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Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

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Report copyright infringementby Branko Mitrović (Author)Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment. Discussions of architects and architectural academics are heavily loaded with theoretical ideas, concepts and views imported from the works of philosophers. At the same time this architectural employment of philosophy rarely goes beyond the tendency to mine philosophical works for ideas, words and phrases and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dominique Coulon (Author)This book explores the public dimension of architecture. In circumstances that are often difficult, buildings add value to their locations, transforming them. This book takes a new look at the eclectic work of Dominique Coulon; his production of public buildings illustrates the complexity of his architectural approach. Dominique Coulon plays with context, light, and materiality to produce public places that are detailed and welcoming. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Florencia Pita (Author), Jackilin Bloom (Author), Omar Gandhi (Author)Scott Ruff's studio, "Gullah/Geechee Institute," investigated architecture's role as a cultural signifier in the African-American Gullah-Geechee community off the South Carolina coast. It challenged students to translate cultural ideas into tectonic and spatial strategies for a monument, museum, and memorial that serves as a gateway to the Gullah-Geechee corridor, incorporating public interpr...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Nesbit (Editor), Guy Trangos (Editor)New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial explores the historical and contemporary consequence of our planetary relationship with space. It interprets this duality through the conceptual lens of "extraterrestrial," which engages an entangled zone of expanding practices in geography, landscape, and architecture, stretching Earth to space, and conversely, space to Earth. This issue questions the means through which space is...

African Fabbers Atlas: Manual of Synthetic Vernacular Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby Paolo Cascone (Author) A compendium of essays, conversations and paradigmatic projects conceived as an adaptive platform on synthetic-vernacular architecture in Africa and its potential role as cultural driver for global scenarios. Based on almost ten years of applied research of Paolo Cascone and his CODESIGNLAB practice in Africa, the book investigates the potential role of indigenous and spontaneous architecture in the contemporary debate on sustainability ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Mitchell (Editor)Common Wealth features the work of the Post-Professional Design studios taught by Fred Koetter, Ed Mitchell and Aniket Shahane which exame the impact of recent growht in the greater Boston area. It includes essays by urbanists on the issues of growth and the architecture of the city. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.6 x 10.2 x 6.6 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2016

Winter Homes: Stylish Living for Cool Climates

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanette Wall (Introduction by)Curl up and indulge in a magical wonderland of beautiful winter homes. These stunning residences designed by award-winning architects will have you dreaming of warm, cozy fireplaces on cool, snowy days. The simple pleasure of seeing a cozy house illuminated amid a snowy landscape evokes feelings of warmth, security, and comfort. This revised edition of Winter Homes celebrates that simple pleasure, plus so much more. These beautif...

Imminent Commons: Urban Questions for the Near Future: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Hyungmin Pai (Editor), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Editor)The cities of the world stand at a crossroads. Amidst radical social, economic, and technological transformations, will the city become a driving force of creativity, diversity, and sustainability, or will it be a mechanism of inequality, despair, and environmental decay? At this critical moment, where do the stakes lie and what are the agents of change? From the time of its birth, the city has been held toget...

Imminent Commons: The Expanded City: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Editor), Jeffrey Anderson Anderson (Editor)In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of reso...

The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Grabar (Editor), Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Nick Van Mead (Text by (Art/Photo Books))How will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trainsWith the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation times. Most city commuters would be quick to tell you otherwise. O...

Oxymoron and Pleonasm Conversation on American Critical: Conversations on American Critical and Projective Theory of Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby Monika Mitasova (Editor)Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture. Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary M...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Olin (Author)Laurie Olin's interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revolves around two poles: the first is a concern for aspects of the ordinary in our settings and actions, the apparatus and effects of the quotidian in our individual lives and experience; the other is the utility of public seating in the conduct and potential of our role as citizens and the establishment of place and community. A not inconsiderable aspect of both is...

Tiny Taxonomy: Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby Rosetta S. Elkin (Author)Tiny Taxonomy offers a visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture. Tiny Taxonomy showcases species that are in cultivation or in profusion, but rarely purposefully planted. A grouping of plants is categorized by common traits derived from an evolution towards feature miniaturization, generating another...

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Report copyright infringementby Mehrdad Hadighi (Editor), Marc Neveu (Editor)Twisted documents and explores an eleven-story garment factory building in Shantou, China, for the fashion label Lafayette 148. The book presents the building as an artifact of architecture, with detailed documentation of images and drawings. The book also presents essays that offer a series of distinct but interrelated responses to the many questions that arise when building a garment factory facility in contemporar...

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Report copyright infringementby Amale Andraos (Editor), Jesse Seegers (Editor)Abstract is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Produced through the Office of the Dean Amale Andraos, the archive of student work contains documentation of exceptional projects, selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester. The 2016 edition includes the applied research of the school's laboratories and...

Modern to Classic II: Residential Estates by Landry Design Group

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Landry (Author), Landry Design Group (Compiled by), Paul Goldberger (Author)Modern to Classic II: Residential Estates by Landry Design Group explores the Los Angeles firm's recent work, defined by an eclectic range of references and styles. Emphasizing the unique stories that inform each of the projects, the monograph's 15 chapters--each dedicated to a single completed residence and opening with a conceptual sketch by principal Richard Landry--demystify...

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Report copyright infringementby Amale Andraos (Editor), Jesse Seegers (Editor)ABSTRACT is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Produced through the Office of the Dean Amale Andraos, the archive of student work contains documentation of exceptional projects, selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester. The 2015 edition includes the applied research of the school's laboratories and projects...

