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Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the demand for residential green building remains strong. More than ever, professionals need reliable information about how to construct or retrofit livable, sustainable, and economical homes. With Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings , Avi Friedman provides that resource, delivering an illustrated, accessible guide for(...)
Fundamentals of sustainable dwellings
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Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the demand for residential green building remains strong. More than ever, professionals need reliable information about how to construct or retrofit livable, sustainable, and economical homes. With Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings , Avi Friedman provides that resource, delivering an illustrated, accessible guide for architects, developers, home builders, codes officials, and students of architecture and green design.
Green Architecture
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The Square: The square is as high and as wide as a man with his arms outstretched. In the oldest writings and in the rock insrciptions of early man, it signifies the idea of enclosure, of home, of settlement. Enigmatic in its simplicity, in the monotonous repetition of four equal sides and four equal angles, it creates a series of interesting figures...
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The Square: The square is as high and as wide as a man with his arms outstretched. In the oldest writings and in the rock insrciptions of early man, it signifies the idea of enclosure, of home, of settlement. Enigmatic in its simplicity, in the monotonous repetition of four equal sides and four equal angles, it creates a series of interesting figures...
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"The course of water: Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley" explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people –(...)
September 2025
The course of water: Fieldnotes from California's Owens Valley
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"The course of water: Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley" explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people – Indigenous, settler, internee – who have called it home.
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Krakow is home to many Secession and Art Nouveau masterpieces. In the course of seven walks around Krakow and Zakopane we discover the various faces of these styles in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative art. Each walk is accompanied by colour photographs and maps as we visit museums, churches and other sites, including period cafés and restaurants. Text in(...)
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March 2011, Brussels and Crakow
Cracow : rediscovering the Young Poland movement. Secession in and around Cracow
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Krakow is home to many Secession and Art Nouveau masterpieces. In the course of seven walks around Krakow and Zakopane we discover the various faces of these styles in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative art. Each walk is accompanied by colour photographs and maps as we visit museums, churches and other sites, including period cafés and restaurants. Text in Polish and English.
City Guides
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Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces in Paris in 1910. By 1919, he had founded his own interior design company, producing everything for the ideal home, from armoires and rugs to wallpaper and light fixtures. His early work is particularly notable for its Art Nouveau influences, and his(...)
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann : the designer's archives
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Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces in Paris in 1910. By 1919, he had founded his own interior design company, producing everything for the ideal home, from armoires and rugs to wallpaper and light fixtures. His early work is particularly notable for its Art Nouveau influences, and his signature pieces epitomize the best of Art Deco design.
Design Monographs
Eduardo Souto de Moura
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Eduardo Souto de Moura studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in his home town in Portugal and has since been awarded several prestigious European prizes. His recent work includes houses in the Rua Lugarintho, the renovation of the Municipal Market in Braga, the Portuguese Pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, and a project for the Braga Stadium.
Eduardo Souto de Moura
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Eduardo Souto de Moura studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in his home town in Portugal and has since been awarded several prestigious European prizes. His recent work includes houses in the Rua Lugarintho, the renovation of the Municipal Market in Braga, the Portuguese Pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, and a project for the Braga Stadium.
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An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys across Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature,(...)
Vertigo
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An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys across Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature, and — most perilously — memories.
Literature and poetry
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Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they have no means to control their own destinies. Alan Broadbent suggests that the problem is a slavish devotion to a constitutional structure and a federal government that is ignorant of how crucial large cities are to our national prosperity and heritage.
Urban nation : why we need to give power back to the cities to make Canada strong
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Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they have no means to control their own destinies. Alan Broadbent suggests that the problem is a slavish devotion to a constitutional structure and a federal government that is ignorant of how crucial large cities are to our national prosperity and heritage.
Architecture in Canada
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Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, Alvar Aalto designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. This book brings together Aalto’s key works to introduce the architect as a champion of(...)
Aalto
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Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, Alvar Aalto designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. This book brings together Aalto’s key works to introduce the architect as a champion of environmentally sound, progressive design, with a deep-rooted sense of home.
Architecture Monographs
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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles(...)
Modernism
September 2021
Case study houses: the complete CSH program 1945-1966. 40th edition
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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles landscape and the modern home.
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