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Thinking about Landscape Architecture

Principles of a Design Profession for the 21st Century

by Bruce Sharky
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016

What is landscape architecture? Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky provides a complete overview of the discipline to provide those that are new to the subject with the foundations for future study and practice. The many varieties of landscape practice are discussed with...
Cover of Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England
by Matthew Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people...
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by Pierre Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including...
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The Architecture of Industry

Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and Planning

by Mathew Aitchison
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of...
Cover of Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture
by Catherine Dee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and experience of landscapes. It explores aesthetic, spatial and experiential concepts by providing a structure through which landscapes...
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Ecology and Design

Frameworks For Learning

by Robert Melnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for...
Cover of History of Architecture
by A. D. F. Hamlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018

A history of architecture is a record of man's efforts to build beautifully. The erection of structures devoid of beauty is mere building, a trade and not an art. Edifices in which strength and stability alone are sought, and in designing which only utilitarian considerations have been followed, are...
Cover of Introduction to Indian Architecture
by Bindia Thapar
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

Take a journey through Indian architecture from the dawn of civilization to the present with this colorful, attractive survey. The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands...
Cover of The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world. Interior architecture and interior design are...
Cover of Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production...
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Total Latin American Architecture

Libretto of Modern Reflections & Contemporary Works

by Ana de Brea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory. The book intends to communicate a targeted objective,...
Cover of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938–1968
by Ana Miljacki
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia’s entrance into World War...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing,...
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The Age of Glass

A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

by Mr Stephen Eskilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era. The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension...
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