And Dreams of Home: En Passant Par La Demeure

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Loup Daraux (Author), Mario Ciampi (Photographer), Jean-Michelle Wilmotte (Preface by)The words "en passant" express Jean-Loup Daraux's approach to interior design. He creates simple yet elegant spaces that generate the impression everything was designed and rendered in passing or, as he says, "as if by magic." And Dreams of Home is a vivid photographic tour of the noted French interior designer's country home located in the south of France. Following a pa...

Landscape and Society in Contemporary Ireland

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Report copyright infringementby Brendan McGrath (Author)Ireland stands out as a country which has landscapes that are admired the world over and a society that is ill at ease with the places it inhabits. Public debates about landscape in Ireland may hold a promise of an easily won consensus but this rarely happens. There have been numerous bitter landscape disputes in recent decades, leading one visiting anthropologist to describe the Irish countryside as "a perennial site of struggle". This ...

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Brittain-Catlin (Author)Edwin Rickards was the most flamboyant of Edwardian architects: his buildings were said by John Summerson to fizz like champagne. During a short working life, launched at the age of 25 by winning the competition to design Cardiff City Hall with his partners H.V. Lanchester and James Stewart, he completed four spectacular baroque buildings.Rickards' work was unique in Edwardian architecture for his personal combination of French a...

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Report copyright infringementby David Frazer Lewis (Author)A.W.N. Pugin transformed the Gothic Revival from an architectural style into an international movement. He decorated and furnished the Houses of Parliament, creating one of the icons of modern British identity in the process. His church designs were vastly influential, and although he was staunchly Roman Catholic, he did much to set the aesthetic tone of modern Anglicanism. The house he designed for himself at Ramsgate transformed the...

English Houses: Inspirational Interiors from City Apartments to Country Manor Houses

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Pentreath (Author)"Eight years have passed since the first edition of this book. It's wonderful to see it being reprinted again, not least, I think, because it proves the adage that while nothing dates as quickly as fashion, nothing stays in fashion longer than timeless design--which is really at the core of what I try to do." In this timeless and beautiful book, now reissued complete with a brand-new introduction, renowned architectural and interior design...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Prokopow (Author), Clinton Cuddington (Introduction by)Stunning contemporary houses illuminate the enduring and evolving influence of the West Coast Modern architectural style in B.C. Decades after gaining international recognition through the work of practitioners such as Arthur Erickson, Ron Thom, and Barry Downs, the West Coast Modern style remains widely celebrated and highly influential for residential architects in British Columbia and beyond, ...

Ness. on Architecture, Life, and Urban Culture, Issue 3: What's an Object?

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Report copyright infringementby Florencia Rodriguez (Editor), Pablo Gerson (Editor)NESS.docs is Lots of Architecture's monographic series. Each issue features one practice or subject for in-depth analysis: interviews, texts, and a variety of graphic pieces cooperate to unveil singular work that can globally inspire modes of thought about architecture and landscape. In the Browser section, cultural player Agustin Schang interviews Matevz Čelik Vidmar, founder of the Future Architecture Platfo...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Hughes (Author), Marianne Ferrer (Illustrator)A joyful celebration of the nature-inspired work of architect Antoni Gaudí Carmen Batlló and Dragon, her imaginary salamander friend, love exploring the woods behind their home. But when Carmen's family announces a move to the city, Carmen is miserable. Not only will she lose her connection to nature, she will also lose Dragon. After all, the city is no place for salamanders. As she watches her family's new ...

The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley

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Report copyright infringementby Micah Rutenberg (Author), Avigail Sachs (Author)In 1933 the United States government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and gave it jurisdiction over a demarcated region - the watershed of the Tennessee. The TVA was authorized to develop the resources in the Valley and promote the welfare of its residents. The TVA pursued these goals by constructing three large-scale operations, referred as the river, land and power machines. The TVA also invested in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Juliet Carey (Editor), Abigail Green (Editor), Hélène Binet (Photographer)An exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them. Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses--properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews--tell a more c...

Key West Cottages and Gardens: Inspiration from America's Special Tropical Island

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Linsley (Author)Bright colors, floral patterns, and cottage styles are all design choices associated with the Florida Keys. Key West, one of the most famous tropical islands in the world, embodies the ideas of the Florida Keys while also presenting its own style and culture. In Leslie Linsley's Key West Cottages and Gardens, lovers of the Key West architectural and design style will get a chance to look at beautiful photos of tropical homes as well as le...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Phipps (Author)Brilliantly designed and beautifully produced, Simon Phipps' major new book - arguably his richest collection of architecture since Brutal London - is a celebration of Scotland's best Brutalist and Modernist buildings.From the Peter Womersley's cinematically brilliant Bernat Klein Design Studio set on the edge of birch woods in the Borders to the innovative, liveable Langside Housing Estate in Shawlands, Glasgow (originally designed by Dere...

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Report copyright infringementby R. Howard Bloch (Author)"So infectious is R. Howard Bloch's passion for his subject that even those unable to do the traveling required will find in Paris and Her Cathedrals an inspiring guide to these time-hallowed masterpieces of medieval culture." --Colin Jones, author of Paris and The Great Nation Over the years, R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for the insider tours of Paris that he gives to students abroad. Long sought after by travelers and history bu...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Saunt (Author), David Grant (Editor), Saba Salekfard (Editor)What about Learning? focuses on how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can reimagine learning environments. This books focuses on "What about Learning?" a studio led by Deborah Saunt of DSDHA, in London in terms of how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures ...

Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy

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Report copyright infringementby John Perlin (Author), Mark Z. Jacobson Phd (Foreword by)The definitive history of solar power and technology Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuels a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an os...