Architecture Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Architecture Lover s Guide to London
Book SynopsisLooks at the history of architecture in London in key periods such as Roman times, Norman, Stuart, Victorian and Georgian periods to Art Deco, Postmodernism and High Tech styles of today.
£13.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Confronting Suburbanization
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key conditions for the emergence of sprawl. Breaks new ground, offering a systematic approach to the analysis of the global phenomenon of suburbanization in a post-socialist context Tracks the boom of the post-socialist suburbs in seven CEE capital city regions Budapest, Ljubljana, Moscow, Prague, Sofia, Tallinn, and Warsaw Situates the experience of the CEE countries in the broader context of global urban change Case studies examine the phenomenon of suburbanization along four main vectors of analysis related to development patterns, driving forces, consequences and impacts, and management of suburbanization Highlights the critical importance of public policies and planninTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii List of Illustrations x Glossary xvi Series Editors’ Preface xx Preface xxi 1 The Challenge of Postsocialist Suburbanization 1Luděk Sýkora and Kiril Stanilov 2 Urban Sprawl on the Danube: The Impacts of Suburbanization in Budapest 33Zoltán Kovács and Iván Tosics 3 Confronting Suburbanization in Ljubljana: From “Urbanization of the Countryside” to Urban Sprawl 65Nataša Pichler-Milanović 4 Suburbanization of Moscow’s Urban Region 97Isolde Brade, Alla Makhrova, and Tatyana Nefedova 5 Prague: Urban Growth and Regional Sprawl 133Luděk k Sýkora and Ondrě j Mulícě k 6 Sprawling Sofia: Postsocialist Suburban Growth in the Bulgarian Capital 163Kiril Stanilov and Sonia Hirt 7 Suburbanization in the Tallinn Metropolitan Area 192Kadri Leetmaa, Anneli Kährik, Mari Nuga, and Tiit Tammaru 8 Lessons from Warsaw: The Lack of Coordinated Planning and Its Impacts on Urban Sprawl 225Andrzej Lisowski, Dorota Mantey, and Waldemar Wilk 9 Postsocialist Suburbanization Patterns and Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective 256Kiril Stanilov and Luděk Sýkora 10 Managing Suburbanization in Postsocialist Europe 296Kiril Stanilov and Luděk Sýkora Index 321
£18.99
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Authentic Interiors
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£28.50
Gibbs M. Smith Inc Outside In
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£30.40
HarperCollins (Canada) Ltd Open House A Life in ThirtyTwo Moves
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£9.99
Amberley Publishing Leeds in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Glasgow in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Penzance in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplores the rich and fascinating history of Penzance through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Bell Rock Lighthouse
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated history of the iconic Bell Rock lighthouse which has stood as an industrial âwonder of the worldâ since its completion in 1811.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Kings Lynn
Book SynopsisFully illustrated description of Kingâs Lynn well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Canterbury in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of the city of Canterbury in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Anthropology for Architects
Book SynopsisWhat can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions. Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help designers to think about the social life of buildings at an appropriate scale: that of the individual life-worlds whichTrade ReviewAt home, visiting shops and markets, travelling on foot or by public transport, taking part in festive events or eating a meal, we are all the architects of our daily lives. The spaces we create are the typical haunts of anthropologists. But it takes the talent of an architect to reveal their organisations, geometries and sensory variations. Here, bringing his own eye and pencil to the task, Ray Lucas spells out with clarity and conviction the scope of a truly architectural anthropology. * Tim Ingold, FBA, FRSE, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK *[Lucas] is exceptionally well placed to address this complex field, producing an informed, erudite, useful and refined text without falling into the traps of reductionism. He is an expert anthropologist, architect, ethnographer and urbanist, a trained observant with fine artistic sensibility and skills... This is an eloquent book to learn from, with hidden depths to explore, and to get inspired by. A pleasure to read. * Darko Radovic, Keio University, Japan *Lucas is a personable and patient guide to the different ‘attentions’ and ‘slow engagement’ that architects can learn from anthropology. An impressive encapsulation and range of key anthropological frameworks for understanding the socially constructed aspects of architecture percolate the text. Lucas takes us from homes to museums, marketplaces, sacred spaces, festivals and food events, immersing the reader through clear writing and his own graphic anthropology techniques. Drawing from his fieldwork in Japan and Korea, intertwined with explanations of theories of practice, the book demonstrates architecture and anthropology’s shared focus on specificity. It draws attention to the temporal aspects of sites, to their nuances and variations, their building and unbuilding of events, that may not usually be in an architectural designer or researcher’s orbit. This book significantly extends work on the everyday and architecture that has much potency for cultures of making the built environment today through research, education and design. * Suzanne Ewing, Professor of Architectural criticism, The University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsIllustration List Acknowledgements Preface: Rationale & Context 1. Introduction. 2. Inscriptive Practices and Anthropology 3. Home and What it Means to Dwell 4. Museums and Architectures of Collection 5. Marketplaces and Sites of Exchange 6. Routes, Walking, and Way-finding 7. Theatre & Festival: Performance and Liminal Space 8. Restaurants, Food Events, and Sensory Architectures 9. Conclusion: Towards an Anthropological Architecture Bibliography Index
£26.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Age of Glass
Book SynopsisGlass 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 of glass in modern and contemporary architecture. Showing how the use of glass is driven as much by changing cultural concerns as it is by developments in technology and style, it traces the richly interwoven material, symbolic, and ideological histories of glass to show how it has produced and dispersed meaning in architecture over the past two centuries. The book's chapters focus on key moments within the modern history of architecture, moments when glass came to the forefront of architectural thought, and which illustrate how glass has been used at different times to project different cultural ideas. A wide range of topics are explored from the tension between expressionism and functionalTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 - The Age of Glass Chapter 2 - Stained Glass Chapter 3 - Daylight Chapter 4 - Glass Visions Chapter 5 - Structural Glass Chapter 6 - Shade Chapter 7 - The Politics of Glass References Index
