Rice's Language of Buildings, Hardcover

The sustainability of the built environment can only be achieved through the maintenance planning of built facilities during their lifecycle while ...

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DescriptionThe projects featured in Close to Home are within a 15-mile radius of where Louisville architect Michael Koch was born, raised, and has ...

Reducere. DescriptionAnne Rice Unauthorized Tours takes you to the places Anne Rice mentioned in the Mayfair Witches and Vampire chronicles. The book has ove...

Reducere. In the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and indiv...

Reducere. Over 100 illustrations describe the building styles of each historical era and highlight some 60 buildings of particular importance.

Reducere. Most people have fantasized about stepping into the future, if only for a moment. Will there be flying cars? Will buildings be sleek, "smart, " and...

Reducere. When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast...

DescriptionThe words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar--they direct the ways we think of a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Kevin D. MurphyEditor: Lisa ReillyOf all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not ...

A History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces wher...

Cross sections of famous buildings including the pyramids and the Sydney Opera House from }Incredible Explosions{ illustrator Stephen Biesty are co...

A detailed historical study of the buildings of Mayfair and St James's.Photographs accompanied by black-and-white pictures and period artIllustrati...

Reducere. Aspiring architects will be in their elementExplore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in i...

Since October 2008, a panel of experts from an international energy agency has concerned itself with various topics as part of a project entitled "...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

Reducere. MVRDV is a Rotterdam-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993 (its name is an acronym for founding members Winy Maas, Jacob van...

The world's most iconic buildings are made accessible and exciting for young readers in this colorful introduction to architecture that changed the...

Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) kann sicher als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts gelten. Als Vertreter der organischen ...

Nature and architecture have never been more intertwined. As more of the earth's surface is swallowed up by the built environment, architects are i...

Acclaimed architect David Adjaye is known for his artistic sensitivity and deft use of space and inexpensive, unexpected materials. With the hindsi...

A comprehensive, practical and highly illustrated guide to good practice in building construction.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Srinath (Northumbria University, UK) PereraIllustration(s): 114 Line drawings, black and white; 136 Table...

Bauen im Bestand erfordert mehr als praktische L sungen und Sicherheit in Stilfragen. Wenn bei der Umnutzung von Bauten die neuen Programme und Fun...

Fifty of the world’s modern architectural masterpieces, constructed between 1950 and the present, are analysed through specially commissioned drawi...

Reducere. In contrast to a decade ago, when ecological architecture was considered a luxury, it has now become essentially impossible to build without consid...

Contributor(s): Author: Etta KanerIllustrator: Carl WiensFrom cactuses to birds' wings, termite towers to honeycombs, this book celebrates more tha...

The legendary German architect and Bauhaus founder provides an inside look at the school's Dessau location in a facsimile editionGerman architect W...

Reducere. An adobe dwelling is a delight because all of its parts come together. The approach-the portal or the patio-has an appeal because the materials fee...

Reducere. While Savannah's famous urban plan is rightly renowned in many studies of urban history, what brings streams of tourists and architects to the city...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the buildings of Colchester have changed and developed over the las...

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Description- Showcases a wide range of case studies for multiple restoration methods and renewal projects- Includes technical drawings for specific...

Der vielgeschossige urbane Holzbau hat sich seit einigen Jahren als zukunftstr chtige Bauweise etabliert: Von London bis Stockholm, von Vancouver b...

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Did you see how clean those lines are? Architecture is beautiful but to meet a child that appreciates such a beauty is rare. It takes a higher unde...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Origin of Languageremains as completely original and unprecedented (and intellectually demanding and satisfying) todayas when it was...

This unique volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. The author, John Hill, is the founder of the hugely influentia...

Reducere. Relied on by generations of writers, the MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on ...

Publisher: Redcliffe Press LtdAuthor(s): Mike JennerIllustration(s): 150; 150Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 280 x 241 x 16Co...