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Laurence King Publishing Reading Architecture Second Edition: A Visual
Book SynopsisThis innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive colour photographs illustrate each of the main building types, from forts to churches, stately homes to skyscrapers. The individual structural elements and materials common to all buildings are then explained, whether in Classical, Gothic or Modernist style. A comprehensive glossary completes the book. This revised edition includes an expanded section on modern structures and materials, as well as the latest styles and concepts from the last ten years.
£25.50
Verso Books Hollow Land
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking exposé of Israel's reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories
£17.99
MIT Press Ltd Architecture Follows Fish
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£36.10
Yale University Press Mies van der Rohe
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£54.00
Rizzoli International Publications Inside Marrakesh Enchanting Homes and Gardens
Book SynopsisContemporary design meets Marrakesh's splendid artistic heritage in a fresh burst of color, form, and texture through a panoply of sensual houses and gardens. Noted designer Meryanne Loum-Martin provides entrée into the extraordinary residences of this fabled city's leading tastemakers.This exquisite book showcases the stunning properties of the world's leading design connoisseurs, including Jasper Conran, Lynn Guinness, Vanessa Branson, and Helen and Brice Marden, who have transformed Marrakesh's exotic style into unexpected but elegant expressions. The story of design in Marrakesh begins with the contributions of Bill Willis, Yves Saint Laurent, and Pierre Bergé, who fearlessly fused Moroccan elements--zellige tilework, rugs, pottery, fountains, woodwork, metalwork, and tadelakt wall treatments--with a luxuriant mix of furnishings from around the world. We are invited into such lush private places as the gardens of the Villa Oasis, designed by Madison CoxTrade Review"If you are craving travel-and who isn't-visit the exotic interiors, dramatic architecture and lush gardens photographed in this book. Author and proprietor of the award-winning Jnane Tamsna boutique hotel, Loum-Martin sums up the appeal of Marrakesh in three words: sensuousness, refinement and mystery." — COTTAGES & GARDENS
£39.10
Penguin Books Ltd Bunker
Book SynopsisA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 ''An extraordinary achievement . . . gripping, grim and witty'' Robert MacFarlane ''Unputdown-able ... No book could be more timely'' Richard J Evans Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn''t take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of ''prepping'' for social and environmental collapse, or ''Doomsday''. From the ''dread merchants'' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and Trade ReviewHow prescient and timely ... This is a tartly thoughtful work, by turns witty and philosophical, with an undercurrent of anger at the way we are governed and the commodification of existential fear. He writes pacily, bringing to vivid life a gallery of survivalist wingnuts, conmen and evangelists. -- Nick Curtis * Evening Standard *A kind of apocalyptic Super Size Me, in which the author force feeds himself a steady diet of paranoia, conspiracy, eschatology and end-times architecture. -- Chris Hall * The Guardian *This baseball-cap wearing academic is the world's leading expert on survivalists ... But he never expected Bunker to be so topical. -- Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson * The Times *Brilliant ... Bunker, self-evidently a work for our times, shimmers with a Ballardian imagery of disaster and melt-down. -- Ian Thomson * The Spectator *Bunker is a thoughtful study into the nature of paranoia and the people who try to profit from it - and it makes for a page-turning read. -- Nathan Brooker * Financial Times *A scary, unputdown-able account ... No book could be more timely as we stay in our own little bunkers to avoid infection, strip the supermarket shelves of loo paper, and squirrel away supplies of food to see us through the shortages that many fear will follow a no-deal Brexit. -- Richard J Evans * New Statesman *This study of bunker sites and the people preparing for the worst couldn't be better timed. -- Andrew Anthony * The Observer *Garrett's research has involved hanging out with millenarian fruitcakes, disaster profiteers and the uber-rich, not to mention tooled-up, swivel-eyed anarcho-libertarians from America to Australia ... His sense is that disaster gives us an opportunity to rethink how we live. What will we learn? -- Stuart Jeffries * The Guardian *This is a gripping and timely book about both the 'architecture of dread' and its multi-billion dollar industry, and what the growing appetite for bunkers reveals about the social conditions in which we live. * New Statesman *Garrett is a bright and buoyant guide and Bunker rattles briskly along ... A necessary read. * Literary Review *Bradley Garrett spent three years meeting doomsday preppers for his book Bunker ... If we work together, he thinks, there is no reason that a future global catastrophe has to become an apocalypse. Well, that's something. -- Luke Mintz * Sunday Telegraph *Bunker is an extraordinary achievement; a big-thinking, deep-diving, page-turning study of fear, privilege and apocalypse told through the space of the bunker. Garrett has written a gripping, grim, witty work of geography and ethnography, which he completed - with eerie timeliness - in the first weeks of the COVID pandemic. A book about prepping and prognostication, then, which had already foretold its own future. -- Robert MacFarlaneGarrett's book forces readers to reassess other assumptions about bunkers and those who own them. -- Jack Grove * Times Higher Education *There are many strands in this book ... [Garrett] brings sharp insight to a subject that no longer seems so remote or speculative. -- Mika Ross-Southall * Times Literary Supplement *A highly addictive book ... What makes Garrett's book fascinating is his portrayal of the balance between fringe thinking and the real world. -- Nick Smith * E&T Magazine *Bunker benefits from the mere fact of taking its protagonists seriously as humans and as members of society, rather than as outlandish characters. -- Julian Sayarer * openDemocracy *Garrett spent several years travelling the world, going down into bunkers and talking to their owners and tenants. His book is an incredible record of that journey, and also functions as a philosophical or psychological disquisition about space, about freedom, about survival. Bunker is an incredible read and will surely sell in quite enormous numbers, assuming the human race remains intact and can still read. -- Steve Braunias * New Zealand Herald *
£10.44
Penguin Books Ltd Every Cripple a Superhero
Book Synopsis''Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny'' Sunday Times''A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page'' Morning Star''A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny'' Joanne Limburg ''Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers'' Neue Zürcher ZeitungMost stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the ''kindest one'', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it progresses slowly. There is no cure. By the age of 25, he had to use a wheelchair some of the time. ''There were two of me: Walking Me. Rolling Me.'' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with a cane or on somebody''s arm. At 45, ''Rolling Me''
