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The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities - Paperback

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by Joseph Rykwert (Author)No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life will also be the result of choices. Our choices. That cities display and represent the personal desires of their inhabitants is central to Joseph Rykwert's argument in Th...

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by William F. Gray (Author)This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appr...

Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary - Paperback

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by Sharon E. J. Gerstel (Author) Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.48 x 11 x 8.25 IN Publication Date: May 01, 2009

The Downfall of the Famous: New Annotated Edition of the Fates of Illustrious Men - Hardcover

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by Giovanni Boccaccio (Author), Louis Brewer Hall (Translator), Louis Brewer Hall (Abridged by)Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) is best known as the author of the Decameron, for which he created a lieta brigata of young men and women narrating a series of popular stories in Italian. Yet during his lifetime and long afterward Boccaccio was celebrated as a leading figure in the revival of classical Latin in such literary and historical works as his Eclogues, The Genealogy of the Gods, and On Famous...

The Sins and Wins of Inclusive Design: a blueprint to designing for diversity - Hardcover

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by Anthony Giannoumis (Author), Kunashakaran (Author), Lisa Haynes (Illustrator)The Sins and Wins of Inclusive Design is a picture book featuring 7 illustrated "Case Stories" that explore my journey into mastering inclusive design principles. Transform your design strategy from intention to impact. This book presents a new approach to inclusive design aimed at inspiring designers and creators to embrace the complexities of global demographic shifts and view their projects and audiences from a...

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by Harold Stiver (Author)Quebec's Covered BridgesUPDATED FOR 2024!!A Source book for Travelers, Photographers, Explorers...Descriptions to all of Quebec's 88 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as photos GPS Positions Written Driving Directions Basic Info for each Site Truss types described and illustrated Short History of Covered Bridges Seven Self-guided Tours Abiti-Est County Tour Abiti-Ouest County Tour Compton County Tour Gatineau County Tour Labelle County Tour Matane Count...

In Search of Community: Finding Common Ground from Aspen to Parachute - Paperback

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by Paul Andersen (Author)This book is a compilation of the 10-part Aspen Journalism series on community which began with regionalism-the notion of linked communities along the 80-mile commuter corridor from Aspen to Parachute-and concluded with the understanding that affordable, accessible housing is vital to sense of place, community cohesion, and well-being that comes from stability and security, the most fundamental of human needs. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN Publicat...

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by Harold Stiver (Author)UPDATED TO 2024!!A Source book for Photographers and Explorers. Descriptions to all of Canada's Remaining Historic Covered Bridges. This includes 88 for Quebec, 58 for New Brunswick, and 2 each for British Columbia and Ontario.Photographs of each BridgeGPS PositionsWritten directions from a nearby townA short history of Covered Bridges in North AmericaNotes on interesting or unique history or structureA review of the various Truss Types New Brunswick Self guided Tours...

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by John Trefry (Author)MASSIVE is the fourth book by John Trefry. MASSIVE is a text that exists eternally in the present of the reader. Every glimpse is new, in the moment, and transitory. Osip Mandelstam lives in exurban Atlanta under a totalitarian state called the ADA. Number of Pages: 770 Dimensions: 1.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: December 02, 2024

St Elizabeths in Washington, D.C.: Architecture of an Asylum - Hardcover

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by Sarah A. Leavitt (Author)St. Elizabeths has been a mental health hospital in Washington, D.C., since 1852, when it was established by the United States Congress as the Government Hospital for the Insane. St. Elizabeths, along with other hospitals, experienced rapid expansion in its first century, hitting a peak of almost eight thousand patients by the 1960s. Deinstitutionalization in the second half of the twentieth century emptied out the historic buildings on campus. This well-illustrate...

Sharp Words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp - Paperback

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by Dennis Sharp (Author)To commemorate the life and work of Dennis Sharp (1933-2010), Sharp Words collates together a variety of essays that touch upon each of his architectural fascinations - among them, glass architecture, picture palaces, masters of concrete and English modernism. Punctuating these texts are a number of editorials from his days as editor of AAQ, which graphically as much as intellectually offer emblems of his time at the AA. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.6 x 12.2 x 9....

