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Natco standard fireproofing.
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34 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Pittsburgh, Pa. : National Fire Proofing Co., ©1924.
Natco standard fireproofing.
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New York : The Company, ©1889.
Interior finish of a modern house / by Pratt & Lambert, varnish makers, New York.
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48 pages illustrations 27 cm
[Holland, Mich.], [Baker furniture, Inc.], [©1940]
A guide to English and French furniture of the eighteenth century; a new and unusual treatise regarding the use, manufacture and care of choice reproductions; intended for the pleasure and interest of all who enjoy fine things.
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In Vorarlberg, you can find a 610,000-cubic-metre volume of pine, spruce and hardwood that has made the region renowned for its exemplary tradition of timber construction. Vorarlberg has been setting standards worldwide in the architectural design and hand-crafted quality of wooden buildings. Their use of wood is characterised by an inspired innovative creativity. A(...)
Timber structures in Vorarlberg
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In Vorarlberg, you can find a 610,000-cubic-metre volume of pine, spruce and hardwood that has made the region renowned for its exemplary tradition of timber construction. Vorarlberg has been setting standards worldwide in the architectural design and hand-crafted quality of wooden buildings. Their use of wood is characterised by an inspired innovative creativity. A selection of current projects demonstrates how wood can be re-invented at times or employed in extraordinary designs and applications.
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New graphic design in China
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The works of 30 young graphic designers from mainland China are compiled here in the form of posters, packaging, book design and illustrations. The works, clearly presented one to a page, reveal a new idea of creativity in China, which grasps the opportunities of astounding economic development while paying tribute to the legacies of ideology and tradition. Each designer(...)
New graphic design in China
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The works of 30 young graphic designers from mainland China are compiled here in the form of posters, packaging, book design and illustrations. The works, clearly presented one to a page, reveal a new idea of creativity in China, which grasps the opportunities of astounding economic development while paying tribute to the legacies of ideology and tradition. Each designer is surveyed over the space of four to eight pages, while their works are placed in context through several essays.
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Based in Mexico City, Manuel Cervantes is a member of a generation that embarked on a quest for architecture deeply rooted in context and respectful of modern tradition. Since starting his own office in 2004, Cervantes has been recognised for his commitment to technique, rigour, and the given context of the site. Nine exemplary projects are presented, among them(...)
AV Proyectos 119 : Manuel Cervantes
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Based in Mexico City, Manuel Cervantes is a member of a generation that embarked on a quest for architecture deeply rooted in context and respectful of modern tradition. Since starting his own office in 2004, Cervantes has been recognised for his commitment to technique, rigour, and the given context of the site. Nine exemplary projects are presented, among them collaborations with other architects such as Nicholas Préaud, Héctor Esrawe, Jorge Ambrosi and Héctor Barroso, and Alberto Kalach.
Revues
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Every step in the production of washi depends on water. There is a natural process at work, born of the flow and weight of water, which has the power to purify our human contrivances. The techniques of washi making were discovered long ago by people who thought deeply about their relations to nature, and those techniques have been passed down ever since in an unbroken(...)
a+u: architecture and urbanism november 2007: architectural spaces with Washi
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Every step in the production of washi depends on water. There is a natural process at work, born of the flow and weight of water, which has the power to purify our human contrivances. The techniques of washi making were discovered long ago by people who thought deeply about their relations to nature, and those techniques have been passed down ever since in an unbroken tradition. Whenever I think of that, even a single piece of washi seems precious.
Architecture, monographies
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and(...)
Structured lineages: learning from Japanese structural design
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next.
Structures d’ingénierie
Dacha Idylls
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Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, the author captures the(...)
Dacha Idylls
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Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, the author captures the dacha's abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that these dwellings are key to understanding Russian life.
Jardins
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Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts(...)
Architecture, monographies
décembre 2015
Abalos + Sentkiewicz: essays on thermodynamics, architecture and beauty
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Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts of Somatisms, Monsters Assemblage, Verticalism and Thermodynamic Materialism, summarizing design strategies, and opening new territories at the scales of building, public space and landscape.
Architecture, monographies