£15.29
MIT Press Prior Art
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects’ engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits afforded by exclusive intellectual property rights. But patent culture was never directly translatable to the field of architecture, which tended to negotiate issues of technological innovation in the context of the more abstract issues of artistic influence and formal expression. In Prior Art, scholar Peter Christensen offers the first full-scale monographic treatment of this complex relationship between art and invention.Christensen’s method, a site-oriented approach steeped in multinational and multilingual archival work, is geared toward unifying fractur
£45.60
WW Norton & Co Why Buildings Stand Up
Book Synopsis"Readers will rejoice... in the physical discoveries, ancient and modern, that create and govern the artifacts inside of which readers spend most of their natural lives."—New York Times
£14.24
Thames & Hudson Ltd The New Pavilions
Book SynopsisPavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. This is a selection of the best examples produced in recent years. It features pavilions ranging from the advanced forms of Sou Fujimoto to Zaha Hadid's Chanel pavilion, from small structures created entirely out of farm waste to a mirrored carapace conceived by Olafur Eliasson.Table of ContentsIntroduction • Works of Art • Experimental Structures • Temporary Venues • Performance Spaces • Permanent Buildings • Follies • Index of Projects
£21.21
Thames & Hudson Ltd Model City Pyongyang
Book SynopsisMany model' cities, both imagined and physical, have existed throughout history; from the ideal cities of the Renaissance, Urbino, Pienza and Ferrara, to modernist utopias, such as Brasília or Chandigarh. North Korea's Pyongyang, however, is arguably unique. Entirely rebuilt following the Korean War (195053), the city was planned and fully implemented to model a single ideological vision a guide for an entire state. As a result, the urban fabric of Pyongyang displays an extraordinary architectural cohesion and narrative, artfully captured in the pages of this book. In recent years, many of Pyongyang's buildings have been redeveloped to remove interior features or to render façades unrecognizable. From the city's monumental axes to its symbolic sports halls and experimental housing concepts, this timely book offers comprehensive visual access to Pyongyang's restricted buildings, which still preserve the DPRK's original vision for a city designed for the people'. Often kitsch, colourful and dramatic, Pyongyang's architecture can be reminiscent of the aesthetic of a Wes Anderson film, where it is difficult to distinguish between reality and theatre. Reflecting a culture that has carefully crafted its own narrative, the backdrop of each photograph has been replaced with a colour gradient, evoking the idealized pastel skies of the country's propaganda posters.Trade Review'Fascinating' - Daily Mail
£16.96
Random House USA Inc The Home Edit for Teens
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£15.29
Beacon Press Dont Build Rebuild
Book SynopsisIn a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuseAs climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well.Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.Betsky shows us contemporary imaginative reuse throughout the world: the Mexican housing authority transforming concrete slums into well-serviced apartments; the MassMOCA museum, built out of old textile mills; the squatted city of Christiana in Copenhagen, fashioned from an old army base; Project Heidelberg in Detroit. All point towards a new circular economy of reuse, built from the ashes of the capitalist economy of consumption.
£15.29
Rizzoli International Publications Great Inspiration
Book SynopsisOne client, multiple decorators, extraordinarily influential rooms an intimate look at the interiors of a design aficionada both working with preeminent interior designers and creating her own environments.
£40.00
Blue Crow Media Art Deco London Map
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£9.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc Carbon
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a must-read book. It achieves the rare outcome of being a successful volume for design practitioners (who should know what to do) as well as design students (who don’t yet know what to do). But it is also very useful to educators, policymakers, engineers, local authorities, industry professionals and – really – anyone who takes seriously the sheer impacts caused by the global built environment to ecosystems, biodiversity, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, land use, urban fabric transformation, energy demand, social shifts and implications for the lives of millions who live in, or at the margins of, it."—Francesco Pomponi, Buildings & Cities "A recommendable book to get started with LCA in building construction with focus on CO2 or carbon as well as concepts for decarbonization.... The basic LCA aspects are presented in an easy to follow manner.... Also worth to mention: many specific LCA terms which are helpful in discussing with LCA experts such as cradle-to-gate, end-of-life, end-of-waste or closing the loop are addressed in easy to understand words."—nbau, NACHHALTIG BAUEN "Its explanatory tone runs like a seam through this book; copiously illustrated in black and white and on a thin, uncoated paper that intimates the authors’ awareness of its own carbon footprint. It's worth it alone just for Chapter 3, 'Case Studies in Decarbonisation'"—The RIBA JournalTable of ContentsPreface viii Chapter 1 Carbon? 2 Our Carbon Challenge 6 Building Elements 6 King Carbon 7 A Global Carbon Budget 9 The Carbon Cycle in Building History 10 Carbon Flows in Building 12 Staunching the Flow 14 Time Management in Carbon Mitigation 17 Re-balancing the Planet: Agency and Opportunity 18 About This Book: An Overview 19 Chapter 2 Measuring Carbon Flows 22 Life Cycle Assessment: What’s in It for Building Designers? 25 The Fundamental Concepts 27 The Process of Life Cycle Assessment 37 The Production Stage 46 The Construction Stage 53 The Use Stage 61 Service Life 66 End-of-Life Stage 74 Results, Interpretation, and Comparison 81 The Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment for Buildings 83 Chapter 3 Case Studies in Decarbonization 86 Notes from the Field 89 How Were the Calculations Per formed? 90 Case Study 1 Common Ground High School 92 Architectural Objectives (by Gray Organschi Architecture) 93 Common Ground High School: Key Figures 100 Materials 100 Site and Ground Works 104 Foundations and Ground Floor 106 Structural Frame 108 Façades and External Decks 110 Roofs 112 Internal Dividers 114 Space Surfaces 116 Internal Fixtures 118 Building System Installations 120 Mitigation Potential from Materials and Systems 130 Energy-Related Emissions 131 Case Study 2: Puukuokka Housing Block 135 Architectural Objectives (by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture) 137 Puukuokka One: Key Figures 142 Site and Ground Works 146 Foundations and Ground Floor 148 Modular Units 150 Hallway 152 Façades 154 Roofs 156 Building Service Installations 158 Mitigation Potential from Materials and Systems 168 Energy 168 Comparison of the Case Studies 172 Comparison of the Emissions 176 Chapter 4 De-carbonizing Design 180 A Context of Externalities: Pre conditions of the Decarbonized Design Process 185 The Decarbonized Design Process 188 Phases of Decarbonized Building Design 190 The Pre-Design or Project Preparation Phase: Laying the Groundwork for Decarbonized Building Design 190 Selecting a Low-Carbon Site 192 Programming a Low-Carbon Building 195 Anticipating the Lifespan of a Building 196 The Conceptual or Schematic Design Phase 197 The Design Development Phase 201 Material Classes and Their Carbon Consequences 203 The Decarbonized Building Assembly 208 The Later Design Phases: Contract Documentation, Bidding and Negotiation, and Construction Administration 212 Principles of Decarbonized Design 213 Understanding Design Agency: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities 218 Chapter 5 Re-Forming the Anthropocene 220 Beyond Sustainable 223 Thinking Outside the Building’s Life Cycle 224 Re-forming the Anthropocene 231 The Anthropocene Re-formed 240 Acknowledgments 243 Glossary 244 References 248 Index 252
