Architecture: professional practice Books
RIBA Publishing From Idea to Site: A project guide to creating
Book SynopsisFrom Idea to Site explores how to improve the working practices of landscape architects and therefore the quality of the design and management of our external environment. Based around the life of a project, this book puts innovation and technology at the forefront: looking at how they are changing the profession, and how these innovations might be used in the professional arena. The book also shows how landscape architecture can add to the quality and sustainability of varying construction projects, and how to make the best use of a landscape architect’s skills. Including in-depth illustrated case studies from UK and international landscape schemes, the book looks at the often challenging process of getting projects to completion – ‘from idea to site’. Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 – What sort of landscape architect am I?Chapter 2 - Briefing and Project PlanningChapter 3 – Designing the SchemeChapter 4 – Project Managing the SiteChapter 5 - Maintaining the SiteChapter 6 – Feedback and EvaluationAppendix
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RIBA Publishing Defining Contemporary Professionalism: For
Book SynopsisThis book is a series of curated essays by high-profile architecture and design leaders and educators on the topic of professionalism. The book first sets out the current agenda - defining professionalism for the architecture sector - before moving on to focus on delivering the increased professional skills curriculum content within architecture schools as set by the RIBA.With an introduction and conclusion by the Editors, this book explores what contemporary professionalism within architecture is, and its future, encouraging the current and future profession to address professionalism across the industry. Table of ContentsForeword Introduction 1 Yemi Aladerun - Visible and Invisible Diversities 2 Jane Anderson – Live Project/Designbuild Education 3 Albena Atassanova – Next Generation Architects 4 Irena Bauman – Holding Onto Ethics 5 Denise Bennetts – Employee Ownership – A Model For Practice 6 Stephen Best – Reengaging Education and the Profession 7 Harbinder Singh Birdi – Shaping the City on a Mega Scale 8 Chris Boyce – Making Money Isn’t Dirty, It’s Professional 9 Darren Bray – On the Journey of Promoting Professionalism 10 Chris Bryant and Jane Duncan – Small Is Powerful 11 Caroline Buckingham – Leading, Managing and Mentoring the Profession 12 James Burgoyne – Professional Liability Claims 13 Mark Burry – Embedding the PhD Within Architects’ Practice 14 John Cole - The Impact of Choice of Procurement on Outcome 15 Russell Curtis – The Pursuit of Quality 16 Peggy Deamer - The New Architectural “Profession” 17 Adrian Dobson and David Gloster - Architecture: A Convergence Of Tragedies 18 Alex Ely – Being a Professional, Being Professional 19 Jonathan Falkingham – Over-professionalisation: a Point of View 20 Thomas Fisher - Architects as Public-Health Professionals 21 Stephen Gage and Sara Shafiei - Professional Diversity and Specialism 22 Peter Garstecki and Helen Taylor - The Apprentice Professional 23 Ross Gates - Professionalism - Consistency Across Role Diversity 24 Christopher Hampson – The Business of Architecture 25 Nick Hayhurst - Professional Identities 26 Zoe Hooton - Mentoring the Future Profession 27 Del Hossain - Professionalism: The Future for Architects entering the Profession 28 David Howarth - Professionalism Beyond Borders 29 Rory Hyde - Architecture is in Breach of the Social Contract 30 Jaimie Johnston - Professionalism and Automation 31 Alun Jones and Biba Dow - Metamorphosis: Thoughts on Emerging Into a World of Professionalism 32 Paul Jones and Peter Holgate – Embedding Professionalism in Architectural Education 33 Chithra Marsh - Developing a Professional Business 34 Julia McLoughlin - Prudent Practice 35 Walter Menteth – Why Engaging with Procurement is Fundamental 36 Gordon Murray - From Idea to Realisation 37 Robin Nicholson - Can We Afford Not To Collaborate? 38 Fredrik Nilsson - Theory and Profession 39 Femi Oresanya - Encouraging the Profession 40 Nigel Ostime - Clients Want Professionalism 41 Abigail Patel - Becoming Professional 42 Sofie Pelsmakers and Aidan Hoggard – The Value of Sustainable Design to the Profession 43 Flora Samuel - Three Pillars of Professionalism 44 Kevin Singh - Preparation for Practice 45 James Soane - A Manifesto for Academia with Practice 46 Alexandra Stara - Architecture’s Ethical Function 47 Fionn Stevenson - Building Performance Evaluation 48 Peter Trebilcock - Professionalism Across Disciplinary Boundaries 49 Simon Warren - Architecture Live Projects 50 Pierre Wassenaar - Linger Longer 51 Alex Wright - Status and Statutes Conclusion
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RIBA Publishing Guide to RIBA Domestic and Concise Building
