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Design Collective Architects (DCA) are a young and vibrant architectural practice based in Malaysia. "Homes, Issues and Processes " looks at the specific processes involved in each house the company designs and complets. The book includes essays about the issues of making houses and an overview on the process of building a house. Each project is clearly illustrated with(...)
Design collective architects : Homes, issues + processes
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Design Collective Architects (DCA) are a young and vibrant architectural practice based in Malaysia. "Homes, Issues and Processes " looks at the specific processes involved in each house the company designs and complets. The book includes essays about the issues of making houses and an overview on the process of building a house. Each project is clearly illustrated with complete photos, scale architectural models, diagrams and sketches. Issues relating to space usage, function, site and context, personal desire and need, nature, tradition, religion and belief, value systems and family politics are all covered in the process of building a house. The book is fully illustrated with blueprints and photographs of the projects from conception to completion. With texts from a variety of members of the collective, the book provides an invaluable insight into this up and coming architecture firm.
Architecture Monographs
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Current modes of residential design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative rethinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes to the environment, economy and society. Design for passive solar gain, solar-powered homes, minimising a(...)
Inspired homes: architecture for changing times
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Current modes of residential design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative rethinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes to the environment, economy and society. Design for passive solar gain, solar-powered homes, minimising a dwellings physical footprint, Net-Zero residences and preserving a sites natural assets are some of the strategies that the architects and builders featured in this book are integrating into their thought processes and design practices. Written by a world expert in the field,Inspired Homesoffers information on contemporary sustainable design concepts and illustrates them with examples of truly outstanding design.
Residential Architecture
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Depuis l'apparition de la vie sur Terre, il y a eu cinq extinctions massives d'espèces. A présent, des scientifiques estiment que notre planète est en train de vivre la sixième, et cette fois, c'est l'homme qui en serait la cause. Pour prendre toute la mesure de ce moment critique, Elizabeth Kolbert est remontée aux découvertes de Cuvier et de Darwin. Elle a voyagé, des(...)
La sixième extinction : comment l'homme détruit la vie
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Depuis l'apparition de la vie sur Terre, il y a eu cinq extinctions massives d'espèces. A présent, des scientifiques estiment que notre planète est en train de vivre la sixième, et cette fois, c'est l'homme qui en serait la cause. Pour prendre toute la mesure de ce moment critique, Elizabeth Kolbert est remontée aux découvertes de Cuvier et de Darwin. Elle a voyagé, des îles du Pacifique jusqu'au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris en passant par la forêt amazonienne, et est partie à la rencontre des scientifiques qui enregistrent chaque jour de nouveaux indices d'une réalité implacable.
Environment and environmental theory
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Questionner nos origines, comprendre l'évolution et la vie quotidienne, des grands singes aux premiers hommes et des premiers hommes à l'homme actuel, tel est le voyage dans le temps que propose la collection «Le passé recomposé».
L'homme et l'habitat : l'invention de la maison durant la Préhistoire
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Questionner nos origines, comprendre l'évolution et la vie quotidienne, des grands singes aux premiers hommes et des premiers hommes à l'homme actuel, tel est le voyage dans le temps que propose la collection «Le passé recomposé».
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November 2008, Paris
Architectural Theory
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136 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 x 32 cm
Montréal : Éditions Élysée : Éditions Commerce, 1975.
Histoire du commerce canadien français de Montréal, 1535-1893 / [Telesphore Saint-Pierre].
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136 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 x 32 cm
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Montréal : Éditions Élysée : Éditions Commerce, 1975.
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x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.
City lights : illuminating the American night / John A. Jakle.
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x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.
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xix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Venice : a contested Bohemia in Los Angeles / Andrew Deener.
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xix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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ix, 370 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Toronto, Canada : Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983.
The Molson saga, 1782-1983 / Shirley E. Woods, Jr.
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ix, 370 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Toronto, Canada : Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983.
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336 pages 23 cm
London, Cape, 1972.
The closing circle: confronting the environmental crisis.
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336 pages 23 cm
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London, Cape, 1972.
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313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Seyssel : Champ Vallon, ©2004.
Le défi du paysage : un projet pour l'agriculture / sous la direction d'Odile Marcel ; textes de Pierre Alphandéry [and others].
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313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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Seyssel : Champ Vallon, ©2004.