Architecture of the possible

Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Landscape architecture, which includes the planning of parks and gardens and the design and siting of buildings and roads, plays an important role in

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Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual

This volume presents current research on Roman emperors' uses of images, ranging from the beard of Nero to Antonine funeral pyres to the roles of arch

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Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney

This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focussing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decora

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Humanism of the Other

Argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. This book also argues tha

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British Architecture 1760–1914 Taylor & Francis Ltd

This compendium of primary sources examines British architectural history from the accession of King George III in 1760 to the outbreak if the First World War in 1914. The collection of twovolumes contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings. ...

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Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city marked not

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Urban Sketching Handbook Architecture and Cityscapes

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes provides keys to help make the experience of drawing architecture and cityscapes fun and rew

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Architecture Today: Commercial Spaces - David Andreu Bach

<p>A compendium of fantastic projects by 26 of the most relevant professionals in this field. This new addition to the “Architecture Today”series presents exciting projects from around the world. Bars, restaurants, shops and boutiques, hotels, cafes... The role architecture plays in branding, marketing, and the ultimate success or failure of commercial ventures cann...

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New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design

Fleur Watson draws on an international range of exhibitions, project profiles, and interviews to reveal the emergence of the 'new curator' in architec

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ARM System-on-Chip Architecture

This updated edition has a shift of emphasis towards "System on Chip" design. It provides an overview of the ARM processor family, enabling the reader

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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Adam Sharr tells the story of how modern architecture developed and produced its powerful cultural images. Considering the new building materials and

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Architecture for Health and Well-Being

A unique perspective on architecture that promotes the welfare and security of those using the space. It explains from a different angle a topic that

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More Space for Architecture: The Work of O’Donnell + Tuomey

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Architecture of Change. Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment - Kristin Feireiss, Lucas Feireiss

Kniha představuje architektonické projekty, které kombinují kreativitu, odborné znalosti, technické inovace a sociální angažovanost se silnou zodpovědností k životnímu prostředí. obsahuje přes čtyřicetprojektů z dílen světoznámých architektů.

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Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen

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Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture

Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world repre

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Islamic Art and Architecture, 650–1250

This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and it

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Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture

A combination of practical and theoretical writing, this book chronicles the realization of #TransActing: A Market of Values, an international non-com

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Classical Swedish Architecture and Interiors 1650-1840

This study of Swedish design of the baroque, rococco and empire periods introduces a range of work not covered in any other publication in English. From Drottningholm, the Royal Palace of Stockholm, and Gustav Ill's Pavilion at Haga to less well-known masterpieces, this lavishly illustrated history of Sweden's most important architecture and its creators shows how Contine...

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Textile in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. T...

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Textile in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. T...

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Trajectories in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This bookpresents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These three trajectories – the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities – serve to organise individual chapters in the central sections of the ...

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Trajectories in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This bookpresents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These three trajectories – the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities – serve to organise individual chapters in the central sections of the ...

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Geologics - Geography Information Architecture - Vicente Guallart

<p>A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society. He proposes, by means of his architecture, projects and writings, fresh ways for building in five distinct urban areas: the city, the periphery, the outskirt...

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British Architecture 1760–1914 Taylor & Francis Ltd

Thisvolume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914. The collectioncontains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings. This title will be of great interest to students of Art History and Architecture....

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Medieval Art, Architecture a Archaeology at Canterbury

This book argues that Robert Willis's presentations were fundamental to the format of British Archaeological Association meetings and to the creation

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Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide r

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Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide r

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Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi

Use your Raspberry Pi to get smart about computing fundamentals In the 1980s, the tech revolution was kickstarted by a flood of relatively inexpens

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Design, Engineering and Architecture, Volume 1

This volume of High Speed Two: Infrastructure Design and Construction from the HS2 Project, contains a collection of papers submitted to HS2 Ltd's Tec

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Houses - Residential Architecture - Alonso Claudia Martínez

The design of your own home depends on its environment, climate, and location. Here you will find various examples of this, combined with materials, technologies, and construction methods.

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Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830

A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, mate

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Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture

Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, sp

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Architecture Lover s Guide to London

Looks at the history of architecture in London in key periods such as Roman times, Norman, Stuart, Victorian and Georgian periods to Art Deco, Postmod

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Water and Sacred Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material a...

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Water and Sacred Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material a...

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Geologics. Geography Information Architecture - Vicente Guallart

A new era demands a new architecture: Vicente Guallart, pioneer and producer of new media on architecture, examines the technological, social and cultural changes inherent in our current information society.

