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MORE WATER LESS LAND NEW ARCHITECTURESEA LEVEL RISE AND THE FUTURE OF COASTAL…
Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of arch…
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Ciudades de ríoAgonía o renaturalización. Valle del Chumbao
"La mayoría de las ciudades andinas del Perú comparten un deplorable rasgo común: los ríos que las recorren —antes fuentes de agua limpia y factor primordial de la identidad paisajística del lugar— se han convertido en desagües abiertos y el destino de todos los desperdicios de la ciudad.El agua y los ríos están en pleno proceso de inanición. Situación que se agrava aún más por …
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ArchitekturEine Einführung
The model of a Greek temple or the high-rise building of the Daimler-Benz group in Berlin – Leonhard Helten provides a basic understanding of tectonic problems. How do construction forms and types come about? What are the functions of triforium, pillar, ribbed vault or arch crown? The volume is aimed at anyone interested in architecture and gives a compact introduction to the field. At the sa…
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Mönckeberg y aracenaMaestros de la arquitectura en los inicios del modernism…
"La elaboración de este libro ha sido motivada, entre otros factores, por los siguientes: inicialmente, por la propia experiencia personal en la SCEE (Sociedad Constructora de Establecimientos Educacionales) durante doce años de trabajo, tiempo en que alcancé a conocer a José Aracena, quien murió en 1971; luego, por un deseo de abordar la vida de Gustavo Mönckeberg, quien fuera el padre d…
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Plano da qualidade de obras – PQOproposta de elementos para implantação d…
Devido aos grandes investimentos governamentais nas últimas décadas na área de habitação, o mercado da construção civil sofreu grande aquecimento e como consequência as empresas do mercado da habitação deparam-se com o desafio de atender a uma necessidade de aprimoramento de seus processos construtivos na busca por manter ou aumentar a qualidade do produto final fornecido a seus clien…
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Building With FlintA Practical Guide to the Use of Flint in Design and Archit…
The use of flint is uniquely interlinked with the history of mankind. In the evolving relationship between humanity and the natural world, the provenance of flint as a resource is, arguably, unparalleled. Its continuing use today is simply another link in a long chain of association that can swiftly transport the craftsman back to his ancient ancestors. In historical terms, humans were relative…
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Territories of Disobedience
Architects build in and for a system that is not only pathological, but toxic. It is ruining the only planet we have, and we are clearly at the end of what is still possible within this ecology.The architecture presented in this book is a form of resistance – one which actively engages in the societies and territories it is inscribed in and which presents an antidote to the accelerating banal…
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The Life and Death of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator1897-2023
A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history. Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but each of its demolition requests to the city had been blocked. Six days after the storm, with no p…
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Paolo PortoghesiArchitecture between History, Politics and Media
Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge – history, politics and media – in the making of postmodern architectural discourse. It explores how Portoghesi's personal "postmodern project" was based on the triangulation of a renew…
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Architectural Graphics
Architectural Graphics is the classic bestselling reference by one of the leading global authorities on architectural design drawing, Francis D. K. Ching. This seventh edition offers a comprehensive introduction to graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentations, using hundreds of the author's distinctive drawings to illustrate each to…
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