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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages - Paperback

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by J. E. Kaufmann (Author), H. W. Kaufmann (Author)The castles of the Medieval world continue to interest readers, both as architectural wonders and because of their dramatic role in world history. The general public is largely unaware of just how many castles survive today or over how wide an area of Europe and the Middle East they are to be found.Fortifications specialist J.E. and H.W. Kaufmann and technical artist Robert Jurga (authors of the acclaimed Fortress Europe: European Fortificati...

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by Tom Wolfe (Author)After critiquing--and infuriating--the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings that have influence...

The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories - Paperback

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by Edward Hollis (Author)A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it representsConcrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shape-shifters.In an inspired refashioning ...

The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century - Hardcover

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by Mark Lamster (Author)A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson -- a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award. When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable and influential figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading architects with his famous G...

The Great Wall Of China: 2,000-Years Of Construction - Paperback

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by A. J. Kingston (Author)Introducing "The Great Wall of China: 221 BCE - 1644 CE", a book bundle that delves into the 2,000 years of construction of the world-renowned Great Wall of China.Book 1, "The Great Wall and the Qin Dynasty: Uniting China Through Engineering", explores the earliest construction of the Great Wall and how it played a crucial role in the unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. Discover the engineering feats and techniques that were employed to construct this awe-ins...

The Symbolism of Medieval Churches: An Introduction - Paperback

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by Mark Spurrell (Author)The Symbolism of Medieval Churches: An Introduction explores the ways in which the medieval church building and key features of it were used as symbols, particularly to represent different relationships within the Church and the virtues of the Christian life. This book introduces the reader to the definition, form, and use of medieval symbols, and the significance that they held and still hold for some people, exploring the context in which church symbolism developed,...

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by Sherin Wing (Author)Sacred spaces exemplify some of the most exciting and challenging architecture today. Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, monasteries and retreats. Twenty beautifully illustrated case studies located in Asia, Europe, and North America are showcased alongside discussions with the designers into concept and design development, materiality, and spatial analys...

Public Art Encounters: Art, Space and Identity - Paperback

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by Martin Zebracki (Editor), Joni M. Palmer (Editor)Public art is produced and 'lived' within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres. This lively collection is a mix of academic and practice-based writings that scrutinise conventional claims on the inclusiveness of public art practice. Contributions examine how various social differences, across class, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, ability and literacy, shape encounters with public art...

Designing for Autism Spectrum Disorders - Paperback

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by Kristi Gaines (Author), Angela Bourne (Author), Michelle Pearson (Author)Winner of the 2017 IDEC Book Award, 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Book Category), 2017 American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize and the 2016 International Interior Design Association TXOK Research AwardDesigning for Autism Spectrum Disorders explains the influence of the natural and man-made environment on individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other forms of intellectual/developmental di...

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation - Paperback

$145.78

by Len Holm (Author), John Schaufelberger (Author)Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation is the first college-level textbook designed to prepare you to take on a site supervisor role on a complex jobsite. The book covers the responsibilities of superintendents in relation to the jobsite project management team, the project owners, designers, and municipal services. The book outlines the development of the superintendent and his or her role and responsibilities ...

The Urban Fix: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation - Paperback

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by Douglas Kelbaugh (Author)Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and can lead to extreme local heat. The Urban Fix addresses how urban design, planning and policies can counter the threats of climate change, urban heat islands and overpopulation, helping cities take full advantage of their inherent advantages and new technologies to catalyze social, cultural...

Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective - Paperback

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by Pete King (Editor), Shelly Newstead (Editor)Play is of critical importance to the well-being of children across the globe, a fact reflected in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet existing literature on the subject is largely confined to discussing play from a developmental, educational or psychological perspective. Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective offers a new and exciting angle from which to view play, drawing on the authors' own experie...

Quilted New York: Celebrate the City with Fabric and Color - Paperback

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by Cathy Perlmutter (Author)Does someone you know love New York City? Give them a quilt with a spectacular view of it! This book shows how to make 11 mostly pieced structures, using the author's unique method developed specifically for architecture. The edges are turned under DURING piecing, rather than afterwards. Each building can then easily be appliquéd by hand or machine - to something small, like a baby quilt, wallhanging or pillow - or to a bigger project, like the two quilt patterns i...

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by Tony Hall (Author)The planning of urban and rural areas requires thinking about where people will live, work, play, study, shop and how they will get about the place, and to devise strategies for long time periods. Town Planning: The Basics provides a general introduction to the components of urban areas, including housing, transportation and infrastructure, and health and environment, showing how appropriate policies can be developed. Explaining planning activity at different scales of op...

