Architecture

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by Raymond Lifchez (Author), Donlyn Lyndon (Preface by)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 1987. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.63 x...

New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites: Learn about the Big Apple while looking at colorful engaging artwork - Paperback

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by Anna Nadler (Author)Hello and welcome to this marvelous collection of detailed colorful illustrations, along with useful facts of New York City's famous sites. You will feel like you are going on a tour of New York City and its surroundings.Here you will find artistic pictures and facts about these NYC locations and sites: Statue of LibertyStaten Island FerryFreedom TowerWorld Trade Center MemorialBrooklyn BridgeHudson YardsThe VesselCity Hall StationFlatiron BuildingWashington Square Park...

Landscape Architecture: History, Ecology and Patterns - Paperback

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by I. P. Singh (Author), Minakshi Jain (Author)Landscape architecture can neither be studied nor practiced as an isolated, independent or pure subject; it remains an intensely interdisciplinary engagement that continuously defines itself based on parameters of scale (regional, urban, rural, etc.), issues (ecology, culture, heritage, etc.) and application (planning, management, design, etc.).The book, through its rigorous research, documentation and vision attempts to create a platform to bett...

Future Tempos: Conversations on Architecture Across Time and Media - Paperback

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by Lluís Ortega (Editor)The dissemination of architectural discourse is a fundamental component in the constitution of the discipline as a cultural practice. This dissemination is not, as in other fields, an activity exclusively linked to the effort of making its contents accessible to a general or specialized public. In architecture, how the discourse becomes public is a motor for reflection and historical self-awareness. In the continuous effort to make architecture public, technology play...

Construction Delay Analysis Simplified: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Analysis and Formulation of Delay Claims - Paperback

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by Hendrik F. Prinsloo (Author)Years of extensive research culminated in this easy to read reference guide for the analysis and formulation of delay claims. Complex delay analysis concepts are made accessible with easy to understand diagrams and descriptions. The Second Edition of this popular book includes a new section on claims as a result of pandemics. The book shares information in a user-friendly manner on: Delays - terms, definitions, and conceptsCommon Causes of delay - Delay Analysis...

Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt - Hardcover

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by Nicholas J. Saunders (Author)In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of moder...

Digital Media Series: Grasshopper - Paperback

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by Eddy Man Kim (Author), Jinmo Rhee (Author)Nowadays, it is not unusual to find scaled building models with complex geometries of their facades and laser-burn marks in architecture schools. Even, 3D-printed models are also frequently found. Although there are prevalent critiques that nowadays architecture students are focusing form itself rather than space quality, creating complex forms that cannot be developed in practice, it is true that these days' student can handle geometries well due ...

Crossing with the Clarks: A History of a Scottish Family's Ferries and Tavern on the Susquehanna River - Paperback

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by Victor Hart (Author)After the Northwest Territory opened in 1787, a wave of pioneer expansion took place in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. New turnpikes were constructed to accommodate the ever-increasing number of settlers moving west. The history of Clark's successful ferry and tavern businesses reflect an increase in the demand for ferry and tavern services brought about at the turn of the nineteenth century by increasing western migration and new road systems.In Crossing with the Cl...

Important Business Tools for Professional Interior Designers: Interior Design Essentials on How to Work Smarter for a Better Advantage Over Your Compe - Paperback

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by Virginia I. Smith (Author)This book, Important Business Tools for Professional Interior Designers, provides an insight into the most essential tools required to run an interior design enterprise efficiently, seamlessly, and profitably. As an interior designer, there is no doubt that you possess the creative and artistic qualities needed to put together a design concept to be proud of. But the interior design profession demands more than that, especially if you are a beginner who is just se...

Fundamentals of Project Delivery System: Focusing on Integrated Approaches to Project Delivery - Paperback

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by Yong-Woo Kim (Author)Project delivery system is a design process through which the owner develops a structural organization that fits the owner's needs as well as the level of risks the owner is willing to take. This book explores traditional design-bid-build, CM-at-risk, design build, and integrated project delivery. It highlights the mechanism for aligning the interests of different stakeholders as well as potential risks to each stakeholder in each delivery method. Number of Pages: 228 ...

