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Report copyright infringementby Paul 1904-1993 Thiry (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

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Report copyright infringementby Gertrude Jekyll (Author)"Wood and Garden: Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur" by Gertrude Jekyll offers an intimate glimpse into the world of English flower gardening and garden design. A seminal work in horticulture, this book combines practical advice with thoughtful observations on plants and their place in the landscape. Jekyll, a renowned figure in garden writing, shares her expertise and personal experiences as a dedicated am...

A Higher Reality: the history of Shaftesbury's royal nunnery

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Report copyright infringementby John Chandler (Author)A Higher Reality, by John Chandler tells the story of England's largest and (arguably) most important nunnery, and of the town that grew up alongside it. King Alfred established Shaftesbury and its abbey on a Dorset hilltop in the late ninth century. His community of nuns became the model for other royal nunneries and a focus for the veneration of a murdered king, Edward the Martyr. It was supported by large, wealthy estates in Dorset, Wil...

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Report copyright infringementby E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner (Author)Explore the intricacies of Victorian domestic architecture with E. C. Gardner's "The House that Jill Built: after Jack's had proved a failure." This classic work delves into the principles of house design, offering insightful perspectives on home building and interior decoration. A valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of domestic architecture, this book provides a detailed look at the aesthetic considera...

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Report copyright infringementby William Auerbach Vollmer (Author)Step back in time and explore the evolution of elegant living with "A Book of Distinctive Interiors." This meticulously reproduced volume offers a glimpse into historic interiors, showcasing a curated selection of homes and their furnishings. A treasure trove for enthusiasts of interior design, furniture, and home decor, the book presents a visual journey through a variety of distinctive spaces. Compiled from various sources, th...

Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains (Trade Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Chad Oppenheim (Author), Andrea Gollin (Author)NOW IN TRADE EDITION! *50 Books 50 Covers AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Winner, Book Category *Official Selection Award of the 10th Edition of the Festival International du Livre D'Art et du Film Both an architecture and movie fan's dream (LA Times), this strikingly designed (Publishers Weekly) and handsome tome (The Hollywood Reporter) sets out to answer the question we haven't stopped asking: Why d...

Modelling of Concrete Performance: Hydration, Microstructure and Mass Transport

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Report copyright infringementby Rajesh Chaube (Author), Toshiharu Kishi (Author), Koichi Maekawa (Author)Proposing a simplified but intergrated scenario of concrete life cycle simulation method, this book examines and explains the vast amount of experimental observations related to hardening concrete using a common set of physical laws.Author BiographyKoichi Maekawa is Professor, and Rajesh Chaube and Toshiharu Kishi Lecturers in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo....

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Bloch (Author)An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all. On a 90-degree day in Los Angeles, bus riders across the city line up behind the shadows cast by street signs and telephone poles, looking for a little relief from the sun's glaring heat. Every summer such scenes play out in cities across th...

Three Revolutionary Architects -- Boulee, Ledoux, and Lequeu: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 42, Part 3)

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Report copyright infringementby Emil Kaufmann (Author)This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Over 250 illustrations. Number of Pages: 133 Dimensions: 0.38 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1952

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Stone (Author)UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory　discusses one of the greatest challenges for the twenty-first century society: what is to be done with the huge stock of existing buildings that have outlived the function for which they were built?Author BiographySally Stone lives in the north of England. She has been designing, formulating ideas and writing about building reuse for 30 years. Sally is a Reader at the Manchester School of...

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Report copyright infringementby J. K. Huysmans (Author)THE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a thinly veiled autobiographical trilogy starting with EN ROUTE and ending with THE OBLATE. These novels follow the character Durtal as he immerses himself in the mystical and aesthetic lifestyle of fin de siècle French Catholicism. You may remember our dear Durtal ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sky Tallman (Author), David Vermette (Editor)Metrocoalescence presents a vision and a practical guide for a new way of regulating development that treats the city as a complex, self-organizing system. It proposes new tools to help solve the housing crisis, create better urban form, more vibrant and walkable cities, and mitigate some of the ways traditional zoning has distorted markets and contributed to urban and rural sprawl. f(z) Functional ZoningA framework ...

