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Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997260205Author Caroline O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Cornell Aap PublicationsPublisher Cornell Aap PublicationsWeight(grams) 181g

Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925 is an illustrated catalogue with companion essays for an exhibition of the same name at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Drawing the Future...

100 Best Paintings in New York is an amalgam of commentary and tourist guide leading to a greater understanding and appreciation of thr paintings chosen. The descriptions draw attention to fascinating details in each work and look at why, where or for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150920Author Hyungmin PaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 624g

From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996405102Author Fernando Luiz LaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Nhamerica Press LLCPublisher Nhamerica Press LLCWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810108356Author Diani.Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 319g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150845Author Nicole DoanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 635g

In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spatial vocabulary of psychoanalysis and ideas around the physical 'setting' of the psychoanalytic encounter,...

The first and most prolific professional architect to reside permanently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, D. Fred Charlton used the local Lake Superior sandstone to craft the distinctive style found in buildings throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948765053Author Anthony AcciavattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150609Author Jon LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998375021Author Elisa DaineseFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Architecture Exchange PressPublisher Architecture Exchange PressWeight(grams)...

The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is...

This volume brings together nineteen essays from an array of academic disciplines - American studies, folk lore, history, architectural history, and architecture - which are currently contributing to the study of vernacular structures and places...

We all retain memories of places. They help to identify who we are as individuals. At the same time, they tie us to networks of people, culture, and society. Even through time they reach into the past to people whose lives and experiences were as real as...

Toronto-based practice Montgomery Sisam Architects has a commitment to design quality that is rooted in the belief that buildings and their environs must play a dignified and lasting role for their occupants and the surrounding community. Implicit in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953284894Author Peter AhrendsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Right Angle Publishing LtdPublisher Right Angle Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964900Author John GrindrodFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738519685Author Janice A. KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907896811Author Tom WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462082533Author The Why FactoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868592504Author Barbara SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Jovis VerlagPublisher Jovis VerlagWeight(grams) 1098g

Since opening its shores to the outside world in the late nineteenth century, Japan has sustained an active relationship of cultural exchange with the West. Japan's grand resort hotels, built during the era between the Restoration of the Meiji Emperor in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881858481Author Eric SchuldenfreiFormat HardbackPage Count 680Imprint MCCM CreationsPublisher MCCM CreationsWeight(grams) 1205g

'A New Nature' is a book about architecture as the organization of material. It unfolds an idea of working with architecture and urbanity as conditions rather than form. By experiencing cities and cultural landscapes as states of change, the author...

Your eyes meet with the memory of everything you have heard and this has a huge in uence on your opinion of the place where you live. The summary of your story in a city will have slowly crystallized, not into emotional richness but into a single...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492049592Author Xavier CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Fundacio Mies van der RohePublisher Fundacio Mies van der Rohe

Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology's role in architectural design Although the question of technics pervades the contemporary discipline of architecture, there are few critical analyses on the topic. Design Technics fills this gap,...

When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at the age of 28, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete. Nevertheless, his ideas so strongly influenced Berlin architecture of the next century that...

What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in this book, makes a compelling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991593415Author Kim TanzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint UVa School of ArchitecturePublisher UVa School of Architecture

This revised edition of Buildings of Michigan (first published in 1993) presents the architecture of the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan, which are surrounded by four of the Great Lakes. From the Greek, Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, and...

At the forefront of national and international change, Pittsburgh has long been portrayed as a place for innovative architecture. From its origins as a fort built in 1753 at the urging of a twenty-one-year-old George Washington, through its industrial...

The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place, author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts,...

From 1971 to 1974, the School of American Research conducted a major multidisciplinary program of excavation and research at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, one of the largest fourteenth-century Rio Grande sites. At its peak, Arroyo Hondo contained about one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996405195Author Carlos TeixeiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Nhamerica Press LLCPublisher Nhamerica Press LLCWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873516440Author Larry MillettFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865348134Author Victoria RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 127g