Book SynopsisThis latest title from Sarah Lupton provides comprehensive guidance to RIBA's two updated building contracts: RIBA Domestic Building Contract 2018 and the RIBA Concise Building Contract 2018. Introducing the contracts' features and benefits and covering all aspects of their use, the Guide has been expanded with increased assistance on choice of form, tendering and contract formation. It enables readers to choose and form the right contract for the appropriate project and guides all parties through the various stages. A new section on practical completion, including certification, has been added, alongside additional detail on role and liabilities of contract administrators. Assuming no current knowledge of the law or contract administration, this acts as a standalone guide for new users of the RIBA contracts, as well as a valuable update for previous users. It is the ideal companion for anybody using the latest building contracts. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction- Features of the RIBA Building Contracts- Suitability for different procurement routes;- Differences between the concise and domestic contracts- Use of CBC by a ‘consumer’- Comparison with other contracts Chapter 2: Forming the contract- Tendering- Pre-contract negotiations- Preparing and executing the contract package- Interpreting the contract Chapter 3: Roles and management systems- Role of the contract administrator- Role of the contractor- Role of the client- Management systems Chapter 4: Project Progress- The site: possession- Starting the work- Completion in sections- The contractor’s programme- Progress- Finishing the work- DelayChapter 5: Control of the works- Control of day-to-day activities- Principal designer- Flow of information- Inspection and tests- Contractor administrator’s instructionsChapter 6: Interim payment and certification- The contract price- Certification and payment – CBC- Certification and payment – DBC- Non-payment and non-certification- Contractor’s remedy if no certificate issued- Contractor’s remedy if payment not made7: Practical completion, completion and post completion- Practical completion- The defects fixing period- Payments following completion- Final contract price and payment- Conclusiveness- Procedures at completion- Post completion, dealing with defectsChapter 8: Insurance- Liability- Indemnity- Insurance- Professional indemnity insuranceChapter 9: Termination- Termination by the client- Termination by the contractor- Termination by either party- Procedure for terminating- Consequences of terminationChapter 10: Dispute handling and resolution- Mediation- Adjudication- Arbitration
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RIBA Publishing Future Healthcare Design
Book SynopsisThis book describes how architects can design better healthcare buildings for a rapidly changing context and climate. Innovation in the design of healthcare estates is essential to the sustainability of our health services. Design thinking in this field is being influenced by a range of factors, such as economic constraints, an ageing demographic, complex health conditions (co-morbidities), and climate change. There is an opportunity for architects and designers to be innovators in the future of healthcare through the design of buildings and cities that offer wellbeing and healing. It highlights the latest innovations in key areas of practice and research, with a range of case studies to provide practical lessons and inspire better design. Table of ContentsForeword (by Lord Darzi) Introduction 1. Origins of the British Healthcare System 2. Financing Healthcare Estates 3. Getting into Healthcare Design 4. The Brief and the Process 5. The Modern Hospital 6. Future of Healthcare
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RIBA Publishing Complex City: London's Changing Character
Book SynopsisPart story, part atlas - this is a study of a city’s complexity. The most successful cities, the most interesting and sought-after ones, are those with an intrinsic and distinctive character that remain dynamic and relevant. They are complex and contradictory. And that is worth embracing. This is a visual, geographic and narrative journey that explains why London is the way it is today. Using stunning maps and artful imagery, it makes a compelling case for a finer grain understanding of density through a character-based approach to planning. Each character area is broken down, exploring the characteristics and character-based development potential. For those planning and designing projects, this is a reference book for the early stages of a design project and can help to inform site analyses which form the part of most architectural commissions and urban design studies. For lovers of maps and London, it is a must-read.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Layers of London1. What is Character and why is it Important?2. Natural Landscapes3. The Square Mile4. Ancient Routes5. Georgian Planning6. Victorian Enterprise7. 20th Century Modernity8. London's Centres9. Artificial LandscapesPart 2: A Way of Seeing10. What Does it Mean for London?11. From the Generic City to the Complex City