£45.12
John Wiley & Sons Inc Cohousing Communities
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1 Intergenerational Cohousing Design 13 Chapter 1 Intergenerational Neighborhood Design: Neighborhood Site Design 15 Chapter 2 Haystack Heights Cohousing: Site Planning Workshop 49 Chapter 3 Intergenerational Neighborhood Design: Common House and Common Facilities Design 79 Chapter 4 Haystack Heights Cohousing: Common House Workshop 101 Chapter 5 Intergenerational Neighborhood Design: Private Houses Design 125 Chapter 6 Haystack Heights Cohousing: Private House Workshop 145 Part 2 Senior Cohousing Design 173 Chapter 7 Senior Neighborhood Design: Site Design 175 Chapter 8 Quimper Village: Site Planning Workshop 207 Chapter 9 Senior Cohousing Design Concepts: Common House Design 237 Chapter 10 Quimper Village: Common House Workshop 255 Chapter 11 Senior Cohousing Design Concepts: Private Houses Design 279 Chapter 12 Quimper Village: Private House Workshop 295 Part 3 The Rest of the Story 317 Chapter 13 Affordability 319 Chapter 14 The Details of Cohousing: What Components Lead to High- Functioning Neighborhoods? 363 Afterword 397 About the Authors 409 Acknowledgments 413 Other Books by Charles Durrett and Company 415 Index 417
£29.44
John Wiley & Sons Inc Home Decorating For Dummies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Home Decorating 5 Chapter 1: Bringing Your Vision to Life 7 Chapter 2: Budgeting Your Projects 13 Chapter 3: Evaluating Your Space 23 Chapter 4: Thinking Like a Designer 39 Part 2: Creating Dimensions 53 Chapter 5: Experiencing Color 55 Chapter 6: Playing with Pattern 65 Chapter 7: Toying with Texture 77 Part 3: Perfecting Style 87 Chapter 8: Decorating with Timeless Styles 89 Chapter 9: Designing with Contemporary Styles. 105 Chapter 10: Developing Your Personal Style 113 Chapter 11: Finding Furniture 123 Part 4: Designing Backgrounds 135 Chapter 12: Enhancing Walls 137 Chapter 13: Finding Flooring 149 Chapter 14: Styling Ceilings 163 Chapter 15: Dressing Windows 175 Chapter 16: Livening Up Lighting 189 Part 5: Tackling Kitchens, Baths, Home Offices, and Media Rooms 207 Chapter 17: Cooking Up Dream Kitchens 209 Chapter 18: Beautifying Bathrooms 225 Chapter 19: Setting Up Work from Home 239 Chapter 20: Making the Most of Media Rooms 249 Part 6: Transforming Sleeping, Living, Dining, and Other Spaces 255 Chapter 21: Styling Bedrooms 257 Chapter 22: Enlivening Living Rooms 273 Chapter 23: Designing for Dining 289 Chapter 24: Transforming Bonus Spaces 305 Part 7: Putting on the Final Touches 319 Chapter 25: Arranging Art Artistically 321 Chapter 26: Accessorizing with Flair 335 Part 8: The Part of Tens 351 Chapter 27: Ten Tips for a Luxe Look 353 Chapter 28: Ten Tips for Small Spaces 359 Index 363
£16.19
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fiction in the Field
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£20.89
Not Stated Barrys Construction Technology
£35.62
John Wiley & Sons Forever Practice The Architect at Work
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£26.59
Amberley Publishing Shoreditch and Hoxton in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Shoreditch and Hoxton in East London in this guided tour through their most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing BexhillonSea in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Bexhill-on-Sea in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Malvern in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisExplore the rich history of Malvern in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
£14.39
Gibbs M. Smith Inc The Aluminaire House
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£26.40
Gibbs M. Smith Inc ADUs
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£26.40
Amberley Publishing Ironopolis
Book SynopsisIllustrated throughout, the first book to examine Middlesbrough's fascinating architectural history.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Cambridge in 50 Buildings
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the history and numerous architectural treasures of the famous university city of Cambridge.
£14.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mass Housing
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)It will become the standard work on the subject. Literary ReviewThis major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Providing a global approach to the history of Modernist mass-housing production, this authoritative study combines architectural history with the broader social, political, cultural aspects of mass housing particularly the mass' politics of power and state-building throughout the 20th centTrade ReviewIt is the great achievement of this project that it takes a truly global perspective while also stressing the distinctive differences that separate one nation from another… No serious student of modern architecture can afford to be without Glendinning’s Mass Housing. It will become the standard work on the subject. * Literary Review *This book should find a place on the shelves of many; politicians, policy advisers, civil servants and, as an invaluable textbook for advanced students in a range of disciplines. It is lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs and is unlikely to be superseded for many years. * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *Magisterial and illuminating ... Glendinning is a compelling storyteller ... Mass Housing is an extraordinary achievement. * C20 Society Journal *This book will prove invaluable as a new resource for housing historians. In skilfully relating architectural form to the broader social and political contexts, it will also be insightful for academics and students in a range of disciplines and policy makers concerned with housing delivery and heritage conservation. * Journal of Contemporary History *Both sweeping and detailed, Mass Housing is about more than massive housing or even housing for 'the masses'. It is an ambitious and broadly-comparative inquiry into the globally-felt political need to undertake such quests, revealing and illustrating surprisingly diverse architectural expressions. * Lawrence Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *This book comprehensively dismantles the caricatured view of modernist mass housing as homogenous, repetitive and ill-suited to the diversity of contemporary urban life. In its place, Miles Glendinning offers a fresh perspective on the formal inventiveness, social complexity, global reach and sheer problem-solving spirit that this architecture embodies. * Stephen Cairns, ETH Zurich, Switzerland / Future Cities Lab, Singapore *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Cuius regio, eius religio – the multiple modernities of housing Mass housing – spearhead of radical modernisation Methodological challenges and constraints: balancing narrative and geography PART A: MID 19th-CENTURY TO 1945 - The gathering storm 1. Pre-1914: The Long Mobilisation Mid 19th-century innovators and experiments Late 19th- early 20th century ideologies: public housing and arm’s length building The dual market: working-class tenements and middle-class apartments in North America Housing and colonialism: building for rulers or the ruled? The upsurge in emergencies: 1905-1914 2. 