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This book presents a detailed technical documentation of 100 significant skyscrapers from 1890 to the present day. The buildings and projects covered in this compendium were all innovative in their day, and provide a critical overview of the development in this type of architecture. Approximately 1000 plans, photographs, technical, and axonometric(...)
Engineering Structures
March 2000, Basel
Skyscrapers : an architectural type of modern urbanism
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This book presents a detailed technical documentation of 100 significant skyscrapers from 1890 to the present day. The buildings and projects covered in this compendium were all innovative in their day, and provide a critical overview of the development in this type of architecture. Approximately 1000 plans, photographs, technical, and axonometric drawings provide excellent reference material.
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March 2000, Basel
Engineering Structures
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This lift-the-flap book charts the rise of an urban skyscraper, covering every stage of its construction – from safely demolishing its predecessor to hanging glass walls forty storeys up. With over 70 flaps to lift, revealing modern construction methods and showing how different tools and vehicles are used. Informative, fun and accessible, this book is a fantastic source(...)
Construction and demolition: Lift-the-flap
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This lift-the-flap book charts the rise of an urban skyscraper, covering every stage of its construction – from safely demolishing its predecessor to hanging glass walls forty storeys up. With over 70 flaps to lift, revealing modern construction methods and showing how different tools and vehicles are used. Informative, fun and accessible, this book is a fantastic source of information for children interested in construction. An extra-large format and double gate-fold help convey the dramatic scale of modern building projects.
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European emigré's have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka Dubbeldam surely belongs to that long list of distinguished practitioners. Working across scales-from a New York skyscraper to a rural house-the Dutch-born architect has established herself as one of the most provocative figures in the field by seamlessly integrating function(...)
Winka Dubbeldam: Archi-tectonics
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European emigré's have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka Dubbeldam surely belongs to that long list of distinguished practitioners. Working across scales-from a New York skyscraper to a rural house-the Dutch-born architect has established herself as one of the most provocative figures in the field by seamlessly integrating function and form, technology and comfort, city and home. Folded glass facades, intelligent building cores, and interactive environments highlight the work of her progressive, process-based studio/laboratory, Archi-Tectonics.
Architecture Monographs
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This volume presents 22 projects that range from a nursery and an office skyscraper to a medical centre, an artist’ residence and private homes. It reveals the different connections between the planning and construction phases of a project, which reflect the joint efforts of architects, designers and builders to transform an industry that plays a key role in environmental(...)
Sustainable architecture: contemporary architecture in detail
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This volume presents 22 projects that range from a nursery and an office skyscraper to a medical centre, an artist’ residence and private homes. It reveals the different connections between the planning and construction phases of a project, which reflect the joint efforts of architects, designers and builders to transform an industry that plays a key role in environmental conservation processes. In doing so, this volume provides an illustration of environmentally friendly construction, and the social and economic impact that this industry currently has.
Green Architecture
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This publication explores the influence of skyscrapers, airplanes, and aerial vision on interwar American visual culture. Demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular “superman” discourses of the time, Adnan Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before(...)
Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight, and master builder
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This publication explores the influence of skyscrapers, airplanes, and aerial vision on interwar American visual culture. Demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular “superman” discourses of the time, Adnan Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America’s propulsion into a new cultural consciousness.
Architectural Theory
A girl can build anything
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Have you ever dreamed of building something? Maybe something little—like a birdhouse? Or something big—like a skyscraper? If you can envision it, you can build it! ''A girl can build anything'' is a playful celebration of all the different ways girls can make things—from tinkering to tool wielding, from ideas on paper to big, lived-out dreams that require brick and(...)
A girl can build anything
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Have you ever dreamed of building something? Maybe something little—like a birdhouse? Or something big—like a skyscraper? If you can envision it, you can build it! ''A girl can build anything'' is a playful celebration of all the different ways girls can make things—from tinkering to tool wielding, from ideas on paper to big, lived-out dreams that require brick and mortar. This fun and empowering ode to self expression will inspire readers to jump up and immediately start to build. Because they can. They can do anything!
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Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. A style driven by huge technological advances, modernism is architecture's most diverse period. It encompasses buildings(...)
The story of modern architecture
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Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. A style driven by huge technological advances, modernism is architecture's most diverse period. It encompasses buildings as varied as the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State skyscraper. This volume helps readers sort through the numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles of Modernism. Chronologically arranged, it includes some of twentieth century's most exciting buildings.
Modernism
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This book is a guide to the many and varied terms used frequently within architecture. From Column to Cornice, Skyscraper to Ha-Ha, this book will prove a resource to anyone interested in architecture. Each term is explained and contextualised, giving the reader an enhanced understanding of architectural terminology. More than 270 common architecture terms are distilled(...)
The visual dictionary of architecture
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This book is a guide to the many and varied terms used frequently within architecture. From Column to Cornice, Skyscraper to Ha-Ha, this book will prove a resource to anyone interested in architecture. Each term is explained and contextualised, giving the reader an enhanced understanding of architectural terminology. More than 270 common architecture terms are distilled and illustrated. From practical terms such as Vaulted, Spire and Cladding to conceptual terms such as Modernism and Postmodernism, including modern terminology and many of the traditional terms still in current usage.
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July 2007
Dictionaries
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Early in Sullivan's career in the 1890s, when he emerged as a leading skyscraper architect of Chicago, his ornament gave scale and quality to his work. After 1900, as his career declined, it served to identify his buildings and the humane conception they encapsulated in an increasingly hostile cityscape. The brilliant(...)
Sullivan's city : the meaning of ornament for Louis Sullivan
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Early in Sullivan's career in the 1890s, when he emerged as a leading skyscraper architect of Chicago, his ornament gave scale and quality to his work. After 1900, as his career declined, it served to identify his buildings and the humane conception they encapsulated in an increasingly hostile cityscape. The brilliant pencil execution of ornament in his old age became a surrogate for the great architectural projects realized earlier. This extended essay on how Sullivan's ornament shaped the city is illuminated by new colour photographs by Cervin Robinson.
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January 2000, New York
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This volume is dedicated to the 565 Broome Street skyscraper, the first residential building conceived by Renzo Piano and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in the city of New York. Developed by Bizzi & Partners, the double tower occupies a corner space in the SoHo district, close to the Hudson River. Rich and fascinating iconography and a text by Federico(...)
565 Broome Soho: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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This volume is dedicated to the 565 Broome Street skyscraper, the first residential building conceived by Renzo Piano and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in the city of New York. Developed by Bizzi & Partners, the double tower occupies a corner space in the SoHo district, close to the Hudson River. Rich and fascinating iconography and a text by Federico Bucci and Carol Willis describe the design, the main features of the building, and how it relates to the city and the light that surrounds it in a unique way.
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