Publication date: 1998
Review Idea to reality / Atelier East Press:
Publication date: 1908
Review Granada, present and bygone, / J.M. Dent & Co:
Publication date: 1965
Review The barns of the Abbey of Beaulieu at its granges of Great Coxwell & Beaulieu-St. Leonards, / University Press:
Publication date: 2002-08-30
Review Core Curriculum / Prentice-Hall:
Creator: Judith Russi Kirshner
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 2009-01-15
Dewey code: 778
List Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00
Review Institutional, Limited Edition: Photographs of Jails, Schools, and other Chicago Buildings (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) / Center for American Places:They are places we fear to tread, monuments to the principles of our forebears, awe-inspiring towers of achievement: public institutions that sustain and support our lives are all around us. Scott Fortino investigates these enduring pillars of public life in Institutional, a striking visual essay that documents the diverse architectural structures that house the foundations of civic life in the city of Chicago. From schools to churches to prisons, Fortino transforms these worn, familiar edifices into compelling symbols of long-lost ideals and communitarian spirit. Fortino coaxes out the subtle warmth and depths of these often overwhelming and pitiless public spaces in his photographs, as his camera reveals the hidden characters of both high-profile works by renowned designers such as Rem Koolhaas, Helmut Jahn, and Mies van der Rohe as well as the stolid structures designed by long-forgotten architects. Light, color, and composition work together in Fortino's images to produce provocative new perspectives on the interiors of public buildings, revealing how their cultural and social roles as places of worship, education, punishment, or entertainment cast long and complex shadows over our lives. Fortino challenges us in Institutional to rethink our view of the public spaces we pass through every day by offering an original and fascinating photographic study of the settings in which the important events of human life unfold.
Publication date: 1997
Review Yapilar ve projeler 1982-1997: Buildings and projects 1982-1997 / edited by Sema ve Murat Soygenis ; edited by Sezgi Altinok (Turkish Edition) / Birsen:
Creator: Fred Pflughoft
Edition: Har/DVD Il
Publication date: 2003-07-01
Dewey code: 647
Price: $24.99
Review Old Faithful Inn: 100th Anniversary / W.W. West Inc.:The producers of the PBS television series Great Lodges of the National Parks returned to Yellowstone to complete the filming for this tribute to an American architecural treasure.
Authors
- A.C. Fomento Cultural Banamex
Price: $839.99
Review Iberoamerican Architects; 21st Century in 2 Volumes / Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C.:This book explores the most important works of foremost Iberoamerican architects from the last century, from religious architecture to administrative spaces, shopping centers and hotels, to institutional, cultural and academic institutions, as well as museums and what we today refer to as landscape architecture, to which Iberoamerican has made a noteworthy contribution. The list of forty prestigious planners represented here is a synthesis and a sample attesting to the artistic capacity that has emerged as a symbol of Iberoamerican architecture.
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 725.83
Price: $95.00
Review Buildings for the Performing Arts: A Design and Development Guide / Architectural Press:This Design and Development Guide is an essential book for those who are involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts, from local to metropolitan locations. It includes the stages in the development, decisions to be taken, information requirements, feasibility and advice necessary in the design and development of a new or adapted building. Part one of this guide provides the background information about the organisation of the performing arts, the prevailing issues, the client and various building types. In the second part, the author deals with the components of design and development, identifying the roles of the client, advisors and consultants, the stages to be achieved, including client's proposal feasibility, the process of briefing, design and building and eventually hand-over and opening night, with a consideration of the building use. Studies include the assessment of demand, site requirements, initial brief, building design and financial viability. Information requirements, as design standards, for the auditorium and platform/stage, and the support facilities, are included. Separate studies focus on the adaptation of existing buildings and provision for children and young persons. THE CONTENT COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF PERFORMING ARTS (CLASSICAL MUSIC, POP/ROCK, JAZZ, MUSICALS, DANCE, DRAMA) AND PROVIDES INFORMATION ON EACH AS AN ART FROM AND NECESSITIES TO HOUSE PERFORMANCES. * Comprehensive view of design and development including assessment of demand, site requirement, initial brief, building design and financial viability* Coverage includes all categories including classical music, pop/ rock, jazz, musicals, dance and drama* Links information to the design process and sequence of decision-making.
Creator: Heinrich Helfenstein
Publication date: 2005-10
Review Burkhalter Sumi: Recent Works (2G: International Architecture Review) / Gustavo Gili:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-08-29
Dewey code: 692.50956
List Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00
Review Spon's Middle East Construction Costs Handbook / Taylor & Francis:This unique publication is the only detailed, multinational guide to the cost of construction work across the Middle East. Thirteen countries are covered in detail in individual country chapters along with comparative regional information. The following is given in the same way for each country: * Key data on the main economic and construction indicators as well as on geography and population * An outline of the national construction industry, covering structure, tendering and contract procedures, liability and insurance, and regulation and standards * Labour and materials cost data * Measured rates (in local currency) for up to 60 or so construction work items * Approximate estimating costs for a range of building types * Regional variation percentages, tax details, construction cost and retail price indices. Exchange rates with u sterling, Euro and USD * Addresses of authorities, professional institutions, trade associations etc. To facilitate country to country comparisons the book also includes a Comparative Data section, where figures from the individual country chapters are grouped in tables on economy, geography, construction output, input costs per square metre for offices, warehouses and housing. Figures here are given in national currency, sterling, US dollars and Euros. This unique handbook is an essential reference for all construction professionals involved in work outside their own country and for all developers or multinational companies assessing comparative development costs.