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Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture

The book is relevant to current issues of contemporary practice and education, showing that philosophical issues are fundamental, and those relating t

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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architec

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Architecture V4 1990-2008 - Stempel Ján

Anotace: The book presents buildings which illustrate evolution and trend of architecture in Visegrad group countries from 1990 to 2008.It is a collection of eighteen buildings from each country in eighteen years. Kniha představuje stavby, které reprezentují vývoj a tendence architektury v zemích višegrádské čtyřky po roce 1990.

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This Crown of Comfort

Is it possible to live as whole even when we are wounded by life? God thinks so. Eva Leaf shares stories from her life and the lives of other women.

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Architecture and Affect Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is motivated by two questions: Why do dismissed affective evidence persist as troubling experience or imaginaries? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse? Beyond accounting for the vivid but excluded, this book develops a frame and a disposition for thinking critically about, speculatively through, and being g...

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Metaphorical Practices in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture’s social, cultural and political dimensions – past and present – and to productively challenge and intervene with established perspectives, debates and...

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Modern New York, The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Present Rizzoli International Publications

An illustrated tour through New York s five boroughs and the past 100 years of its modern architecture, told through the charming yet bold drawings of Lukas Novotny....

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Alexandrian Corinthian Capital and its Role in the Evolution of the Corinthian Order in Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Roman Architecture

This study discusses the evolution of the Corinthian capital in Antiquity and how this centred around Alexandria rather than Mainland Greece. It tackl

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Brno Architecture Manual. A Guide to Architecture 1946-1989 - Petra Hlaváčková

<p>The publication is a follow-up to the successful guide to interwar architecture - approximately two hundred interesting objects with basic information and black-and-white photographs are arranged in eleven routes leading from the center to the outskirts of Lesná, Juliánov or Bohunice. In addition to the most famous buildings such as the White House, Prior, Contin...

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Rebirth of Form-type: Selected Works of Scenic Architecture Office

This collection reveals the fascinating ideas of Scenic Architecture Office - one of famous architecture offices in China.

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Cool Town

In Athens, Georgia in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Cool Town reveals the passion,

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Ve znamení moderny / in the name of modernism. architektura 20,století v Brně / 20th century architecture in Brno - Jan Sedlák

Kniha se prostřednictvím fotografií a textu zabývá vývojem brněnské moderní architektury v průběhu celého dvacátého století, s přesahem do století následujícího.

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Oxymoron &amp; pleonasm III. Conversations on American Critical and Projective Theory of Architecture - Monika Mitášová

The book contains twelve interviews focusing on the problem of critical and projective approach to architectural thinking and design discussed by leading American theorists, historians and practitioners of architecture.

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Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology in China Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing on the author’s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong’s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong’s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings. It examines how the buildings and techniques of the Dong are ordered and influenced ...

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High on Living: Residential Architecture &amp; Interior Design - Ralf Daab

High on Living - Residential Architecture and Interior Design" presents livable spaces that are functional, aesthetic, and sustainable. They integrate various styles, materials, and technologies to create personalized spaces that reflect the tastes and lifestyles of their occupants. Whether in the vast landscapes of Scandinavia, the majestic Alps, the southern Europe...

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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canada's most intriguing poets and thinkers.

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Perspective as Logic: Positioning Film in Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline’s repertoire. The book determines the screen’s conditions of possibility by critically asking not what a screen means, but how it can mean anything of architectural significance. Based on this shift of enquiry towards the question of meaning, ...

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Practical Ethics in Architecture and Interior Design Practice

Practical Ethics in Architecture and Interior Design Practice presents the basics of design practice through ethical scenarios, ushering design studen

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Oxymoron &amp; pleonasm - Conversations on American Critical and Projective Theory of Architecture - Monika Mitášová

<p>The book contains twelve interviews focusing on the problem of critical and projective approach to architectural thinking and design discussed by leading American theorists, historians and practitioners of architecture: Kenneth Frampton (2010), Michael K. Hays (2010), Mark Wigley (2010), Mary McLeod (2010), Beatriz Colomina (2010), Stan Allen (2010), Joan Ockman ...

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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia

This book takes a fresh perspective on the Viking Age, offering a social archaeology of the Viking home. A highly charged architectural element - the

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Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991

The first ever guide to architecture of post-modernist Russia with descriptions of almost 100 buildings spanning 3 decades Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955 -1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 build

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Dahomey’s Royal Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This bookexamines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin and itsrelationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625-1892), colonial Dahomey (1892-1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960-present). This book documents the palace’s physical transformations in relation to its changi...

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Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate

This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science research into the architectural curriculum.

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