Creating Great Places: Evidence-Based Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing - Paperback

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by Debra Flanders Cushing (Author), Evonne Miller (Author)This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places. Imagining and designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary task, and in this compelling narrative, Cushing and Miller remind us that theory is a powerful starting point. Drawing on international research, illustrated case studies, personal experiences, as well as fascinating examples from history and pop culture, this practical book prov...

A Burglar's Guide to the City - Paperback

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by Geoff Manaugh (Author)Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it. Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Ge...

The Evolution of Urban Form: Typology for Planners and Architects - Paperback

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by Brenda Case Scheer (Author)Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over tiAuthor BiographyBrenda Case Scheer, AICP is the Dean and Professor of Architecture and City Metropolitan for the Coll...

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by Reid Ewing (Author)A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United States. Planners and engineers can look to this manual for guidance on the appropriate use, design, and signing and marking of traffic-calming measures. For local officials, developers, and community associations, it is an introduction to the goals and tactics of traffic calming. BasedAuthor BiographyReid Ewing is professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. Steven Brown is a senior...

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action - Paperback

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by Willem Salet (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action. The contributors share expertise on institutional innovation and philosophical pragmatism. They discuss the different facets of these two conceptual frameworks and explore the alternative combinations thr...

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory - Paperback

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by Michael Gunder (Editor), Ali Madanipour (Editor), Vanessa Watson (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.In a changing and often unpredictable glo...

Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays - Paperback

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by Witold Rybczynski (Author)A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works, casts a seasoned critical eye on the modern scene. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan world. In thirty-four discerning essays, Rybczynski ranges over topics as varied as shopping malls, Central Park, the Opéra Bastille, and America's shrinking cities. Along the way...

Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space - Paperback

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by Michael Sorkin (Editor)America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it's the theme park, an apparently benign environment in which all is structured to achieve maxi...

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by Jeremy Treglown (Author)An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain True, false, or both? Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy. Pedro Almodóvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment film directors who have worked continuously in Spain since the 1930s. As early as 1943, former Republicans and Nationalists were collaborating in Spain to promote the visual arts,...

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by Witold Rybczynski (Author)An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form--but it remains mysterious to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and the winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his writing on a...

Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City - Paperback

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by Adina Hoffman (Author)A biographical excavation of one of the world's great, troubled cities A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. The book unfolds as an excavation. It opens with the 1934 arrival in Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn, a refugee from Hitler's Germa...

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by Alexandra Stoddard (Author)Alexandra Stoddard continues her creative and insightful guidance by showing us how to make our homes a real expression of our true selves. Starting with the Fifteen Defining Principles of Interior Design, Stoddard grounds us in the classic standards that make any home timeless and follows with inventive suggestions. Her own bold ideas about color, pattern, and texture are affordable tips from her own vast experience involving every imaginable decoration problem....

Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination - Hardcover

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by Marjorie Senechal (Editor)This second edition is based off of the very popular Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach, first published twenty years ago. The book is expanded and updated to include new developments, including the revolutions in visualization and model-making that the computer has wrought. Shaping Space is an exuberant, richly-illustrated, interdisciplinary guide to three-dimensional forms, focusing on the suprisingly diverse world of polyhedra. Geometry comes alive in Shaping...

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism - Paperback

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by Rudolf Wittkower (Author)A brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.61 x 7.94 x 5.05 IN Publication Date: October 07, 2008

Heavenly Mansions: And Other Essays on Architecture - Paperback

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by John Summerson (Author), Kent C. Bloomer (Foreword by)A classic of architectural history and theory, Heavenly Mansions interprets architecture as a reflection of the age in which it flowers, and traces the alternating themes of fantasy and functionalism as exemplified in various styles and in the works of a number of influential men, including Wren, Viollet-le-Duc, William Butterfield, and Le Corbusier. Succinctly summarizing 800 years of viewpoints about architecture, it ranges from Gothi...

Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers - Paperback

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by Carter Wiseman (Author)Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good . . . as anyone is likely to write . . . accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments"(New York Times), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makers--the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artisti...

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by Vincent J. Bruno (Editor)Each volume includes all the necessary materials for the comprehensive study of a work of art: An illustration section showing the complete work of art, details, preliminary studies, and iconographic sources; An introductory essay by the editor; Documents and literary sources; Critical essays from the art-historical literature. Number of Pages: 354 Dimensions: 0.73 x 8.22 x 5.53 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date:...

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by Robert Branner (Editor)Each volume includes all the necessary materials for the comprehensive study of a work of art: An illustration section showing the complete work of art, details, preliminary studies, and iconographic sources; An introductory essay by the editor; Documents and literary sources; Critical essays from the art-historical literature. Back JacketThis Norton series offers illuminating introductions to major monuments of paintings, sculpture, and architecture. Number of Page...