£24.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Materials and Meaning in Architecture
Book SynopsisInterweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation. Arguing that architecture is primarily experienced by the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad-ranging study shows how the most engaging built works are as tactile as they are sensuous, communicating directly with the bodily senses, especially touch. It explores the theme of material imagination' and the power of establishing place identity' in an architect's work, to consider the enduring expressive possibilities of material use in architecture.The book's chapters can be dipped into, each individual chapter providing close readings of built works by selected modern masters (Scarpa, Zumthor, Williams and Tsien), insights into key texts and theories (Ruskin, Loos, Bachelard), or shTrade ReviewWe have always felt that interpretation of architecture is best left to others and perhaps best done posthumously! Nathaniel Coleman’s writing is both deeply thoughtful but more importantly to us – deeply sensitive. As it describes our intentions for the Folk Art Museum it makes us better understand ourselves and the work itself. His writing has opened us up and has made us change our minds – and perhaps that is the most powerful act a writer can achieve. * Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architects, USA *An outstanding work that I would recommend to my students, colleagues, and practicing architects. Materials and Meaning in Architecture reminds readers of the extensive scope of the discipline and its intimate relation with everyday life. * Ufuk Ersoy, Clemson University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Material as Reality Preserve: History, Theory, Design PART I: Material Theories and Practices 2. John Ruskin (1819-1900): Stones of Architecture 3. Loos (1870-1933): Not the Material but What is Done With It 4. Time Silted Up: Scarpa at the Castelvecchio Museum (1958-64) and Brion Cemetery (1969-1977) 5. Pool and Cave: Zumthor’s Thermal Baths at Vals (1996) 6. Terminal Jewel: Williams & Tsien’s Folk Art Museum (2001) 7. Tectonic Shifts: Miralles’ Arts & Crafts Ecstasy at the Scottish Parliament (2004) PART II: Narrating Materials and Meaning 8. Words of Desire: Envisaging Architecture 9. Human Touch: The Enduring Warmth of Wood 10. Fire and Wind: The Appeal of Baking Bricks 11. Wild at Heart: Concrete as Liquid Stone 12. Imaging Rationality: The Resolute Modernity of Steel 13. Transparency: A Darker Shade of Glass PART III: Place and Discipline 14. Form is Content: Against Interpretation 15. Paradoxes of Place and Discipline: Tradition as the Ground of Radical Invention Bibliography Index
£29.99
Edinburgh University Press Patrick Geddess Intellectual Origins
Book SynopsisThis book situates Patrick Geddes within his own intellectual background (described by George Davie as 'the democratic intellect') and explores the relevance of that background to Geddes's substantial national and international achievements across a truly impressive range of disciplines.
£22.79
Duke University Press Journeys through the Russian Empire
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume features hundreds of full-color images of Russian architecture and landscapes taken by early-twentieth-century photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky juxtaposed against those of contemporary photographer and scholar William Craft Brumfield. Together their images document Russia's architectural, artistic, and cultural heritage.Trade Review“In the current climate in the West, with the return to an awareness of Russia being coupled with a renewed sense of threat, William Craft Brumfield's work is a major catalyst for making people aware of the richness of Russian culture. Journeys through the Russian Empire is an innovative book and an invaluable resource for coming generations of cultural historians. Allowing an opportunity to consider loss over time and to think in terms of common human values, it is indispensable to both Russophiles and all those interested in wider issues of restoration, plans for public space, the impact of industrialization and modernization, and the consequences of large-scale population migration.” -- Ann Kleimola, coeditor of * Culture and Identity in Muscovy: 1359–1584 *“As miraculous and prodigious as Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s photographic efforts were, William Craft Brumfield’s heroically resolute labor to record the Russian built environment of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is remarkable in its own way. For the past four decades, Brumfield has pursued buildings, cityscapes, and landscapes across the length of Russia, producing what has become the single most important record of the Russian built environment of our era. This period’s political tumult makes his work even more significant. Journeys through the Russian Empire is an important record of how Russia changed over a troubled century and will help readers appreciate what will come to be seen as lost worlds.” -- Blair A. Ruble, coeditor of * Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine *“Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky's eerie color photographs of the Tsarist empire, made in its waning years before war and revolution, record the serene glories of Russian architecture typically set in a softly glowing pre-industrial landscape. Beginning in the last decades of the Soviet Union, William Craft Brumfield has photographed these same widely dispersed monuments. The resulting juxtaposition of images, taken as much as a century apart, reminds the reader that buildings, like empires, have lives in time.” -- John Beldon Scott, author of * Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin *"This large-format book, 520 pages in length, contains some 400 stunning full-color images of ancient churches, towns, and landscapes taken by two great explorers, who have preserved so much of Russian culture through their photography." -- Anna Sorokina * Russia beyond the Headlines *"This is a book to be approached slowly and with care. As you move through the eight regions of travel, there is much to be absorbed and to be savored including Brumfield’s narrative, which ends at the Solovetsky Transfiguration Monastery, an impressive array of buildings on the Solovetsky Archipelago in the White Sea. . . . This is rich journey worth taking for anyone with an interest in Russia and Russian culture, and it matters not at all whether you have been to Russia or not." -- Richard Crepeau * New York Journal of Books *"At the asking price, this large-format book is a bargain, not just for 'content' but for the excellence of production values and design, enhanced by clearly drawn maps for each of the regions covered. Anyone