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Garden Rockery - How to Make, Plant and Manage Them
This vintage book contains a handbook of garden rockery, being a guide to how to make, plant, and manage it. Comprehensive and profusely illustrated, this accessible guide will appeal to modern green-fingered readers, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of gardening literature. Contents include: "The Garden", "Mircocosm of Nature", "What is Rockery?", "What Stone to Use", "So…
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Unearthing Traces
Archival power, silences, and absences profoundly shape and structure postcolonial landscapes, spaces, and urban environments by controlling bodies, histories, and interactions. This book explores pathways to dismantle these imperial entanglements by developing methodologies and plural epistemologies through an interdisciplinary dialog between history, memory politics, critical theory, and arch…
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Frank Lloyd WrightThe Architecture of Defiance
The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he w…
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American Furniture and Decoration Colonial and Federal
American Furniture & Decoration Colonial & Federal is Edward Stratton Holloway's illustrated manual on Colonial and Federal furniture and decoration, it was first published in 1928. Holloway was born in Ashland, Greene County, New York in 1859. He attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts between 18881 and 1905 and then went on to work as art director for the publisher J. B. Lippincott Co. for…
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matières 1Motion, émontions
Entre le masque siglé et sigillé de l'institution polytechnicienne (EPFL, DA, ITHA, ACM, PPUR) qui sourit et se fige en d'étranges algorithmes, et la peau des personnes qui munissent l'école de leur ossature et de leur énergie, il existe un espace de liberté, nerveux et sudoripare, d'où émergent l'invention et la recherche nécessaires à allumer l'enseignement. On dira, et c'est exact,…
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Great Houses of London
Discover the stories of some of the most breathaking and historic great houses of London, along with their secrets, in this lavishly illustrated compedium. London has a wealth of truly stunning great houses, seen by many as one of the marvels of English architecture,and yet to many their histories, their interiors and their occupants remain unknown. This book, illustrated throughout with sump…
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- 9780711276291
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- 1 online resource (328 pages)
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The Rudiments Of Practical Bricklaying - In Six SectionsGeneral Principles Of…
Originally published in 1890: The object of this little work is to assist young beginners and others who, though in the trade many years, have not had the opportunity of seeing so much of the higher branches of practice as they might desire. I also trust it will not be thought unworthy the notice of the more skilled mechanic. I have no hesitation in saying the methods here employed in drawing a…
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Pionniers de l'architecture moderne
Cette anthologie réunit des textes et des conférences inédits en Langue française et produits par sept pionniers du Mouvement moderne en architecture: M. Ginzburg, A. Lurçat, E. Mendelsohn, H. Meyer, G. Michelucci, J. J. P. Oud et R. M. Schindler. Ces documents sont accompagnés par une double lecture, historique et architecture logique. La première souligne d'une part des similitudes à …
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American Colonial Architecture
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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- 9781446548219
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Guide Suisse de l'architecture du paysage
Ce guide de l'architecture du paysage en Suisse présente près de 450 projets paysagers différents, allant du jardin familial au parc classique, via la place urbaine ou le "sentier suisse", et provenant de toutes les régions du pays et de toutes les époques (12e - 21e siècle). Riche de plus de 350 photographies couleurs ou noir/blanc et de 100 dessins et plans, il concentre passé et prés…
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