An Even Better Way to ZoneAchieving More Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainab…

Zoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate.  It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every community comprehensive plan calls for more affordable, equitable, and sustainable development, zoning is often blamed for preventing that from happening.  As US communities face an unprecede…

Schwarz – Braun – RotArchitektur in Wien 1938-1945

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Industrializing Iron Construction at the École Centrale Paris, 1829–1865

As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new material—iron. Industrializing Iron Construction at the École Centrale Paris, 1829–1865 explains a novel response to that need, a successful new school to educate civil and struc…

Hoover DamThe Photographs of Ben Glaha

Hoover Dam was constructed during one of the most depressed economic climates in American history, in a remote desert canyon where temperatures ranged from single to triple digits. In order to visually document the project, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned employee Ben Glaha to photograph all aspects of the dam's construction. Glaha's photographs were used in press releases, periodicals, book…

In PrivateInterior Design as Lifestyle in the 1970s Home

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot. In Private sets out to challenge this view, offering a cultural history of domestic interior design in Britain and America over the course of a decade that shaped the contemporary relationship between fashion and interiors. With each chapter dedicated to a different room in the house, this book explores style, design and socio-cultur…

Emilio Soyer NashHabitar el tiempo, construir el lugar

En la década de 1960 comienzan a hacerse evidentes las fisuras en el modernismo arquitectónico europeo y norteamericano: las formas limpias y simples del llamado estilo internacional parecían agotadas. En el Perú, esta crisis permitió revalorar ciertas especificidades culturales y abrirle un espacio a la construcción de una propia modernidad. En ese panorama, Emilio Soyer Nash aparece com…

No Communication with the SeaSearching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin

Few other places in the United States are as high, dry, sparsely inhabited—and urbanized—as the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada. The great majority of the population of this rapidly growing region lives in the two metropolitan areas at its edges, Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front, and Reno and the Truckee Meadows. These cities embody the allure and the challenge of the contemporary Americ…

Um Percurso da Construção Civil Pela História

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Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

This book introduces interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. Now in its second edition, the book is enlarged to include topical subjects such as artificial intelligence, sustainability and climate change. The book prepares designers to focus on each concept independently as much as possible, whilst acknowledging relative connections wit…

Josef Riedmann, Historische BeziehungsgeflechteFünfzig Aufsätze aus fünf J…

Josef Riedmann prägte die Innsbrucker Mediävistik und Landesgeschichte der letzten Jahrzehnte in Forschung und Lehre. Dabei beschränkt sich sein Wirken keineswegs auf das akademische Umfeld, sondern ist weit in eine historisch interessierte Öffentlichkeit diffundiert. Die ganze Bandbreite seines wissenschaftlichen Oeuvres erschließt sich in erster Linie über seine zahlreichen Aufsätze, d…