interested in Russian or Central Asian history and culture would find pleasure in having this volume to savor." -- Dan Waugh * Newsletter of the Early Slavic Studies Association *"The journeys wend through little-known towns like Belozersk and Rzhev, and the complexity of their churches and monasteries, full of tiny and intricate details, unfold like flowers before the eyes. Magnificent iconography, graceful 'onion' domes, wildly colorful exteriors, and blended architectural styles keep the eye roving, with descriptions that provide historical context and artistic merit. . . . As intriguing as the photos are, Brumfield’s text draws readers in with tales of vast wealth and power and religious devotion. Moreover, Brumfield invites readers to consider not only the circumstances under which the buildings were built, but what happened after Prokudin-Gorsky captured them." -- Faith Dawson * Tulane Today *"The juxtaposition of these two artists’ works provides students and researchers with an excellent study in how artists can view the same subjects in different historical contexts. Prokudin-Gorsky’s and Brumfield’s photographs show the changes each site underwent, including differences in condition, color, and the effects (or lack) of preservation attempts over time. The photographs also invite discussion of issues such as reconstruction versus restoration and reality versus memory in the history of Russian architecture. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- M. Miller * Choice *"An extraordinary study of two photographers and, indeed, two Russias. . . . Journeys through the Russian Empire is a masterful achievement that readers will want to savor and return to again and again. In its pages are insightful lessons on everything from color photography to the nature of time. William Craft Brumfield has brought all of his considerable talent, expertise, and energy to produce an invaluable resource for students of Russian history, photography buffs, nature lovers, architecture aficionados, and anyone who longs to explore the expansive Russian empire through the eyes of two eminently talented and devoted photographers." -- Jennifer Eremeeva * The Moscow Times *"Brumfield’s own photographs are of exceptional quality, and . . . there is something enthralling for the reader about comparing pictures of a building or set of buildings taken many years apart. . . . What Brumfield does in Journeys is provide visual material and text that provoke reflection on important questions without seeking to provide simplistic answers. He shows the value of Prokudin-Gorskii’s photographs while acknowledging that they do not provide an unproblematic insight into a vanished world. He provides an effortless visual and textual history of important sites of Russian ecclesiastical architecture that is accessible to non-specialists." -- Michael Hughes * Slavic and East European Review *"In 1970, an American graduate student set off for what was then the Soviet Union, taking a camera he’d bought for the trip. William Craft Brumfield spent the next half-century travelling through the Soviet Union and its successor states, becoming a specialist in the region’s architectural history and a respected photographer in his own right. . . . [A]s Journeys through the Russian Empire quietly illustrates, the desire to preserve religious buildings as part of a national past was not solely a phenomenon of perestroika." -- Miriam Dobson * London Review of Books *"The publication of Journeys through the Russian Empire marks a jubilee of sorts, as its author, William Craft Brumfield, first arrived in Russia in 1970, exactly fifty years earlier. A half century is indeed more than half a lifetime, and over this time Russia has become a second homeland for the scholar. . . . Brumfield thus allows us to compare the appearances of the most significant works of Russian architecture over the course of a century, but this is not his only contribution. He also demonstrates the coexistence of two long-standing artistic traditions of representing works of Russian architecture: the Russian and the foreign." -- Evgeny Khodakovsky * Russian Review *"This is a work of pure enchantment! William Craft Brumfield’s Journeys lead us to some of the most forbidding regions on Earth to reveal centuries-old architectural masterpieces. His photographic odyssey, which parallels the travels of a pioneering Russian photographer in the early 1900s, opens a world of almost supernatural grace and beauty. The images—at times dreamlike, often frozen in the amber light of the far North—portray structures both towering and serene, gemstones of timber and rock that stand as timeless monuments to mysticism and spirituality. The images are spellbinding, but the text is no less so. Professor Brumfield’s concluding essay 'Above the Abyss' is a deeply informed meditation on photography, memory, and the arc of Russian history." -- John R. Beyrle, former United States Ambassador to Russia“Bill Brumfield’s Journeys Through the Russian Empire is a visual and cultural tour d' force. In treading the steps of his legendary imperial predecessor Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Brumfield’s lens documents and captures why for Russia in particular the architecture and creativity of its buildings is an essential key to understanding its culture and identity, and his images provide a contemporary vision of the enduring core that has given the world Russian culture, art, and architecture. His photos and text, set alongside the images from a century ago, document what neither two world wars nor three quarters of a century of permanent, hostile revolution could destroy or erase from the Russian landscape or vision. Brumfield’s pictures and text are essential for anyone truly seeking to understand Russia and its people. It likewise offers the reader a vision about how monuments that reflect what is best in a culture survive even the most determined efforts to undo the values and aspirations they represent.” -- James F. Collins, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former United States Ambassador to Russia, 1997-2001"Written at the juncture of visual studies and cultural history, Journeys through the Russian Empire makes a major contribution to the study of the architectural heritage of Russia and Central Asia. . . . Although the book is indeed addressed to a wide circle of readers, we have before us not a 'picture book,' but a serious, multilayered investigation. . . . Brumfield’s service can be summarized by the fact that he has simultaneously preserved the legacy of two authors. Exhibits and internet publications are fleeting, but a book is something that remains for the long term. Brumfield’s book can be used by researchers as a guide to photographic sources. At the same time, it is a superb guide for travelers planning a trip to Russia and Central Asia." (translated from Russian) -- Ramina Abilova * Ab Imperio * "This book is spectacularly beautiful. . . . The book provides a fine introduction to the architectural heritage of the Russian Empire. . . . Scholars of Russian architecture, photography, and culture more broadly will read this book with profit." -- Susan Smith-Peter * Slavic Review *"A veritable masterpiece. . . . A gorgeous book, I swooned when I saw it." -- Cecily Bateman * The Era Leader *"This is a volume of ‘places of memory’, lieux de mémoire, in Pierre Nora’s phrase – but the memories are more than physical, and deeply ambiguous." -- Andrew Louth * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *"The weight of ‘time and memory’ echoes from this [final] chapter into Brumfield’s conclusion, which ruminates on the uses of photography in public memory. His own study is an invaluable contribution to this very question, one that should be read by scholars working on all aspects of Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet history." -- Yelizaveta Raykhlina * Europe Asia Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Author's Note ix Introduction. An Unsentimental Journey 1 Part I. Documenting Cultural Legacies of an Empire Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Photographer of an Empire 13 The Intertwining of Two Collections 27 The Prokudin-Gorsky Collection, The Library of Congress 13 The William Craft Brumfield Collection, National Gallery of Art 33 Part II. Journeys 1. The Ancient Heartland 39 2. The West: From Smolensk Southward to Ryazan 101 3. The Northwest: From Lake Ladoga to the Volga Basin 167 4. The Upper Volga: From Valdai Heights to Torzhok 225 5. The Volga from Uglich to Yurevets 277 6. From the Ural Mountains to Siberia 351 7. Central Asia—Turkestan 413 8. North to the Solovetsky Islands 473 Conclusion. Above the Abyss: A Reflection on Photographs as an Instrument of Memory 497 Index 507
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Cornell University Press A History of Plague in Java 19111942
Book SynopsisIn A History of Plague in Java, 19111942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the rat-flea-man theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging seeking to rat-proof their beliefs along with their houses.The transformation of houses, villages, and people was documented in hundreds of photographs and broadcast to overseas audiences as evidence of the ethical nature of colonial rule, proving so effective as propaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Plague, Rats, and the House in Java 2. Colonizing the Home with Bamboo, Tiles, and Timber 3. The Spectacle of Home Improvement 4. Plague Propaganda 5. Plague, Malaria, and Vaccination Conclusion
£23.79
Island Press A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting
Book SynopsisTens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a changing climate. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities. In this book, coastal adaptation experts discuss the interrelated challenges facing communities experiencing sea level rise and increasing storm impacts. These issues extend far beyond land use planning into housing policy, financing for public infrastructure, insurance, fostering healthier coastal ecosystems, and more. Deftly addressing far-reaching problems from cleaning up contaminated, abandoned sites, to changes in drinking water composition, chapters give a clear-eyed view of how we might yet chart a course for thriving coastal communities. They offer a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, while preserving the economic value of these locations, their natural environments, and their community and cultural values. Lessons are drawn from coastal communities around the United States to present equitable solutions. The book provides tools for evaluating necessary trade-offs to think more comprehensively about the future of our coastal communities. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but planning for it is critical to the survival of many communities. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.Table of ContentsForeword, Jeff Goodell Introduction Section I: New Approaches to Designing and Implementing Coastal Resilience 1. Structures of Coastal Resilience: Adaptive Design for Jamaica Bay, Catherine Seavitt 2. Coastal Urbanism: Designing the Future Waterfront, Rafi Segal and Susannah Drake 3. Dutch Design along the American Coast, Matthijs Bouw 4. Resilient by Design in San Francisco, Karen M'Closkey and Keith Vandersys Section II: Planning the Next Generation of Coastal Communities 5. A Comprehensive Framework for Coastal Risk Reduction: Charting a Path Towards Resiliency, Sam Brody 6. Coding Flux: From “End-State’ Zoning to Zoning Process and Potential, Fadi Masoud and David Vega-Barachowitz 7. Adapting Coastal Drinking Water to Rising Seas, Allison Lassiter Section III: Innovative Policy and Finance for Coastal Adaptation 8. Public Financing of Coastal Adaptation, Carlos Martin 9. Adapt/Prepare/Retreat: A Tale of Two Cities, Joyce Coffee 10. New Options for Financing – Environmental Impact Bonds, Shannon Cunniff 11. Clean Up after Yourselves: Legal and Financial Options for Relocation Clean Up, Thomas Ruppert Conclusion
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American University in Cairo Press Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope
Book SynopsisCutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza, however, is more than an endless encyclopedia of depressing statistics. It is also a place of fortitude, resistance, and imagination; a context in which inhabitants go to remarkable lengths to create the ordinary conditions of the everyday and to reject their exceptional status. Inspired by Gaza’s inhabitants, this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists, planners, activists, and scholars from Palestine and Israel, the US, the UK, India, and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within and beyond the logics of siege and warfare, it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade, and outside the idiocy of violence and warfare.Contributors AffiliationsSalem Al Qudwa, Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USAHadeel Assali, Columbia University, USATareq Baconi, International Crisis Group, Brussels, BelgiumTeddy Cruz, University of California-San Diego, USAFonna Forman, University of California-San Diego, USAM. Christine Boyer, Princeton University, Princeton, USAAlberto Foyo, architect, New York, USANasser Golzari , Westminster University, London, UKYara Sharif, Westminster University, London, UKDenise Hoffman Brandt, City College of New York, USARomi Khosla, architect, New Delhi, IndiaCraig Konyk, Kean University, Union, NJ, USARafi Segal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA Chris Mackey, Payette Architects, Boston, USAVyjayanthi V. Rao, Terreform, New York, USASara Roy, Harvard University, Cambridge, USAMahdi Sabbagh, architect, New York, USAMeghan McAllister, architect, San Francisco Bay Area, USADeen Sharp, London School of Economics, UKMalkit Shoshan, Harvard University, Cambridge, USAPietro Stefanini, University of Edinburgh, ScotlandMichael Sorkin (1948–2020) , City University of New York, USAHelga Tawil-Souri, New York University, USAOmar Yousef, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Fadi Shayya, The University of Manchester, UKTrade Review"A dazzling book"—Booklist (starred review)"A work of radical imaginaries . . . offer[s] mind-bending insights"—Middle East Journal“[This] book is exceptional” —Yes! Magazine“Open Gaza, which brings together environmentalists, planners, and scholars from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, the U.S., the UK, India and beyond to share their visions for creating a better place for Gazans and Palestinians.”