1914-1945 The maturing of mass housing in the age of emergencies Systematisation and individualism: the emergence of modern mass housing World War I: war socialism and rent control The Hare and the Tortoise: municipal housing in ‘Red Vienna’ and Britain Continental permutations in the 1920s Totalitarian housing visions in the Great Depression Democratic housing systems of the 1930s Interwar Latin America and the colonies World War II – The globalisation of emergency PART B: 1945-1989 - The ‘Three Worlds’ of postwar mass housing 3. Postwar mass housing: an introductory overview First World, Second World, Third World International modernism: from global to local 4. Housing by Authority – post-war state interventions in the ‘Anglosphere’ Red scares, race scares – the brief heyday and long retreat of US public housing New York City – the monumental exception Local trajectories of renewal and decline Canada: government intervention and the revival of renting ‘Big Daddy’ and mass housing in Metro Toronto New Zealand and Australia Commonwealth and state: the CSHA High flats and slum reclamation in Victoria and New South Wales 5. Council Powers: postwar public housing in Britain and Ireland Central and municipal Postwar housing design in England Slum clearance, planning and the ‘land-trap’ Financing and organising high flats in the ‘sixties London and the English cities Scotland: the legacy of ‘Red Clydeside’ Island diversity: Ireland and the Channel Islands 6. France: the Trente Glorieuses of mass housing 1945-55 – A hesitant revival SCIC, SCET and the état planificateur ‘Le hard french’: the housing legacy of Perret 1955-75: ‘grands ensembles’ and the industrialisation of national grandeur 7. The Low Countries – pillars of modern mass housing Socialist skyscrapers versus Catholic cottages: postwar housing in Belgium The Netherlands: planned housing and ‘polder politics’ Standardisation and galerijbouw: postwar Dutch housing design 8.Stability and Continuity: West Germany and the alpine countries Tenure-neutral building in Switzerland and Austria West Germany: the housing of soziale Marktwirtschaft ‘Wohnungen, Wohnungen und nochmals Wohnungen’ - Neue Heimat and 1950s-70s production 9. The Nordic countries – social versus individual? Building the ‘Folkhem’ – housing and Social Democracy in Sweden Denmark: modernisation through quiet quality Finland, Norway and Iceland – mass housing for the individual 10. Southern Europe – social housing for kinship societies The progressive South: postwar housing in Italy and Malta INA-Casa: the Christian Democratic housing vision Left Turn? 1960s-70s ‘comprehensive’ planning in Italy The conservative South: postwar housing in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey Conclusion: First World housing in summary 11. The USSR: Developed Socialism and Extensive Urbanism ‘Quickly, Cheaply and Well’ – Soviet housing under Khrushchev and Brezhnev The curate’s egg – national and local housing production in the postwar Soviet Union Order out of chaos? central and private-sector initiatives Monumentality and space in postwar Soviet housing SNiP and DSK – standardisation and industrialisation Taming the colossus: towards ‘complexity’ and ‘flexibility’ A brotherly mosaic – regionalist housing in the USSR Tashkent – model Soviet city Soviet housing in the perestroika years 12. A quarrelsome family: the European socialist states The satellite bloc: from dissidence to decomposition The diversity of socialist standardisation Socialist outliers: European divergences from the Soviet model The ‘Ongoing Revolution’ – self-management and monumentality in Yugoslavia Novi Beograd – epicentre of decentralism Late socialist cluster-developments across the Yugoslav republics 13. Socialist Eastern Asia: mass housing and the Sino-Soviet split Danwei: fragmentation and austerity in Chinese socialist housing From the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution: austerity and anarchy ‘Soviet’ Asia: Mongolia and North Vietnam Building at ‘Pyongyang speed’: housing in Juche Korea Conclusion: Second World housing in summary 14. Latin America – chameleon continent Mass housing and the politics of charismatic leadership, 1945-1964 Housing as social security: pre-1964 Brazil 1960s Cold-War housing politics in Latin America Order and Progress? Post-1964 housing in Brazil, Argentina and Chile 15. Echoes of empire – postwar housing in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa The Middle East: decolonisation and development Israel: creating a ‘new geography’ through public housing India and South Asia: building on colonial bureaucracy Capital colonies: post-independence Delhi Bombay/Mumbai and MHADA: pressure-cooker building Sub-Saharan Africa: colonialism’s last stand ‘Progressive’ housing decolonisation in francophone Africa Divide and rule? Segregation and mass housing in ‘British’ Africa South Africa: segregated housing in a siege society 6. From Third World to First World: mass housing in capitalist Eastern Asia Towards the developmental state – postwar housing in Japan Housing the ’Asian Tigers’ ‘Housing Gangnam-style’: South Korea’s tanji revolution Hong Kong and Singapore – a study in sibling rivalry Shek Kip Mei and Bukit Ho Swee: from resettlement to home-ownership Race to the Top: HDB and HKHA architecture First cousin: Macau PART C: 1989 TO THE PRESENT - Retrenchment and renewal 17. Resilience and renewal: mass housing into the 21st century Introduction The aftermath: mass housing at bay in the former First and Second Worlds Residual mass housing in the Global South 18. Race to the top: the new Asian developmentalism TOKi and AKP Turkey Developmental Eastern Asia into the 21st century Building for the ‘Mass Line’: social housing in 21st-century China 19. Conclusion: global and national, idealism and realpolitik Index
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Manchester University Press The Strand
Book SynopsisThis deeply researched book offers a unique history of London's most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day. -- .
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome
Book SynopsisRome's architectural remains date as far back as the city's founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi the capital of the world the largest, most powerful presence in the ancient Western world. Along the way, Rome's architectural styles, whether developed organically or appropriated from the cultures it subjugated and absorbed, were physical evidence of the politics, propaganda and pragmatism of the times. Written for readers passionate about Rome and how its architecture is inimitably linked to the city's history, An Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome is the armchair architect's tour of the Eternal City. It provides a timeline that begins with the founding of Rome and documents its significant architectural monuments and styles through the millennia, with photos, maps and practical information for visiting.
