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by Greg Lynn (Editor)By showcasing the intersection between technology, aesthetics, and function, this book offers a multidisciplinary approach to cutting-edge performative technology. In a Yale studio led by Lynn and Gage, students designed a boatbuilding facility using intelligence gleaned from the competitive sailing industry. These projects--along with work and essays by Gage and Lynn, Frank Gehry, Lise Anne Couture, Chris Bangle, and others--demonstrate how shared materials, tools, and t...

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction - Paperback

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by David Macaulay (Author)A Caldecott Honor BookReaders worldwide recognize Caldecott Medal winner David Macaulay's imaginary Cathedral of Chutreaux. This critically acclaimed book has been translated into a dozen languages and remains a classic of children's literature and a touchstone for budding architects. Cathedral's numerous awards include a Caldecott Honor and designation as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year for Macaulay's intricate pen-and-ink illustrations.Journey ba...

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by Shayne Rivers (Author), Nick Umney (Author)This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture. A review of the historical development of furniture introduces a wide range of structural types and materials that may be encountered, including wood, ivory, turtleshell, horn and metals, as well as decorative surfaces such as paint, japanning, lacquer and gilding. The nature and behaviour of these materials is explained and...

Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City - Paperback

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by Neil Brenner (Editor), Peter Marcuse (Editor), Margit Mayer (Editor)The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll b...

Theories of the Digital in Architecture - Paperback

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by Rivka Oxman (Editor), Robert Oxman (Editor)In the form of a critical anthology, this book interlaces an ensemble of seminal articles by leading figures in the theory and practice of digital design with a series of original theoretical texts. It develops a meta-theory of the emerging interactions of media technologies and design in architecture. This theory is promoted as a foundation of transformations in design methods as well as a basis for the evolution of new forms of design thinking....

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by Simin Davoudi (Editor), Ali Madanipour (Editor)"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to sh...

Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context - Paperback

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by Stephen Graham (Editor), Colin McFarlane (Editor)Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and perception of infrastructure provides a new and powerful lens to view urban sustainability, politics, economics, cultures and ecologies. An interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging urban researchers...

François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution - Paperback

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by Anthony Gerbino (Author)First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the "new science" of the seventeenth century. Th...

Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design: The Evolution and Impacts of Successful Products - Paperback

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by Robin Roy (Author)Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design follows the innovation and evolution of consumer products from vacuum cleaners to mobile phones from their original inventions to the present day. It discusses how environmental concerns and legislation have influenced their design and the profound effects these products have had on society and culture. This book also uses the lessons from the successes and failures of examples of these consumer products to draw out pract...

Surf Shack: Laid-Back Living by the Water - Hardcover

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by Nina Freudenberger (Author), Brittany Ambridge (Photographer), Heather Summerville (Author)"Cabin porn goes coastal in Nina Freudenberger's Surf Shack" [Vanity Fair], and here are bungalows, trailers, cabins, and beach homes where surfers retreat after a day on the waves. Peek inside the homes of longtime enthusiasts and dedicated newcomers that reflect not just a sport or passion, but also a way of life. Blake and Heather Mycoskie of TOMS, hotelier Sean MacPherson, Gypset author Julia Ch...

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by Steven R. Winkel (Author), David S. Collins (Author), Steven P. Juroszek (Author)Now more than ever, architects need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specific projects. This easy-to-use, illustrative guide is part of a new series covering building codes based on the International Building Code for 2006. This book presents the complex code issues inherent to healthcare facility design in a clear, easily understandable format.Front JacketA...

The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture - Hardcover

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by Walter Rogers (Author)"This books introduces landscape architecture students to professional practice topics and serves as a sourcebook for emerging professionals looking to start and manage their own firms. It covers topics such as financial management, office administration, and legal regulations, as well as new information on sustainable design issues and current software and web technologies. Contract document templates and case studies of firms are also featured"--Front JacketThe all-...

New Directions in Contemporary Architecture: Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988 - Paperback

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by Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi (Author)Rem Koolhaas has defined architecture as a chaotic adventure. Nothing could be more true than that of the last two decades. Never has architecture been so unbridled and so extraordinary: the architectural cast has never been so wide and their works so diverse. What though if you are new to the subject? How is it possible to make sense of this seemingly unruly architectural landscape? There are so many different types of architecture, so many designers with...

The ADA Companion Guide: Understanding the Americans with Disabilities ACT Accessibility Guidelines (Adaag) and the Architectural Barriers ACT (Aba) - Paperback

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by Marcela A. Rhoads (Author)Front JacketThe ultimate reference to the latest ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities Architects, interior designers, engineers, facility managers, and related building professionals will find this to be a handy guide to the latest Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG), as published by the U.S. Access Board in the Federal Registry in 2004 and subsequently updated. As this book went to press in 2010, the U.S. ...

The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture - Paperback

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by Juhani Pallasmaa (Author)The Embodied Image The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa All artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images. These images are embodied and lived experiences that take place in 'the flesh of the world', becoming part of us, at the same time that we unconsciously project aspects of ourselves on to a conceived space, object or event. Artistic images have a life and reality of the...

