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| A guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. It helps to 'come to grips with how things feel to us |
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| When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller |
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| A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. |
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| Offers an introduction to the field of architecture, outlining the steps that are normally taken in becoming a qualified architect, from initial educa |
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| The aim of the book is to provide teachers, students, practising architects and curious readers with a set of ideas that will enrich their conversatio |
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| Presents a survey of the most advanced contemporary architectural projects in the world that utilize new applications of mathematics for the digital a |
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| Drawing on a tradition of semiotics and literary theory, the mapping controversies method offers a way of enquiry, which consists of following, docume |
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| From airports to Ziggurats, this title explores the world's greatest buildings with illustrations that take you to the heart of the world's landmark b |
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| Offers an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. This book explores the process of architecture starting from the initial ideas and |
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| Introduces methods to consider and explain the process of architecture from initial ideas and concepts, how these ideas are informed by understanding |
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| To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing archi |
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| The author conducts an inspiring journey through 5,000 years of magnificent buildings, from ancient Sumeria to the spectacular glass-and-steel towers |
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| A survey of modern architecture and its origins. This book also explores the effects of globalization on architecture, the rise annd rise of the celeb |
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| Explains the essentials of architecture. This book covers highlights of architectural history, from Great Pyramids to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum |
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| 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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| A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture Now including interactive CD-ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated |
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| Features over 350 photographs which take you on an epic journey celebrating the finest examples of architecture from over 2,000 years of civilization. |
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| Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living |
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| Without doubt, the standard work in the field. As reflected by its new title, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has no |
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| The first book on the topic of architectural models as a distinct medium for designing and presenting architectural ideas and concepts. |
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| Presents more than 60 noteworthy case studies in a portable format, showcasing a range of structures worldwide. Incorporating every type of architectu |
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| An architecture encyclopedia, profiling various architects to help readers get an overview of their bodies of work. It contains architects' entries fe |
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| Planned with the same passion as a landscape garden, filled with monuments that represented the start of the art of craftsmanship in stone, and equipp |
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| Written for teams of engineers, transportation planners, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book provides a broad overview of the growing |
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| Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. This |
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| This book helps to identify ecclesiastical architecture. It is a dictionary explaining in simple language over 600 terms likely to be encountered on a |
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| This architectural guide to the Austrian city of Linz includes photographs of all the buildings described and is published in a format that easily can |
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| Discusses social structure and the way of life behind Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and |
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| Features an overview of architecture, from modern to radically avant-garde. This book includes a variety of projects from around the world, as well as |
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| In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to th |
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| Suitable for plant identification, and the care and use of landscape plants, this title delivers plant data, photos, zone information, Latin names, de |
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| Plymouth is the foremost English example of post-war reconstruction, designed by the influential urban planner of the day, Sir Patrick Abercrombie. Th |
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| Kim Wilkie looks back at his landscape architecture projects, and forward to projects which are ongoing, or now in development. |
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| An informative resource guide and inspiration for designers and their clients focused on the sound practices of contemporary ecological architecture a |
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| The first single volume work in 30 years on the architecture of Canterbury Cathedral. |
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| The Swiss Re building, known as the Gherkin the huge London Eye ferris wheeel, the millennium Bridge, the o2 Arena and the futuristic buildings at Can |
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| Presents architectural drafting and design concepts in the order usually practiced by professional architects. This title covers Computer-Aided Design |
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| Presents a comprehensive overview of London's buildings, which encompasses the history of the city's architecture, from the time of the Romans to the |
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| Kongjian Yu: China's foremost landscape designer Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture firm in Ch |
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| Designing with shadow showcases the work of prolific Japanese design house Lighting Planners Associates Inc (LPA). |
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| Written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, this collection of essays begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then |
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| From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and p |
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| A look at architecture that helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. This book uses the approach that gives |
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| In this sequel to his acclaimed Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Charles Jencks explains the complex cosmic and historical metaphors underlying his work |
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| From the pyramids to the Guggenheim Museum, discover how these groundbreaking structures changed the course of architecture through the ages. |
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| A planning tool for landscape architects. It compiles and summarizes dimensions, measurements and threshold values that are crucial to the decision-ma |
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| This full-color book offers coverage of 3D visualization tools for land planning and landscape architecture. The methods and theories presented focus |
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| Patrick Blanc's "the godfather of the 'vegetal wall'" (AJ Specification) green walls have brought a breath of fresh air to urban environments. |
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| A guide to the elevated park that has transformed an entire neighbourhood of New York City. It covers what a visitor sees when strolling through the p |
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| "Unbuilt Calgary" is a survey of projects proposed but not built that were situated at critical times in Calgary's development; projects that indicate |
