Architecture

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Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems - Paperback

$89.10

by Stephanie B. Kelly (Author)Community Planning is an introductory, interdisciplinary, planning textbook. This 'working' text uses an integrated text and lab manual approach, where theoretical concepts are integrated with practical applications and case studies.Author BiographyStephanie B. Kelly, chair and professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning at Westfield State College, has twenty years of teaching and professional planning experience, as well as publishing numerous...

Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States - Paperback

$81.00

by Victoria Kaplan (Author)In Structural Inequality Victoria Kaplan relates the stories of twenty black architects from around the United States to examine the sociological context of architectural practice. Through these experiences, research, and observation, she explores the role systemic racism plays in an occupation commonly referred to as the 'white gentlemen's profession.' Given the shifting demographics of the United States, Kaplan demonstrates that it is incumbent on the profession t...

Signs of Grace: Meditations on the Notre Dame Campus - Paperback

$45.36

by Nicholas C. S. C. Ayo (Author)Every year, thousands of people pilgrimmage to South Bend, Indiana to visit the campus of the University of Notre Dame for sporting events, academic conferences, or just for a tour. From the Golden Dome on top of the main building, to the grotto hidden behind the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, to the mural of 'Touchdown Jesus' that covers the wall of the Hesburgh Library, the structures and architecture of the campus hold special meaning for these visitors. In ...

Stacking the Deck: Secrets of the World's Master Card Architect - Paperback

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by Bryan Berg (Author), Thomas O'Donnell (With)Written by the holder of several Guinness World Records for cardstacking, this is the first complete, fully illustrated guide to the art of building mind-boggling, multilevel structures with ordinary playing cards. In Stacking the Deck, Bryan Berg reveals the secret to successful cardstacking with his simple four-card-cell structure and expanded grid techniques. Using illustrations and step-by-step instructions, he guides readers on to more elabo...

The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio - Paperback

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by Witold Rybczynski (Author)"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today. In The Perfect House, bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose ...

Mueve Tus Cosas y Cambia Tu Vida (Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life): Como El Feng Shui Te Puede Traer Amor, Dinero, Respeto y Felicidad (How to Use F - Paperback

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by Karen Rauch Carter (Author)Con la promesa de salud, riqueza y felicidad, el feng shui tiene un inmenso atractivo, por lo menos en concepto. Desafortunadamente, los métodos aparentemente complicados del feng shui son a menudo difíciles de aprender y de aplicar de una manera útil. Por suerte, Mueve tus cosas y cambia tu vida está escrito en un lenguaje claro y sencillo para el lector occidental moderno. Al revelar los antiguos secretos chinos que son tan útiles y necesarios hoy día como lo h...

Landscape Detailing Volume 4: Water - Paperback

$158.74

by Michael Littlewood (Author)Well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, professionals and students designin external works. This volume covers water features and offers drawings detailed to scale, unlike many of the other books on the market which only deal in sketch forms. Covers landscape ponds, streams and waterfalls, fountains, edges, bank protection, revetments, dams, weirs and sluices, island rafts and jetties and drainage. Each section beg...

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by Lesley Lokko (Author), Katerina Ruedi Ray (Author), Igor Marjanovic (Author)The portfolio is the single most important part of every architectural student's education. This book proides a complete guide to preparing, compiling and presenting this crucial element of the architecture course.The experienced author team gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues of size, storage, layout and order. They go on to guide the student through the various forms a portfol...

$108.52

by Bryan Lawson (Author)How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are i...

Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach - Paperback

$134.44

by John Friend (Author), Allen Hickling (Author)Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty. Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching daunting deci...

Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life - Paperback

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by Tammy S. Gordon (Author), Harold Skramstad (Foreword by)Private History in Public examines history exhibits in small community museums and non-museum settings like bars, churches, and barbershops and argues that these exhibits promote dialogue on historical topics by engaging visitors with individualized perspectives.Author BiographyTammy S. Gordon is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Public...

A Graveyard Preservation Primer - Paperback

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by Lynette Strangstad (Author)A Graveyard Preservation Primer has proven itself to be a time-tested resource for many who are seeking information regarding the protection and preservation of historic graveyards This fresh, updated edition has new information regarding project planning, documentation, research, landscaping, archaeology, current conservation treatments, public use of historic graveyards, and ethics, as well as a completely updated list of additional resources. This revision ref...

The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice - Paperback

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by Sarah S. Brophy (Author), Elizabeth Wylie (Author)The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions. This new edition features updated standards, techniques, and new case studies to help achieve these goals.Author BiographySarah Brophy, LEED AP EBOM, is principal at bMuse: Sustainable Museums, a consultancy providing Integrated sustainability services including: fund-raising support; gree...

Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Development - Paperback

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by W. H. Matthews (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.71 x 11.2 x 8.2...

Forty Days and Forty Nights!: Devotions for New Mothers - Hardcover

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by Michelle Waters (Author), Waters Michelle (Author)Forty Days And Forty Nights by Michelle Waters is bible devotion book with Christian devotionals. Here are some of the topics covered in this bible devotion book: - Daily devotions - Christian daily devotions - Christian devotions - Bible devotions - Daily devotions - Christian devotionals - Devotions for women - Spiritual devotions for women The first weeks of your baby's life can be overwhelming. You're exhausted. The house is a mess. You...