—Robin Young, NPR’s Here and Now"The book’s essays explore the extant condition of Gaza and its wider socio-political context, and offer speculative designs aimed at wresting back sovereignty and dignity for its residents. It posits that the ad-hoc, low-carbon design techniques that Gazans have developed look ahead to a planet failing to meet the challenges of a climate cataclysm, a global pandemic, and growing inequality."—Bloomberg CityLab"The Gaza of this handsome book is one that transcends the excesses of occupation via imagination and innovation, resilience, and ultimately courage. Open Gaza is a book that dares to subvert the tired old narratives of despair and gives agency to Gaza’s 1.8 million inhabitants via the magic of architectural intervention. And yet . . . the book does not ignore the brutal realities of occupation, but rather, in suggesting solutions both in spite of it and for a hoped-for post-occupation future, underlines them. "—The Markaz Review"An impressive, substantial collection"—Shelf Awareness"Oscillating between the poetic and the academic, the historical and the current, Open Gaza promises to be more than just another installment of armchair solutionism for the oft-discussed but rarely aided Strip."— Metropolis"The book is successful in presenting the reality of Gaza beyond many mainstream representations on this subject."—Contemporary Levant"Gazan architect Salem al Qudwa, a fellow in conflict and peace at the Harvard Divinity School, and contributor to a new book called Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, has developed a green, flexible, and affordable model for self-built homes in Gaza. They are designed to be constructed on sand and rubble, and can create a 'nurturing and safe environment for women and children, and to empower communities.'"—Architectural Digest"Searching for ways that fortitude, resistance, and imagination can work in an area characterized by unimaginable despair and degradation is the driving logic of this book. . . .Open Gaza is an urgent plea for humanitarianism and imaginative, critical involvement, needs that become more pronounced with each passing day . . . Highly recommended."—CHOICE“By bringing together multiple contributors from different disciplines and specialists engaged in different spatial and environmental practices, Open Gaza counters [an] increasingly sophisticated architecture of brutality with an architecture of hope inspired by the Gaza population’s will to live and remain connected to the world.” —International Journal of Middle East Studies"[T]he authors grapple with the physical siege and geopolitical preconceptions of Gaza, countermapping their way to novel architectural thinking, discourse, and pedagogy. In these collected works, professionals take civil responsibility for the horrors and injustice of the world, reframing students’ studio work as part of a radical pedagogical experiment."—Journal of Palestine Studies“This remarkable collective volume, Open Gaza, includes architectural contributions that imagine a better future, touching accounts of the tragic present, and historical and ethnographic portraits that together enable us to see the community of 2 million people living in the Gaza Strip as they really are and could be, and not as they have been made out to be by the incessant campaign of dehumanization to which they have been subjected. Capacious and enlightening, Open Gaza is a credit to its many authors, and fitting monument to one of its editors, the late Michael Sorkin.” —Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017“Rather than rehearse the statistics and calamities that have marked the abundant coastal enclave for social death, Open Gaza provocatively shows how Gaza continues to be a source of life in its ingenuity, love, and possibilities. Simultaneously, it makes clear that current conditions in Gaza are not inevitable but have been constructed, reproduced, and justified by lawmakers indentured by a political present. From a journey through a network of tunnels, an alternative digital grid, agriculture zones, transportation routes that rehabilitate a fragmented Arab world, this collection of essays is a powerful retort to the tired discourse that has framed Gaza’s future as a security question contingent upon demilitarization and containment. Open Gaza is an exciting invitation into new futures that Gaza and Palestine, more generally, offer for Palestinians and the world.” —Noura Erakat, author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine“Twenty years ago, I was part of a group of architects, historians, and activists asked to think about Jerusalem as a single, undivided city. Led by Michael Sorkin, we toured the area and formed a community of practice still operating today in opposition to Israel’s occupation. The results were collated in The Next Jerusalem, and some of its contributors reappear in this volume. In Open Gaza, they are joined by a new generation of practitioners and scholars, who continue this most vital investigation and struggle against the continued Gaza’s continued imprisonment. Their work—both critical and visionary—forms a seed that might one day sprout and bloom when this cruelly dominated and repressed place is free to find its own future.” —Eyal Weizman, founding director of Forensic Architecture“Open Gaza provides an essential contribution to the study of modern Palestine and the greater Mediterranean Basin. The collection succeeds in providing a balance between works that highlight the dismal, wanton destruction of Palestinian lives and those that are underpinned fundamentally by an optimistic, constructive vision of the future. At its heart is a commitment to transforming shared urban spaces into something that materially reflects the boundlessness of Palestinian spirits. The imaginative collection addresses many of the practical questions posed by urban planning. Yet most usefully, these essays cast Gaza as a constituent urban space, interactive with the sites and cities around it. This frame permits the reader to imagine a future that breaks from our present-day reality of ‘containers,’ siege, borders and tunnels.” —Ahmed Moor, CEO of Liwwa, Inc."Gaza’s capabilities are real and its potential realizable. In the practical and energizing ideas found in this volume, Gaza’s well-being—and that of the region as a whole—lies in inclusion and in the promise that such inclusion embodies, which, as is argued, is truly worth pursuing."—Sara Roy, author of The Gaza Strip: the Political Economy of De-developmentTable of ContentsCONTENTSPREFACE Sara RoyINTRODUCTION TerreformGAZA’S SKIN Tareq BaconiARCHITECTURE OF THE EVERYDAY Salem Al QudwaRING CITY: A METROPOLIS —NOT AN ENCLAVE TerreformFOUR TUNNELS Bint al-SirhidTHE QATAN CENTER FOR CHILDREN Omar YousefTIMELESS GAZA Mahdi Sabbagh and Meghan McAllisterABSURD-CITY, SUBVERT-CITY Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari120 PLANNING RUINATION M. Christine BoyerRE-ECOLOGIZING GAZA Fadi Shayya and Visualizing PalestineTHE INTERNET PIGEON NETWORK Helga Tawil-SouriCOLLECTIVE EQUIPMENT Royal College of Art, ADS7FRONTIER URBANIZATION Francesco SebregondiNORMALIZING THE SIEGE: THE GAZA RECONSTRUCTION MECHANISM (GRM) Pietro StefaniniCITY OF CRYSTAL Craig KonykNATURAL GAZA Romi KhoslaZOO, OR THE LETTER Z, JUST AFTER ZIONISM Malkit ShoshanSOLAR DOME Chris Mackey and Rafi Segal SOCIAL HYDROLOGY: A DESIGN RESISTANCE Denise Hoffman BrandtREDRAWING GAZA Alberto Foyo and PostopiaINTERDEPENDENCE AS A POLITICAL TOOL Teddy Cruz and Fonna FormanHYPERPRESENT ABSENCE: SUGGESTED METHODS Hadeel AssaliTIMELINE TerreformCONTRIBUTORS