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| An approach that integrates technology, materials, and production methods to improve quality while saving time and money. |
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| Using the examples of mosques such as the Friday Mosques in Isfahan and Yazd as well as the Imam mosque in Isfahan, Khaghani presents a new way of thi |
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| This guidebook organises 100 architectural highlights into walkable tours in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. |
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| Reality Bytes gathers together more than 20 essays by architect and theorist Bart Lootsma. Topics include modernism, postmodernism, urban construction |
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| The discussion of the experiential aspect of buildings - how occupiers and visitors experience buildings through their senses has become a hot topic i |
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| This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the ideas are pres |
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| Covering a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, this is a guide to the arts of Islam. |
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| Research and aerial photographs of crop circles, taken over 20 years. |
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| Presents debates on contemporary architecture. |
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| British architectural history has bequeathed to the modern age a rich tapestry of styles, one that can all too easily be taken for granted. This title |
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| Investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures. |
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| Presents a selection of the building projects of the twenty-first century in London. Featuring photographs, drawings and renderings accompanying criti |
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| A history of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century through the first decades of the 17th century. This study records the battle that |
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| Poldma and the contributors explore diverse types of spaces, what constitutes 'designed space' and what this means for technology, business, desig |
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| Le Corbusier wrote simultaneously as an architect, city planner, historian, critic, discoverer and prophet. This is a new translation of his text Vers |
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| Suitable for those involved in the planning system, this title helps learn real lessons from the antics of Grotton's inhabitants. |
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| Demystifies the extreme complexity and confusion which currently surrounds the visualisation of wind energy developments. Brings together all the disc |
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| Precedents in Architecture provides students with a foundation for understanding architecture and creating their own designs through the examination o |
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| Architecture has always been about creating buildings and spaces that have both aesthetic and functional appeal. This title presents a showcase of the |
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| Seven radically commonsense ideas on aging and architecture |
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| In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framewo |
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| Describes how the retailisation of public domains affects our everyday life and our use of the built environment. Taking an architectural and territor |
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| A study of European architecture. Integrating over 200 colour photographs, it explains the author's perceptive understanding of the heritage of past c |
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| From extravagant royal palaces to the towering headquarters of today's global corporations, discover how building has evolved with this detailed Eyewi |
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| Showing you what others only tell you. From airports to Ziggurats, explore the world's greatest buildings with fascinating illustrations that take you |
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| In De architectura ( c.40 BC), Vitruvius discussed in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruviu |
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| In De architectura ( c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruviu |
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| From climate change to sustainable communities, landscape architecture is at the forefront of most crucial issues. This book explains the process of d |
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| Whereas the first volume of this set provides the intellectual groundwork for Schumacher's ideas, the second volume addresses the specific, contempora |
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| One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is clearly landscape architecture. No matter what the architectural style of the moment, the green are |
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| Introduces the importance of learning to see by hand, to visualize large-scale design schemes and explain them through drawing, before using the digit |
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| The first comprehensive survey of the subject in more than 20 years, this lavish volume documents nearly 100 Mughal sites and monuments in India, Paki |
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| Whereas the first volume of this set provides the intellectual groundwork for Schumacher's ideas, the second volume addresses the specific, contempora |
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| From ancient Sumeria to the spectacular glass-and-steel towers of today's cityscapes, discover the history of world architecture in this refreshingly |
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| View some of architecture's finest buildings in the Architecture 2012 Desk Diary. Architectural beauty is often debated - from classical buildings to |
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| Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our |
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| Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our |
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| Interior design harnesses creativity and inspiration to capture the essence of space, and the best interior designers are able to incorporate concepts |
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| Over the last few decades, Iranian architects have made a significant contribution to architectural design. This has, however, remained largely unreco |
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| Architecture is more than what makes up our built environment; it is a way of thinking about the world-and beyond. Illustrated with images from prehis |
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| The Architect in Practice was first published in 1952. Originally written by a quantity surveyor and an architect it has remained, through its nine ed |
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| A pattern-book of Scottish architecture, both vernacular and classical, a 'lost city' lies to the north of the modern city of Aberdeen. It offers one |
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| Reflects upon a writer's deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Lyrical, wise, meticulously observant, this work records the experience of liv |
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| This instalment in the Architecture Words series is based on five MA presentations at the Architectural Association School on the subject of utopia by |
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| The twentieth century gave the city its outstanding university campus and recent regeneration has led to a revival of the city's public spaces and fam |
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| A captivating record of key historic ruins throughout England, from Northumberland to Sussex, and from Cornwall to Kent. English Ruins features pictur |
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| Nikolaus Pevsner was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century, admired for dedicating his career to areas of |
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| A reference for those caring for historic buildings large and small such as architects, surveyors and building managers, as well as conservators. Feat |
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| Takes readers on a tour of some of the most stylish and exciting boutique hotels across the Americas, exploring every aspect - from the architecture t |
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| A celebration of the architecture and of the Square Mile of London City. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an historical overview of |
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