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800 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 25 cm
Köln ; New York : Taschen, 2001.
Harvard Design School guide to shopping / principal editors, Chuihua Judy Chung and Sze Tsung Leong ; [essays by Tae-Wook Cha and others].
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Köln ; New York : Taschen, 2001.
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"The public chance" is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. The projects selected are grouped according to scene of origin: ·Industrial areas ·Peripheral voids ·Infrastructures ·Waterfronts Each project is located: · within surroundings of 60 km2 at a scale of 1:20,000 · within surroundings of 3.5 km2 at a scale of 1:10,000. Each(...)
Urban Landscapes
June 2008, Vitoria-Gasteiz
The public chance : new urban landscapes
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"The public chance" is a visual analysis of 30 urban landscapes of opportunity. The projects selected are grouped according to scene of origin: ·Industrial areas ·Peripheral voids ·Infrastructures ·Waterfronts Each project is located: · within surroundings of 60 km2 at a scale of 1:20,000 · within surroundings of 3.5 km2 at a scale of 1:10,000. Each intervention undergoes a layer analysis: ·water ·vegetation ·buildings ·routes ·rooms ·activities The 20 most used strategies arise from the comparison of all the projects. This is the first book published by a+t ediciones in the "In common" series, which came about in 2005 in the pages of a+t magazine. "The public chance" offers a renewed vision of some of those projects and a third of new interventions, all of them under thematic analysis.
Urban Landscapes
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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The(...)
Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices
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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.
Canadian Architects
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''Flood Plain Color Field'' is a project by a photographer, an artist, and a scholar that explores a part of our energy consumption typically unseen by the public, the residual monuments of energy waste that accumulate in the flood plains of rivers. This photobook is the third installment of the ''Energy Landscapes of St. Louis'' project.
November 2017
Flood plain color field: Energy landscapes of St. Louis no.3
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''Flood Plain Color Field'' is a project by a photographer, an artist, and a scholar that explores a part of our energy consumption typically unseen by the public, the residual monuments of energy waste that accumulate in the flood plains of rivers. This photobook is the third installment of the ''Energy Landscapes of St. Louis'' project.
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Ashok Sinha is a New York-based photographer whose large scale landscape photographs picture uncommon perspectives. delegating the horizon in the bottommost third of the image, or as seen while photographing directly over the edge of a icebreaker ship or through the window of a transcontinental flight. While his interest in the beauty of the natural world endows a unique(...)
Sinha. Gas & Glamour: Roadside architecture in Los Angeles
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Ashok Sinha is a New York-based photographer whose large scale landscape photographs picture uncommon perspectives. delegating the horizon in the bottommost third of the image, or as seen while photographing directly over the edge of a icebreaker ship or through the window of a transcontinental flight. While his interest in the beauty of the natural world endows a unique attention to the unnoticed, his commercial career as an architectural photographer informs bodies of work that focus on the built environment.
Photography monographs
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A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and comfort for all who use them. The third edition of this(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
March 2012
Hospital and healthcare facility design, 3rd edition
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A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and comfort for all who use them. The third edition of this comprehensive work includes all new case studies and updated text providing innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning and designing facilities in the rapidly changing landscape of the healthcare world.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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The third in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on glass. Presenting more than 60 projects by 51 international practices, it also includes brief statements from 30 offices regarding their views on how to apply glass in architecture. Featuring murmur, Stefano Corbo Studio, OOIIO Architecture, Arphenotype, Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates, Sadar Vuga(...)
Architectural material 3: Glass
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The third in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on glass. Presenting more than 60 projects by 51 international practices, it also includes brief statements from 30 offices regarding their views on how to apply glass in architecture. Featuring murmur, Stefano Corbo Studio, OOIIO Architecture, Arphenotype, Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Urban Office, Armin Blasbichler Studio, Henning Larsen, Manuelle Gautrand, Kevin Kennon Architects, Zaha Hadid, and many more. The diverse range of international projects includes interior, residential, housing, education, commercial, office, installation, and public (urban and landscape).
Materials and Lighting
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Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterised by its most varying architectural landscape. The present architecture guide, now in its third expanded and updated version, creates an access to this structural spectrum. Proven experts guide the reader through all the histrotical architectural eras - from the middle ages(...)
Berlin: the architecture guide
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Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterised by its most varying architectural landscape. The present architecture guide, now in its third expanded and updated version, creates an access to this structural spectrum. Proven experts guide the reader through all the histrotical architectural eras - from the middle ages right through the present. The chronological sequence and the high-quality colour photos clearly reflect the typical characteristic of every era. As well as approximately 500 individual buildings, the most prominent architects of Berlin and every era are introduced and protrayed.
City Guides
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The "On climate crisis" Masterclass Series Volume III showcases the ten virtual masterclasses on the topic of climate change, now carefully edited and presented in written form. This publication brings together diverse experts from various professional and geographical backgrounds, including fields such as architecture, design, policy-making, oceanography, and landscape(...)
On climate crisis: masterclass series III
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The "On climate crisis" Masterclass Series Volume III showcases the ten virtual masterclasses on the topic of climate change, now carefully edited and presented in written form. This publication brings together diverse experts from various professional and geographical backgrounds, including fields such as architecture, design, policy-making, oceanography, and landscape architecture. These masterclasses are united by the common purpose of offeringsolutions for the most pressing issue of our time: the climate crisis. The experts included in this third volume include Jonathan Foley, Sheila Foster, Mitchell Joachim, Lydia Kallipoliti, Rachel Kyte, Amory Lovins, Peter B. de Menocal, Henk Ovink, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, and Ken Yeang.
Green Architecture
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171 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Washington, D.C. : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1996], Lunenburg, Vermont : Stinehour Press, ©1996
American photographs : the first century : from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art / Merry A. Foresta.
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Washington, D.C. : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1996], Lunenburg, Vermont : Stinehour Press, ©1996