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RIBA Publishing Building in Arcadia: The case for well-designed
Book SynopsisBuilding in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development is a reasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying key barriers to rural development, and how planning applicants (whether householders, developers and landowners), and most particularly their agents who make the applications – architects, landscape architects or planners – can address, and overcome, them. Focusing on the positive aesthetic role buildings can play in the landscape, and proposing sensitive development, Building in Arcadia also explores the essential economic, social and environmental case for more building in the countryside to make the countryside more viable. In so doing, it will actively engage, challenge and provoke debate – as well as offering practical ways forward. Table of ContentsContents Foreword: Lord Matthew Taylor Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: PLANNING CONSTRAINTS ON COUNTRYSIDE DEVELOPMENTChapter 1: The English Arcadia Chapter 2: Policy Chapter 3: Decision-taking Chapter 4: Planning for a new development PART 2: MAKING THE CASE FOR DEVELOPMENT Chapter 5: Examining perceptions of new development – the survey of English Councillors Chapter 6: Case studies PART 3: A NEW APPROACH Chapter 7: A new approach to assessment Chapter 8: Rural Building Assessment Chapter 9: RBA – worked example Bibliography Appendix: Survey of Local Authority Councillors into the attitudes towards development in the English countryside
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RIBA Publishing Energy Modelling in Architecture: A practice
Book SynopsisIf you’ve ever wondered how leading architectural firms successfully embed energy modelling into their practices, this book is for you. Featuring expert contributions from leading architects and practices, this book illustrates architects’ approaches to learning, sharing and integrating energy modelling across a range of design projects, in both small and large firms in the UK and internationally. Discussing the practical and business implications of embedding energy modelling in practice, this practical guide is an essential manual for the energy-literate architect. Includes case study examples from award-winning architecture firms of how to implement energy modelling in different organizational structures Shows innovative ways of organising and managing design projects to achieve an integrated outcome Presents a first-of-its-kind approach to discussing energy modelling from an organizational rather than a technical perspective Features insights from a range of practice sizes, including AHMM, Architype, bere:architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Henning Larsen, HOK, Kieran Timberlake, Prewett Bizley and Tonkin Liu Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Organizational responses to energy analysis /modelling in architecture Energy analysis in architecture – whose role is it anyway? Energy analysis and literacy- components Focus on techniques, software and expertise-insights from research Chapter 2 Small firms: Energy modelling- The story, data and detail bere:architects - learning from POE: the data and the detail Prewett Bizley – testing and trialling PHPP Tonkin Liu – resource efficiencies and gains Chapter 3 Medium firms: The process, parts and possibilities Architype – developing a culture Henning Larsen – discovery and experimentation Kieran Timberlake – relationships across and between Chapter 4 Large firms: The teams, people and rules AHMM- snowballing from big to small Feilden Clegg Bradley – the individual and the team HOK - Leaders and leadership toolkits Recommendations and conclusion References
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RIBA Publishing Good Practice Guide: Making Successful Planning
Book SynopsisHow do you obtain permission? How can you satisfactorily tackle objections? How can you convince planning officers of the value of your work? Drawing on substantial experience from both applicant and local planning authority perspectives, this book provides tactics and practical steps to help architects secure early validation of applications and successful outcomes. It’s a practical guide to understanding the planning system and maximizing the potential for successful outcomes. Readers will develop a greater understanding of the principles that are vital in the preparation and negotiation of applications against the very complex detail of regulatory arrangements.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Design and the Planning System Chapter 2: Do I Need Planning Consent or Any Other Planning Related Consents? Chapter 3: Principles for Approaching the Planning System Chapter 4: Project Inception and Briefing Chapter 5: Applications and Consents Chapter 6: Design Statement as a Design Process Tool Chapter 7: Conditions Chapter 8: Viability, Developer Obligations and Agreements Chapter 9: Appeals, Enforcement and Using Specialist Support Chapter 10: Proactive Engagement with the Shaping and Operation of the Planning System Appendix: Design and Access Statement Example Glossary