£11.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architectural Model Building: Tools, Techniques &
Book SynopsisAdvances in computer aided design have proven to be an invaluable tool for the architect and designer, yet Frank Gehry still begins his creative process by making "simple" models out of modest materials. Drawings and video, while an essential part of the design process, are still not substitutes for the tactile sensation one receives from a scale model. Drawing on 20 years experience in art and architecture, the author has developed this book on model making as it applies to students and professional of the built environment. It will illustrate a multitude of techniques and the use of a wide variety of materials, providing a solid foundation for students and professionals to create and enjoy three-dimensional model making. Features: -- Organized according to a logical progression, using skills, techniques, and materials which build upon themselves -- Covers 3D fundamentals for interior design, architecture, landscape architecture, furniture design, theatrical design, and retail merchandising -- Chapters follow a logical progression from basic to the most advanced -- Section on "Learning from the Pros" will list common mistakes and how to avoid them -- Relevant safety issues relating to the tools and materials discussed throughout -- Planning considerations such as budget, use of models, scale, and construction techniques -- Display and photographing models for presentation including choosing a viewpoint, background and lighting effects -- Chapter on history of models and/or building systems, materials and construction techniques -- End of chapter assignments/exercises and summary and glossary -- Pre-printed geometric patterns for students to cut out and use to assemble models -- Instructor's Manual includes course outlines and recommended additional projectsTable of ContentsA Brief History of the Architectural Model An overview of Model Types and Their Uses Interior Models Planning a Model Your Workspace Basic Tools and Their Use Fundamental Construction Techniques Bases and Presentation Paper-Based Model Foam Board, Foam Core, or Bainbridge Board Models Balsa and Basswood Construction Techniques Mixing Media and Layering Components Interior Models Entourage
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Amber Books Ltd Understanding Architecture: A Guide to
Book SynopsisIf you don’t know your Baroque from your Rococo, or the difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco, or where Modernism ends and Postmodernism begins, then don’t fear, you’re not alone. Understanding Architecture will reveal all. From the ancient world to the present day, from medieval Cambodian temples to Paris metro stations, from American shotgun shacks to colonial villas, fascist grandeur to the latest ecologically friendly structures, the book expertly guides the reader through the world’s different architectural styles. Arranged chronologically, over two spreads a major building is used to illustrate a particular style – King’s College Chapel, Cambridge for Perpendicular Gothic, the Palace of Versailles for Baroque, the Chrysler Building for Art Deco. Each entry is illustrated with both general view photographs and close-ups, accompanied by accessible text explaining the major features of the style. Each chapter also offers a general cultural background to the major architectural movements, putting them into historical context. Illustrated with more than 200 outstanding photographs of remarkable buildings, Understanding Architectureis an excellent, accessible introduction to the history of architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction Architecture of the Ancient World Sumerian – Ziggurat of Ur Ancient Egyptian – Luxor Temple Mesoamerican – Chichén Itzá Assyrian – Palace of Sargon Ancient Greek – The Acropolis, Athens Ancient Rome – The Colosseum, Rome Architecture of the Middle Ages Persian/Islamic – Tomb of the Samanids, Bukhara Byzantine – Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Moorish – Alhambra, Granada Medieval Rus’ – Cathedral of Saint Demetrius, Vladimir Romanesque – Leaning tower of Pisa Norman – Norwich Cathedral Medejar – San Martin Tower, Teruel Gothic – Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris Ming China – The Forbidden City, Beijing Perpendicular Gothic – King’s College chapel, Cambridge 15th–16th Century Architecture Renaissance – Florence Cathedral Vernacular Tudor – Anne Hathaway’s cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon Manueline – Santa Cruz Monastery, Coimbra High Renaissance – The Tempietto, Rome Mannerism – Palazzo Te, Mantua Middle Muscovite – Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow Elizabethan – Burghley House, Stamford 17th Century Architecture Baroque – Palace of Versailles Jacobean – Hatfield House Palladian – Queen’s House, Greenwich Late Muscovite – Church of the Intercession at Fili, Moscow Rococo – Schönbrunn Palace Mughal – Taj Mahal, Agra 18th Century Architecture Petrine Baroque – Grand Menshikov Palace, Oranienbaum American Colonial – Old State House, Boston Queen Anne – Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool Georgian – The Circus, Bath Neoclassical – Vilnius Cathedral Gothic Revival – Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Ostend Pombaline – Praça do Comércio, Lisbon Federal – Old Town Hall, Salem Jeffersonian – Monticello, Charlottesville 19th Century Architecture British Regency – Park Crescent, London Beaux-Arts – Sainte- Geneviève Library, Paris Victorian – Manchester Town Hall Art Nouveau – Museum of Applied Arts Arts and Crafts – Red House, Bexleyheath Antoni Gaudí – Sagrada Família, Barcelona Parkitecture – Crater Lake Lodge, Oregon 20th Century Architecture Edwardian – Moseley Road Baths, Birmingham Bauhaus – Bauhaus Dessau Art Deco – Chrysler Building, New York City Futurist – Fiat Tagliero Service Station, Fascist – Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Rome Pueblo Revival – New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe International Style – Willis Tower, Chicago Stalinist – Moscow State University Brutalist – Cité Radieuse, Marseille Postmodern – Berlin Philharmonie High Tech – Lloyd’s Building, London Masters of the 20th Century Frank Lloyd Wright – Taliesin West, Scottsdale Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York City Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye, Poissy I.M.Pei – Suzhou Museum Oscar Niemeyer – Cathedral of Brasília Frank O. Gehry – Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Álvaro Siza – Llobregat Sports Centre, Barcelona Norman Foster – 30 St Mary Axe, London Zaha Hadid – London Aquatics Centre Santiago Calatrava – Lisbon Oriente Station 21st Century Architecture Passivhaus – The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia Biomimetic – Supertrees, Singapore Reinvention – Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town Modern Arab Islamic – Louvre Abu Dhabi
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The Crowood Press Ltd Acoustics in Architectural Design
Book SynopsisIt was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that the physicist Wallace Clement Sabine developed his theory of reverberation, which has remained fundamental to architectural acoustics to this day, and has subsequently been applied to many building types, especially those for the performing arts. Yet the practice of architectural acoustics goes back much further with the impressive designs of the Greeks proving highly influential. This comprehensive book explores the development of acoustics in architectural design from the theatres of Classical Greece, through the early development of opera houses, concert halls and theatres, to the research work of Sabine and his successors and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century buildings. Topics covered include: the fundamentals of acoustics; the influential legacy of the Greeks and Romans; the evolving design of opera houses, theatres and concert halls and, finally, the acoustics of schools, music schools and recital halls.Trade ReviewThroughout the book, Orlowski’s writing style is clear, concise, on-point and highly engaging. For students looking to study the history and theory of acoustics in architecture and those already plying their trade in the arts, the book is a valuable work. -- Simon Duff * Lighting & Sound International Magazine *The book is very informative. It will be a good reference for all those dealing with the design of classrooms, concert halls, and opera houses, etc. -- Applied Acoustics reviewer Siu-Kit Lau * Applied Acoustics Journal on Science Direct *Raf Orlowski’s book is a welcome addition to the literature on architectural acoustics. It provides a comprehensive review of the development of the acoustic design of many different types of building with particular emphasis on spaces for the performing arts such as opera houses, theatres and concert halls. -- Bridget Shield MBE, reviewer Acoustics Bulletin * Acoustics Bulletin *
