The Architecture of Community

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

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

Reducere. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement i...

Reducere. The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America's first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 ...

"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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Breathtaking new interiors from this iconic designer, called ``the reigning queen of restrained elegance`` In her much-anticipated second book, Vic...

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

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. Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eig...

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

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...

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

Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centennial anniversary of this fascinating and popular school of art, which championed the idea of artists working tog...

DescriptionThe Touch is a new collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects that welcome readers int...

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

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. Nestled on the banks of the Cane River, Natchitoches (pronounced NAK-i-tush) is perhaps the most beautiful inland town in Louisiana. Founded in 171...

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. In this book are described the most powerful tools available to craft a superior experience for your customers and end users.These powerful and fle...

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

DescriptionRobert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life's work -- ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineering Situated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnys...

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...

DescriptionIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with ...

Reducere. In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book...

Description"This inspiring 288-page volume from Metropolis Books captures the convivial atmosphere the authors found at Detroit's Lafayette Park, a...

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

Although it did not officially become a county until 1851, Howard County has a long and varied history that spans more than 400 years. Named for Re...

Reducere. Printed in full color.Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with sof...

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. DescriptionMiller Beach, known for its eclectic charm, became a popular tourist destination in the early 1900s thanks to its windswept sand dunes a...

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...

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...

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...

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

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. 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. 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...

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...

Reducere. Carmel is a microcosm of California's architectural heritage, sited at one of the most scenic meetings of land and sea in the world. Mission San Ca...

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...

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

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...