Hannes Meyer: Soviet Architect. Life and Work in the USSR, 1930-1936

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Report copyright infringementby Tatiana Efrussi (Author)Swiss architect and urban planner, the second director of the Bauhaus Dessau, Hannes Meyer, spent about six years in the USSR-from 1930 to 1936. This book presents the first in-depth study of Hannes Meyer's activities during the years of early Stalinism. There is a global interest in this architect's legacy today, but his work can hardly be understood without a closer examination of the key chapter in his career. This book is an attempt ...

Practical Ethics in Architecture and Interior Design Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Lani Madsen (Author), Dana Vaux (Author), David Wang (Author)Practical Ethics in Architecture and Interior Design Practice presents the basics of design practice through ethical scenarios, ushering design students into real-world experiential learning.Each chapter begins with a detailed story involving a complicated set of practical and ethical dilemmas, exemplifying those encountered each day in the world of professional practice. Practice-based topics suc...

The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World's Fair to a Virginia Hbcu

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen James-Chakraborty (Author), Katherine M. Kuenzli (Author), Bryan Clark Green (Author)A singular architectural landmark bridging western Europe and the American South How did the Belgian Friendship Building, originally constructed for the 1939 New York World's Fair--and one of only a few surviving buildings from that celebrated exhibition--end up on the campus of an HBCU in Richmond, Virginia? In this richly illustrated book, Kathleen James-Chakraborty...

Project Development & Documentation (PDD) ARE 5.0 Exam Guide (Architect Registration Examination): ARE 5.0 Overview, Exam Prep Tips, Guide, and Critic

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Report copyright infringementby Gang Chen (Author)A Practical Guide for the ARE 5.0 Project Development & Documentation (PDD) Division! To become a licensed architect, you need to have a proper combination of education and/or experience, meet your Board of Architecture's special requirements, and pass the ARE exams. This book provides an ARE 5.0 exam overview, suggested reference and resource links, exam prep and exam taking techniques, tips, and guides for the ARE 5.0 Project Development...

Sustainable Urban Growth in Peripheral Areas

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Report copyright infringementby Boris G. Portnov (Author) Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: August 20, 2010

It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago

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Report copyright infringementby Costas Spirou (Author), Larry Bennett (Author)Across the nation, stadiums and sports centers are a vital aspect of urban redevelopment. How do these projects affect the communities near the new facilities? Focusing on the controversies surrounding three major Chicago projects--the United Center, Comiskey Park, and lighting Wrigley Field--It's Hardly Sportin' suggests fresh ways for cities to coordinate the expansion of sports facilities with neighborhood life. ...

Rebuilding Pittsburgh: Ridc and the Transformation of the Steel City

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffery Fraser (Author)This book showcases the efforts of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC) to renew and improve Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From restoring old mills into industrial parks in Oakland to occupying underused acreage in the suburbs to create rent-controlled spaces; the organization and the people behind it represent the future of America's economy. Author BiographyJeffery Fraser is an award-winning newspaper and magazine journali...

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Report copyright infringementby Bridget Elliott (Editor), Michael Windover (Editor)Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five sections based on key concepts: migration, public culture, fashion, politics, and Art Deco's afterlife in heritage ...

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Report copyright infringementby Romy Cockx (Author), Robin Schuldenfrei (Author), Lara Steinhäußer (Author)Exploring fashion and interior design through a gender lens, from the Victorian era to contemporary designers like Martin Margiela and Raf Simons Fashion & Interiors. A Gendered Affair explores the relationship between fashion and interiors from a gender perspective. In the second half of the nineteenth century, bourgeois ladies embellished both their bodies and their homes with dra...