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Amber Books Ltd Amazing Temples of the World
Book SynopsisTemples have been places of worship, a focus for spirituality and a place for communities to gather since the earliest days of human civilisation. The first temples date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, deriving from the cult of deities and residing places for gods and immortals. Today, temple buildings remain lively focal points for the Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Sikh religions. Organised by continent, Amazing Temples of the World offers the reader an intimate portrait of some spectacular and unusual places of worship dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present. Ornate or spartan, immense or intimate, from the Middle East to California, this book features such impressive places of worship as the Mahabodi Temple, India, built in the location where Buddha is thought to have achieved enlightenment; the fifth century BCE Temple of Confucius in Qufu, China, the largest Confucian temple in the world; Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt, the great carved monument to the Pharaoh Ramses II; the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the spiritual home of the world’s 25 million Sikhs; and the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, London, the biggest Hindu temple outside India. Illustrated with more than 180 photographs, Amazing Temples of the World includes more than 150 places of worship, from Ancient Greece and Rome, through traditional synagogues to modern Buddhist, Taoist and Sikh temples.Table of ContentsContents EUROPE: Greco-Roman temples: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens Erechtheum, Acropolis, Athens Temple of Hephaestus, Athens Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens Temple of Apollo, Delphi Temple of Apollo Epicurius, Peloponnese, Greece Temple of Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Valley of the Temples, Sicily Doric Temple of Segesta, Sicily Paestum, Italy Temple of Apollo, Pompeii, Naples, Italy Pantheon, Rome Maison Carree, Nimes, France Augustus, Pula, Croatia Garni Temple, Armenia Augustus and Livia, Vienne, France Zeus, Aizanoi, Turkey Neasden Temple, London Guru Singh Sabba Gurdwara, Southall, England Birmingham Buddhist Vihara Synagogues: Great Synagogue, Budabest Old New Synagogue, Prague Spanish Synagogue, Prague Jubilee Synagogue, Prague Grand Choral Synagogue,St. Petersburg New Synagogue, Berlin Ohel Jakob, Munich Ulm Synagogue, Germany Leopoldstädter Tempel, Vienna Roonstrasse Synagogue, Cologne Sofia Synagogue, Bulgaria Subotica Synagogue, Serbia Tempio Maggiore, Florence New West End Synagogue, London ASIA: Indian Subcontinent: Lotus Temple, Delhi (Bahai) Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, Tamil Nadu Amman Temple, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka Varadharaja Perumal Temple Brihadishwara Temple Khajuraho Annamalaiyar Temple Jagannath Temple, Puri Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam Virupaksha Temple, Hampi Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai Ramanathaswamy Temple, Tamil Nadu Akshardham Temple, Delhi Laxminarayan Temple, Delhi Bodh Gaya, Bihar (Buddhist) Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India (Buddhist) Mahabodhi Temple Kailashnath Temple, Ellora Caves, Maharashtra, India Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir Sikh Gurdwaras: Sri Harmandir Sahib, Golden Temple, Amritsar Sri Anandpur Sahib, Rupnagar Gurdwara Data Bandi Chhod Sahib, Gwalior Gurdwara Bangla Sahib, Delhi Patna Sahib, Patna Hazur Sahib, Nanded Takht Sri Damdama Sahib Myanmar: Phowintaung Caves, Monywa Bagan Taung Kalat Shwedagon Pagoda (or Golden Pagoda) Bezeklik Caves, Xinjiang, China Thailand: Temple of Reclining Buddha, Bangkok Wat Paphukon, Udonthani, Thailand Sirindhorn Wararam Phu Prao Temple, Chong Mek Wat Benchamabophit, Bangkok Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Wat Arun, Bangkok White Temple (Wat Rong Khun) Wat Mahathat, Sukhothai Wat Chaiwatthanaram, Ayuuhaya Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) Sanctuary of Truth, Pattaya Wat Huai Pla Kung Wat Phra That Lampang Luang Wat Phra Dhammakaya Sri Maha Mariamman Temple, Bangkok (Hindu) Laos: Wat Xieng Thong Pha That Luang (‘Great Stupa in Lao’) Cambodia: Ankor Wat Banteay Srei Vietnam: Trấn Quốc Pagoda, Hanoi Bửu Long Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh city Indonesia: Prambanan, Java Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia Tanah Lot, Bali Uluwatu, Bali Ulun Danu Beratan, Bali Besakih, Bali Goa Gajah, Bali Taman Ayun, Bali Goa Lawah, Bali Malaysia: Kek Lok Si Temple, Penang Thean Hou Temple, Kuala Lumpur Batu Caves Sri Mahamariamman Temple, KL Thean Hou Temple Khoo Kongsi Temple, Penang Singapore: Bright Hill Temple Buddha Tooth Relic Temple Leong San See Thian Hock Keng China: Mount Qingcheng, Sichuan Wudang Mountains, Hubei Qingyang Palace, Sichuan Erwang Temple, Yulei Mountain, Sichuan Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi Celestial Master Palace on Mount Heming, Chengdu Golden Temple, Kunming Qiyun Mountain China Tayun Mountain Qingcheng Mountain Jade Maiden Peak Mount Hua Skywalk, Hua Shan Mountain, Huayin, Shaanxi Province Dagaoxuan Hall, Forbidden City, Beijing Temple of Heaven, Beijing White Cloud Taoist Temple, Beijing Hong Kong: Man Mo Temple (Taoist) Bhutan/Tibet: Paro Taktsang, Bhutan Kye Gompa monastery Jokhang Temple, Lahsa Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal South Korea: Haeinsa (Temple of Reflection on a Smooth Sea) Japan: Seiganto-ji Horyu-ji, Nara Tenryu-ji Temple Todaiji (“Great Eastern Temple”) Nanzen-ji Temple Tofuku-ji Temple NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA: T'ien Hau Temple, LA, USA Hindu Temple of Florida Malibu Hindu Temple, USA Swami Narayan Mandir, Georgia Gurdwara Sahib, San Jose, California, USA Byodo-In Temple, in O’ahu’s Valley of the Temples, Hawaii Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York Congregation Mickve Israel, Savannah, Georgia, USA Canada: Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Toronto Sridurka Hindu Temple, Toronto Hindu Temple and Cultural Centre of Windsor Akali Singh Sikh Temple, Vancouver Mayan temples: Chichen Itza, Mexico Teotihuacan, Mexico Tulum, Mexico Monte Alban, Mexico Palenque, Mexico Uxmal, Mexico Calakmul, Mexico Ek Balam, Mexico Tula, Mexico Incan temples: Temple of the Sun, Machu Picchu Koricancha Temple in Cusco Quenko, near Cusco Pisac in the Sacred Valley Pachacamac near Lima Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, Willemstad, Curaçao AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST: Greco-Roman: Palmyra, Syria Sbeitla forum, Tunisia Baalbek (Heliopolis), Lebanon Tunisia: El Ghibra Synagogue, Djerba Israel: Jerusalem Great Synagogue Iran: Fire Temple of Yazd Egypt: Luxor Temple Abu Simbel Karnak Medinet Habu Kom Ombo Philae, Aswan Edfu Dendera Seti I, Abydos Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut South Africa: Durban Hindu Temple Shree Ayyappa Kshetram Centurion Clairwood Shree Siva Soobramoniar Temple Mariamman Temple Pretoria
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Amber Books Ltd Abandoned Islands