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Esr Handbook of Research on Emerging Digital Tools
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Weldon Owen Embrace Your Space Organizing Ideas and Stylish
Book SynopsisOrganize and style your home using home-decorating and organization expert Katie Holdefehr’s modern, chic, and simple-to-achieve design tips and tricks.Whether giving a studio apartment a makeover to maximize every inch of space for storage, creating a functional and streamlined kitchen, or revamping a bedroom into a relaxing sanctuary, home design expert Katie Holdefehr will be your personal designer throughout each step in Embrace Your Space. As an editor for top magazines and websites such as Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, Good Housekeeping, and Apartment Therapy, Katie Holdefehr honed her expertise in home design and organization writing hundreds of articles and styling dozens of tasteful, livable rooms that anyone on any budget can achieve. Featuring real homes from across the country and accompanied by gorgeous photographs, Embrace Your Space shares Katie’s tools of the trade, as well as designer-insider tips and tricks, to give every living space a Wow! effect. Also included are simple and affordable design projects for creating unique and custom-looking décor details. GORGEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY: More than 150 beautiful full-color photographs show designer tips and tricks in action DESIGN PROJECTS: Simple, affordable, and easy-to-accomplish design projects are included in each chapter HOME ORGANIZATIONAL HACKS: Dozens of home organization tips help keep areas clutter-free DECLUTTERING TIPS: Learn easy-and-quick ways to declutter and streamline those common problem areas such as closets, kitchen cabinets, entryways, and more. INSIDER TIPS AND TRICKS: Having worked as a magazine editor in the home decor space, Katie Holdefehr provides information for home design and organization BEAUTIFUL GIFT: Whether you appreciate home design or are just looking to downsize your clutter, this books makes a gorgeous and helpful gift
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Trope Publishing Co. Vivien Liu: Being There: Being There
Book Synopsis“Architects are trained to see a space before it’s realised, so I think photography helps me with that. But I’d also say it’s the other way around. My training helps me with the way I photograph. I look at space with a more symmetrical eye, and you see a lot of symmetry in my photos.” ~ Vivien Liu Vivien Liu studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and then attended Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the prestigious Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design. As an architect, she has worked for nearly a decade in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China and Hong Kong, where she now resides and first took up photography. As a photographer, she quickly developed a strong sensibility portraying space as seen through the first person, which now defines her style. What began as a weekend pastime has transformed Vivien into one of the most prolific urban photographers in Hong Kong, attracting over 240,000 followers on Instagram. Her first book, Being There explores the dialogue and tension between people and spaces through portraiture, landscapes, and street photography, from the urban density of Hong Kong and Tokyo to epic natural landscapes like Zhangjajie, China. With an architect’s artful eye, Ms. Liu captures this juxtaposition in the most beautiful way, sharply highlighting her eye for patterns and symmetry across settings.
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Figure 1 Publishing Reside
Book SynopsisStunning contemporary houses illuminate the enduring and evolving influence of the West Coast Modern architectural style in B.C.Decades after gaining international recognition through the work of practitioners such as Arthur Erickson, Ron Thom, and Barry Downs, the West Coast Modern style remains widely celebrated and highly influential for residential architects in British Columbia and beyond, even as its expressions evolve and adapt to contemporary contexts. What are the contours of its legacy today—and has a new Cascadia regional style emerged?To explore these questions, Clinton Cuddington, co-principal of Measured Architecture, invited dozens of B.C.-based architects to share residential projects that best exemplified their design process. Their responses range from palatial mountain chalets to cabins sitting lightly in the forest to oceanfront retreats to sensitive urban renovations. Each house is presented through full-colour photos by professional ph
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The Ontario Cottage
Book SynopsisThe history, aesthetics, and significance of Ontario’s iconic small house.In the evolution of Ontario’s domestic architecture, the Ontario Cottage is one of a small number of distinctive imported—and then modified—houseforms that today is among the most recognizable in the province.A single storey, hipped-roof building with a door placed squarely in the centre with windows on either side, the charm of the Ontario Cottage lies in its symmetry, simplicity, and proportions. From stately cottages made of dressed masonry to humbler cottages clad in board and batten, it is adaptable in form, and found in different settings from Southwestern Ontario to the Ottawa Valley, including cities, small towns, and rural areas.This is the first full-length exploration of this enduring houseform and its ubiquity in the province. Through detailed prose, architectural illustrations, and stunning photographs, this book traces the origins of the cottage, its design lineage, construction, and distinctive parts, and shares the perspectives of its inhabitants.While explaining its ongoing appeal, The Ontario Cottage makes the case for the recognition and conservation of the Ontario Cottage as a defining attribute of the province’s cultural landscape.
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Keenan Ngo Design Emotive Architecture
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O'Brien Press Ltd For The Love of Ireland's Buildings: Treasures
Book SynopsisA personal selection by artist Michael Lunt of over 120 drawings and paintings from fifty years of the Roadstone Calendar, reflecting the artist's love of Ireland's buildings and engineering in our towns and landscapes.
