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This book focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of each are accompanied by background information and historical content. An introductory essay examines the different types of Chinese homes and provides an overview of the regional variety of Chinese dwelling(...)
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Chinese houses : the architectural heritage of a nation
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This book focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of each are accompanied by background information and historical content. An introductory essay examines the different types of Chinese homes and provides an overview of the regional variety of Chinese dwelling forms. Photography by A. Chester Ong.
Histoire jusqu'à 1900, Asie
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Founded in 1852, the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal has long been a cherished public space. Brian Young takes us on an intriguing historical journey through the cemetery, showing us its social evolution from rural, Protestant beginnings to its current urban, multi-ethinic status. A photo essay by renowned photographer Geoffrey James captures the interplay of beauty and(...)
Respectable burial : Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery
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Founded in 1852, the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal has long been a cherished public space. Brian Young takes us on an intriguing historical journey through the cemetery, showing us its social evolution from rural, Protestant beginnings to its current urban, multi-ethinic status. A photo essay by renowned photographer Geoffrey James captures the interplay of beauty and mortality in the cemetery.
Architecture de Montréal
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This survey of community design centers highlights nine national programs, such as the Rural Studio, Studio 804 at Kansas State, Design Corps, and Blue Soup Outreach. From a report funded by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the book includes recommendations for strengthening these initiatives. The built work and projects demonstrate that exemplary design is a(...)
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septembre 2002, Washington, D.C.
University-community design partnerships : innovations in practice
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This survey of community design centers highlights nine national programs, such as the Rural Studio, Studio 804 at Kansas State, Design Corps, and Blue Soup Outreach. From a report funded by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the book includes recommendations for strengthening these initiatives. The built work and projects demonstrate that exemplary design is a significant component of effective community development.
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Norwegian architecture has been in the international spotlight in recent years. Following the success of the first edition Made in Norway, this second volume presents a selection of forty new examples of the best contemporary architecture Norway has to offer. These projects – large and small, rural and urban – are examples of how architects in Norway have reacted to the(...)
Made in Norway: new Norwegian Architecture
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Norwegian architecture has been in the international spotlight in recent years. Following the success of the first edition Made in Norway, this second volume presents a selection of forty new examples of the best contemporary architecture Norway has to offer. These projects – large and small, rural and urban – are examples of how architects in Norway have reacted to the challenges of today.
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Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States — houses built over the past three hundred years reflecting every social and economic background — this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials of domestic architecture with facts and frames of reference. With more than 1,600 detailed(...)
A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture
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Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States — houses built over the past three hundred years reflecting every social and economic background — this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials of domestic architecture with facts and frames of reference. With more than 1,600 detailed photographs and line illustrations and informative text.
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Oase 80: On territories
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As rural landscapes in the West and elsewhere are increasingly encroached upon by urban expansion, this issue of Oase explores the potential significance of architectonic design for the overhauling of this process. From local to national governments, from environmental factions to the road-user's lobby, everybody has something to say about this process, which tends to(...)
Oase 80: On territories
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As rural landscapes in the West and elsewhere are increasingly encroached upon by urban expansion, this issue of Oase explores the potential significance of architectonic design for the overhauling of this process. From local to national governments, from environmental factions to the road-user's lobby, everybody has something to say about this process, which tends to divide debate between ecology and mobility.
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Each year more than 15 million Chinese leave the country's rural areas and move to the cities. This book documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside around Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by ‘new towns’ and ‘new villages’. Some pilot new towns have been developed with the help of Western designers, and adapted to suit(...)
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Shanghai new towns: searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
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Each year more than 15 million Chinese leave the country's rural areas and move to the cities. This book documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside around Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by ‘new towns’ and ‘new villages’. Some pilot new towns have been developed with the help of Western designers, and adapted to suit Chinese standards.
Gerry Johansson: deutschland
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Deutschland is a visual encyclopedia, a catalogue of the rural and urban landscapes of Germany arranged in alphabetical order. In carefully structured greyscale images, Johansson sensitively explores German history through its landscape, picking out the industrial scenes, industrial buildings, residential roads and shop fronts. His quiet photographs are carefully(...)
Gerry Johansson: deutschland
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Deutschland is a visual encyclopedia, a catalogue of the rural and urban landscapes of Germany arranged in alphabetical order. In carefully structured greyscale images, Johansson sensitively explores German history through its landscape, picking out the industrial scenes, industrial buildings, residential roads and shop fronts. His quiet photographs are carefully constructed, grid patterns recur constantly and each frame is packed with information.
Monographies photo
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Located in the rural areas outside of bustling Buenos Aires, the commercial establishments - butcheries, bakeries, bars, repair shops, garages, dry cleaners - depicted in this collection by photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart appear steeped in history and are packed with details dripping with colour. These photographs, shot with a large-format camera, are imbued with a(...)
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Guillermo Srodek-Hart: Stories
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Located in the rural areas outside of bustling Buenos Aires, the commercial establishments - butcheries, bakeries, bars, repair shops, garages, dry cleaners - depicted in this collection by photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart appear steeped in history and are packed with details dripping with colour. These photographs, shot with a large-format camera, are imbued with a narrative power not unlike an Edward Hopper painting.
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xvii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
London : Society of Antiquaries of London, ©1993.
Manorial domestic buildings in England and northern France / edited by Gwyn Meirion-Jones and Michael Jones.
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London : Society of Antiquaries of London, ©1993.