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Building SmallA Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders, and Gre…
Small-scale, incremental, real estate development offers a growing alternative to more conventional approaches. It helps create more authentic places, acts as a magnet for new investment, helps attract talent based employment, all while fostering a more resilient local economy. This in turn helps communities better differentiate themselves when seeking new investment in an increasingly competit…
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LA ARQUITECTURA DE LA HUMANA CONDICIÓN SITUADA
El título del libro enuncia dos tesis distintas: por una parte, se sostiene que la condición situada del hombre posee, como característica distintiva, una contextura arquitectónica propia que es necesario describir, por otra parte, debe profesarse, en el seno del ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura, un profundo compromiso programático con esta condición humana. El punto de encuentro …
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Vaastu ShaastraAn Ancient Technological Treatise
Vaastu Shaastra, the Vedic treatise on the principles of design and construction, is more intricate and elaborate than how the texts in circulation today understand it. These books erroneously attempt to provide readymade solutions in the form of drawings for designs of buildings, thereby fixing the architectural expression of the norms. What makes this book exclusive is its intensive discussio…
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Life
Ian Ritchie is recognized as one of the UK's most visionary architects, renowned for his innovative approach that synthesises multiple creative disciplines to articulate the essence of his architectural projects. A poet and artist as well as an architect, Ritchie distills his concepts and design principles into verse, exploring the interplay between the complexities of architectural commissions…
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Kem WeberMid-Century Furniture Designs for the Disney Studios
This book is a comprehensive overview of the Kem Weber designed Disney animation furniture that takes the reader on a journey from concept sketches and photos to interviews with legendary artists. Kem Weber, a well-known mid-century architect, influenced California style during the mid-twentieth century with buildings architecture, interior designs and furniture, including his famed Air Line ch…
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Der Waffenplatz Bière, das Militärviertel
Die positiven Erfahrungen mit den Eidgenössischen Übungslagern von 1822 und 1830 bewogen die Waadtländer Regierung, in Bière einen kantonalen Artilleriewaffenplatz zu gründen. Das erste Militärquartier erbaute Louis Wenger 1836–1839 am Südwestrand der Ebene Champagne noch ohne Kasernen. Mit dem Neubau des Quartiers 1866–1868 am südlichen Dorfrand durch David Braillard entstand der K…
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Mysticism and ArchitectureWittgenstein and the Meanings of the Palais Stonbor…
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that supposedly separates his "early" from his "late" philosophy. Weaving together discussions of a number…
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La Place d’armes de Bière, le quartier militaire
En 1822 et 1830 sont organisés des camps fédéraux d'exercice dont le succès incite le gouvernement vaudois à créer à Bière une place d'armes cantonale pour l'artillerie. Louis Wenger est l'architecte de ce premier quartier militaire, élevé de 1836 à 1839 sur la bordure sud-ouest de la plaine de Champagne, et ne comprenant pas encore de casernes. La nouvelle construction réalisée pl…
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Building Nazi GermanyPlace, Space, Architecture, and Ideology
This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany's economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The …
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Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume IV: Architecture 1600-2000
The most complete survey of architecture in Ireland ever published. The essays in this volume cover all aspects of Ireland's built environment, not only buildings but infrastructure, landscape development, public and private construction and much else. The volume challenges and expands the traditional understanding of Irish 'architecture', giving novel and exciting interpretations of the field …
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