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Archaeopress Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice:
Book SynopsisWooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. They were built during periods of urban transformation; disdained for their rural look and for the fire hazard they represented they were nevertheless valued for being warm, affordable and movable. This study reveals the fundamental role played by the wooden house in the formation of urban Sweden and Swedish history. Wooden buildings were particularly suited to mass production and relocation, which helped to realise the ideal town plan in the transformation of Swedish urban space. Early modern wooden houses feature more as archaeological remains and less as preserved buildings every year, thus examination and comparison of these two distinct datasets combined with historical records is important in this study. The author establishes how log construction, timber framing and post and plank buildings were used for a wide range of functions in both central and peripheral locations, and within all strata of society. New strategies were developed to create affordable warm housing while the housing stock featured both change and continuity of layout; the storeyed house contributed to evolution of the multiple unit structure. Surprisingly, this study establishes that timber-framing was more prevalent geographically and functionally than previous research indicated.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 The scale of the city: the social dimension of space in theory and method ; Chapter 2 Wooden buildings and the demolition frenzy – the bankruptcy of the Swedish building culture ; Chapter 3 Understanding wooden buildings – a background to Scandinavian research ; Chapter 4 Considering the omnipresence of wood – an exposé of wood materiality ; Chapter 5 Urban vernacular wood constructions – three modes of building ; Five Swedish early modern towns – a background of local urban history and archaeological investigations ; On the comforts of log timber buildings – keeping warm and movable ; The prevalence of timber-framing ; Elusive traces of urban post and plank construction ; Chapter 6 Urban townscapes ; Storeyed houses and crowded streets in urban townscapes ; Life on the margins – buildings and living environments in the urban centre and periphery ; Chapter 7 Contextualizing urban vernacular architecture – distinguishing the actual and the ideal ; Chapter 8 Wood, people and society: the case studies combined ; Chapter 9 General conclusions and summary ; Appendix 1. The collection of finds in wood from Nya Lödöse 2013 ; Appendix 2. Material wood remains in the moat, Nya Lödöse 2015 ; Appendix 3a. A+B List of archaeological remains of log timber buildings ; Appendix 3b. Archaeological evidence of log timber technique ; Appendix 4a. A+B List of preserved buildings in log timber, Vita Bergen ; Appendix 4b. Preserved buildings in Vita Bergen, Stockholm ; Appendix 5. Timber-framing in Archaeological reports ; Appendix 6. Timber-framing in historical records ; Appendix 7. Timber-framing in photos ; Appendix 9. Post and plank in Archaeological reports ; Appendix 8. Post and plank in Fire Insurance Records ; Appendix 10. Preserved post and plank buildings ; Appendix 11. Fire insurance records, Majorna 1795, residential buildings ; Appendix 12. Fire insurance records, Gothenburg 1800-1804, residential buildings ; Archives, sources and bibliography
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Cheuk Tom From Divine Nature to Design 2: A Look Into
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Berghahn Books Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work
Book Synopsis The “organic” is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker and pioneer of the “slow cinema” movement. Through a wholly original analysis of the long take and other signature features of Tarr’s work, author Thorsten Botz-Bornstein establishes compelling links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture, revealing shared organic principles that emphasize the transcendence of boundaries.Trade Review “Botz-Bornstein’s book Organic Cinema contains a lot of food for thought. It is a non-standard piece on film with a new suggestions and new readings. I recommend it to those of you who want to read about more than just Tarr as a director, but who would like to learn about the context which his films and his filmmaking is embedded in. It’s a thoroughly interesting book.” • European History Quarterly “While combining film theory with the theory of architecture, music and theology, the organic method could offer a new alternative to deconstructionism, constructivism, cultural studies, and cinema aesthetics. For this reason, Organic cinema deserves academic attention, especially because it has the potential to create a new platform.” • Studies in Eastern European Cinema “Organic Cinema is an extremely dense text, rich with philosophical, aesthetic, filmic, and musicological insights. The book’s depth and breadth are certainly impressive, offering a valuable — even audacious — contribution to film theory and architectural theory. Botz-Bornstein is at his best when he makes the radical connections between architecture, cinema and musical theology… [and in this way] contributes to the evermore burgeoning field in which architectural theory and film are considered together.” • Invisible Culture “A magisterial, transdisciplinary contribution and brilliant comparative analysis of a major contemporary filmmaker whose work remains undertheorized and insufficiently known in a global framework. Organic Cinema presents a wealth of perspectives on the interlocking fields of cinema and architecture.” • Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts, AmherstTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. Cinema, Architecture, Literature Chapter 2. Central Europe Chapter 3. What is “Organic?” Chapter 4. The Melancholy of Evolution Chapter 5. Where is the Center? Chapter 6. Modernism and Postmodernism Chapter 7. Organic Harmonies Chapter 8. Back to Humanism? Chapter 9. Politics of Harmony Chapter 10. The Spiritual Chapter 11. Organic Places Chapter 12. The Organic Camera Shot Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Luath Press Ltd Land of Stone: A Journey Through Modern
Book Synopsis'Welcome to a journey of remarkablebuildings and remarkable thoughts aboutthese buildings, shaped as they are by deep time, modern ideas and Scottish culture. Readers are sure to see new vistas in the land of stone open before them' From the Foreword by PROFESSOR ANDREW PATRIZIOWhat makes Scottish architecture Scottish?What ideas drive Scottish architecture?What has modern architecture in Scotlandmeant to the Scots?Ever since the ‘granny-tops’, rattling and clanking in the wind to draw smoke up the tenemental flues from open coal fires, caught my attention as a three-year-old, architecture and its many parts, purposes, processes and procedures has fascinated me. For me, architecture has always had profound significance. 'Land of Stone' seeks to disengage widely-held conceptions of what a Scottish architecture superficially looks like and to focus on the ideas and events – philosophical, political, practical and personal – that inspired architects and their clients to create the cities, towns, villages and buildings we cherish today.