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built - Hardcover

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by Susan Hughes (Author), Marianne Ferrer (Illustrator)A joyful celebration of the nature-inspired work of architect Antoni Gaud Carmen Batll 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 house take shape under famous...

Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications - Paperback

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by Lynne Manzo (Editor), Patrick Devine-Wright (Editor)Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate co...

Ness.Docs 2: Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas - Paperback

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by Mercedes Peralta (Editor), Florencia Rodriguez (Editor), Jeannette Sordi (Editor) Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas is the second issue of NESS.docs, focused on the concepts and terminology coined by Charles Waldheim and the OFU from Harvard GSD on the potentials for landscape as a medium of urban intervention in the specific social, cultural, economic, and ecological contexts of Latin America cities. Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas features more than twenty projects developed by...

Autodesk Revit 2021 For Architecture: Explore The World of BIM. - Paperback

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by Madhumita Kshirsagar (Author)This book is all original and specifically designed to get you working with Revit Architecture or its other applications as knowledgeably as possible. This book is comprehensive and aims to give you a deeper understanding and a better learning experience. This book is specially design for Architecture and Civil students according to their need.This content helps students to understand BIM and its workflow, to design buildings in better way.This book is useful f...

Learning by Design: Live Play Engage Create - Paperback

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by Roni Zimmer Doctori (Author), Richard F. Elmore (Author), Heidi Hayes Jacobs (Foreword by)A major premise of this book is that the physical environments in which we learn should reflect our most powerful aspirations and our most promising ideas about learning. The designs that are showcased here are about expanding rather than containing learning, opening access rather than controlling access, adapting to differences in learning modalities and preferences, rather than restricting modalitie...

Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety - Paperback

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by Ganapathy Ramachandran (Author), David Charters (Author)Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a "Responsible Person" and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements specified in the regulations.Although regulations only require a qualitative assessment of fire risk, a quantitative assessment is an essent...

The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist - Hardcover

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by Marilyn Satin Kushner (Author), Debra Schmidt Bach (Contribution by), C. Ford Peatross (Contribution by)This volume brings to light the creative and forward-thinking work of German-born artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953), who arrived in New York in 1913, the year of the ground-breaking Armory Show. The exhibition shook the American art scene to its core and ushered in a radically new artistic sensibility, whilst Reiss's exuberant, dynamic designs anticipated the American passion for this new ...

The Material World of Eyre Hall: Four Centuries of Chesapeake History - Hardcover

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by Carl R. Lounsbury (Editor)Erected in 1759 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Eyre Hall is still occupied by descendants of its builder. It retains a rich variety of objects from furniture and books to silver and paintings acquired by the family, reflecting the tastes and aspirations of its many different generations. Only a small handful of places in Virginia can claim such continuity. The material culture of Eyre Hall illustrates the everchanging meanings of this place in American culture ...

Conservation and Restoration of Glass - Paperback

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by Sandra Davison (Author), R. G. Newton (Author)Conservation and Restoration of Glass is an in-depth guide to the materials and practices required for the care and preservation of glass objects. It provides thorough coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of glass conservation.This new edition of Newton and Davison's original book, Conservation of Glass, includes sections on the nature of glass, the historical development and technology of glassmaking, and the deterioration of gla...

Architectural Wonder LEPAKSHI: Enthralling Murals and Architecture of Vijayanagara - Paperback

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by Sainath Reddappa (Author)Lepakshi, in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh is well known for Veerabhadra Swamy temple and massive monolithic Nandi. This temple was erected during the Vijayanagara Empire. It houses numerous mandapas, most splendid are the Natya mandapa and the Kalyana mandapa, whose pillars are studded with marvelous sculptures with intricate workmanship. These sculptures depict dancing and playing music, which indicates the importance given for art in those days.This templ...

Ecologies of the Early Garden City: Essays on Structure, Agency, and Greenspace - Paperback

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by Graham Livesey (Author)This is a study of the inaugural decade (1903-1913) of the first Garden City at Letchworth, in Hertfordshire, employing theories derived from landscape ecology and assemblage theory. The early Garden City movement, as represented by the writings of Ebenezer Howard--particularly his book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898)--was a concerted attempt to redefine many urban practices. The Garden City strove to unite town and country through the garden, it emer...

