English | Jan. 23, 2011 | ISBN: 0824834569 | 408 Pages | PDF | 17 MB In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the ��cole des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects...
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English | Nov. 10, 1992 | ISBN: 1854901737 | 214 Pages | PDF | 102 MB Recent social, political and environmental upheavals have had a two-fold effect on the built environment in Third World countries. They have destroyed the traditional cultural structure in rural areas, which has led...
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2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0814334245 | PDF | 132 MB In Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship, authors Marla O. Collum, Barbara E. Krueger, and Dorothy Kostuch profile 37 architecturally and historically significant houses of worship that represent 8 denominations and nearly 150 years of history. The...
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English | 2011 | ISBN: 1568989865 | 160 Pages | PDF | 20 MB Blaine Brownell’s best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative...
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2015 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 3319166093 | PDF | 10 MB This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use. It is based on the case city of Nanjing, a metropolis representing the second tier of cities in...
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English | Nov. 5, 1999 | ISBN: 0812235312 | 367 Pages | PDF | 68 MB So begins this memoir by one of America’s best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his...
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English | Nov. 3, 2008 | ISBN: 1568987676 | 208 Pages | PDF | 20 MB Civilizations throughout time have used it to create stable warm low-impact structures. The world’s first skyscrapers were built of mud brick. Paul Revere Chairman Mao and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth...
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2012 | ISBN: 0824833635 | English | 304 Pages | PDF | 10 MB This book investigates the historical tradition of Chinese architectural writing from antiquity to the Song period, with a focus on a building manual titled Yingzao Fashi (Building Standards 1103). It explores the rich cultural...
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English | June 28, 2009 | ISBN: 0754648273 | 352 Pages | PDF | 9 MB Travel, Space, Architecture defines a new theoretical territory in architectural and urban scholarship that frames the processes of spatial production through the notion of travel. By aligning architectural thinking with current critical...
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