Book SynopsisExploring some of the world’s eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe’s last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more. Arranged geographically, the book takes us from New York’s East River to islands off Alaska, from a French Napoleonic-era fort off the coast of Normandy to deserted villages on remote Scottish isles, from Venetian sanatoria to Croatian penal colonies, Japanese mining colonies to Sudanese deserted ports and abandoned atolls in the Indian Ocean. Leafing through these pages, the reasons for abandonment are revealed: climate change sealing off fresh water or river channels, shifting economic forces making life too hard, religious conflict, or wars disrupting daily life – or the absence of war rendering a military settlement unnecessary. With more than 180 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions, Abandoned Islands is a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost worlds.Table of ContentsContents Introduction AMERICAS: Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada Attu Island, Alaska, United States Guard Island, Alaska, United States D’Arcy Island, British Columbia, Canada Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada McNabs Island, Nova Scotia, Canada L’Îsle-aux-Marins, St Pierre and Miquelon Caribou Island, Ontario, Canada Turtle Island, Michigan and Ohio, United States Año Nuevo Island, California, United States Alcatraz Island, California, United States Pollepel Island, New York, United States North Brother Island, New York, United States Hart Island, New York, United States Ellis Island, New York, United States Fort Carroll, Maryland, United States Holland Island, Maryland, United States Cumberland Island, Georgia, United States Fort Jefferson, Florida, United States La Isla de las Muñecas, Mexico Devil’s Island, French Guiana Klein Curaçao, Curaçao Gorgona Island, Colombia Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil Lobos de Tierra, Peru Keppel Island, Falkland Islands EUROPE: Dragonera, Balearic Islands, Spain Danskøya, Svalbard, Norway Helgøya, Norway Elliðaey, Iceland Gruinard, Scotland Cara, Scotland Castle Stalker, Scotland Loch an Eilein, Scotland Mingulay, Scotland Shillay, Scotland Scarba, Scotland Hirta, St Kilda, Scotland Devenish, Northern Ireland Great Blasket, Ireland Innisfallen, Ireland Inishmurray, Ireland Skellig Michael, Ireland St Catherine’s, Wales Stack Rock Fort, Wales Thorne Island Fort, Wales Samson, Isles of Scilly, England No Man’s Land Fort, England Cézembre, France Gavrinis, France Île du Large, Îsles St-Marcouf, France Dragonera, Balearic Islands, Spain Gaiola, Italy Isola dei Cappuccini, Sardinia, Italy Isola delle Correnti, Sicily, Italy Torre Scola, Italy Madonna del Monte, Italy Poveglia, Italy Comino, Malta Daksa, Croatia Sveti Grgur, Croatia Sveti Andrija, Croatia Baljenac, Croatia Goli Otok, Croatia Mamula, Montenegro Delos, Greece Spinalonga, Crete, Greece Aniva Lighthouse, Sakhalin, Russia Kolyuchin, Russia Bolshoy Zayatsky, Russia Bolshoy Tyuters, Russia Fort Alexander, Russia MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: Gemiler, Turkey Islet on Lake Bafa, Turkey Sedir, Turkey Bunce, Sierra Leone Tigres, Angola St Croix, South Africa Central, Kenya Suakin, Sudan Tiran, Saudi Arabia Chagos Archipelago Nosy Mangabe, Madagascar ASIA & THE PACIFIC: Boyuk Zira, Azerbaijan Middle Ground Coastal Battery, India Ross Island, Andaman Islands, India Houtouwan, Shengshan, China Gajajima, Japan Hashima, Japan Okunoshima, Japan Sarah, Tasmania, Australia Maria, Tasmania, Australia Whitsunday, Australia Nan Madol, Federated States of Micronesia Antipodes Islands, New Zealand Adams Island, New Zealand Enderby, New Zealand Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands Clipperton, France Howland, United States Tetepare, Solomon Islands Deception Island, Antarctica
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Batsford Ltd Golden Lane Estate: An Urban Village
Book SynopsisThe story of the building of an iconic mid-century housing estate, that is often seen as the model for housing architecture. Fully illustrated with commissioned photography of the interiors and exteriors, archive images and newly commissioned writing by leading architectural historians, plus interviews with people on the estate to capture their story. Following World War II, the population in the City of London plummeted, and with a duty to provide housing for those working in the area – such as nurses, policemen and doctors – the City Corporation commissioned architect Geoffry Powell in 1952 to design the Golden Lane Estate. Powell invited Christoph Bon and Jo Chamberlin to join him in developing a detailed design for the Estate. They would later become Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, working on world-renowned projects such as the Barbican Estate and the University of Leeds. Golden Lane Estate, now Grade II and Grade II* listed is often cited as being a model estate. With its high level of detailing, use of materials, colour, its humane scale, thoughtfulness of space, light, communal spaces, leisure facilities and integrated shops, it is exemplary, particularly for social housing. It was deemed as a success from the off and remains popular today, with many original tenants and/or their families still choosing to live there. What sets the estate apart is the sense of community and neighbourliness which is promoted by the architecture and design. Trade Review‘A rich combination of architectural and social history, tracing the rise and fall and rise of the estate’s fortunes’ * Wallpaper Feature *‘A rich combination of architectural and social history, tracing the rise and fall and rise of the estate’s fortunes’ * Wallpaper* *
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Batsford Ltd Industrial Britain: An Architectural History
Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into Britain’s industrial past as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated with intricate line drawings. Industrial Britain goes far beyond the mills and machine houses of the Industrial Revolution to give an engaging insight into Britain’s industrial heritage. It looks at the power stations and monumental bridges of Britain, including the buildings and engineering projects associated with the distribution of manufactured goods – docks, canals, railways and warehouses. The gasworks Temples of mass production The mill Warehouse and manufactory Dock and harbour buildings Water power and water storage Waterways: canals and rivers The railway age Breweries and oast houses Markets and exchanges The twentieth century: industry on greenfield sites It’s a story of industrial development, but also a story of its ultimate decline. As manufacturing has been increasingly replaced by services, new uses have been found for at least some of the country’s great industrial buildings. Not least as containers for art and heritage, such as the Bankside Power Station (Tate Modern) and Salts Mill. Other buildings featured are still used as originally intended today, such as Smithfield Market in London and the Shepherd Neame brewery in Faversham. Illustrated throughout with over 200 original line drawings, Industrial Britain is a celebration of industrial architecture and its enduring legacy.Trade Review‘Not only a record of the buildings that tell the story of a rapidly industrialising nation but a testament to their importance in the history of British architecture. … A timely reminder of both our continued reliance on heavy industry and the threatened heritage of Britain’s industrial landscapes’ -- InigoTable of ContentsIntroduction Britain’s industrial heritage Fire, forge and furnace The watermill and windmill The power station The gasworks Temples of mass production: the mill Warehouse and manufactory Dock and harbour buildings Water power and water storage Waterways: canals and rivers The railway age Breweries and oast houses Markets and exchanges The twentieth century: industry on greenfield sites Postscript Bibliography Index
£11.69
Batsford 100 20thCentury Buildings
Book Synopsis A stylish celebration of some of the greatest buildings in Britain, from the 20th century and beyond, by the country's leading organisation for the protection of 20th century architecture. This fascinating book showcases 100 standout buildings from 1914 onwards, representing the broad variety of 20th century British architecture.The structures celebrated in this book include the Royal Festival Hall, the Hepworth Gallery, Preston Bus Station, Battersea Power Station, the Barbican Estate, the Aquatics Centre and many more. The glorious photography in 100 20th Century Buildings is accompanied by insightful text from a range of expert architectural writers and enthusiasts including Alan Powers, Owen Hatherley and Rowan Moore, along with several longer essays on different aspects of the 20th-century built environment: the late Gavin Stamp on the inter-war decades, the much missed Elain Harwood on post-war architecture and Timothy Brittain-Catlin on postmode
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Merrell Publishers Ltd Building Southwark Architecture and Regeneration
