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Modern Architecture and the SacredReligious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal
This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with 'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections – Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. …
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- 9781350098725
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From Control to Design
Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging, most radical technologies reshaping architecture today. This book presents six independent practices that explore current applications of parametric and algorithmic design techniques in architectural production. If the first generation of digital modeling programs allowed designers to conceive new forms and processes, a new bree…
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- 9781945150586
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Future CitiesA Visual Guide
What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history …
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- 9781350011632
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Empire, State & Building
This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This book plots the material history and geography for one plot of land in Manhattan—the parcel of land under the E…
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- 9781638409113
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The Tiny House Handbook
"This thought provoking book is a great resource for anyone considering joining the tiny house movement. It's all the information you need in one book! The author has done a phenomenal job blending real world experience, data and practical knowledge on all types of tiny homes." -Corinne Watson, Principle and Co-Founder, Tiny Homes of Maine "Charlie Wing's very readable Tiny House Handbook leads…
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Tiny TaxonomyIndividual Plants in Landscape Architecture
Tiny Taxonomy offers a visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture. Tiny Taxonomy showcases species that are in cultivation or in profusion, but rarely purposefully planted. A grouping of plants is categorized by common traits derived from an evolution towards f…
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- 9781638409137
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Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac's map depicted a world of a…
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- 9780807175729
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XXL-XSNew Directions on Ecological Design
XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massi…
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- 9781638409151
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SummandoLa arquitectura que nos contaron. Argentina: Décadas del 70, 80 y 90
La perspectiva histórica que da el transcurrir del tiempo otorga a toda producción cultural una comprensión más vasta e integral. La propuesta sobre la que versa Summando parte de entender que entre la arquitectura construida y el círculo cultural desde el cual se realiza, se sostiene y se debate se encuentran los medios de difusión. Estos son la puerta por la cual entramos a una porción…
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Third Coast AtlasPrelude to a Plan
Measuring over 10, 000 miles, the Great Lakes coastline, known as the "third coast, " is longer than the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of the United States combined. It is difficult to overstate the history and future of the region as both a contested and opportunistic site for urbanism. Envisaged as a comprehensive "atlas, " this publication comprises in-depth analysis of the landscapes, hyd…
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