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For more than 20 years the French duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have pursued a unique approach to housing that integrates outdoor areas modelled on the winter garden. Their projects are open to the climate, transparent, and permeable, designed to work with rather than against climate. This book is the first scientific study of the thermal performance of winter(...)
Lacaton & Vassal: It's nice today
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For more than 20 years the French duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have pursued a unique approach to housing that integrates outdoor areas modelled on the winter garden. Their projects are open to the climate, transparent, and permeable, designed to work with rather than against climate. This book is the first scientific study of the thermal performance of winter gardens in residential constructions, showing their potential and effectiveness via selected projects of Lacaton: from their first house, Latapie, to a recently completed apartment and office tower in Geneva.
Architecture Monographs
AV proyectos 101 : MOS
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'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban(...)
AV proyectos 101 : MOS
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'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban garden on Vatny Island in Saint Petersburg, with the winning proposal of Studio 44 and West 8 plus the two finalist projects, and six projects that take on the challenge of designing kindergartens.
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Dwelling: Accordia
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Dwelling describes the design and architecture the new residential quarter in Cambridge, a multi-award winning green project. Accordia won 2008 Stirling Prize. Previously, no Stirling Prize had been awarded for housing developments. This new residential quarter in Cambridge provides a new model for communal living. With 22 different house and apartment types on a tight(...)
Dwelling: Accordia
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Dwelling describes the design and architecture the new residential quarter in Cambridge, a multi-award winning green project. Accordia won 2008 Stirling Prize. Previously, no Stirling Prize had been awarded for housing developments. This new residential quarter in Cambridge provides a new model for communal living. With 22 different house and apartment types on a tight semi-urban site, Accordia is a high-density scheme which replaces the standard pocket garden approach with a series of exhilarating public greens, communal gardens and intimate outside/inside spaces created by rooftop terraces and internal courtyards.
Architecture Monographs
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In this engaging nonfiction picture book, five young friends -- Nick, Yulee, Pedro, Sally and Martin -- spend the day traveling around their neighborhood and participating in activities designed to raise money for their local library. Along the way, they learn about the people and places that make up their community and what it means to be a part of one. A map opens the(...)
Look where we live! A first book of community building
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In this engaging nonfiction picture book, five young friends -- Nick, Yulee, Pedro, Sally and Martin -- spend the day traveling around their neighborhood and participating in activities designed to raise money for their local library. Along the way, they learn about the people and places that make up their community and what it means to be a part of one. A map opens the story, with each of the places the children will be visiting labeled, including the gas station, retirement home, school, police station, soccer field, community garden and, of course, the library!
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Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern architects, was first recognized for its distinguished houses, and(...)
Robert A. M. Stern : houses and gardens
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Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern architects, was first recognized for its distinguished houses, and residential design remains the cornerstone of the practice. This illustrated monograph-a companion to "Robert A. M. Stern: houses"- presents twenty-six of the firm's most memorable houses. Located in diverse settings across North America-from a valley in Colorado with views of the Aspen mountains to a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound to an island off the coast of British Columbia-these houses reveal the architect's emphasis on the importance of context and his dedication to exploring the nature of space. Each house invokes the vernacular architectural heritage particular to its region while reflecting its unique natural surroundings. Whether they are Shingle style "cottages" by the sea, colonial Georgian country estates, or elegant Regency designs, Stern's houses are unique both for their timelessness and their ability to evoke a conversation with the past-a dialogue he believes lies at the heart of architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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'In this book's two great predecessors, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison took two preoccupying images of the human psyche and considered them with a depth and originality that revealed their unlimited and unbroken presence in every assumption and moment of our lives. Gardens he describes modestly as an essay, but it suggests the same kind of(...)
Gardens An essay on the human condition
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'In this book's two great predecessors, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison took two preoccupying images of the human psyche and considered them with a depth and originality that revealed their unlimited and unbroken presence in every assumption and moment of our lives. Gardens he describes modestly as an essay, but it suggests the same kind of pervasive presence of an underlying human impulse in our relation to the world around us. Harrison writes with eloquence, grace, and erudition rooted in the literatures of his four native languages (including Turkish) that informed his earlier books. The range of his perspective on the human myth suggests that he may be our Bachelard.' W.S. Merwin
Landscape Theory
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In contemplating gardens, Harrison references works of literature to provide much perceptiveness about the human predicament. Gardening and actual gardens appear but fleetingly to limn larger ideas Harrison discerns in literary creations’ representations of gardens, including the biblical Eden. A superbly refined writer, Harrison regards care as a supreme attribute of the(...)
Gardens, an essay on the human condition
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In contemplating gardens, Harrison references works of literature to provide much perceptiveness about the human predicament. Gardening and actual gardens appear but fleetingly to limn larger ideas Harrison discerns in literary creations’ representations of gardens, including the biblical Eden. A superbly refined writer, Harrison regards care as a supreme attribute of the human relationship to gardens, in two senses. First, gardens are sanctuaries from worry and anxiety, and second, gardens are arenas of cultivation.
Landscape Theory
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Ministério da Educação e Saúde : ícone urbano da modernidade brasileira, 1935-1945 / Roberto Serge.
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543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
São Paulo : Romano Guerra Editora, 2013.
Ministério da Educação e Saúde : ícone urbano da modernidade brasileira, 1935-1945 / Roberto Serge.
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São Paulo : Romano Guerra Editora, 2013.
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128 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm
New York : George Braziller, 1963.
Western Islamic architecture / by John D. Hoag.
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128 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm
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New York : George Braziller, 1963.
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480 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, 2002.
Casablanca : colonial myths and architectural ventures / Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb.
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New York : Monacelli Press, 2002.