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Secrets of the Serpent, in Search of the Sacred Past, Special Revised Edition Featuring Two New Appendices - Paperback

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by Philip Gardiner (Author), John Malloy (Illustrator)Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past - Special Revised Edition, Featuring Two New Appendices by Philip Gardiner. Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped it's authority on the face of the planet. Now, after years of research, the real religious history of the world can be told. In Secrets of the Serpent, Philip Gardiner for the firs...

Developing a Legal, Ethical, and Socially Responsible Mindset for Sustainable Leadership - Paperback

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by Frank J. Cavico (Author), Bahaudin G. Mujtaba (Author)This book entitled "Developing a Legal, Ethical, and Socially Responsible Mindset for Sustainable Leadership" is about leadership and values, in particular the values of legality, morality, and social responsibility and their application in a modern global business environment. A business leader today must engage in sustainable leadership, which encompasses, in addition to making sound economic and financial decisions, acting legally ba...

Exploring Autodesk Revit Structure 2015 - Paperback

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by Prof Sham Tickoo Purdue Univ (Author)Exploring Autodesk Revit Structure 2015 is a comprehensive book that has been written to cater to the needs of the students and the professionals who are involved in the AEC profession. This enables the users to harness the power of BIM with Autodesk Revit Structure 2015 for their specific use. In this textbook, the author emphasizes on physical modeling, analytical modeling, rebar modeling, and quantity scheduling. Also, Revit Strcuture 2015 book cover...

A Storm Foretold: Columbia University and Morningside Heights, 1968 - Paperback

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by Christiane Crasemann Collins (Author)A Storm Foretold: Columbia University and Morningside Heights, 1968 offers an eyewitness account of the famous confrontation between Columbia and its surrounding community, one of the pivotal civil rights battles that characterized the sixties. Focused from the point of view of urban planning, author and urban historian Christiane Crasemann Collins provides firsthand insight into a preeminent institution's racially motivated tactics. With extensive rese...

(In)Formal La: The Space of Politics - Paperback

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by Victor J. Jones (Editor)Often portrayed as a confluence of cars and movies, this book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles' primal sources of creation - land and opportunity. Within the endless sprawl there reside flurries of uncodified spatial configurations that no high-definition map or satellite image can accurately capture nor present. (IN)formal LA explores a range of unique spatial practices and pedagogies through the lens of politics in Los Angeles. While this book articula...

Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models for Design Agency in Architecture - Hardcover

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by David Jason Gerber (Editor), Mariana Ibanez (Editor)Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models for Design Agency in Architecture investigates and instigates critical, theoretical, and practical research and design that illustrate the plurality of computing approaches within the broad spectrum of design and mediated practices. This book is an exploration of critical discourse in the form of theoretical work, as well as design projects illustrated through the pervasive and tightly ...

The Blindspot Initiative: Design Resistance and Alternative Modes of Practice - Hardcover

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by Jose Sanchez (Editor)The Blindspot Initiative: Design Resistance and Alternative Modes of Practice documents the professional work of twenty-one design practices that are expanding their respective fields and hybridizing traditional design outputs through the intersection of other disciplines. The expansion of architectural and design practices toward the domain of robotics, material science, film, simulation, or software, redefine the skillsets required to engage with creative output that...

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by 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 the engendering of pleasure....

Essays on Thermodynamics: Architecture and Beauty - Hardcover

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by Inaki Abalos (Author), Renata Snetkiewicz (Author), Lluis Ortega (Editor)Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts of Somatisms, Monsters Assemblage, Verticalism a...

Water Index: Design Strategies for Drought, Flooding and Contamination - Paperback

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by Seth McDowell (Editor)In the wake of an escalating global crisis with water, Water Index is the first critical inventory and analysis of innovative architecture, landscape architecture and design solutions to address the rising, disappearing, and contamination of water. As an ecological disaster complex ferments in contemporary architectural discourse, design competition briefs, conference topics and journal themes optimistically call for designers to reconcile or reimagine the relationshi...

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

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by 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 Mcleod, Beatriz Colomina, Stan...

Oab (Updated): Office of Architecture in Barcelona - Hardcover

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by Carlos Ferrater (Author)OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer and more varied, prepared and flexible projects. The creation of this new platform attempts to address the challenges that contemporary architecture has raised in intellectual, social, technological, and environmental spheres. The contents are organized as a collection of chapters that turn th...

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by Rosalea Monacella (Editor) Number of Pages: 127 Dimensions: 0.4 x 11.7 x 8.3 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2016

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by 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 contemporary China. Issues addressed ran...

Architecture in Effect: Volume 1: Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects and Volume 2: After Effects: Theories and Methodologies in Arc - Paperback

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by Sten Gromark (Editor), Jennifer Mack (Editor), Roemer Van Toorn (Editor)Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies. The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social, is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects. Together these twin volumes reflect on top...

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by 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 2017 edition includes the applied research of the school's laboratories and projects from design studios taught b...