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CP Press Social Housing Estates
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Batsford Ltd Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question ‘How do we want to live now?’ it was England’s first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain. This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930. The book is beautifully illustrated with largely unseen archive photography, and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive. In Spring 2018, the Isokon building and Breuer, Gropius and Moholy-Nagy were honoured with a Blue Plaque from English Heritage. Trade Review'Extremely good' * The Art Newspaper *'Sumptuous' * Foyles Newsletter *'Insightful exploration of an iconic building.' * Morning Star *'A must read' * Homes & Antiques *'Jam-packed with fascinating and often unexpected detail.' * Pedro Silmon Blog *
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RIBA Publishing Rough Guide to Sustainability: A Design Primer
Book SynopsisThis latest edition of ‘Rough Guide to Sustainability’ remains a simple, no-nonsense reference source for all students and practitioners of sustainability in the built environment. It sets out the broad environmental, professional and governmental context underlying sustainability principles, and outlines the science, measures and design solutions that must be adopted to meet current definitions of responsible architecture. The fourth edition covers the latest developments in a rapidly expanding sector. It offers a wider international scope than ever before, and includes new information on the role of BIM in sustainable design, assessment tools and techniques, and the RIBA Plan of Work 2013. Brand new material also discusses the impact of the latest legislative, social and technological developments. Now in full colour and extensively illustrated throughout, this guide is essential reading for design and built environment students and professionals – and anyone keen to cut through to the facts about sustainability.Table of ContentsPart 1 From Theory to Practice of Sustainability 1 The Theory and Science of Sustainability 2 Legislation and Regulations in Europe Essay Natural Capital the New Economics? Part 2 Measuring Sustainability 3 Measuring Success at the Building Scale Part C Resources For Construction 4 Energy 5 Water 6 Materials and Waste Part 3 Design For Sustainability 7 Design for a Changing Climate 8 Sustainable Buildings are Healthy Buildings 9 Sustainable Design in Practice Innovation, Tools and Methods 10 Design Options for Sustainability 11 Sustainability and Urban Design Communities and Cities 12. Epilogue – Sustainability at the Cutting Edge
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Archaeology of Socialism
Book SynopsisThis highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist understandings of material culture in an effort to overturn capitalist and patriarchal social structures. Through the edifying effects of architectural forms, Ginzburg attempted to induce socialist and feminist-inspired social and gender relations. The author shows how, for the inhabitants, these principles manifested themselves, from taste to hygiene to gender roles, and how individuals variously appropriated architectural space and material culture to cope with the conditions of daily life, from the utopianism of the First Five Year Plan and Stalin's purges to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This book makes a major contribution to: the history of socialism in the Soviet Union and, more generally, Eastern Europe; material culture studies; architectural history; archaeology and social anthropology.Trade Review'Buchli has admirably countered ... considerable difficulties in a multi-faceted investigative process which could be characterized as an 'archaeology of socialism', in a sense reminiscent of Foucault's 'Archaeology of Knowledge'.'Journal of Design History'An Archaeology of Socialism is a fascinating and well written book based on the intellectually charming premise that theories of the function of material culture were heavily tested and found wanting by the Russian socialist byt (life-style) reform programs of the last 80 years ... The value of the book lies in the clarity of Buchli's prose as he navigates the choppy seas of postmodern philosophy. In some cases, his explications of theory are more elegant than the writings of the original authors.'American Ethnologist'There is much of interest here, particularly in the analysis of the Stalin period.'Slavonica'While Buchli has much to say about wallpaper, the types and uses of furniture available to inhabitants, and othTable of ContentsRevolution and the restructuring of the material world; Soviet hygiene and the battle against dirt and petit-bourgeois consciousness; the Narkomfin Communal House and the material culture of socialism; Stalinism and the domestication of Marxism; the Narkomfin Communal House and Marxist domesticity; de-Stalinization and the reinvigoration of Marxist understandings of the material world; the Narkomfin Communal House and the material culture of de-Stalinization.
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Verso Books Building the New World: Studies in the Modern
Book SynopsisThe period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English-speaking world, which had previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of twentieth-century architecture. Building the New World attempts to redress the balance. It surveys the most important examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism, when politicians and architects such as Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer sought ways, literally, to build their societies out of underdevelopment.
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Architectural Association Publications AA Files 72
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Blue Crow Media Pyongyang Architecture Map
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September Publishing Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in
Book SynopsisDuring the post-war years the North of England saw the building of some of the most aspirational, enlightened and successful modernist architecture in the world. For the first time, a single photographic book captures those buildings, in all their power and progressive ambition. Over the last few years acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps has travelled and sought out the publicly commissioned architecture of the post-war North. From Newcastle's Byker Wall Estate, voted the best neighbourhood in the UK, to the extraordinary Park Hill Estate in Sheffield, from Preston's sweeping bus station and Liverpool's Royal Insurance Building, these structures have seen off threats to their survival and are rightly celebrated for the imprint they leave upon the skyline and the cultural life of their cities.This inspiring invitation to explore northern modernism includes maps and detailed information about all the architecture photographed.Trade ReviewPraise for Concrete Poetry: 'Mr Phipps follows up on his ace books on Brutalism with this one on post-war Modernist public art in the UK - and it's an absolute beauty that'll get you going for a look about at angular concrete lumps in squares. A masterclass in book design too.' Simon Armstrong, Tate | 'Simon's black and white images of Brutalist and post-war buildings in the UK are defined by their striking compositions in which the raw architectural forms of his subjects are laid bare.' The Modern House
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Old Street Publishing Excellent Essex: In Praise of England's Most
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Graffeg Limited Senedd
Book SynopsisThis is the story of an astonishing transformation as Wales entered the twenty-first century embracing a new democratic direction. The Senedd, designed by architect Richard Rogers, rose as the country? s distinctive ultramodern forum, the expression of the people? s voices and diversity. Now available in this new compact edition, Senedd documents the rise of Cardiff as a city and place of government through to the concepts, challenges and final achievements of the Senedd building itself, superbly photographed by Andrew Molyneux. Trevor Fishlock? s rigorously researched account provides an extensive background, highlighting not only the unique design of the building and the process of its completion but also the even greater significance of what it continues to represent for Wales. The book also includes a conversation conducted by Fishlock with the late architect Richard Rogers and firm partner Ivan Harbour on their vision for the project and its execution.
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Wordwell The Building of Adare Manor
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Architectural Association Publications AA Files 79
Book SynopsisAA Files is the Architectural Association''s (AA) journal of record.Launched in 1981 by the AA''s then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association and individual subscribers, and is distributed to a global network of bookshops. Currently under the editorship of Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing both on the AA?s own academic research, public program, exhibitions and events, as well as by a rich and eclectic mix of architectural scholarship from all over the world.
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Process Media Morris Graves: His Houses, His Gardens
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Oscar Riera Ojeda Beyond the Envelope
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Dorri Steinhoff Red Bird Against the Snow
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Oro Editions Representing the Landscape Project
Book SynopsisThis book for educators, academics, students, designers, landscape professionals explores representation as an indispensable creative process.
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Oro Editions LA
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