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Designing Pan-AmericaU.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the cou…
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The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches …
The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. Until the eleventh century, churches tended to have a single external western nave doorway. This design changed in the next two centuries. New …
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The Minimum Dwelling RevisitedCIAM's Practical Utopia (1928–31)
This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), addressing their engagement with the "minimum dwelling" and revealing them both as milestones in the organisation's anna…
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- 9781350346208
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Hidden PatronsWomen and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain
Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025 An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing …
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Interior Design is Not Decoration And Other IdeasExplore the world of interio…
An inspiring book exploring all aspects of interior design in 100 engaging and beautifully illustrated entries. Interior design is not about paint colors and accent cushions. It is an important practice that affects all our lives. This entertaining book explores the world of interior design with a snappy set of 100 entries, all explaining what interior design is in an attractive format. The wi…
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Poplar ForestThomas Jefferson's Villa Retreat
Poplar Forest is one of two personal residences that Thomas Jefferson designed for himself, the other being Monticello. Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, inherited the land—originally a 6,861-acre parcel—at her father's death in 1773, but Jefferson did not begin construction on the house until 1806, and at his death in 1826, he was still working on his little "getaway." Des…
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The Architecture of InfluenceThe Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century
How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analyzing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works—including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern—through the lens of influence. The book serves as both a critique of the discipline's long-standing focus on "genius" and a celeb…
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Architectures of the Roman WorldModels, Agency, Reception
This book collects essays by international scholars who engage with Roman-period architecture outside Rome and the Italian Peninsula, looking at the regions that formed part of the Roman Empire over a broad time frame: from the second century BCE to the third century CE. Moving beyond traditional views of 'Roman provincial architecture', the aim is to highlight the multi-faceted features of the…
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MORE WATER LESS LAND NEW ARCHITECTURESEA LEVEL RISE AND THE FUTURE OF COASTAL…
Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of arch…
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Ciudades de ríoAgonía o renaturalización. Valle del Chumbao
"La mayoría de las ciudades andinas del Perú comparten un deplorable rasgo común: los ríos que las recorren —antes fuentes de agua limpia y factor primordial de la identidad paisajística del lugar— se han convertido en desagües abiertos y el destino de todos los desperdicios de la ciudad.El agua y los ríos están en pleno proceso de inanición. Situación que se agrava aún más por …
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