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From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing—also known at the time as "Chicago construction"—quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The(...)
Timber Construction
September 2023
American framing: the architecture of a specific anonymity
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From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing—also known at the time as "Chicago construction"—quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The result was a built environment that erased typological and class distinctions: no amount of money can buy you a better 2 x 4. This fundamental sameness paradoxically underlies the American culture of individuality, unifying all superficial differences. It has been both a cause and effect of the country’s high regard for novelty, in contrast with the stability that is often assumed to be essential to architecture. "American framing" is a visual and textual exploration of the social, environmental, and architectural conditions and consequences of this ubiquitous form of construction. For architecture, it offers a story of an American project that is bored with tradition, eager to choose economy over technical skill, and accepting of a relaxed idea of craft in the pursuit of something useful and new—the forming of an architecture that enables architecture.
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Transport buildings - railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages - are such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems,(...)
Engineering Structures
February 2005, New Haven
The Architecture of British transport in the twentieth century
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Transport buildings - railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages - are such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems, methods, and even purposes underwent enormous change. The contributors to the book consider both well known and unfamiliar transport buildings from a variety of intriguing viewpoints. They explore the design and promotion of the London Underground, the battle between road and rail, the intentions of architects - to glamorize travel, to calm fears, to accommodate huge numbers of travellers - and the political and cultural significance of the transport buildings that have become a major part of modern life.
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February 2005, New Haven
Engineering Structures
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Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, "Boutiques and other retail spaces" links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
July 2007, New York, London
Boutique and other retail spaces : the architecture of seduction
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Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, "Boutiques and other retail spaces" links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence of large-scale out-of-town shopping centres and new specialized shops in city centres. These specialized boutiques are highly designed, involving well-known architectural firms such as OMA/Rem Koolhaas, David Chipperfield, Herzog + de Meuron amongst others. With case studies and over 100 black and white images, Vernet and de Wit set forth original and well-grounded theory to accompany this popular and lucrative area of work.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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"Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991" provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism.(...)
September 2019
Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991
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"Moscow: a guide to Soviet modernist architecture 1955-1991" provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism. Buildings include the Palace of Youth, the Rossiya cinema, the Pioneer Palace, the Ostankino TV Tower, the TASS headquarters, the "golden brains" of the Academy of Sciences and less well-known structures such as the House of New Life and the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant Museum. The authors situate Moscow's postwar architecture within the historical and political context of the Soviet Union, while also referencing developments in international architecture of the period.
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Ludwig II of Bavaria (1864?1886) is more internationally known for his royal palaces than hardly any other regent of the 19th century. They are the symbol of a personal architectural vision which, to this day, fascinates people from all over the world. However, the fame of his palaces has eclipsed other construction activities in the Kingdom of Bavaria: urban(...)
The architecture under King Ludwig II: palaces and factories
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Ludwig II of Bavaria (1864?1886) is more internationally known for his royal palaces than hardly any other regent of the 19th century. They are the symbol of a personal architectural vision which, to this day, fascinates people from all over the world. However, the fame of his palaces has eclipsed other construction activities in the Kingdom of Bavaria: urban developments, hospitals, and schools, theatres and museums, but also factories, railway stations, apartment blocks, churches, and synagogues were created under his regency. This book, for the first time, sheds light on the broad architectural activities in this epoch. Essays and overview illustrations of the building projects of the time provide insights into the diversity of the then building culture and, at the same time, open up a new perspective on the royal palaces.
History until 1900
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In the "Architecture styles spotter's guide", enthusiasts will discover information covering everything from rustic log homes to soaring skyscrapers. Notable buildings and architecture styles are discussed and are accompanied by photographs. This handbook also features an illustrated glossary of architectural features like cornices, flying buttresses, parapets, and(...)
Architecture styles spotter's guide : classical temples to soaring skycrapers
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In the "Architecture styles spotter's guide", enthusiasts will discover information covering everything from rustic log homes to soaring skyscrapers. Notable buildings and architecture styles are discussed and are accompanied by photographs. This handbook also features an illustrated glossary of architectural features like cornices, flying buttresses, parapets, and gables. Special sections highlight key points of interest and stories relating to specific sites.
History until 1900
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'Resource architecture' - under this theme architects and other planners in co-operation with representatives of further disciplines will discuss the responsibility they bear when designing our environment and the ability they have to promote sustainable building in an international context. This report shows the results of the UIA Student Competition, which was held on(...)
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
July 2002, Basel
Resource architecture - Student competition : projects for the 21st century
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'Resource architecture' - under this theme architects and other planners in co-operation with representatives of further disciplines will discuss the responsibility they bear when designing our environment and the ability they have to promote sustainable building in an international context. This report shows the results of the UIA Student Competition, which was held on the occasion of the XXI World Congress of Architecture UIA Berlin 2002 and provides ideas and perspectives that indicate potential developments interconnecting and 'meshing' inner-city wastelands.
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This guide covers the three generations of architects who created Vienna's most important buildings, including Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, and Adolf Loos, as well as dozens of lesser-known, but no less important, figures. Also included are an index of streets, architects, and building types, along with five self-guided architectural tours.
Architecture in Vienna 1850 - 1930 : Historicism, Jugendstil, New Realism
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This guide covers the three generations of architects who created Vienna's most important buildings, including Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, and Adolf Loos, as well as dozens of lesser-known, but no less important, figures. Also included are an index of streets, architects, and building types, along with five self-guided architectural tours.
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Celebrate and explore one of London’s iconic architectural eras with "Georgian London Map." Written by scholar and author Owen Hopkins, with original photography by Will Scott, the map identifies a broad variety of 18th and early 19th century buildings and squares embodying Georgian architecture. "Georgian London Map" is our latest title focused on London architecture and(...)
Georgian London Map: Guide to London's Georgian era architecture
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Celebrate and explore one of London’s iconic architectural eras with "Georgian London Map." Written by scholar and author Owen Hopkins, with original photography by Will Scott, the map identifies a broad variety of 18th and early 19th century buildings and squares embodying Georgian architecture. "Georgian London Map" is our latest title focused on London architecture and design, following maps dedicated to the works of Wren and Hawksmoor, and a series of 20th and 21st century guides.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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"Living systems" surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape(...)
Landscape Theory
May 2007, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Living systems : innovative materials and technologies for landscape architecture
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"Living systems" surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape materiality by focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details, construction photographs and an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration, erosion control, and the integration of digital media. Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten.
Landscape Theory