Authors
- Barrie Trinder
- Stuart Smith
- David H. Shayt
- Axel Fohl
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $305.95
Price: $1,311.00
Review The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Industrial Archaeology / Blackwell Publishers:
Edition: 2nd Ed
Publication date: 2004-06-26
Review Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art / Wright:
Publication date: 1969-02
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $552.00
Price: $548.00
Review Turkish Literature a Bio-Bibliographical Survey: Section III (Section 3, Part I Authors, Volumes 1-3 and 4) / Brill Academic Publishers:Being in the Main a list of 'Chaghatayan', Authors and Works in 'Chagatay', as Registered in Prof. M. F. Kvpr]l]'s Article 'Gagatay edebiyati', Ia, Vol. III (270 ff. ). With some Additions (Nav?'??na, however, excepted).
Publication date: 1857
Review Memorials of English mediaeval churches;: Being studies from the finest existing examples of the ecclesiastical steeples of Great Britain / Thompson and co:
Creator: Robin Middleton
Edition: Mit Press
Publication date: 1986-11-29
Dewey code: 720.222
Price: $75.00
Review Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma / The MIT Press:"Jean-Jacques Lequeu does in fact hide behind the most enigmatic and controversial smile in the history of art," writes Philippe Duboy in a book that is one of the most tantalizing examples of architectural investigation ever produced. It is an extraordinary compilation - part speculative biography, part meticulous research, with hundreds of intriguing drawings, many in color - that unravels the mystery of this eighteenth-century maverick artist whose drawings have established him variously as a visionary architect associated with Boullée and Ledoux, forerunner of surrealism, and inventor of bad taste. Lequeu's architectural drawings from the legendary portfolios Architecture civile and Nouvelle methode are presented here in their entirety, along with his "Lewd Figures," perhaps the oddest feature of the whole collection. The drawings are accompanied by long captions, misspelt and ungrammatical, but written in a flawless bureaucratic hand. The artist's marginalia provide insights into his visions, which seem dominated by an obsession with petrified forms and a recurring preoccupation with sex. Interleaved with the drawings are curious autobiographical papers. And it is here that Duboy's investigation of Lequeu begins to reveal strange clues. He discovers that Lequeu was not an architect at all but a government bureaucrat, a draftsman who ended up living in a brothel. Between the brothel and the obscure office from which he was eventually fired, he produced his "encyclopedia of the universe" - bizarre portraits of nuns baring their breasts and other lewd figures, and architectural fantasies of vast imaginary cities. Duboy takes his study further, into the realm of Charles Fourier and his brother-in-law Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and from there to the world of the dadaists, surrealists, and futurists, particularly the circles of Marcel Duchamp and Le Corbusier. [+]He suggests that Duchamp and Raymond Rousell tampered with the Lequeu drawings to concoct a character and oeuvre even more puzzling. There are glimpses of Duchamp's convolutions of mind that will stir a reassessment of his work. "Duchamp emerges here, for the first time, as an intrepid and unwavering despiser of Le Corbusier. Twentieth-century reputations are as much at stake in this study as those of the eighteenth-century artist," notes Robin Middleton. Philippe Duboy is Professor of the History of Cities, Paris-Belleville School of Architecture.
Creator: D. M. Rogers
Review The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World: Formerly Medieval Iberian Peninsula / Brill Academic Publishers:
Publication date: 1920
Review English homes, period IV (Country life library) / Country life:
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 720
Price: $65.00
Review Essential Le Corbusier: L'Esprit Nouveau Articles (Le Corbusier) / Architectural Press:Essential Le Corbusier brings together the three main books in the Architectural Press Le Corbusier series: Towards a New Architecture; The City of Tomorrow and The Decorative Art of Today. The books are based on articles that originally appeared in Le Corbusier's magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. These classic texts provide architects and students of architecture with all the information they need about Le Corbusier and his works in one complete, highly illustrated volume.
Creator: Martin Zelnik
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1995-07-01
Review Time-saver Standards for Housing and Residential Development / McGraw-Hill Inc.,US:As a building type, housing represents by far the largest segment of the construction industry. And in this revision of a very important design reference will be found the very latest information-in graphic and text mode-on emerging trends in housing design and technology: new forms of multi-unit housing, new demands from housing owners (e. g. , the "home office"), and new zoning and controls on site size and location. This edition is thoroughly updated and refreshed, with some 40% brand new or nearly new pages. Moreover, the remaining graphics will be redrawn where necessary so as to bring up the overall "look-and-feel" of one of the most important members of the TIME-SAVERS family.
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