Architecture

This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century.

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions.

Let's go down the memory lane to see and appreciate the changes that have transpired since the start of this millennium.

If you can identify all these landmarks, then half of the job is already done.

Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike.

Gunships suddenly descended, fanning out from a central point around the Iroquois and sending streams of machine-gun fire and rockets into the jungle below.

This booklet is the second in a twelve part series that walks the owner/builder through the construction of a Global Model Earthship.

Most of the world's population now lives in cities.

The spaces we inhabit- from homes and workspaces to city streets-mediate community, creativity, and our very identity.

Its like talking to a brick wall and Well have to agree to disagree are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument.

A holistic view of human development that rejects the conventional stages of childhood, adulthood, and old ageWhen we talk about human development, we tend to characterize it as proceeding through a series of stages in which we are first children, then adolescents, and finally, adults.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society.

A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850sIn Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape.

A small city's big vision that can help transform your own community.

The cohousing "e;bible"e; by the US originators of the concept.

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While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "e;culture,"e; has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion.

Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and useDuring the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities.

Technisches Zeichnen beschaftigt sich mit der Darstellung von Planungen in allen Projektphasen.

In The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms, edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, 37 city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals analyze three major parking reforms proposed by Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA.

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time.

A road map for addressing and resolving the debate surrounding Confederate monuments in the United StatesIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South.

This handbook provides tools for designing a structure for a management system, as well as the tools for documenting processes within it.

As an Asian powerhouse and tech hub, Japan's history has molded its nation's success.

The history and future of the unique partnership between the City of Columbia and the University of South CarolinaState universities are more than just places of higher learning, more indeed than just campuses or buildings, and more than just students scurrying from class to class.

The Definitive Guide to Large-Scale, Grid-Connected Solar Power System Design and ConstructionThis GreenSource book provides comprehensive engineering design and construction guidelines for large-scale solar power system projects.

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data.

A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste  From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of “good design” and “better living” to an extensive middle-class American readership.

This timely book aims to address a significant challenge in contemporary design and architecture, i.

High-strength materials offer alternatives to frequently used materials for high-rise construction.

Textiles, polymers and composites are increasingly being utilised within the building industry.

Almost half of the total energy produced in the developed world is inefficiently used to heat, cool, ventilate and control humidity in buildings, to meet the increasingly high thermal comfort levels demanded by occupants.

Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century.

This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations.

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War.

Addressing everything from the history of the federal agencies that enforce the regulations to the requirements of the regulations themselves, this new book provides facility managers with a comprehensive instruction manual for understanding and complying with the major Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations.

Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century.

When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions.

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction.

Frederick Law Olmsted and others saw the landscape as it was and enhanced it, instead of imposing rigid design upon it.

An Updated Guide to Establishing Cutting-Edge Operations and Maintenance Procedures for Today's Complex FacilitiesAn essential on-the-job resource, Facility Manager's Maintenance Handbook presents step-by-step coverage of the planning, design, and execution of operations and maintenance procedures for structures, equipment, and systems in any type of facility.

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy.

This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre.

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content.

Improve Your Ability to Read and Interpret All Types of Construction DrawingsBlueprint Reading is a step-by-step guide to reading and interpreting all types of construction drawings.

Your step-by-step solution to mastering precalculusUnderstanding precalculus often opens the door to learning more advanced and practical math subjects, and can also help satisfy college requisites.

This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice.

* A hands-on, well-illustrated reference that helps architects and contractors avoid making common errors in traditional construction details * Graphical approach allows users to quickly visualize design solutions* Lists the rules-of-thumb for each detail, and correct and incorrect examples of how to design or construct each detail

For decades, this manual has been the most widely respected guide to designing, constructing, and maintaining low-slope roofing systems.