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Spirit & place
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Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. "Spirit & place" shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing(...)
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Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. "Spirit & place" shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing(...)
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Spirit & place
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Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. "Spirit & place" shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.
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Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. "Spirit & place" shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.
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January 1900, Oxford, Burlington
January 1900, Oxford, Burlington
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Green Architecture
Green Architecture
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Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such(...)
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Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such(...)
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The road taken: the history and future of America's infrastructure
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Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights—all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, "The road taken" is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
The road taken: the history and future of America's infrastructure
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Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights—all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, "The road taken" is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
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February 2017
February 2017
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Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
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''Activism at home'' offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living(...)
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''Activism at home'' offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living(...)
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Activism at home: architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance
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''Activism at home'' offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, ''Activism at home'' is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline’s tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus- whether at home or elsewhere.
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''Activism at home'' offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, ''Activism at home'' is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline’s tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus- whether at home or elsewhere.
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September 2021
September 2021
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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3 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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New York, N.Y. : Zone ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, ©1989.
New York, N.Y. : Zone ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, ©1989.
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Fragments for a history of the human body / edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi.
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3 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Fragments for a history of the human body / edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi.
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New York, N.Y. : Zone ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, ©1989.
New York, N.Y. : Zone ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, ©1989.
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xi, [1], 348 pages ; 22 cm
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Paris : Gœury ..., M. DCCC. XII [1812]
Paris : Gœury ..., M. DCCC. XII [1812]
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Travaux des ponts-et-chaussées, depuis 1800, ou, Tableau des constructions neuves faites sous le règne de Napoléon Ier., en routes, ponts, canaux, et des travaux entrepris pour la navigation fluviale, les desséchemens, les ports de commerce, etc. / par M. Courtin ...
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Travaux des ponts-et-chaussées, depuis 1800, ou, Tableau des constructions neuves faites sous le règne de Napoléon Ier., en routes, ponts, canaux, et des travaux entrepris pour la navigation fluviale, les desséchemens, les ports de commerce, etc. / par M. Courtin ...
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Paris : Gœury ..., M. DCCC. XII [1812]
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Ideal homes of the thirties
Ideal homes of the thirties
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Adapted from a rare 1933 catalog, this volume showcases 60 plans for two-story houses. It features photographs (most in full color), floor plans, and descriptive text that depict a splendid variety of economic styles, including colonial, mission, foursquare, and bungalow. Each house appears in a two-page spread, forming an elegant and highly readable presentation.
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Adapted from a rare 1933 catalog, this volume showcases 60 plans for two-story houses. It features photographs (most in full color), floor plans, and descriptive text that depict a splendid variety of economic styles, including colonial, mission, foursquare, and bungalow. Each house appears in a two-page spread, forming an elegant and highly readable presentation.
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Ideal homes of the thirties
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Adapted from a rare 1933 catalog, this volume showcases 60 plans for two-story houses. It features photographs (most in full color), floor plans, and descriptive text that depict a splendid variety of economic styles, including colonial, mission, foursquare, and bungalow. Each house appears in a two-page spread, forming an elegant and highly readable presentation.
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Adapted from a rare 1933 catalog, this volume showcases 60 plans for two-story houses. It features photographs (most in full color), floor plans, and descriptive text that depict a splendid variety of economic styles, including colonial, mission, foursquare, and bungalow. Each house appears in a two-page spread, forming an elegant and highly readable presentation.
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May 2010
May 2010
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Residential Architecture
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The 1960's home
The 1960's home
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The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subsequent boom in the sale of household furnishings and luxury goods. The 1960s Home looks at the styles and fashions in domestic housing and interiors between 1960 and 1970.
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The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subsequent boom in the sale of household furnishings and luxury goods. The 1960s Home looks at the styles and fashions in domestic housing and interiors between 1960 and 1970.
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The 1960's home
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The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subsequent boom in the sale of household furnishings and luxury goods. The 1960s Home looks at the styles and fashions in domestic housing and interiors between 1960 and 1970.
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The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subsequent boom in the sale of household furnishings and luxury goods. The 1960s Home looks at the styles and fashions in domestic housing and interiors between 1960 and 1970.
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October 2010
October 2010
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Interior Design
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In this book, Edward Glaeser, a pioneering urban economist, suggests that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. He informs his survey of how cities around the world thrive and wither. Using a range of expository forms, history, biography, economic research, and personal story, he defines what makes a city successful.
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In this book, Edward Glaeser, a pioneering urban economist, suggests that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. He informs his survey of how cities around the world thrive and wither. Using a range of expository forms, history, biography, economic research, and personal story, he defines what makes a city successful.
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Triumph of the city: how our greatest invention makes us richer, amarter, greener, healthier, and happier
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In this book, Edward Glaeser, a pioneering urban economist, suggests that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. He informs his survey of how cities around the world thrive and wither. Using a range of expository forms, history, biography, economic research, and personal story, he defines what makes a city successful.
Triumph of the city: how our greatest invention makes us richer, amarter, greener, healthier, and happier
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In this book, Edward Glaeser, a pioneering urban economist, suggests that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. He informs his survey of how cities around the world thrive and wither. Using a range of expository forms, history, biography, economic research, and personal story, he defines what makes a city successful.
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February 2011
February 2011
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity is a comprehensive history of architectural practice of the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe(...)
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Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity is a comprehensive history of architectural practice of the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe(...)
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Manufacturing a socialist modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
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Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity is a comprehensive history of architectural practice of the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.
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Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity is a comprehensive history of architectural practice of the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.
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May 2011
May 2011
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Modernism
Modernism
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Public without rhetoric
Public without rhetoric
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"Public without rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight the Portuguese architects marked generalist nature and cross-generational excellence, in an affirmation of architecture as a(...)
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"Public without rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight the Portuguese architects marked generalist nature and cross-generational excellence, in an affirmation of architecture as a(...)
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May 2018
May 2018
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Public without rhetoric
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"Public without rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight the Portuguese architects marked generalist nature and cross-generational excellence, in an affirmation of architecture as a celebration of the experience of public space.
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"Public without rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight the Portuguese architects marked generalist nature and cross-generational excellence, in an affirmation of architecture as a celebration of the experience of public space.
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May 2018
May 2018
