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This practical handbook published in conjunction with the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) sets out the design and specification principles of steps, stairs, ramps, escalators and moving walks for inclusive environments. These critically...

Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world, but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739404109Author Anna KostrevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plural StudioPublisher Plural Studio

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018147Author Robin WilsonPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40g

Lilian J. Rice was given the opportunity of a lifetime in 1922, when her employeraarchitect, Richard Requaapassed over to her his commission to design and develop Rancho Santa Fe, the master planned, high class community in Southern California. Rice went...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351073Author Benjamin N. VisFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351066Author Benjamin N. VisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 790g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783206384Author Christiane GruberFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

The Architecture of Colonial America sets forth a brief history and an analysis of the architecture of Colonial America, in such a way that they may be of interest and value both to the general reader and to the architect. Architecture is crystallised...

Evergreen-the long-time home of the Garrett family in north Baltimore-offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture,...

The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader expands our understanding of urbanism, interiority, and publicness from a global perspective across time and cultures. From ancient origins to speculative futures, this book explores the rich complexities of interior...

The bright future and exciting possibilities of BIM Many architects and engineers regard BIM as a disruptive force, changing the way building professionals design, build, and ultimately manage a built structure. With its emphasis on continuing advances...

Over 250 color photographs of spice shakers, tea sets, toys, match safes, books, ash trays, advertising cards, wall plaques, vases, etc. depict the diversity of items made with images of black people as the main design. Patent drawings of...

Like the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol was designed by its political and aesthetic arbiters to memorialize the virtues, events, and persons most representative of the nation’s ideals—an attempt to raise a particular version of the nation’s...

American servicemen and -women are currently stationed in more than 140 countries from Central America to Western Europe to the Middle East, often living and working on military bases that not only dominate foreign territories but also re-create familiar...

Drawing upon a lifetime's knowledge, Patterns of Stylistic Change in Islamic Architecture presents Michael Meinecke's unique view of the evolution and development of Islamic architecture. Departing from conventional method which groups buildings and...

A study of the American cultural wars taking place in controversial museum exhibitions Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has now...

Cities play an important role in contemporary American culture as sites of commerce, trade, entertainment, and the arts. We can learn a lot about what Americans believe and how they act upon those beliefs by looking at the ways our cultural dramas are...

Cities play an important role in contemporary American culture as sites of commerce, trade, entertainment, and the arts. We can learn a lot about what Americans believe and how they act upon those beliefs by looking at the ways our cultural dramas are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750684705Author Dave ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Architectural PressPublisher Elsevier Science & TechnologyWeight(grams) 500g

Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes'...

The most comprehensive guide to material selection & installation It takes a wise choice of building materials and details to create durable, attractive, and affordable custom homes and remodeling projects. Best Practices Guide to Residential...

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366246847Author Lincoln Financial FoundationFormat HardbackPage Count 151Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535267Author Hilary SampleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780262512879Author Charlie HaileyFormat PaperbackPage...

The story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche. In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that...

Reynolds brings together the leading scholars to discuss the successes and failures of constitutional design. Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz debate their own contributions to the field. Emerging scholars then present important new evidence from...

Unprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak...

The Prophet Muhammad - acknowledged by his followers to have been the hand with which God wrote his definitive Word enshrined in the Koran - was born into the Quraishi tribe at Mecca c. 570 and died in Medina in 632. The great religion founded on that...

This is the first in a series of seven books that describe and illustrate the seminal architectural traditions of the world. It describes the origins of the Classical tradition in the mountain temples of Sumer, the pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of...

Since the Euromaidan, Kyiv has been the place where Europe's future is decided between East and West. Meanwhile, the hybrid war in eastern Ukraine and on the Crimean peninsula has escalated into an open Russian war of aggression. Significant buildings in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861303041Author Luca MolinariFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1580g

Marco Facchinetti and Marco Dellavalle have put forward incisive plans and projects built up around the two key concepts of design and feasibility, which prove truly capable of modifying reality, at least on the local scale. The reflections developed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771845198Author Signe BoeskovFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Aarhus UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams)...

Test in English & German. The town hall in Bremen with its associated Roland statue in the market square in front of the building make up a UNESCO World Heritage site and thus count as outstanding examples of architectural and cultural history. The...

Text in English and German. The extensive built work of the 1925 born Reinhard Gieselmann, focussing on housing and church architecture, is characterised by powerfully three-dimensional buildings, dramatic spatial effects, sophisticated handling of light...

Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. Educated at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Birkerts...

Assembling buildings designed by modern star architects from Tadao And - o to Peter Zumthor, this photography book is a total - work - of - art: its felicitous interplay of brilliant architectural photography, exquisite book design, and texts...

Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across muslin sheets. These monuments to popular culture, adorned with grandiose architectural flourishes, seemed an everlasting part of Baltimore's landscape. By...