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by Kristin Helf (Author), Brandon Seidl (Author)For generations, Ocean City has afforded both locals and tourists unforgettable sights and sounds. The boardwalk holds iconic landmarks like Trimper's Rides and the Sand Sculptures, and no visitor will ever forget Boardwalk Elvis. Farther north are Motel Row, Jolly Roger's Muffler Man Pirate and Old Pro miniature golf courses. Nostalgic recollections from decades past include the boisterous chuckles of Laffing Sal and Captain Bob's Bull. Local a...

Engendering Cities: Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for All - Paperback

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by Inés Sánchez de Madariaga (Editor), Michael Neuman (Editor)Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy, and practice of designing for gender in urban spaces. Gender matters in city design, yet despite legislative mandates across the globe to provide equal access to services for men and women alike, these issues are still often overlooked or inadequately addressed. This book looks at critical aspects of contemporary cities regarding gender, including topics such as transpo...

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by Hudson River Maritime Museum (Author) Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: June 17, 2019

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by Peggy Deamer (Author)Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives, new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social an...

Swimming Pools: Design and Construction, Fourth Edition - Paperback

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by Philip H. Perkins (Author)The fourth edition of this classic book provides a comprehensive treatise on the design and construction of swimming pools, both public and private. Significantly revised, it covers planning, materials, design, construction and finishing, water circulation and treatment, energy conservation, maintenance and repairs. This is a standard book for all civil engineers who need to design and construct swimming pools, and a useful reference on the design of water-retaini...

Pressure Vessel Design: Concepts and Principles - Paperback

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by J. Spence (Editor), A. S. Tooth (Editor)This book derives from a 3 day intensive course on Pressure Vessel Design given regularly in the UK and around the world since 1986. It is written by experts in their field and although the main thrust of the Course has been directed to BS5500, the treatment of the material is of a general nature thus providing insight into other national standards.Author BiographyJ Spence FRS is the Richard Snell Professor of Physics and a Regents Professor at Ariz...

Engineering of Glacial Deposits - Paperback

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by Barry G. Clarke (Author)At some time 30% of the world's land mass was covered by glaciers leaving substantial deposits of glacial soils under major conurbations in Europe, North and South America, New Zealand, Europe and Russia. For instance, 60% of the UK has been affected, leaving significant glacial deposits under major conurbations where two thirds of the population live. Glacial soils are composite soils with significant variations in composition and properties and are recognised as c...

John Francis Bentley: Architect of Westminster Cathedral - Paperback

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by Peter Howell (Author)This is the first biography of John Francis Bentley (1839-1902), best known as architect of Westminster Cathedral, since his daughter Winefride de l'Hôpital's Westminster Cathedral and its Architect (1919). Bentley was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and went to London to work in the office of Henry Clutton, a distinguished High Victorian architect who became a Roman Catholic in 1856. Bentley also converted, and, after setting up his own practice in 1860, came to be wide...

Seven Palms: The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Francis Nenik (Author), Jan Caspers (Translator), Sebastian Stumpf (Photographer)The story of Thomas Mann's Pacific Palisades home-in-exile, in text and picturesWriter Francis Nenik narrates the history of the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and the years that Thomas Mann and his family lived in it, during the author's 1942-52 period of exile in the US. Basing his work on extensive archival research, Nenik not only recounts episodes from the Mann family's ...

Biblical Project Management: Re-Building the Wall Around Jerusalem - Paperback

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by Kenrick H. Burgess (Author)This book is about biblical project management, principles, tools, techniques, and practices used by Nehemiah, a cupbearer to the King of the Persian Empire in the re-building of the wall around Jerusalem and its revitalization. It can be used as a manual for project recovery by project sponsors, owners, leaders, project managers and teams managing projects.The book has three parts: Part One deals with the characteristics and definitions of a project and biblical...

