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The Unfinished PalazzoLife, Love and Art in Venice
Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venices Grand Canal, il palazzo non finito was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm. The staggeringly wealthy Marchesa Luisa Casati made her new home a belle epoque aesthetes fantasy and herself a living wor…
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Historic Real EstateMarket Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the E…
A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley…
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The Battle for HomeMemoir of a Syrian Architect
Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of…
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The Chapel of Princeton University
The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasures—now with magnificent new color photos and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious life Like the medieval English cathedrals that inspired it, the Princeton University Chapel is an architectural achievement designed to evoke wonder, awe, and reflection. Richard Stillwell's The Chapel of Princeton University is the essential ill…
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Architecture Matters
Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. The more we understand the importance of architecture, and the thinking and decisions behind the buildings we create, the better world we will construct. Who better to guide readers into the rich and complex world of contemporary architec…
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Copper, Brass, and Bronze SurfacesA Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication, a…
A FULL-COLOR GUIDE FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGN PROFESSIONALS TO THE SELECTION AND APPLICATION OF COPPER, BRASS, AND BRONZE Copper, Brass, and Bronze Surfaces, third in Zahner's Architectural Metals Series, provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of copper, brass, and bronze applications in architecture and art. If offers architecture and design professionals the information they ne…
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The Experience of Architecture
How does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space to lead into another, affect us? It is no wonder that the door, one of the most elemental architectural forms, has such metaphorical richness. But even on a purely physical human level, the cold touch of a brass handle or the swish of a sliding screen gives rise to an emotional reaction, sometimes modest, occasional…
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Architettura Alto Adigebergmeisterwolf – MoDusArchitects
Architettura Alto Adige – bergmeisterwolf e MoDusArchitects è la prima di un ciclo di mostre a cadenza annuale organizzate a Napoli dal Dipartimento di Architettura dell'Università degli Studi Federico II e dedicate all'architettura contemporanea italiana.La mostra permette di riflettere su alcune tra le più interessanti ricerche sul progetto e sulla costruzione di una architettura radicat…
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Suelo urbano y vivienda social en BogotáLa primacía del mercado y el sacrif…
Lo urbano (asociado indiscutiblemente al concepto de ciudad), constituido en virtud de la división social y espacial de las relaciones sociales de producción en un Estado nación en el que se localizan según estas lógicas las actividades comerciales, de servicios e industriales, entre otras; enfrenta una serie de transformaciones que hacen cada vez más complejo distinguir lo rural de lo ur…
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L'altra TerraL'utopia di Marte dall'età vittoriana alla New Space Economy
Sede di civiltà tecnologicamente avanzatissime e illuminate oppure luogo di provenienza di minacciosi estranei invasori, Marte rappresenta, da oltre un secolo, una alternativa alla Terra, un altro mondo sul quale proiettare le nostre speranze e le nostre paure. Da quando, nel Diciannovesimo secolo, gli astronomi Giovanni Schiaparelli e Percivall Lowell osservarono sulla superficie marzia…
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