River-Friendly Cities: An Outline of Historical Changes in Relations between Cities and Rivers and Contemporary Water-Responsible Urbanization Strateg - Hardcover

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by Anna Januchta-Szostak (Author)The book is an outline of historical changes in relations between cities and urban rivers during the periods of Respect, Conquest and Return. Water-responsible urbanisation is based on the awareness of eco-hydrological consequences of spatial planning decisions, adaptation and resilience to climate change as well as coexistence with floods. Author BiographyAnna Januchta-Szostak is a researcher at the Faculty of Architecture, Poznań University of Technology, an...

Mogadishu through the eyes of an architect - Paperback

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by Omar Degan (Author)Mogadishu, the White Pearl of the Indian Ocean. A city with an ancient and intricate history making it without a doubt a unique case of its kind.This book aims to give those who have never visited this splendid city the opportunity to get to know it through its most important buildings and monuments that have characterized the history not only the city, but of the entire nation. A journey through Mogadishu for those, who are yet to visit, or have not returned and wish to...

Architecture and the Modern Hospital: Nosokomeion to Hygeia - Paperback

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by Julie Willis (Author), Philip Goad (Author), Cameron Logan (Author)More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about health and disease and perceptions of bodily integrity and security. However, the rich and genuinely global architectural history...

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by Edith Wharton (Author), Ogden Codman (Author)Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Despite not publishi...

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by Maria Sheherazade Giudici (Editor) AA Files is the Architectural Association's journal of record and offers a platform for exchange connecting the research produced by the AA community to a larger architectural debate globally. Organized in a series of thematic sections that emerged from the AA Files Issue 76 Glossary, each 'file' contains two or more contributions that explore a common keyword constructing a dialogue between a heterogeneous set of authors with the aim to reframe archite...

Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes: How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction - Paperback

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by Barbara White Bryson (Author)Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes demonstrates the importance of creating cultures in the design and construction industries grounded in sophisticated-caring leadership, high-performing collaborative teams, and master-level decision-making discipline, informed by values, to finally address massive inefficiencies, waste, and unpredictability. Barbara White Bryson offers specific guidance to industry stakeholders to succeed in achieving project-related ...

Detour Iowa: Historic Destinations - Hardcover

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by Mike Whye (Author), Mike Whye (Photographer)Iowa history ranges from the natural to what's been made by humans over many centuries. Find and hold the fossilized remains of sea creatures that lived 375 million years ago. Walk through a small-town home where one of the nation's most infamous--and uns Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 23, 2020

The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions - Paperback

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by Brandon Clifford (Author)The Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the careless building practices of the present. With one foot in the past and another in the present, the cookbook bridges the realities of our ancestors and ourselves. We propose a series of architectural "recipes" after d...

Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece - Paperback

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by William E. Wallace (Author)The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades--and his transformation into the master architect of St. Peter's Basilica As he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme Renaissance painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that Michelangelo was given charge of the most ambiti...

An Introduction to Architectural Engineering - Paperback

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by J. Paul Guyer (Author)An introductory textbook for students in architectural engineering programs at colleges and universities. Intended to introduce the student to all of the technical disciplines engaged in the design and construction of buildings. Here is what is discussed:1. INTRODUCTION2. AREA DEVELOPMENT PLANS3. SUSTAINABLE DESIGN4. LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT5. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN6. FOUNDATIONS7. STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS8. HEATING, VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING9. PLUMBING10. ELECTRICAL DIS...

Love Quote Coloring: YOU: Love Quotes Inspirational Coloring Book: 50 templates: Adult Coloring Book of Love and Romance - Paperback

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by Thanasorn Tongmakkul (Author)Love quote Colouring Book For Everyone. Spend some quiet time with adult coloring book.This romantic adult coloring book is a great way to relax and unwind. These sweet pages are full of beautiful designs, flowers, butterflies, romantic words, and more Color each page and give them as beautiful gifts for loved ones to enjoy Sit back, relax, color, and fill your heart with love.This good vibes adult coloring book features not only appealing illustrations to co...