The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I: A New Framework for Architecture - Paperback

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by Patrik Schumacher (Author)Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Author Patrik Schumacher offers innovative treatment that enriches architectural theory with a coordinated arsenal of concepts facilitating both detailed analysis and insightful comparisons with other domain...

Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome - Paperback

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by John Barrington Bayley (Author), Paul Marie Letarouilly (Author), Henry Hope Reed (Editor)Student's edition of Letarouilly's five-volume work brings Renaissance Rome's architectural splendors within the grasp of students and other readers. Includes plans, elevations, and details of buildings and monuments designed by Michelangelo, Peruzzi, Vignola, Bernini, others. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.7 x 10.9 x 8.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 17, 2012

Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe - Paperback

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by Patrick O'Brien (Editor), Derek Keene (Editor), Marjolein 'T Hart (Editor)This innovative work in comparative urban history explores why outstanding achievements in material and intellectual culture in early modern Europe tended to cluster in certain maritime cities. Patrick O'Brien, his coeditors and eighteen distinguished historians from Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain, and North America, have collaborated to compare economic, architectural, artistic, publishing and scientific achievem...

The Wooden Churches of Eastern Europe: An Introductory Survey - Paperback

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by David Buxton (Author)Previously issued in 1981, this book examines the wooden church architecture of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe is the principal refuge of styles and techniques of 'solid' timber and log building which were once far more widespread. These same building methods were once well known in central Europe too but the increasing scarcity of forest resources prompted the development of timber-framing or half-timbering as a more economical alternative. This system exerted an infl...

Urban Modelling: Algorithms, Calibrations, Predictions - Paperback

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by Michael Batty (Author)Originally published in 1976, this book introduced a series of mathematical models of urban phenomena relevant to scientists and planners attempting to understand and predict the form of cities and regions. Dr Batty organises the book around the main theme of designing and using such models in practical situations and develops a family of static and dynamic models dealing with the location of land use and economic activities. He describes the models both as urban theo...

Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism - Paperback

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by Maria Georgopoulou (Author)This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion) as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past hi...

Glimpses Of China And Chinese Homes - Paperback

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by Edward S. Morse (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN ...

The Christian Civil Engineer Technician Handbook - Paperback

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by Victor Darnell Hadnot (Author)If you are looking for a book to help you get ready for the fast paced and exciting field of technical engineering Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 27, 2002

Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe - Hardcover

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by Saskia Coenen Snyder (Author)Nineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life--London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin--Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a marker of accu...

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by David Watkin (Author)One of the most visited sites in Italy, the Roman Forum is also one of the best-known wonders of the Roman world. Though a highpoint on the tourist route around Rome, for many visitors the site can be a baffling disappointment. Several of the monuments turn out to be nineteenth- or twentieth-century reconstructions, while the rubble and the holes made by archaeologists have an unclear relationship to the standing remains, and, to all but the most skilled Romanists, the...

Friar Park: 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue: Special Black & White Edition - Paperback

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by Scott Cardinal (Editor), The Cardinals (Author)Famous as the home of musician George Harrison, Friar Park has been one of the finest country estates in England, with beautiful architectural structures and gardens. This is a Special Edition of the original 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue when Friar Park was put up for sale following the death of its ideator and original owner Sir Frank Crisp.Potential readers should be assured that we purposely design our books to be reminiscent of vintage pu...

What Is Architectural History? - Paperback

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by Andrew Leach (Author)What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, m...

Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice - Paperback

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by Louise A. Mozingo (Editor), Linda Jewell (Editor) While many fields struggle to specify feminine contributions, the work of women has always played a fundamental role in American landscape architecture. Women claim responsibility for many landscape types now taken for granted, including community gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes. This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscap...

To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909 1049 - Hardcover

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by Barbara H. Rosenwein (Author)Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human motives, needs, and practices behind gifts of land and churches to the French monastery of Cluny during the 140 years that followed its...

French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France - Paperback

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by Sidney Painter (Author)The author describes the various ideas that may be called chivalric, illustrates their nature and content from contemporary literature, and attempts to show what effect they had on the ethical principles and practices of the feudal nobility. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.5 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN Publication Date: October 15, 1957

Living with Air Plants: A Beginner's Guide to Growing and Displaying Tillandsia - Hardcover

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by Yoshiharu Kashima (Protoleaf) (Author), Yukihiro Matsuda (Brocante) (Author)Living with Air Plants is the perfect introduction to the world of Tillandsia and the many ways they can be used to design and upgrade your home or work space. It is the work of a prominent horticulturist and a design, lifestyle and gardening expert from Japan, and displays a wonderful Japanese design aesthetic and attention to detail. These endearing plants are friendly to seasoned gardeners and beginners alike, a...

Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art - Paperback

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by Adam Duncan Harris (Author)The first European artist-naturalists to tour North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were awed not only by the continent's varying landforms but also by the animals they encountered: vast herds of buffalo, majestic horned stags, a bewildering variety of birds. The earliest sketches depicting these fauna began the remarkable tradition of wildlife in American art, a tradition that evolved along with the United States as a nation and still thrives ...