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539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Tours : Maison des Sciences de l'homme "Villes et territoires" : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ©2004.
Femmes et villes / sous la direction de Sylvette Denèfle.
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539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Tours : Maison des Sciences de l'homme "Villes et territoires" : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ©2004.
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190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
New York : W.W. Norton, [1994], ©1994
American house styles : a concise guide / John Milnes Baker.
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190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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New York : W.W. Norton, [1994], ©1994
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189 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
London ; Auckland [N.Z.] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
James Fletcher : builder / by Neil Robinson.
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189 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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London ; Auckland [N.Z.] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
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3 v. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 28 cm.
[2001]
A proposal to establish the Canadian Museum for Human Rights : a partnership between the Government of Canada, the Province of Manitoba, the City of Winnipeg and the Asper Foundation / presented by the Asper Foundation.
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3 v. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 28 cm.
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323 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm
Milano, Italy : Skira Editore, 2013.
Rafiq Azam : architecture for green living / edited by Rosa Maria Falvo ; foreword by Kerry Hill ; essays by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf and Philip Goad ; interview by Syed Manzoorul Islam.
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323 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm
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Milano, Italy : Skira Editore, 2013.
Steven Ehrlich: Houses
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Sixteen houses are presented here, designs characterized by the fusion of powerful modernist forms with the cultural, climatic, and contextual particulars of place. There are commonalities in these houses—generous volumes, visual clarity, large windows, interlocking rooms, protected courtyards, structural honesty, richly textured materials, and a connection to(...)
Steven Ehrlich: Houses
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Sixteen houses are presented here, designs characterized by the fusion of powerful modernist forms with the cultural, climatic, and contextual particulars of place. There are commonalities in these houses—generous volumes, visual clarity, large windows, interlocking rooms, protected courtyards, structural honesty, richly textured materials, and a connection to nature—but each home is a new beginning, a chance to learn and to create a spatial experience.
Architecture Monographs
BXL Beat Streuil
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Swiss-born artist Beat Streuli's central motif is the urban environment and its inhabitants. But his quietly mesmerizing photographs are neither documentary nor conceptual: rather, they lead us to a form of aesthetics that could be described as the "glamor of the usual." In this beautifully produced volume, Streuli brings together a new series of images taken in his(...)
BXL Beat Streuil
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Swiss-born artist Beat Streuli's central motif is the urban environment and its inhabitants. But his quietly mesmerizing photographs are neither documentary nor conceptual: rather, they lead us to a form of aesthetics that could be described as the "glamor of the usual." In this beautifully produced volume, Streuli brings together a new series of images taken in his current home town of Brussels.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Landscape design
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Long before green and sustainable was good, the world's landscape architects understood and praticed the discipline of environmental custodianship. Still today, they work to restore life to a polluted world, doing so in our home, our parks, our offices and our cities. To celebrate the good work of today's landscape architects, this book contains 48 landscape architecture(...)
Landscape design
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Long before green and sustainable was good, the world's landscape architects understood and praticed the discipline of environmental custodianship. Still today, they work to restore life to a polluted world, doing so in our home, our parks, our offices and our cities. To celebrate the good work of today's landscape architects, this book contains 48 landscape architecture designs that work to make this a better world.
Gardens
Chicago's historic Hyde Park
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In Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park, Susan O’Connor Davis offers readers a biography of this neighborhood, from house to home, and from architect to resident. Along the way, she weaves a tapestry, describing Hyde Park—Kenwood’s most celebrated structures from the time of Lincoln through the racial upheaval and destructive urban renewal of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s into the(...)
Chicago's historic Hyde Park
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In Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park, Susan O’Connor Davis offers readers a biography of this neighborhood, from house to home, and from architect to resident. Along the way, she weaves a tapestry, describing Hyde Park—Kenwood’s most celebrated structures from the time of Lincoln through the racial upheaval and destructive urban renewal of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s into the preservationist movement of the last thirty-five years.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America continue to proliferate, many other forms of suburbanization are now emerging around the globe. Suburban Constellations provides a first account of this global development. Twenty-two of urban scholars(...)
Suburban constellations: governance: and and infrastructure in the 21st century
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In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America continue to proliferate, many other forms of suburbanization are now emerging around the globe. Suburban Constellations provides a first account of this global development. Twenty-two of urban scholars analyze the multiple manifestations of suburbanization, alongside artistic and illustrative contributions.
Suburbs