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by Stafford Holmes (Author), Bee Rowan (Author)How can we stimulate lasting recovery from climate disasters, with limited resources and funds? Widely available limestone is a key component to achieving this goal. Many communities are familiar with these materials, and so, once equipped with the skills to work with them, they can rebuild communities and lead their own recovery.
Number of Pages: 280
Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2021
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by Richard E. Fike (Author)Originally printed in 1987, is designed for the cultural historian, archaeologist, the bottle collector, and those just interested in pharmacopoeia. This book is a guide to the identification of the embossed, patent and proprietary medicine bottles produced in an era of American history when anything could be bottled, advertised and sold - legally. A cornucopia of cures, bitters, tonics, and balms, many of them little more and slightly disguised alcohol, were availa...
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by Teamsteams Editions (Author)Colouring book for adults: ✓ more than 50 shapes to colour✓ cities✓ houses✓ bouquets of flowers✓ and other geometric formsTo have fun
Number of Pages: 100
Dimensions: 0.21 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: March 08, 2021
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by Jan Knikker (Author)You are a great designer, but no-one knows. Now what?This indispensable book, written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture, will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all architects, whether in large practices or practicing as sole practitioners.It bridges the distance between architects and marketing by giving practical tips, best practice and anecdotes from an author with 20 years' experience in architecture marketing. It explains all aspect...
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by Michael Forsyth (Author)In this remarkable study, Michael Forsyth--designer of concert halls, architect, and violinist--examines the effect of musical taste and style on architecture and the reciprocal influence that buildings and their acoustics have had on musical performance and composition.Author BiographyMichael Forsyth teaches and researches architecture at the University of Bristol. He has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on concert hall acoustics, and is a frequent contributor to the Archi...
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by Eric J. Cesal (Author)A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had un...
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by Mark Wigley (Author)In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing--the newly athletic body...
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by Panayotis Tournikiotis (Author)The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history--of buildings to b...
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by M. Fil Hearn (Editor), Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc (Author)Among architects and preservationists, the writings of Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) have long been considered major resources. They inspired a generation of American architects, including Frank Furness, John Wellborn Root, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1894, the critic Montgomery Schuyler observed that Viollet-le-Duc's books "have had the strongest influence on this generation of readers." But for the past century, al...
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by Colin Rowe (Author), Alexander Caragonne (Editor)Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful ofoutstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emergewithin the last two generations.Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence that mark him as one of t...
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by Colin Rowe (Author), Alexander Caragonne (Editor)Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence that mark him as one of the preeminent architectural thinkers of this perplexing half century.Divided into three volumes, in more or less chronological order, As I Was Saying includes articl...
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by John Rajchman (Author), Paul Virilio (Foreword by)In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, JohnRajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze.foreword by Paul Virilio. In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and fu...
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by Joseph Rykwert (Author)On Adam's House in Paradise "takes off backward through history hunting for Adam's house, the original image. En route, with wry wit and charm, Rykwert singes every generation of architectural theoreticians back to Vitruvius, but he manages to illuminate their efforts and their immolations."--Charles Moore, Progressive ArchitectureThis new edition of On Adam's House in Paradise (first published by the Museum of Modern Art) incorporates all the original illustrations ...
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by Alberto Perez-Gomez (Author)This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today.Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important b...
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by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian (Author)Foreword by Joseph Rykwert Several thousand miles south of the equator along the Pacific coast of South America, is the site of the Open City Amereida. It is a laboratory for thought and work, conceived and built by the faculty of architecture of the Catholic University of Valparaiso. Here architects, poets, artists, and engineers have been engaged in one of architectural education's most radical experiments for several decades. The school has long been a d...
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by William J. Mitchell (Author)Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturizati...
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by William J. Mitchell (Author)How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future.The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this lucid, invigorating book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastru...
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by Tadahiko Higuchi (Author), Charles Terry (Translator)In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants. He identifies features such as landmarks, boundaries, paths, and nodes that enable people moving through a landscape to piece together a reliable mental map of their surroundings, begi...
