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Taschen’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Architects/firms included: David Adjaye Alsop Architects(...)
Architecture in the United Kingdom
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Taschen’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Architects/firms included: David Adjaye Alsop Architects Caruso St John Architects Chetwood Associates David Chipperfield Edward Cullinan dECOi Ellis Williams Eva Jiricna Foreign Office Architects FOA Norman Foster Nicholas Grimshaw Zaha Hadid Michael Hopkins Richard Rogers
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This one-stop reference guides landscape architects in every aspect of their business practice. It introduces landscape architecture students to professional practice topics and serves as a sourcebook for emerging professionals looking to start and manage their own firms. The guide covers topics such as professional ethics, finances, office administration, marketing and(...)
The professional practice of landscape architecture : a complete guide to starting and running your own firm, second edition
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This one-stop reference guides landscape architects in every aspect of their business practice. It introduces landscape architecture students to professional practice topics and serves as a sourcebook for emerging professionals looking to start and manage their own firms. The guide covers topics such as professional ethics, finances, office administration, marketing and promotion, and project management, and provides updates on government regulations, LEED certification and sustainable design, and current software and web technologies. Contract document templates and case studies of firms are also featured.
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This fifth volume contains 500 illustrations, giving a comprehensive tour of Morphosis’s activity. New works covered in Volume V include Cal Trans Headquarters in Los Angeles (2004); the San Francisco Federal Office building (2006); the Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon (2006); and the University of Cincinnati Student Recreation Center (2006).(...)
Morphosis : projects & buildings, 1998-2008
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This fifth volume contains 500 illustrations, giving a comprehensive tour of Morphosis’s activity. New works covered in Volume V include Cal Trans Headquarters in Los Angeles (2004); the San Francisco Federal Office building (2006); the Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon (2006); and the University of Cincinnati Student Recreation Center (2006). Projects in progress, such as the New Academic Building for the Cooper Union in New York (expected completion 2008) and the Phare Tower for La Defense, France (2012), are also featured.
Architecture Monographs
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This volume presents 22 projects that range from a nursery and an office skyscraper to a medical centre, an artist’ residence and private homes. It reveals the different connections between the planning and construction phases of a project, which reflect the joint efforts of architects, designers and builders to transform an industry that plays a key role in environmental(...)
Sustainable architecture: contemporary architecture in detail
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This volume presents 22 projects that range from a nursery and an office skyscraper to a medical centre, an artist’ residence and private homes. It reveals the different connections between the planning and construction phases of a project, which reflect the joint efforts of architects, designers and builders to transform an industry that plays a key role in environmental conservation processes. In doing so, this volume provides an illustration of environmentally friendly construction, and the social and economic impact that this industry currently has.
Green Architecture
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Tectonics: A Building for Earth Sciences at Oxford documents the design and building of an ambitious architectural project for the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. It brings together both design and client teams to explain the story of the project, its context and commission, describing in detail the architectural minutiae of the building. The book(...)
Wilkinson Eyre architects: tectonics: a building for earth sciences at Oxford
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Tectonics: A Building for Earth Sciences at Oxford documents the design and building of an ambitious architectural project for the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. It brings together both design and client teams to explain the story of the project, its context and commission, describing in detail the architectural minutiae of the building. The book highlights the building’s features, including the ‘narrative wall’—acting as the public face for the department—and the atrium ‘hinge’ which conjoins the laboratory and office wings.
Architecture Monographs
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With a new update introduction, this is a comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, shows how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic,(...)
Retrofitting suburbia: urban design solutions for redesigning suburbs
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With a new update introduction, this is a comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, shows how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions. The book documents innovative case studies of prototypical American suburban developments (malls, commercial strips, office parks, cul-de-sac subdivisions) that have been retrofitted to new uses and forms.
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The focus of this edition of El Croquis is the Spanish office RCR Arquitectes. Presenting an extensive overview of their work during the past five years, the magazine also includes an essay by Josep María Montaner and an interview with the architects by William Curtis. Explore a variety of projects by RCR such as the La Lira Theatre public space, the La Cuisine Art(...)
El croquis 162: RCR architectes, 2007-2012
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The focus of this edition of El Croquis is the Spanish office RCR Arquitectes. Presenting an extensive overview of their work during the past five years, the magazine also includes an essay by Josep María Montaner and an interview with the architects by William Curtis. Explore a variety of projects by RCR such as the La Lira Theatre public space, the La Cuisine Art Centre, a school in Font Romeu, the meeting point in La Fosca, the New Sants station complex and many others.
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Modern american housing
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This survey of award-winning housing, built in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland, reflects a combination of marketing and public funding structures and a variety of housing types. An array of approaches to housing by students within studios taught by these architects over a three-year period will be shown. Various forms of housing and other(...)
Modern american housing
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This survey of award-winning housing, built in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland, reflects a combination of marketing and public funding structures and a variety of housing types. An array of approaches to housing by students within studios taught by these architects over a three-year period will be shown. Various forms of housing and other commercial forms of development, including live/work hybrids, office and residential towers, as well as a retail residential mix building types are explored.
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Twenty minutes in Manhattan
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Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us(...)
Twenty minutes in Manhattan
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Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.
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London : Offices of "Country Life" ; New York, [NY] : C. Scribner's Sons, 1915.
Memorials & monuments old and new : two hundred subjects chosen from seven centuries / by Lawrence Weaver.
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London : Offices of "Country Life" ; New York, [NY] : C. Scribner's Sons, 1915.