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RIBA Publishing RETHINK Design Guide: Architecture for a
Book SynopsisThe world has changed. How will society emerge post-pandemic? Will we take the opportunity to reset the status quo? And, if so, what possibilities are there for architects to take the initiative in designing this new world? This innovative design guide draws together expert guidance on designing in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic for key architectural sectors: housing, workplace, civic and cultural, hospitality, education, infrastructure and civic placemaking. It provides design inspiration to architects on how they can respond to the challenges and opportunities of a post-pandemic environment and how architects ensure they are at the forefront of the best design in this new world. Looking at each sector in turn, it covers the challenges specific to each, and how delivering these designs might differ from the pre-pandemic world. As well as post-pandemic design, the vital issue of climate change will be threaded through each sector, with many cross-overs between designing for the climate emergency and designing for a world after a pandemic. Both seek to make the world a safer, happier and more resilient place. Written by set of contributing design experts, this book is for all architects, whether sole practitioners or working in a larger practice. As well as inspirational design guidance, it also provides client perspectives – crucial for understanding how clients are planning for the future too. Contributors include: Nicola Gillen Helen Taylor Sumita Singha Ian Taylor Julia Park Adam Scott Sarah Featherstone Pippa Nissen Table of ContentsIntroductionCivic & Cultural - Pippa NissenEducation Schools - Helen Taylor Universities - Ian Taylor Healthcare - Sumita SinghaHospitality & Retail - Adam ScottHousing - Julia ParkWorkplace - Nicola Gillen
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RIBA Publishing Design to Value: The architecture of holistic
Book SynopsisWhat opportunities does Design to Value afford the built environment? Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its potential is only now starting to be realised in architecture, engineering and construction. It challenges designers to lead the way in creating more innovative and stakeholder-centric analyses, workflows, construction techniques and products. Through architectural thinking, value in the built environment can be maximised. Seeking to create deep and lasting impacts on industry, society and the planet, Design to Value rejects architecture’s current professional services model. The design and delivery stages of traditional procurement routes are not sustainable, and Design to Value outlines a new path for informed design processes. Bryden Wood, leading international expert in Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and the Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), has spent the last fifteen years developing Design to Value as part of a new framework for the future of the design and construction industry. In this essential book, the practice challenges architects and the wider industry to think differently about how value is generated, enhanced and retained in the built realm, providing a method that will improve outcomes for architects, clients, industries and society. Architects must bend and break habitual processes to build better systems, better buildings and better futures. Features: Over 125 images, including photographs, sketches and diagrams Over 20 international case studies, including those from Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia and USA Projects from leading practices, such as Atelier Bow-Wow, BIG, David Miller Architects, Kieran Timberlake and Lacaton & Vassal, as well as Bryden Wood. Table of ContentsPreface1 Design to Value in the Built Realm Ministry of Justice, UK Soft-Drinks Factory, Africa Circle Reading, UK Toyota, Japan Velodrome, UK Woven City, Japan 2 A Design to Value Approach Paimio Sanatorium, Finland Lacaton & Vassal, France Circle Reading, UK London Olympic Stadium, UK Pier Segregation Product, UK GlaxoSmithKline Factory, Italy San Francisco International Airport Wayfinding, USA 3 Methodology of Design to Value Data Visualisation, UK Kitamoto Station West Square, Japan Psychology of Collaboration, Asia Takeley Primary School, UK Autonomous Vehicle Planning, Germany Riyadh City Planning, Saudi Arabia Venice Court Housing, UK 4 How Value is Expressed in the Built Environment Finding Places, Germany Pharmaceutical Tablet Factory, India Anglian Water Waste Water Treatment System, UK Centre Pompidou, France The Greater Boston Food Bank, USA York University Student Centre, Canada The Forge, UK US Embassy, UK Afterword Bibliography and Further Reading