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by John Fitchen (Author)How were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift blocks to great heights by muscle power alone? In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction. This is the first general survey of the practices and role of the builder (as opposed to the designer) in constructing an array of structures. Fitc...
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by Bernard J. Frieden (Author), Lynne B. Sagalyn (Author)Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San Diego, Seattle, St. Paul, and Pasadena.Back JacketPioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Friedenand Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrep...
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by Molly Wright Steenson (Author)Author BiographyMolly Wright Steenson is K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is also Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts. She is the author of Architectural Intelligence (MIT Press).
Number of Pages: 328
Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 7 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2022
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by Ignasi De Sola-Morales (Author), Graham Thompson (Translator)Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction especially for this English edition.Cont...
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by Noam Chomsky (Author), Morris Halle (Author)The theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.Author BiographyNoam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the...
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by Lucy R. Lippard (Author)In The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place. Divided into five parts-Around Here; Manipulating Memory; Down to Earth: Land Use; The Last Frontiers: Cities and Suburbs; and Looking Around-the book extends far beyond the confines of the art worlds, including issues of community, land use, perceptions of nature, how we produce the...
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by Julian B. Woelfel (Joint Author), William a. Paquette (Author), Marcile B. Woelfel (Joint Author)The history of The Pink House is unique because it is one of the few Victorian-era residences to remain in the possession of the same family for four generations. Victorian residences are 19th century fantasies created as monuments to their original owner's financial success and their personal tastes and interests. Each residence is an exuberant expression of achieving the American financial dr...
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by John R. Schmidt (Author)Take in the sights of Chicago's forgotten byways, including a cow trail through a downtown hotel. Pause reflectively at the cemetery in a working scrapyard and the church built without a nail. Stop by the one-time homes of Walt Disney, Joe Louis, Hillary Clinton and Al Capone. Along the way, greet forgotten Chicago notables like the vice president who won a Nobel Prize and wrote a number-one pop hit. From the shortest street to the oldest house, John R. Schmidt visi...
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by Diana Maldonado (Author)El concepto post-arquitectura se fundamenta en el proceso de crítica y autocrítica, y se usa como punto de partida para la invención de otros códigos discursivos; el prefijo post permite mover los límites epistemológicos de la disciplina.Comencé a escribir Post arquitectura a finales del año 2015, la idea original era revisar críticamente mis reflexiones sobre la 'otra' arquitectura; el material de revisión estaba constituido por tres tesis de posgrado y un par de e...
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by Charles James Richardson (Author)The Englishman's House: From A Cottage To A Mansion is a book written by Charles James Richardson and originally published in 1871. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the architecture and design of English houses, from small cottages to grand mansions. It covers a wide range of topics, including the history of English architecture, the different styles of English houses, and the materials and techniques used in their construction. The book also incl...
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by Mariya Ouaissa (Author), Mariyam Ouaissa (Author)The aim of this book is to explore the definitions and fundamentals of offensive security versus defensive security and describe the different tools and technologies for protecting against cyber threats. The book offers strategies of practical aspects of cybersecurity, covers the main disciplines needed to understand cybersecurity, and demonstrates ethical and legal concepts of cyber activities. It presents important concepts relevant for cy...
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by Rodney C. Lhuillier (Author), Chanthim Suon (Various Artists (VMI))A journey of the hidden ancient wonders of Cambodia from the prehistoric through to the 19th century, with full-color photos of over 350+ sites including every standing temple in Cambodia from the Ancient Funan, Chenla, and Angkorian eras. Including an introduction to History, Temple Typology & Construction, and, an illustrated introduction to the Evolution of Khmer Art over 2000 years.Rod and Chanthim's journey across ...
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by S. Muthiah (Author)About the BookFOR CHENNAI LOVERS AND HISTORY BUFFS, THIS IS A MUST- READ TO GET TO KNOW THE CITY AND ITS EVOLUTION CLOSELY.After years abroad - punctuated by occasional visits to a Madras remembered as a leisurely but gracious town of conservative people and large houses with larger 'gardens' -S. Muthiah came 'home' to a metropolis in 1968-69, but found it essentially unchanged. True, the town he had known had grown bigger, become more populous and acquired an industrial...