Architecture, Mysticism and Myth - Paperback

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by W. R. Lethaby (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.59 x 11.16 x 8.2...

The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic - Paperback

$71.91

by Emily E. Auger (Author) Inuit art, both ancient and contemporary, has inspired the interest of scholars, collectors and art lovers around the globe. This book examines Inuit art from prehistory to the present with special attention to methodology and aesthetics, exploring the ways in which it has been influenced by and has influenced non-Inuit artists and scholars. Part One gives the history of the main art-producing prehistoric traditions in the North American arctic, concentrating on the...

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by June R. Jewell (Author)RAISE Your Value is the ultimate guide to elevating your A&E firm out of the trap of commoditization.Your staff are navigating difficult conversations around fees and pricing every day. Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees often force your team to give away profits and avoid asking for change orders to get the work and "be competitive." This groundbreaking book introduces the 5-Step RAISE Your Value formula, a framework for guiding A&am...

Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology - Paperback

$63.18

by David Seamon (Editor)Contributors include architects, philosophers, landscape architects, and geographers, who focus on the question of how people might see and understand the natural and built environments in a deeper, more perceptive way. What is a sense of place and how can it be supported by architecture, policy, and education? Why are places important to people, and can designers and policy-makers create better places? Is there a way to see and understand what might help to make build...

Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy - Paperback

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by Robert Hahn (Author)Uses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy.Author BiographyRobert Hahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Formal Deductive Logic, Fifth Edition; Conduct and Constraints: Testing the Limits of the 'Harm Principle;' and Kant's Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy. Number of Pag...

The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder - Paperback

$103.68

by Ehud Netzer (Author)Herod the Great, one of the most famous builders of the biblical world, is a name well known to readers of the New Testament. Recently a team led by Ehud Netzer, a leading Israeli archaeologist of the Herodian period, discovered the tomb of Herod. Netzer here highlights Herod's involvement with and contributions to his building projects, which benefited from his analytical mind, imagination, and understanding of the building and planning process. The book presents a com...

From Ruins to Reconstruction - Hardcover

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by Karl D. Qualls (Author)Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story of the city's rebuilding. Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qu...

Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies - Hardcover

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by Michael Olmert (Author)In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. These structures were designed to support the performance of a single task: cooking food; washing clot...

Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State - Paperback

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by Cynthia G. Falk (Author)Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State--from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country--providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance and working of representative historic farm buildings, Barns of New York also serves as an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts across the state.Cynthi...

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by Elizabeth Collins Cromley (Author)Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new--and somewhat suspect--architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses.Author BiographyElizabeth Collins Cromley is Professor of Architectural History at Northeastern University and the coauthor of Invitation to Vernacular Architectur...

Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy - Paperback

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by Nicholas Dagen Bloom (Editor), Fritz Umbach (Editor), Lawrence J. Vale (Editor)Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoram...

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by John Tauranac (Author)The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world's most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac's book, focused on the inception and construction of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of the structure. Moreover, it is far more than a work in architectural history; Tauranac tells a larger story of the politics of urban development in and through the interwar years. In a new epilogue to the Cornell edition...

Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation - Paperback

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by Sonia A. Hirt (Author)Why are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to European cities, those in the United States are characterized by lower densities and greater distances; neat, geometric layouts; an abundance of green space; a greater level of social segregation reflected in space; and--perhaps most noticeably--a greater share of individual, single-family detached housing. In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. Hirt argues that zoning laws are among the important but underst...

Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture - Paperback

$77.31

by Marvin A. Carlson (Author)"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban planning, architecture, and interior and exterior theatre embellishment to the social, political, economic and occasionally even aesthetic purposes of those responsible for these 'signifiers.'"--Theatre Journal In this...

Ancient Greek Architects at Work: Problems of Structure and Design - Paperback

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by J. J. Coulton (Author)Taking an unusual approach to his subject, J. J. Coulton examines ancient Greek architecture from the point of view of the practicing architects. He discusses their ideas and technical achievements from the early seventh century B.C. to the first century B.C.Drawing on surviving written evidence from antiquity as well as on the evidence of the buildings themselves, Mr. Coulton provides answers to such questions as: What must it have been like to build a Greek temple? ...

Designing America's Waste Landscapes - Hardcover

$97.47

by Mira E. Engler (Author)One of the most visible consequences of our society's breakneck level of production and consumption is the increasing amount of land designated as landfill and other waste disposal and processing sites. Often located in marginal areas or adjacent to politically and economically dispossessed communities, these places are usually ignored by mainstream society, as is the garbage that fills them. Even with the greater awareness of the problems of waste disposal inspired ...

The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy - Paperback

$39.91

by Maureen C. Miller (Author)This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once rudimentary and highly fortified structure called a domus became a complex and elegant "palace" (palatium) by the late twelfth century. Miller argues that the change reflects both the emergence of a d...