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Time for PlayWhy Architecture should take Happiness Seriously
Over the last 15 years AZC's architectural work has developed through a diverse range of experiences. This book, Time for Play, presents exhibition pavilions, temporary installations, and ideas competitions – a mix of built and un-built projects. "...Today's situation promotes innovation, supports creativity and enriches projects, calling on our intelligence. We are forced to take a new look …
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- 9781638408475
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MCHAP Book OneThe Americas
MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN – Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radi?, Cristián Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaug…
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- 9781638408468
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Landscape TuningsAn Urban Park at the Danube
Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to one's dispositions and wellbeing—an emotional space of social relevance, tuned with and for its communities. In this book, OFICINAA examines the design potentials of the Danube River as a civic anchor, a bioclimatic medium, and a space for collective …
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- 9781638408444
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- 1 online resource (148 pages)
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Diaz-Llanos Saavedra
The architects Saavedra and Díaz-Llanos produced a marvelous adaptation of the architectural style to the environment without compromising its essence.
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- 9781638408383
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Ciudad sónicaEl caso paradigmático de Popayán (Colombia)
Ciudad Sónica es un libro que evalúa el espacio temporal del paisaje sonoro urbano. Desde el debate teórico y algunos aspectos metodológicos invita a reflexionar con profundidad un tema que ha sido abordado tímidamente en diversas latitudes, especialmente en Latinoamérica. El libro aborda los componentes sensoriales del sonido; es decir, su factor perceptual, entendido como una realidad q…
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La place de la Landsgemeinde à Trogen
Grâce au florissant commerce du textile, la place du village appenzellois de Trogen s'est dotée de riches palais en pierre d'inspiration française ou italianisante. Leur magnificence reflète l'intensité des échanges culturels et commerciaux de l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle. En quelques décennies, sous l'égide des familles Zellweger et Honnerlag, les maîtres d'oeuvre Grubenmann et Langeneg…
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- 9783037977552
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Kirchbühl bei Sempach
Die von einem Friedhof umschlossene Martinskirche von Kirchbühl liegt in malerischer Aussichtslage oberhalb des Sempachersees. Sie hat als eine der wenigen Kirchen Luzerns ihren mittelalterlichen Charakter im wesentlichen bis heute bewahren können und besticht vor allem durch ihre bedeutenden hochgotischen Wandmalereien und ihre aus spätgotischer Zeit stammenden Ausstattung. Dem Wanderer emp…
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- 9783037977880
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- 1 online resource (32 pages)
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Book of the SchoolDepartment of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 187…
Articles by Pennsylvania professors and alumni covering the sixty-year record of the School and the cultural and academic elements of the study and practice of architecture. Includes a Who's Who of all graduates from 1877 to 1934.
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- 9781512815467
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- 1 online resource (224 pages)
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Housing, Culture, and DesignA Comparative Perspective
This book originates in two symposia held during 1985 at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Environmental Design Research Association.
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- 9781512804287
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Outlines of Russian Culture, Part 3Architecture, Painting, and Music
This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times.The contrast of Christianity in Russia with the Western Church, the retarded…
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