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Healing the Hospital Environment
Design, Management and Maintenance of Healthcare Premises
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Healing the Hospital Environment identifies why many healthcare premises do not look or feel welcoming and why even well-intentioned efforts to make improvements are unsuccessful.
The authors show that significant improvements can be made within limited resources if hospitals recognise what can be...
Company Houses, Company Towns
Heritage and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Former company houses and towns have meaning. They can inspire attachment and a sense of place. They can be tight-knit but also quintessentially global; their resources and products have served far-off markets while housing a mosaic of newcomers from around the world; they speak to the diversity of...
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike.
Here,...
Samurai Castles
History / Architecture / Visitors' Guides
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs and little-known details about the most important and well-preserved Samurai castles in Japan, including their history, design and military features.
Japan's ancient castles provide profound insights into the country's compelling...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple Store in New York City, to the street markets of the Pan American Highway; from commercial Dubai to the public schools of Australia, this book takes a critical...
La casa e il tetto in legno
Prefabbricazione - Ristrutturazione - Isolamento
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Il settore residenziale sta manifestando un interesse tale da poter rappresentare in un futuro molto prossimo la diffusione di questo materiale nell’edilizia italiana. Fino ad oggi la principale problematica che ha avvicinato i tecnici al legno è stata la ristrutturazione dei tetti. Espressioni...
US Life-Saving Service
Florida's East Coast
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Ten houses of refuge, unique to Florida's east coast, were constructed by the US Life-Saving Service between 1876 and 1886. When ships traveling along the almost uninhabited coast were grounded or wrecked on reefs, survivors often made it to land but had no way to reach civilization. House of refuge...
by Elinor Wire, Dolores Reyes-Pergioudakis
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
With thousands of islands adrift in cerulean waters and a long, labyrinthine coastline, Greeks have always traveled liquid highways. They built the world's first documented lighthouse at the Mediterranean port of Alexandria more than two-thousand years ago, and since that time countless sentinels...
by Margaret M. Kapustiak, Paula K. Everett
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Established in 1879 on 111th Street in the Beverly area of Chicago, Mount Greenwood Cemetery is an open-air museum that reflects three centuries of history. The Victorian cemetery�with its large, decorative monuments set on a rolling landscape amid winding roads�is an oasis treasured by its neighbors...
Castles
Their Construction and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The art of fortification had reached a high state of development even at the dawn of history. Powerful military works, dating from the remotest periods, have been found in Asia Minor, in Greece, and in the basins of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile rivers. The medieval castle, with its strategic,...
Multimodality in the Built Environment
Spatial Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of multimodal analysis, this book applies, adapts, and extends...
Portland’s Historic Eastern Cemetery
A Field of Ancient Graves
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Eastern Cemetery holds more than 350 years of Portland's rich history. Within the sacred burial ground rest settlers who struggled with the natives over resources, citizens who had to choose their allegiance to the king or independence and abolitionists fighting for the end of slavery. From bank robbers...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable. The book provides insight into the wide range of uses of these structures, the varied forms they take and the concerns...
Spatial Violence
Studies in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other...