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Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie HouseThe Illustrated Story of an Architectural Mas…
Frank Lloyd Wright firmly believed that "life could be formed anew if new form could be brought to its setting, architecture." His revolt against customary architectural design was shared by rugged individualist Fred C. Robie, who chose Wright to build his dream house in 1908 a structure that was eventually named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In this painstakingly researched and illuminatin…
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock HouseThe Illustrated Story of an Architectural…
At the behest of oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, the twentieth century's greatest architect created one of his most imaginative and controversial residential designs. Built in Hollywood in 192021, Hollyhock House attests to the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright and was eventually designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This splendid home and its construction are documented here in more than 120 ill…
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Public Garden ManagementA Complete Guide to the Planning and Administration o…
The complete-and-ready reference for establishing, managing, and running a successful and sustainable, profitable public garden As unique museums with living collections of plants, public gardens offer visitors aesthetically beautiful landscapes combined with educational programming and scientific research that promote the value and understanding of plants. In the twenty-first century, public…
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Design for FloodingArchitecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience t…
" Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking…and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places." —Landscape Architecture Magazine
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Form and ForcesDesigning Efficient, Expressive Structures
Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics. This unique text teaches the whole process of structural d…
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Spatial analysis and social spacesInterdisciplinary approaches to the interpr…
In the past decade a range of formal spatial analysis methods has been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. Many, although not all, of these emanate from the fields of architectural and urban studies, and draw upon social theories of space that lay emphasis on the role of visibility, movement, and accessibility in the built envi…
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Rethinking the Informal CityCritical Perspectives from Latin America
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find …
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Experiments with Life ItselfRadical Domestic Architectures Between 1937 and 1959
Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to lack of understanding or convenient silence, there is void of dark years, of wars, exile and misf…
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Ein Haus aus HolzPlanen, Bauen, Wohnen !e-book!
Unter Einbeziehung der Erfahrungen aus ihrem in Eigenregie gebauten, behaglichen Holzhauses haben die Autoren alle damit verbundenen Arbeiten Schritt für Schritt anwendungsgerecht und sehr verständlich beschrieben. Begleitet von informativen Zeichnungen, Bildern und Bezügen zum besonders attraktiven skandinavischen Holzhausbau. Die überarbeitete Neuauflage eines hilfreichen, unterhaltsamen …
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Bamboo Style
Bamboo isn't just for Asia anymore! Author Gale Goldberg shows us how to creatively bring bamboo home, teaching us how to live with it indoors and outdoors--even how to grow your own bamboo. Every room in your home can be decorated or accented with beautful, sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material and accessories. Bamboo is highly versatile, requiring little care yet…
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