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Fifty of the most important Dutch waterworks are documented through extensive photographic and textual material, as well as three essays that comprehensively discuss the technical, historical and cultural significance of the water system in the Netherlands.
Water works in the Netherlands
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Fifty of the most important Dutch waterworks are documented through extensive photographic and textual material, as well as three essays that comprehensively discuss the technical, historical and cultural significance of the water system in the Netherlands.
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This book, which since its initial publication has become a standard work for designers of infrastructure, provides a fundamental approach to infrastructure based on four characteristics: as the cause of increased mobility, as a physical presence, as an initiator of movement, and as a collective shared experience of space. These characteristics form the guideline for four(...)
The landscape of contemporary infrastructure
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This book, which since its initial publication has become a standard work for designers of infrastructure, provides a fundamental approach to infrastructure based on four characteristics: as the cause of increased mobility, as a physical presence, as an initiator of movement, and as a collective shared experience of space. These characteristics form the guideline for four chapters that describe a typology of the design concepts that are used worldwide in current practice. Each chapter is illustrated with key projects from around the world, by designers such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and OMA.
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep(...)
Engineering Structures
November 2016
Palazzos of power : central station of the Phalidelphia Electric Company
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a blight in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers.'the first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, "Palazzos of power" offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and(...)
Structured lineages: learning from Japanese structural design
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next.
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Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and(...)
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At home in steel: residential construction in steel, thoughts on space and structure
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Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and the architectural ideal. More recently, the use of exposed steel elements in modern architecture ushered in a rediscovery of buildings’ metamorphoses. From the Eames House in Los Angeles to the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels and the Maison de Verre in Paris, "At Home in Steel" celebrates the use of steel in residential architecture.
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As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated(...)
Prefab housing and the future of building
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As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated by the idea of the factory-built, modular home. But international housing affordability crises, emerging technologies, and concerns for more sustainable building practices have given a new urgency to the need to transform building construction in the 21st century.
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Phares du monde
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Cet ouvrage présente des plans d'architecte, des dessins d'époque et des schémas d'élévation, des photographies soulignant l'innovation et la technologie qui se cachent derrière 50 phares historiques construits dans le monde entier entre le XVIIIe et le XXe siècle.
Phares du monde
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Cet ouvrage présente des plans d'architecte, des dessins d'époque et des schémas d'élévation, des photographies soulignant l'innovation et la technologie qui se cachent derrière 50 phares historiques construits dans le monde entier entre le XVIIIe et le XXe siècle.
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Werner Sobek has worked with his team throughout the world, building in Lima, Chicago, Limoges, Bangkok and Shanghai, and working together with architects such as Hans Hollein, Helmut Jahn, Christoph Ingenhoven, Finn Geipel and Alsop & Störmer. This(...)
Werner Sobek : art of engineering
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Werner Sobek has worked with his team throughout the world, building in Lima, Chicago, Limoges, Bangkok and Shanghai, and working together with architects such as Hans Hollein, Helmut Jahn, Christoph Ingenhoven, Finn Geipel and Alsop & Störmer. This book provides the first fundamental overview of Werner Sobek's work, examining the most important projects of the last ten years. The technical innovation of his constructions is documented in precise plans and drawings, large format duotone photographs convey an extraordinary aesthetic impression.
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May 1999, Basel
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This book is an architectural, electronic, and environmental exploration of forms generated from plant life native to the American Southwest.
Exodesic : structures, tumbleweeds, electronics
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This book is an architectural, electronic, and environmental exploration of forms generated from plant life native to the American Southwest.
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November 1998, Sante Fe
Engineering Structures
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Abondamment illustré, cet ouvrage présente cinquante sites remarquables - en ruines, reconvertis ou toujours en activité. Sans prétendre être un échantillon représentatif, il s'attache à montrer des cas aussi variés que possible, choisis dans un large éventail de secteurs industriels, dans toutes les régions de France et sur une période qui va du XVe(...)
Engineering Structures
March 1998, Paris
Patrimoine industriel : cinquante sites en France
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Abondamment illustré, cet ouvrage présente cinquante sites remarquables - en ruines, reconvertis ou toujours en activité. Sans prétendre être un échantillon représentatif, il s'attache à montrer des cas aussi variés que possible, choisis dans un large éventail de secteurs industriels, dans toutes les régions de France et sur une période qui va du XVe siècle à nos jours.
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March 1998, Paris
Engineering Structures