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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC
"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."—Mid-Atlantic Country This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450 of Washington, DC's, most noteworthy buildings and monuments. Organized into 19 discrete walking tours, plus one general tour of peripheral sites, this thoroughly revised sixth edition features …
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Carbon-based Nanomaterials for Green Applications
Gain valuable insight into applying carbon-based nanomaterials to the green technologies of the future The green revolution is the most important technological development of the new century. Carbon-based nanomaterials, with their organic origins and immense range of applications, are increasingly central to this revolution as it unfolds. There is an urgent need for an up-to-date overview of …
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American KairosWashington National Cathedral and the New Civil Religion
A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for the White House, the US Capitol, and the National Mall, this grand temple to the republic never materialized. But in 1890, the Episcopal Ch…
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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
A lavishly illustrated look at some of Boston's most historic buildings, now available in a new, updated edition. Winner of the Historic New England Book Prize and a Boston Preservation Alliance Annual Achievement Award. As Boston fast approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, the city's architecture plays an important role in preserving its historic character. This book introduces read…
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Big PlansThe Allure and Folly of Urban Design
Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futili…
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Confesiones de tres arquitectosFernando Castillo Velasco, Mario Pérez de Arc…
Se trata de las trayectorias de vida de tres emblemáticos y singulares arquitectos: Fernando Castillo Velasco, Mario Pérez de Arce y Héctor Valdés Phillips, los tres Premios Nacionales de Arquitectura.
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Capital's UtopiaVandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that pr…
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CASAS INTERNACIONAL 193, Ezequiel Rivarola
El proceso proyectual y de obra tradicional suele ser de largo plazo, pero existen en el mercado sistemas constructivos alternativos que implican menor tiempo de obra o menor recurso. Para organizar la obra en el tiempo, elaboramos un plan de trabajo el cual revisamos con el cliente y evaluamos la duración de la obra, juntamente con la realización de un plan de inversión para determinar los …
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Ecological PlanningA Historical and Comparative Synthesis
Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Ecological planning is the process of understanding, evaluating, and providing options for the use of landscape to ensure a better fit with human habitation. In this ambitious analysis, Forster Ndubisi provides a succinct historical and comparative account of the various approaches to this process. He then reveals how each of …
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ARQUITECTURA, REVOLUCIÓN CIBERNÉTICA Y CLIMA
Dos teorías surgen como solución a un entorno ambiental en crisis y como propuestas ante la pronta escasez de recursos energéticos y materiales, estas son la Tercera Revolución Industrial y la Cuarta Revolución Industrial. Ambas tienen en común el devenir estrategias avanzadas complementarias para el desarrollo de una sociedad cibernética, que llevará implícitos los problemas de la sup…
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