Four books on architecture

Four Books on Architecture

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Notations

NOTATIONS (Diagrams and Sequences) offers a unique view into the working process of Tschumi and his office. influenced international architectural cul

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The Four Books of Architecture

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On Architecture

In "De architectura" (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvi

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Four Books

"One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists." (Guardian). In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and con...

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Signal. Image. Architecture.

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Paths to Prison – On the Architecture of Carcerality

Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environmentÂ’s relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture

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Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction

Founded by anthropologist Edward T. Hall, proxemics developed amid cold war political tensions and social and civil unrest. Proxemics and the Architec

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Superpowers of Scale

Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation bring new subjects into the fold of architecture. Documenting a series of performances, research

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Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik

This book Presents seven interviews with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton, reflecting on the long arc of his career in the discipline.

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Deserts Are Not Empty

Deserts Are Not Empty challenges the colonial tendency to portaryarid lands as “empty” spaces ready to be occupied andexploited. Despite the undenia

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Metropolisarchitecture

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Art after Liberalism

Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, a

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Year Without a Winter

This book brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration to reframe the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. A Yea

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Ways of Knowing Cities

Ways of Knowing Cities considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies—from ubiquitous sites of “

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Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity

Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. This book examines historic preservation as an enterprise of ideas, methods, ins

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Preservation and Social Inclusion

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community

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Nights of the Dispossessed – Riots Unbound

Nights of the Dispossessed brings together artistic works, political texts, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to sense, chron

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Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds

Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements.

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Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway – Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria

The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway collects Jason OddyÂ’s in-depth photographic survey of the Brazilian modernist Oscar NiemeyerÂ’s Algerian proje

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Russian Germans on Four Continents

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of histo

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Architecture of Collage

The first book on American architect Marshall Brown and his collages, which sit at the intersection of architecture and art.

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Four Stories

Includes such stories as: "Father! Father! Burning Bright"; "The Clothes They Stood Up In"; "The Laying on of Hands"; and "The Lady in the Van".

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Pacific Profiles - Volume Four

Volume Four focuses on the US Navy, US Marine Corps and RNZAF squadrons which operated land based F4U series Corsair fighters throughout the Solomons

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Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four

Part of a series of Spenser's great work, this title includes a general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an ind

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Four Roads to Heaven

Follows the four roads through France on the pilgrimage to Santiago, which Christian pilgrims have been following since the twelfth century

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Four Tragedies and Octavia

Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman's impact on the development of the traged

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Four Iron in the Soul

Tells the story of the summer author spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond, ranked over 400 in the world, on the European Tour. This title

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Four Weddings and a Funeral - Richard Curtis

Anotace: Contemporary / British EnglishFour Weddings and a Funeral - one of the most successful films from Britain.It´s a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura´s wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie...

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Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Four)

The fourth volume in the Black Wings of Cthulhu series, edited by the leading authority on H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi

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The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is...

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Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Four (Music of the Spears, Berserker)

MUSIC OF THE SPEARS by Yvonne NavarroNew York City, 2124, and the streets are swarming with Alien Jelly addicts and homeless people. The powerbrokers look down from their high-rise offices with disgust. One of them-an entertainment mogul-is planning spectacular revenge on a maniac musician. Damon Eddington will shock the world with his latest opus-the Symphony of Hate-and...

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Embedded Systems Architecture

"This book fills a void. Most books address only portions of the embedded problem. As the title indicates, this one is uniquely comprehensive. I consider it a must-read"§--Review of the 1 st Edition. Jack Ganssle, embedded author, lecturer, consultant. Embedded Systems Architecture is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded...

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Shipping Container Homes: 30 Hacks For Beginners On Building Shipping Container Home: (Tiny Houses Plans, Interior Design Books, Architecture Bo

Shipping Container Homes: 30 Hacks For Beginners On Building Shipping Container Home There is no toy that is as beloved as building blocks. As children, we all spent hours using our imaginations and building everything from the smallest h

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Jeet Kune Do Bruce Lees Legacy

Jeet Kune Do is a modern system of self-defence based on the teachings and philosophy of Bruce Lee, the King of Kung Fu.JKD is built on Simplicity, Directness, Efficiency and Speed. It encapsulates all four fighting distances (Kicks, Boxing, Close Combat and Ground Combat) and uses specific Strategies, Concepts and Principles.JKD is constantly developing and encompasses t...

