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Ross King
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare... (Description from external book data)
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Rudolf Arnheim
For the general reader. (Description from external book data)
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Gerrit Terstiege
This book takes an in-depth look at design processes, with twenty-five depictions of "the making of" products from a wide variety of industr... (Description from external book data)
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Peter Hall
In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analy... (Description from external book data)
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Jill Franklin
Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. (Description from external book data)
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Peter Hall
This is the fourth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developmen... (Description from external book data)
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David P. Billington
What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to th... (Description from external book data)
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Joel Sanders
Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays i... (Description from external book data)
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Richard Holt
What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played? How can the vast expense of mounting suc... (Description from external book data)
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Robert Gottlieb
Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social moveme... (Description from external book data)
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Peter J Taylor
Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scal... (Description from external book data)
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Daniel Maudlin
Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural discourse, Consuming A... (Description from external book data)
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Gevork Hartoonian
The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary arch... (Description from external book data)
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Ines Weizman
Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept... (Description from external book data)
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Daniel Maudlin
The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the archi... (Description from external book data)
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C. Greig Crysler
"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a ri... (Description from external book data)
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Kakoli Saha
This book introduces the usage, functionality, and application of data in geographic information systems (GIS) for geo-spatial analysis. It ... (Description from external book data)
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Dieter Kienast
Distinctively Dieter Kienast: his gardens, parks, cemeteries and enclosures bear the unmistakeable imprint of his blend of nature and artifi... (Description from external book data)
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Catherine Dee
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial... (Description from external book data)
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Derek Walker
The concept of integrated project delivery (IPD) has evolved as a result of the need for highly expert teams of people to collaborate to del... (Description from external book data)
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David P. Billington
The description for this book, Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, will be forthcoming. (Description from external book data)
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David P. Billington
Enth. u.a.: S. 30-73: Robert Maillart: Master of concrete forms. - S. 128-162: Heinz Isler: structural art in thin-steel concrete. (Description from external book data)
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J. D. Richards
Established in 1252 the College at Bedern was the religious house of the priest-vicars who deputised for the canons at the daily services in... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Philip Jodidio
Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that make... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Laura Climenko Johnson
Almost half of all jobs in North America and Europe could today be performed away from a traditional office. Millions of office workers are ... (Description from external book data)
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John Aplin
Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. H... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Azby Brown
The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who... (Description from external book data)
Contemporary landscape architecture is progressing towards an appropiate and independent language of its own. Drawing on the potentials of a... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Sally McMurry
The phrase "Pennsylvania German architecture" likely conjures images of either the "continental" three-room house with its huge hearth and f... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Michele Emmer
IT Revolution in Architecture is a series which looks at architecture in the light of the electronic revolution, reflecting on the effects w... (Description from external book data)