The Minimum Dwelling Revisited: CIAM's Practical Utopia (1928-31)

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Report copyright infringementby Aristotle Kallis (Author)This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), addressing their engagement with the "minimum dwelling" and revealing them both as milestones in the organisation's annals and as seminal moments in the history of...

Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew S. Dolkart (Author) "I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants." For Dolkart, his father's experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life ...

Pondbank: The Residence of Robert and Judi Newman

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Report copyright infringementby Donald H. Ruggles (Author), Mike McPhee (Author)Pondbank is a masterful blend of Andrea Palladio's architectural heritage and the timeless elegance of early 20th-century American homes in Florida. Crafted by a talented team of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, and builders, this residence is designed for permanence--constructed from steel, stone, and plaster, it stands as a testament to durability while exuding a unique sense of his...

Bullion Bend: Confederate Stagecoach Robbers, Murder Trials, and the California Supreme Court - Oh My!

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Report copyright infringementby William E. Cole (Author)Sound unbelievable? It might, but it's all true. Even the most creative mind would be hard-stretched to conjure up what's contained in this historical account. Eyewitness accounts testify to facts stranger than fiction. The cast of real-life characters features California Confederates, Copperhead citizens, Civil War drama, court judges, and convicted criminals. The setting moves throughout California cities, courthouses, castles, jai...

Architecture and Children: Integrated Design Education Using the Designed and Built, Natural and Cultural Environment, New Edition (Hardcover)

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Taylor (Author)This guidebook presents an educational framework for studying and understanding essential architectural concepts, including the physics that govern the principles of structure, design in nature, and similarities found in built and fabricated structural systems. This is a curriculum for teaching and learning about the design process, the process of learning through visual thinking, use of hypotheses, problem-solving, analysis, idea generation...

The Swiss Chalet Book: A Minute Analysis And Reproduction Of The Chalets Of Switzerland (1913)

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Report copyright infringementby William Sumner Barton Dana (Author)The Swiss Chalet Book, written by William Sumner Barton Dana and published in 1913, is a comprehensive guide to the iconic chalets of Switzerland. The book provides readers with a detailed analysis and reproduction of the country's traditional chalet architecture, which has become synonymous with the Swiss Alps. The author begins by describing the history and evolution of the Swiss chalet, tracing its roots back to the rustic ...

Chaco Series: Art, Poetry, and Texts by Judy Tuwaletstiwa

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Gaston (Author), Philip Tuwaletstiwa (Author) Dozens of books have been written on Chaco Canyon, a 34,000-acre National Historical Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in northwestern New Mexico. Scholars continue to debate the nature of the various Ancestral Puebloans that inhabited the area c. 850-1250 CE, what it was used for, and what caused it to be abandoned. Renowned visual artist Judy Tuwaletstiwa visited Chaco in 1984 while on a trip throu...

Early Planning Utopias: A Feminist Critique

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Report copyright infringementby Dorina Pojani (Author), Cathy Keys (Author), Rory Little (Author)Explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city in the 19th and 20th centuries, informed by contemporary feminist concern with the way the legacy of patriarchal designs hamper women's urban experiences There is little doubt that urban planning has historically failed women. To liberate the profession from patriarchal influences, it is necessary to revisit the preconceptions that sha...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Frederick Calvert (Author), Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan (Author)Journey back in time to discover "Cordova; A City of the Moors" by Albert F. Calvert and Walter M. Gallichan, a captivating exploration of Cordoba's rich history under Islamic rule. Delve into the heart of Andalusia and uncover the legacy of Islamic Spain, brought vividly to life through meticulous detail. This historical account explores Cordoba's fascinating transformation, highli...

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Report copyright infringementby Claude Lewenz (Author)For the last 50 years, we have been building communities for the wrong reason. "How to Build a VillageTown" proposes to turn real estate development upside down, so that people may regain control of their lives, their communities and their future. Instead of building communities to sell cars, "How to Build a VillageTown" proposes people build communities that provide for their needs and aspirations... places to live that are places they lo...

Architectural and Building Trades Dictionary

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur E. Burke (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...