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Sound Runes of Sirius

I sat at the computer, a medium I have been familiar with for decades, and received the message to close my eyes and receive a set of runes from Sirius. Twelve or thirteen, it was said. I should start a painting program and digitally record it directly. The "why?" hid himself from me first .... Four evenings of going through 12 1 symbols, 93 variants and 13 1 sounds to th...

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On Sundays

New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based chef Dave Verheul shares innovative and original recipes for every kind of shared Sunday feast inspired by the four

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Disney: Disneyland Park A Collection of Four Exciting Stories

Embark on a roller-coaster journey across four fun-filled stories based on your favourite Disney theme park rides. Join Albert, the skipper, on his fa

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I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy

Tells the story of Five's early years on Earth when he was just a young teen on the run, discovering his abilities and making the wrong kind of friend

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Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture

Using a HDL, Verilog in this case, rather than static circuit diagrams is a big deviation from traditional books on computer architecture.

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The Crucible: A Play in four Acts (0141182555)

Kniha - autor Arthur Miller, 126 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community ...

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1984 Nineteen-Eighty Four, 1. vydání - George Orwell

Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania one of the three totalitarian blocks dominating the world ruled by a mysterious leader called Big Brother who keeps the population in thrall through strict surveillance and brutal police repression. In a society where the individual is suppressed and turned ...

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Women Who Blow on Knots

A literary phenomenon in Turkey with more than 120,000 copies sold, Women Who Blow on Knots is an engaging, funny and fast-paced book about four women

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Seed On The Wind

One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legendary "Nero Wolfe" creator Rex Stout-unpublished for m

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Death on Credit

When Celine's first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal. Four years later came the seque

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On Dublin Street

Four years ago, Jocelyn Butler left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and for

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Shadows on the Grass

Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of

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The Fall of Babel : Book Four of the Books of Babel - Bancroft Josiah

Anotace: THE SECRETS OF THE TOWER WILL FINALLY BE REVEALED IN THE REMARKABLE CONCLUSION TO THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF BABEL SERIES.As Marat`s siege engine bores through the Tower, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast. Edith and her crew are forced to face Marat on unequal footing, with Senlin caught in the crossfire, while Ad...

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Stain on the Silence

James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led t

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Girls on the Edge (New Edition)

A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy

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House Building From Container: 80 Useful Hacks And Ideas On Building Shipping Container Home: (Tiny Houses Plans, Interior Design Books, Architecture

House Building From Container: 80 Useful Hacks And Ideas On Building Shipping Container Home BOOK #1: Shipping Container Homes. Dream Or Reality? Amazing Ideas On How To Build & Get Organized Using shipping containers to build homes - sometimes known as

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On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism

A rich collection of essays that offer essential, independent voices on architecture criticism in a highly challenging media environment.

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Watermark: An Essay on Venice

Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, the author captures its magnificen

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In This House Angels Four

Many, perhaps most, books on Scottish witchcraft and folk magic tend to rely not so much on original research as on what has been produced by other wr

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Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how s

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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (0141981725)

Kniha - autor Carlo Rovelli, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A mind-bending introduction to modern physics in seven entertaining lessons. Explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity and the nature of the mind. This topped the bestseller charts in Italy for...

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Earthsea : The First Four Books: A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu - Guinová Ursula K. Le

<p>Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story. 'One of the literary greats' Margaret Atwood 'The deepest and smartest of writers. Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul' Neil Gaiman A Wizard of Ear...

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Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living (0141986387)

Kniha - autor Fumio Sasaki, 260 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 'Meet the new king of decluttering' - The Times'Take your spring cleaning to the next level with Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki' - Parade'There's happiness in having less. If you are anything like how I used to be - miserable, constantly comparing yourself with others, or just believing your l...

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Red Famine : Stalin´s War on Ukraine - Anna Applebaumová

<p>In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet publishe...

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Red Famine : Stalin´s War on Ukraine - Anna Applebaumová

<p>In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet publishe...

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