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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2018., ©2018
Anni Albers / edited by Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck.
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
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New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2018., ©2018
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Better job-hunting skills lead to better jobs. Here a seasoned architect shows how anyone, from student intern to project manager, can go after and find the best opportunities in virtually every aspect of building-related work, whether getting started, changing an area of specialty or career, or seeking an upgrade.
March 2008, New York, London
Getting a job in architecture and design
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Better job-hunting skills lead to better jobs. Here a seasoned architect shows how anyone, from student intern to project manager, can go after and find the best opportunities in virtually every aspect of building-related work, whether getting started, changing an area of specialty or career, or seeking an upgrade.
The other architects
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This book shows how animal structures present an amazing variety of materials, construction techniques, skills, and resultant designs. they may serve a great many purposes depending not only on the needs and characteristics of each species but also on what is available in their environment. These structures can provide instructive examples for humans.
The other architects
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This book shows how animal structures present an amazing variety of materials, construction techniques, skills, and resultant designs. they may serve a great many purposes depending not only on the needs and characteristics of each species but also on what is available in their environment. These structures can provide instructive examples for humans.
Green Architecture
Drawing for Designers
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The only comprehensive guide to 2-D and 3-D drawing for product and industrial designers, this practical, step-by-step text covers: Basic drawing skills, tools and materials, computer systems, concept design, presentation drawings and visuals, from general arrangement drawing to production, exploded/assembly diagrams, technical illustration, the future of drawing design.
Drawing for Designers
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The only comprehensive guide to 2-D and 3-D drawing for product and industrial designers, this practical, step-by-step text covers: Basic drawing skills, tools and materials, computer systems, concept design, presentation drawings and visuals, from general arrangement drawing to production, exploded/assembly diagrams, technical illustration, the future of drawing design.
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This publication looks at 25 trailblazing projects, including the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., which helps young people with writing skills (while also selling superhero gear); Tcho, a participatory chocolate manufacturer in San Francisco; and various collectively founded or structured supermarkets, hospitals, theaters and even internet providers throughout the United(...)
Compendium for the civic economy: what our cities, towns and neighbourhoods should learn from 25 trailblazers
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This publication looks at 25 trailblazing projects, including the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., which helps young people with writing skills (while also selling superhero gear); Tcho, a participatory chocolate manufacturer in San Francisco; and various collectively founded or structured supermarkets, hospitals, theaters and even internet providers throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.
Urban Theory
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This book focuses on the possibilities for representing the built environment with techniques ranging from pencil sketching to computers. It teaches students the following skills: how to draw using a range of media, the basic rules of making effective spatial images, and how to express ideas through appropriate media and forms of communication.
Architectural drawing, second edition
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This book focuses on the possibilities for representing the built environment with techniques ranging from pencil sketching to computers. It teaches students the following skills: how to draw using a range of media, the basic rules of making effective spatial images, and how to express ideas through appropriate media and forms of communication.
Architectural Drawing
Jean Prouvé: filling station
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In 1969, the French oil company Total began implementing a mass-production model for its gas stations—large ones for France's freeways, and the smaller roadside units. The company called in Jean Prouvé, who had already amply demonstrated his skills in the field of prefabrication. This volume documents this dimension of Prouvé's "demontable" architecture.
Jean Prouvé: filling station
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In 1969, the French oil company Total began implementing a mass-production model for its gas stations—large ones for France's freeways, and the smaller roadside units. The company called in Jean Prouvé, who had already amply demonstrated his skills in the field of prefabrication. This volume documents this dimension of Prouvé's "demontable" architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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The best way to survive climate change is to prevent it. Help avoid a global warming disaster by mastering basic skills such as screwing in the right lightbulb, feeding your trash to ravenous worms, and never paying your electricity bill again. Plus, if all else fails, you'll find ten ingenious ways to survive on an overheated planet.
Environment and environmental theory
June 2007, New York
The live earth Global Warming survival handbook
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The best way to survive climate change is to prevent it. Help avoid a global warming disaster by mastering basic skills such as screwing in the right lightbulb, feeding your trash to ravenous worms, and never paying your electricity bill again. Plus, if all else fails, you'll find ten ingenious ways to survive on an overheated planet.
Environment and environmental theory
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Some call it design for the greater good. Others call it social design. Whatever you call it, it's clear that an altruistic impulse is on the rise in the design community. Designing for Social Change, is a compact, hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem-solving skills to help others.
Design for social change : strategies for community-based graphic design
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Some call it design for the greater good. Others call it social design. Whatever you call it, it's clear that an altruistic impulse is on the rise in the design community. Designing for Social Change, is a compact, hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem-solving skills to help others.
Design Theory
The tao of nature
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Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and charming philosophy ever written, The Tao of Nature is also about perfection, perception, the value of skills and the truth revealed by complete understanding
The tao of nature
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Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and charming philosophy ever written, The Tao of Nature is also about perfection, perception, the value of skills and the truth revealed by complete understanding
Critical Theory