The Architecture of Community

Leon Krier is one of the best-known--and most provocative--architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile Black architects produce extraordinary works, they account for only two percent of the profession in the United States. Many of th...

This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resis...

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Question...

Interpreting American architecture, this text explores the subject in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In gi...

In Architecture of Place, John Melvin, one of our most experienced architects and town planners, considers aspects of place-making and many of thos...

Like its Southampton counterpart, East Hampton has had a considerable evolution with the influx of entertainment celebrities and high-powered tech ...

Reducere. In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the...

The first major survey of contemporary apartment buildings that foster a sense of community while giving every resident an inspiring place to live....

No longer overshadowed by neighboring Palm Springs, Mod Mirage reveals in photos and stories the historic homes and communities of Rancho Mirage th...

DescriptionA classic examination of superb design through the centuries.Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explor...

Reducere. Timely and wide-ranging, ""Art and Architecture"" explores the proliferation of recent work by both artists and architects that seeks to blur tradi...

Reducere. A lively and accessible discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering speci...

Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce u...

Contributor(s): Editor: Daniel LerchContribution by: Sarah ByrnesContribution by: Chuck CollinsThe sustainability challenges of yesterday have beco...

ASSOCIATION/11 is a student-designed and edited publication that gathers work from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across Cornell University's...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

This book showcases buildings based on simple technology, good craftsmanship, and the careful choice of local and natural materials, as well as loc...

Reducere. "The study European Construction represents a juridical-political approach of an important thematic for Romania. The originality of the work stems ...

Young-Old examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations ...

Reducere. A2012 Nautilus Silver Award Winner Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, ...

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard's new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Plantin...

Reducere. San Luis Obispo was founded in 1772 as a mission in the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains on California's Central Coast. The city that grew fr...

Reclaimed, reused and virtually indestructible: The gestalten bestseller Container Atlas comes in a long awaited updated edition. In recent years c...

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and...

Reducere. The first inhabitants of Grosse Pointe can be traced back to the mid-18th century, when French farmers occupied ribbon farms on the shores of Lake ...

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-livi...

Reducere. There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from cr...

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive through increasing diversity in the profession and enhanced c...

Reducere. Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. A...

Reducere. Located in central Middlesex County, East Brunswick is a community of more than 40, 000 people. Once part of North Brunswick, it broke away and inc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sharon Egretta SuttonForeword by: James Stewart PolshekWhen Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race...

Chicago was once the second-largest Bohemian city outside the Czech lands. The Czechs first settled, serendipitously, behind the notorious O'Leary ...

Reducere. Situated along the eastern border of Los Angeles County and at the foot of the majestic San Gabriel Mountains is the community of Claremont. The ci...

This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced w...

In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does ...

Reducere. AA Files is the Architectural Association's journal of record and offers a platform for exchange connecting the research produced by the AA communi...

Reducere. Settling in an isolated desert valley, Salt Lake City's Mormon pioneers laid out a city grid and constructed permanent structures to create their v...

Reducere. St. Augustine conjures up images of Spanish architecture, a massive fort, splashes of color against a backdrop of river and ocean, and always, alwa...

The comprehensive first monograph on Indian architect Anupama KundooThe fourth volume in the book series The Architect's Studio presents the Indian...

Reducere. Chestnut Hill, in northwest Philadelphia, is one of America's most beautiful urban villages thanks to the fusion of a magnificent physical setting,...

Reducere. On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Puget Sound, the Port Townsend of the 1850s was perfectly situated for sailing vessels. By 18...

Reducere. Born in South LA: 100 Remarkable African Americans Who Were Born, Raised, Lived or Died in South LA documents the stories, struggles, accomplishmen...

Challenges all responsible actors - individuals, businesses, universities, and governments - to invest systematically and wisely to upskill with AI...

Reducere. How do you use your local library? Does it arrive at your door on the back of an elephant? Can it float down the river to you? Or does it occupy a ...

Reducere. DescriptionTravel these easy-to-follow tours of St. Augustine, North America s oldest continuously inhabited European settlement. Explore famed St....

The book is an in-depth survey of the Aerocene project. The Aerocene project consists of a series of airborne sculptures made by Tom s Saraceno tha...

HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, geography and more LOCAL WRITERS...

Reducere. Miami Beach has been "America's Playground" for a century. Still one of the world's most popular resorts, its 1930s Art Deco architecture placed th...

Reducere. Founded during the 1886 land boom in Southern California midway between the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena, the original Highland Park Tract wa...

Reducere. In 1924, civic leader and developer John P. King promoted Fort Worth's Oakhurst neighborhood as "country life for the city man." He appealed to tho...

Reducere. Bellport Village, with its beautiful historic homes and sweeping views of the Great South Bay, has remained a thriving community through the years,...

The Albuquerque Museum's fiftieth anniversary is commemorated in a series of books highlighting the museum's various collections in art, photograph...

"A definite 'must have' for any designer to have in their library, whether they are a design student or someone that has been in the business for q...

With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for ...

Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...

Reducere. Stony Brook is remarkable for the abundance of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings still in use. Much of the old hamlet remains in the str...

Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, gre...

DescriptionThe modern workplace has evolved from a dehumanized cubicle landscape to space designed for intelligent human life. While utility and am...

Reducere. Ann Arbor began the 20th century as a modest manufacturing and farm trading center with a small co-existing university community. By the end of the...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

Reducere. Bay View is a jewel box of a Northern Michigan Chautauqua community along the shores of Little Traverse Bay, southwest of the Mackinac Bridge. Foun...

The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' along with earlier and lesser-known scholarsh...

In his third and final book, Benjamin "Ben" Hirsch begins his narrative in the mid -1950s upon discharge from U.S. Army service and becoming a Geor...

DescriptionLose yourself in the pages of this showcase of some of the most beautiful, innovative, and successful bookshops around the world. Booksh...

DescriptionLibrary design in the 21st century has one common theme: collaboration is at the heart of innovation. Designing modern libraries is a co...

Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local.Resilience now matters most, and most resil...

Reducere. DescriptionAn investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary...

Huntington, West Virginia, is a city rich in cultural history. Rising from the ashes of the Civil War, this jewel city of the upper South became an...

Reducere. Delray Beach lies on Florida's Atlantic coast, nestled between a sea grape-filled beach to the east and rich farmland to the west. Throughout its p...