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Designers' Guide to EN 1992-1-1:2023: Eurocode 2Strengthening of Existing Con…
Designers' Guide to EN 1992-1-1:2023: Eurocode 2: Strengthening of Existing Concrete Structures with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) provides clear guidance on the new design procedures to help practicing engineers to grasp the theoretical basis in accordance with the design rules for EN 1992-1-1. This book focuses on the design procedures, detailing rules and durability considerations p…
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Nashville ArchitectureA Guide to the City
"This book is one that all residents of Nashville—and visitors, too—are going to want to have on their bookshelves." —Don H. Doyle, author of Nashville since the 1920s Since the turn of the eighteenth century, social movements and technological advances have strongly impacted cosmopolitan identity in America. Nashville, in particular, has experienced one transformation after another as c…
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L'Italia vaticanaL'egemonia della Chiesa di Pio XII sulla Repubblica
Uscita dal ventennio della dittatura fascista e dalla tragedia della guerra, tra la liberazione, la scelta per la Repubblica, la stesura e approvazione della Costituzione e l'avvio della vita democratica, l'Italia visse anni di tensioni. Il nostro Paese ospitava il più seguito Partito comunista dell'Europa occidentale e si avviava lentamente verso una nuova fase della modernizzazione del suo s…
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William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architecture
“William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architectureis a significant contribution to the professional career of William Strickland and the history of architecture in the United States. Very little has been written about Strickland, one of the most important proponents of the Greek Revival style of architecture in the U.S. His work primarily in Philadelphia, but also elsewhere,…
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Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the AmericasTransregional Dialogues an…
Architectural expressions resonant with Islamic traditions appear in diverse modes across the Americas, from Andalusian-inspired colonial patios in Peru to the modern and contemporary patronage of immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. This volume examines the multiple manifestations of Islamic architecture that permeate the region's built environment to invite an expanded frami…
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Remembering Roadside AmericaPreserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place
The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our n…
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Barry's Construction TechnologyAnalysis and Choice
Updated resource guiding readers through the analysis and choices required to ensure a building will perform as expected Robin Barry's Construction of Buildings was first published in 1958 as a five-volume set and rapidly became a standard work on the subject. Following Barry's death in 2002, a two-volume format was adopted with new authors. Developed from an earlier book by Tony Bryan, this n…
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William Macy StantonArchitect of the Cumberland
In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelts New Deal launched the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Subsistence Homesteads Division to help bring economic relief to families and communities devastated by the Great Depression. With the creation of these new programs came a need for the infrastructure that could support them, and for this, the Roosevelt administration turned to William Macy Stanton. …
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Beauty in ArchitecturePerspectives from Theory and Practice
Beauty in Architecture brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture. Despite its recent resurgence in the public debate about the built environment, the notion of beauty remains problematic and contested in critical discourse about architecture. When the topic is…
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The Elements of ConstructionN. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the Univers…
A pioneer of architecture education in the United States, N. Clifford Ricker notably taught with an emphasis on construction and shop practice in his teaching. Marci S. Uihlein edits and elaborates on The Elements of Construction, the text on building materials that Ricker wrote and used in his teaching, but never published. The book is a window into the expanding possibilities of the late nine…
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