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RIBA Publishing RIBA Standard Professional Services Contract 2020
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RIBA Publishing RIBA Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020
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RIBA Publishing RIBA Building Regulations Principal Designer
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DOM Publishers Drawing for Landscape Architects 2:: Perspective
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles and analyses the role of the perspective within the history and evolution of landscape architecture and design. The first part of the book examines perspectives produced at key stages of the profession’s history, beginning with their origins in Renaissance art, and moving chronologically into present day practice. It charts how both linear and atmospheric perspective helped visualize imagined landscapes, first in paintings, later real spaces, and expanding from private gardens into designs for public spaces. Used both as a visualization tool preceding construction and as a persuasive tool for publicity and prestige afterwards, it has always played a role in influencing the understanding of landscape. Shown through key images, perspective visualization has resonated between artistic influences, media, and technology, yet its role has evolved differently than it has in architecture. In distinct contrast, landscape perspectives must convey positive experiences of being outdoors while communicating key design ideas, forms, and materials. The second part of the book is an instructional chapter, which outlines and describes the perspective’s key characteristics and variables. Perspective types are explained in an easy to understand way. Step by step procedures for using grids, constructing spaces, and fine-tuning pictorial composition, encourage readers to construct perspectives themselves. The third part of the book is an inspirational chapter with many diverse examples from international landscape architecture offices and practitioners. This extensive gallery showcases the perspective’s remarkable versatility as a stage for projects of all sizes, as well as its capacity for storytelling and expression. The many eye-catching images illustrate the perspective’s power in the digital age. With its focus on history, theory and practical aspects of the perspective and its specific role in landscape architecture, the book is an invaluable reference for researchers, students, and designers.
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Afterhours Metaphor / Monograph: Metaphor Interior
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MIT Press Architect A Candid Guide to the Profession The MIT Press
Book SynopsisThe new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.Since 1985, Architect? has been an essential text for aspiring architects, offering the best basic guide to the profession available. This third edition has been substantially revised and rewritten, with new material covering the latest developments in architectural and construction technologies, digital methodologies, new areas of focus in teaching and practice, evolving aesthetic philosophies, sustainability and green architecture, and alternatives to traditional practice. Architect? tells the inside story of architectural education and practice; it is realistic, unvarnished, and insightful. Chapter 1 asks “Why Be an Architect?” and chapter 2 offers reasons “Why Not to Be an Architect.” After this provocative beginning, Architect? goes on to explain and critique architectural education, coverin
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iUniverse The Living Elements of Healthy Building Design
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Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Creation in Space A Course in the Fundamentals of Architecture Volume 1 Architectronics
Book SynopsisCreation in Space: Fundamentals of Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2, by Jonathan Friedman, provide all basic projects, guided instruction, commentaries, and selected readings for a full year course in the fundamentals of architecture. It is designed to cover not only the normal technical requirements - drawing skills and techniques such as planimetrics, axonometrics and perspective projection, freehand drawing, and abrication skills for model making - but also fundamental design issues such as figure-ground ambiguity, proportion, scale, light and shade, and circulation. The two volumes of Creation in Space together provide a basic introduction to understanding architecture. The works assume no previous knowledge of the subject, only that all of us were architects as young children playing with blocks.Table of Contents Preface, ix Foreword by Robert Slutzky, xii Introduction: Foundation, 1 Study 1 UNITYThinking: The Parthenon, 23 Projecting: Parti, geometry and proportion, 25 Doing: Sticks and stones; torn paper, 27 Reflecting: On the Plastic, 29 Study 2 