Saylor Current Construction Costs 2020 - Paperback

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by Lee Saylor (Author), Brad Saylor (Author), Natalie Saylor (Author)For nearly 60 Years, Leland Saylor has been the leader in cost consulting in the U.S. 2020 Marks the 58th Edition of Current Construction Costs, used by owners, architects, builders and public officials to estimate the cost of projects from houses to schools to airports to skyscrapers. From the simple to the iconic, Saylor is the one professionals turn to for cost advice. Number of Pages: 388 Dimensions: 0.8 x 11 x 8.5 IN Pu...

New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial - Paperback

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by 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 forged as a condition extra ...

Koolhaas. Countryside, a Report - Paperback

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by Amo (Author), Rem Koolhaas (Author), Irma Boom (Designed by)The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where today's most powerful forces--climate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches--are playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime--gridded, mechanized, and optimized for maximal production--these sites are changing beyond recognition. In his latest publ...

Natured: Iroje, Seung H-Sang - Hardcover

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by Seung H-Sang (Author), Hyungmin Pai (Contribution by)A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by sensuous and essences of raw materials, echoing the extemporal features of the culture where buildings are placed, discovering the prettiness of ...

Secrets of Vastu Shastra Simplified: Key for Happiness, Wealth, Health and Prosperity in Life. - Paperback

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by Parmeet Singh Khera (Author), Rupinder Singh Kwatra (Author)This book is being designed and framed in such a way that it will save your money in thousands.It can be helpful in bringing prosperity, joy, happiness, and stability in your life.Hundreds of people have taken benefit by following rules of Vaastu shastra and have brought prosperity in their personal life and business concerns.Whether you are making a new house, purchasing a plot or setting up a new business venture, knowledge of V...

The History And Antiquities Of The Cathedral Church Of Wells: Illustrated By A Series Of Engravings, Of Views, Elevations, Plans, And Details Of The A - Paperback

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by John Britton (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domai...

The English Folly: The Edifice Complex - Paperback

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by Gwyn Headley (Author), Wim Meulenkamp (Author)If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some ex...

Hotel Roanoke: The Grand Old Lady on the Hill - Paperback

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by Donlan Piedmont (Author), Nelson Harris (Author), Lisa Fenderson (Author)The Hotel Roanoke is as old as the city of Roanoke itself. It opened in 1882, when the city became the headquarters for the Norfolk & Western Railway, and signaled the city's progress. It has since survived a devastating fire, the Depression and closure after a century of operation. Thanks to the determination of the leaders of Virginia Tech and the Roanoke Valley, the hotel reopened in 1995. Today, the reimagined...

Scandi Rustic: Creating a Cozy & Happy Home - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Lawson (Author), Reena Simon (Author)Award-winning bloggers and instagrammers Reena Simon and Rebecca Lawson are renowned for their love affair with all things Scandi. In their first book, Scandi Rustic Style, they reveal how to create a home that takes elements of Scandinavian design and introduces rustic natural materials and textures to create a Scandi-inspired interior that is cozy, relaxed, and inviting. Come with Rebecca and Reena on a journey that takes in the very best in S...

Dynamic Cartography: Body, Architecture, and Performative Space - Paperback

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by María José Martínez Sánchez (Author)Dynamic Cartography analyses the works of Rudolf Laban, Lawrence Halprin, Anne Bogart, Adolphe Appia, Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and Hélio Oiticica. They are practitioners who have worked on different areas of enquiry from the existing relations between body and space through movement, events, or actions but whose work has never been presented from this perspective or in this context. The work and methodologies set up by these practitioners enable us...

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by Kamu Iyer (Author)In this book I write about the built form of the city as I have seen it grow and change since the 1940s. It is written largely from my experience through my years as a student, professional architect and teacher in schools of architecture, though I have also drawn from the observations of many others, young and old. I also look at the way in which the Improvement Trust, the Bombay Development Department and the Bombay Municipal Corporation, through their interventions, al...