga (Author)"NEW INDIAN ARCHITECTURE-1947-2020" is one of the few publications on Indian Architecture in the post-Independence era. It features 104 projects designed by 15 foreign and 66 Indian architects. These projects have been grouped into 11 categories i.e., Religious Buildings, Memorial Buildings, Cultural Buildings, Sports Buildings, Tourism and Recreational Buildings, Public Infrastructure, Agricultural Buildings, Residential Buildings, Educational Buildings, Healthcare B...

Tehran: From Sacred to Radical - Hardcover

$111.76

by Asma Mehan (Author)This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of academics. The book examines the relationship between democracy and the (trans)formations of urban spaces through comparative perspective. It engages with the ideas of 'modernity' in architecture and investigates how they might align (or not) with other forms of radical power. This book offers an understanding of the public spaces through political change, power struggle, and ...

Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy - Hardcover

$111.76

by Sean Burns (Editor), Matthew Wilson (Editor)This book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies. The authors use the term site to connote a series of complex, established, or pre-existing conditions - a setting, an atmosphere, an area - to read, to interpret, to relate to, and to engage with, to redefine, or to create in relation to a design prompt. B...

The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth - Paperback

$72.00

by James C. O'Connell (Author), Albert LaFarge (Contribution by)The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and "smart growth." Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of today, Boston has been a national pacesetter for suburbanization. In The Hub's Metropolis, James O'Connell charts the evolution of Bost...

Designing for Noise & Natural Ventilation: A Guide for Non-Acousticians - Paperback

$116.26

by J. T. Cooke (Author)Acoustics can seem challenging to understand for non-acousticians, and this book seeks to illustrate practical ways to design for noisy contexts in a simple and accessible way. The book firstly takes the reader through some basic concepts in acoustics and then gives practical examples of designing for noisy environments.Natural ventilation and noise problems are often dismissed as a luxury, a nice-to-have, but unnecessary, or overlooked because of the primacy of the vis...

Rockitecture: A symphony of river rocks the men who listened to their music - Paperback

$97.18

by Barry J. Schweiger Aiae (Author)Rockitecture is a journey of the building and endurance of Southern California's river rock homes, churches, castles, waiting stations, and water troughs-architecture crafted from the Golden State's indigenous, natural materials during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book explores the foothills, alluvial fans, and new towns where these masterpieces were made, the men who made them, and the lessons we can learn. It celebrates and pays tribute to history, ...

Tommyinnit: (Where Is Tommy?) - Paperback

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by Nelma Tessa (Author)Thomas Simons, a British gamer and YouTuber, goes by the online moniker TommyInnit. On Twitch and YouTube, he is most known for his Minecraft and Hypixel Skyblock streams and videos. He made a YouTube channel called ChannelNutpig at first, but then changed it to TommyInnit. When his classmates discovered he was a gamer, he was bullied. He has been involved in numerous gaming debates. He has competed in numerous Minecraft tournaments and partnered with other gamers such ...

Pacific Grove Architecture and Anecdotes - Paperback

$21.55

by Pg Bookworks (Developed by) Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.22 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2022

Ancient Scholars about the Turks and the Turkic Nations. (The Mega Edition: Volumes 1, 2) - Paperback

$97.18

by A. Sanducci (Author)The book brings a fresh perspective into a stagnated view of the Turkic nations and their past. Primarily based on the genetic findings, backed by the archeological, historical, linguistic facts and testimonies of the ancient scholars, historians, and geographers, this work reveals breaking new evidence about the biblical origins of the Turkic nations who were related to the ancient Akkadians, Sumerians. It unshrouds the Turkic pedigree of the Germanic nations, the nati...

A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture. Illustrated by Fifty Original, and Three Additional Plates, Engraved by Old Rooker, Old Foudr - Hardcover

$47.45

by William Chambers (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are av...

A Parallel of the Antient Architecture With the Modern, in a Collection of ten Principal Authors who Have Written Upon the Five Orders, Written in Fre - Hardcover

$47.45

by Roland Fréart (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are avail...

Augment It: How Architecture, Engineering and Construction Leaders Leverage Data and Artificial Intelligence to Build a Sustainable Future - Hardcover

$50.33

by Mehdi Nourbakhsh (Author)Do you want to increase efficiency and productivity to meet demand, but find you're struggling with low budget and resources?As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you're under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, AND still turn a profit.The solution?In the past, technology has helped AEC companies to gain efficiency and become more productive. Artificial intelligence is one of the most...

Ferme Ornée; or, Rural Improvements. A Series of Domestic and Ornamental Designs, Suited to Parks, Plantations, Rides, Walks, Rivers, Farms, &c. ... C - Hardcover

$43.13

by John Plaw (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available...

Ferme Ornée; or Rural Improvements. A Series of Domestic and Ornamental Designs, Suited to Parks, Plantations, Rides, Walks, Rivers, Farms, &c. ... Ca - Hardcover

$43.13

Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright - Hardcover

$37.75

by John Shoaff (Author)Frank Lloyd Wright confronted us with two challenges when he wrote of his buildings that certain "basic principles behind the effects" "give to them all such vitality, integrity, and magic as they have." The first challenge: to uncover these principles; and, the second, to explain how they yield works of such aesthetic range and power.He gave us the first clue-each building emerges from "the differentiation of a single, certain, simple form"; but he left it for us to fi...

Autodesk Revit 2023 Black Book (Colored) - Hardcover

$109.42

by Gaurav Verma (Author), Matt Weber (Author)The Autodesk Revit 2023 Black Book (Colored) is the 4th edition of our series on Autodesk Revit. This book is designed to help beginners in understanding the workflow in Revit and how simple BIM models are created. The book follows a step by step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between educational use of Autodesk Revit and industrial use of Autod...

Autodesk Revit 2023 Black Book - Paperback

$87.82

by Gaurav Verma (Author), Matt Weber (Author)The Autodesk Revit 2023 Black Book is the 4th edition of our series on Autodesk Revit. This book is designed to help beginners in understanding the workflow in Revit and how simple BIM models are created. The book follows a step by step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between educational use of Autodesk Revit and industrial use of Autodesk Revit....