La+ Imagination: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture - Paperback

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by Tatum Hands (Editor)Paradisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian - islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our imagination. Issue 07 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ IMAGINATION open international design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to create a new island. In addition to showcasing the winners and other interesting, unusual, or surprising entries, LA+ IMAGINATION features interviews with jurors James Corner, Richard Weller, Marion Wei...

The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake That Made Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Alexander Robinson (Author) Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.9 x 7.1 IN Publication Date: November 15, 2018

By the People: Designing a Better America - Paperback

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by Cynthia Smith (Author), Caroline Baumann (Foreword by), Darren Walker (Preface by)The third in Cooper Hewitt's series on socially responsible design: a manual for challenging inequality through innovation and creativityBy the People: Designing a Better America--the third volume in Cooper Hewitt's series on socially responsible design, which began with Design for the Other 90%--examines how design is effectively challenging poverty and social inequality across America. The book explores cur...

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by Lauren Rubin (Author)LOOK UP New York is the first volume of an exciting new series of architecture and design books inspiring architects of all ages. This book is an architecture book, an activity book, a history book and an art book all rolled into one--it explores the rich and fascinating world of building in New York City. It is designed to be an on-the-go, fun and informative architecture book. Use it to learn, explore, create and color. It is filled with great drawing and doodling a...

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by Upenn Design (Editor)From the stone blade and the fire stick to the latest algorithms of genetic code, we shape our world through the act of design. With its roots in the Renaissance notion disegno, design is the ability not only to make something, but also to conceive of its invention and reflect on its meaning. Whether we valorize it as the democratization of design or critique it as the perversion of the commodity fetish, designed things are now ubiquitous. Not only things but entire sy...

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by Michael Jakob (Author)Artificial mountains are a worldwide reality. Burial sites use, very frequently, the intimidating shape of the man-made mountain. Incense burners in ancient China evoked the Five Sacred Mountains. Mount Parnassus in Greece became an important element in European garden history and a symbol of the Renaissance. In the Baroque Rome of the 17th century the most important artists worked on the constructions of huge ephemeral mounds in order to express more or less codified...

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by Anthony Hernandez (Photographer), Robert Adams (Introduction by), Erin O'Toole (Contribution by)Since the early 1970s, when he began photographing on the streets of his native Los Angeles, Anthony Hernandez has consistently pushed his practice into uncharted territory, challenging himself by adopting new formats and subject matter. Moving from black and white to color, from 35mm to large-format cameras, and from the human figure to landscapes to abstracted detail, he has produced an unusua...

Re-Living the City: Uabb 2015 Catalogue - Paperback

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by Aaron Betsky (Contribution by), Alfredo Brillembourg (Contribution by), Gideon Fink Shapiro (Editor)This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highlights the contributions of dozens of international architects, designers and artists, and offers 12 probing, original essays. The projects and essays of UABB 2015, Re-Living the City, criticize the...

McHap Book One: The Americas - Hardcover

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by Fabrizio Gallanti (Editor)MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN - Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radic, Cristián Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize recognizing the best built works in...

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by Jennifer Bonner (Editor), Michelle Benoit (Editor), Patrick Herron (Editor)Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions. Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition of Platform chronicles the 2015-2016 academic year at the GSD. Models and student projects, including dissertations and drawings, are skillfully arranged and presented to reference the still life as expres...

Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship - Paperback

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by Marcelo Spina (Author), Jackie Kow (Editor), Georgina Huljich (Author)Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in "Brutal Beauty: Piles, Monoliths and the Incongruous Whole" explored ways to make mute icons through monolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their context and difficult to read formally for a film center in Los Angeles. Dan Wood in "Boulevard Triumphant: eco...

Landscape Tunings: An Urban Park at the Danube - Paperback

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by Silvia Benedito (Author), Alexander Hausler (Author)Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to one's dispositions and wellbeing--an emotional space of social relevance, tuned with and for its communities. In this book, OFICINAA examines the design potentials of the Danube River as a civic anchor, a bioclimatic medium, and a space for collective imagination in the city of Ingolstadt, Germany...

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

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by 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 together by the commons. The book ...

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

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by 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 resources which supersede the tra...

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by Vedran Mimica (Author), Vladimir Mattioni (Editor)Kenneth Frampton once called Vedran Mimica, "the spiritual leader of the Berlage Institute." The Berlage Affair is a book that investigates the educational legacy of that institution, and in the process, explores new ways to research and project new models of global urbanization. Through this multilayered book of diverse views, the essays, studies, reviews, and interviews within all share an intellectual origin from the Berlage, where Mimic...

Unfinished: Ideas, Images, and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale - Hardcover

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by Carnicero Inaki (Author), Quintans Carlos (Author)Spain was one of the countries where the practice of architecture has been most affected by the economic crisis. There are few places on earth where such large numbers of buildings were built in such a short period of time. The lack of reflection over whether these projects were necessary or valid resulted in the subsequent abandonment of many buildings when their completion or maintenance was discovered not to be economically viable. Their...