DIALOGPreview: Ise Shrine, dialog of place and time, 35 2A Dialog "rough"Thinking: Leaf Retreat, 37 Projecting: Making plans, 38 Doing: Sticks and stones; square field, 41 Reflecting: Rose Windows: geometrical schemes, 43 2B Dialog "dressed"Thinking: Facade of Notre Dame, 49 Projecting: Axonometric, Diamond Thesis, 51 Doing: Rods and cubes; squares in and on squares, 53 Reflecting: Leaf Retreat and Wall House, a debate, 55 Study 3 VOLUMEThinking: Rock Cut Church of Lalibala, 61 Projecting: Figure-ground, solid-void, shade and shadows, 63 Doing: Solid-void ambiguity; figure-ground tiles, 65 Reflecting: The Representation of Space, 67 Study 4 TRANSFORMATIONThinking: Falling Water, 75 Projecting: The evolution of form, 77 Doing: Explosion: extension in space; hierarchy, 79 Reflecting: The Destruction of the Box, Fractals, 81 Study 5 EXPRESSIONThinking: Ronchamp, 87 Projecting: Perspective, 89 Doing: Euclidean forms; graphic character, 91 Reflecting: The Poetics of Music, 93 Study 6 TIMEPIECEThinking: Stonehenge, 103 Projecting: Sun angles and the motion of the earth, 107 Doing: A place that measures time; layering, 109 Reflecting: Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, 113 Study 7 FREE EXERCISEThinking: The studio as possibility, 123 Projecting: What comes next?, 125 Doing: Temple, labyrinth, tower, wall, 129 Reflecting: Nothing is transmissible but thought, 134 APPENDIXThe Kit of Parts, 142 Tools and Equipment, 144 Documentation, 146 Visual Glossary, 148 Bibliography, 181 Credits, 184 Index, 188
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University of Westminster The Intrinsic and Extrinsic City
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Bizfound, LLC SketchUp to LayOut The essential guide to creating construction documents with SketchUp Pro LayOut
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Bizfound, LLC SketchUp to LayOut
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Legare Street Press An An Architectural Monograph on a Country Church Sunday School Building With the Ministers Residence to be Built of White Pine Volume No. 8
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Legare Street Press A Handbook of Architectural Practice
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Legare Street Press Practical Projection Development of Surfaces Practical Pattern Problems Architectural Proportion Development of Moldings Skylights
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Draft2digital LibreCAD Basics Tutorial
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Author Solutions Inc Dynamic Urban Design A Handbook for Creating Sustainable Communities Worldwide
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Multi-Media Publications Inc The History of Project Management
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University of Tennessee Press Tennessee Log Buildings: A Folk Tradition
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than four decades of research, Tennessee Log Buildings examines one of the Volunteer State’s most precious—and fast-disappearing—traditions. From the pioneer era through the mid–twentieth century, folk builders in Tennessee used logs to construct cabins, barns, other outbuildings, schools, and churches. In warm, accessible prose that often makes this deeply researched work read like a guidebook, John Rehder explores the varied styles and architectural characteristics of these fascinating structures, including their floor plans, the types of timber used, and the different notches that were cut into the logs to secure the structures. Profusely illustrated with over one hundred images, Tennessee Log Buildings traces the evolution of log houses from one-room (or single-pen) dwellings to more elaborate homes of various types, such as saddlebags, Cumberland houses, dogtrots, and two-story I-houses. Rehder discusses the historic settlement patterns and building traditions that led to this variety of house types and identifies their particular occurrences throughout the state by drawing on surveys conducted in forty-two counties by teams working for the Tennessee Historical Commission (THC). Similarly, he explores disparate barn and outbuilding types, including the distinctive cantilever barns that are found predominantly in East Tennessee. Sprinkled throughout the book are engaging anecdotes that convey just what it is like to conduct field research in remote rural areas. Rehder also describes in detail a number of the state’s exceptional log places, among them Wynnewood, an enormous structure in Middle Tennessee which dates back to the early nineteenth century and which suffered severe tornado damage in 2008. As the author notes, many of the buildings originally identified in the THC investigations have now vanished completely while others are in serious disrepair. Thus, this book not only offers an instructive and delightful look at a key part of Tennessee’s heritage but also makes an eloquent plea for its preservation.
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