Book SynopsisIn Building Southwark: Architecture and Regeneration in a London Borough, the renowned architecture writer and critic Kenneth Powell continues the story of one of Britain's most dynamic and successful areas of regeneration. While this architectural renaissance which began in the 1980s is evident most publicly along the south bank of the Thames, it extends throughout the borough, from Walworth to Peckham and from Bermondsey to Dulwich. Its impact can be seen in the creation of cultural venues, the revival of industrial spaces for residential and commercial use and shared working, and the generation of a wealth of stunning new and already iconic projects. This comprehensive and fully illustrated book describes more than 50 projects that have been built in Southwark in the new millennium. Arranged according to building type, they include such well-known landmarks as the extension to the Tate Modern, the Shard and the redeveloped London Bridge station, as well as diverse social, cultural, healthcare and education projects, from the refurbishment of King's Reach Tower (now the South Bank Tower) to the new cancer centre at Guy's and St Thomas's hospital and the transformation of Burgess Park. Following the introduction, which offers an overview of the architectural strategy in the borough, the entries are divided into Cultural/Leisure, Housing, Infrastructure/Jobs, Mixed-use, Education and Landscape projects. Forthcoming projects those under construction are also included, among them the enormous undertaking of Elephant & Castle town centre, Walworth Town Hall and the masterplan for Canada Water Basin. Illustrated with photographs and plans, the book offers an inspirational survey and an invaluable record of the continued reinvigoration of this historic and forward-thinking district. AUTHOR: Kenneth Powell is an architecture critic, journalist and writer. He has published widely, including books on Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and John McAslan, as well as New Architecture in Britain (2003), City Reborn (2004), New London Architecture (2005) and New London Architecture 2 (2007; with Cathy Strongman), all by Merrell. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the RIBA in 2000. 350 colour illustrations
£29.75
Blue Crow Media Postmodern London Map: Guide to postmodernist
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Read Modern Buildings: A Crash Course in
Book SynopsisAn essential and handy visual vocabulary of modern architecture. How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide to understanding the architecture of the modern era. This handy book takes you on a guided tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing you how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognise them in the buildings all around. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts, through the International Style and Modernism to today's environmental architecture and the rise and fall of the icon, read all about the major architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day through their classic buildings. By examining the key architectural elements and hidden details of each style, learn what to look out for and where to look for it. Packed with detailed drawings, plans and photographs, this is both a fascinating architectural history and an effective I-spy guide, and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in modern design and architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction Grammar of Styles Building Types Homes Mass Housing Worship Tall Work Culture Travel Learning Leisure Appendices Glossary Directory of Buildings Index
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Harvard University Press Pairs 05
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Birkhauser Modern Construction Case Studies: Emerging
Book SynopsisModern Construction Case Studies focuses on the interface between the design of facades, structures and environments of 12 building projects, all developed by Newtecnic. The Author compares facade technologies, particularly in the way they interface with structure and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing services) in complex projects, to provide insights into the design process for building envelopes. Each envelope technology is described with an emphasis on one of three aspects: geometry, construction and performance. The analysis links the 12 case studies by comparing their structural and environmental performance. The aim is achieved by analyzing typical bays which are representative of each project and which illustrate the implications of using different building envelope technologies.
£30.60
Lars Muller Publishers R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking
Book Synopsis'Pattern-Thinking' reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller - unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author - as advancing contemporary models of design-research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively on Fuller’s archive, the book follows his unique process of translation between the physical and conceptual dimensions of design, to redefine our understanding of the relationships between geometry, structure, language, and intellectual property. Rather than being organised around a chronology of distinct narratives, 'Pattern-Thinking' follows these parallel explorations as the basis for Fuller’s artifacts and inventions. In the space between lines, models, words, and patents, it traces his ambition to measure physical experience in an ever-expanding pattern of relationships, while coordinating these into a conceptual network of words and concepts that shape the basis for his thinking. Advocating a multidisciplinary and political perspective, Fuller’s transversal logic expands the knowledge base of contemporary models of design, which seek to find broader participation and to address new publics.
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Weiss Publications World of Variation: The i Press Series on the
Book SynopsisAn imaginative reenvisioning of spatial and social relations from America's 1960s urbanist movement In World of Variation (1970), American architects Mary Otis Stevens (born 1928) and Thomas McNulty (1919–84) outlined a radical reenvisioning of socio-spatial relationships, informed by their background in philosophy and commitment to decentralizing hierarchies. Writing in the context of the Cold War and the political activism of 1960s America, they identified possible design solutions to then-current social issues. In striking abstract drawings, Stevens visualized aspects of the urban environment, proposing a design philosophy she termed “free flow.” These diagrams give expression to both the “flow” of movement and points of “hesitations.” This volume is a facsimile of World of Variation, accompanying the MIT Museum’s exhibition on the work of Mary Otis Stevens. Born in New York in 1928, Mary Otis Stevens is considered one of the most important female American postwar architects. She is best known for Lincoln House (1965), designed with her then-husband Thomas McNulty, the first exposed-concrete and glass house in the US. Thomas McNulty (1919–84) taught on MIT’s faculty from 1949 to 1956, before leaving to open a firm with his then wife, Mary Otis Stevens. In 1978, the couple divorced and McNulty moved to Saudi Arabia, where he taught at the University of Riyadh.
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Die Gestalten Verlag Upgrade Your House: Rebuild, Renovate, and
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RIBA Publishing Future Office: Next-generation workplace design
Book SynopsisThe office is dead. Long live the office. Despite decades of predictions that the office is on the verge of extinction, it is surviving and thriving. Of course things are changing. And changing fast. Digital technologies are transforming not only the work we do, but also the ways our workplaces are designed, built and operated. Automation and AI mean that some jobs will no longer exist whilst others will be created. But the very essence of the workplace — human interaction and collaboration, remains as necessary as ever. In fact, it is the human focus that is driving this new age, with four generations now in the workplace together for the first time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book discusses the impacts of these changes on the future of work and workplace. The latest technologies are also explored from voice and digital twins, to new materials such as graphene and battery-powered buildings. The book looks at what this means for the design process, the role of the architect and physical place itself in the future, and provides a practical guide to help architects, designers, developers, clients and occupiers create office spaces that promote wellbeing, innovation and growth.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Buildings 1. A place in time: office typologies 2. Fit for the future: sustainability and adaptive buildings Part II: Technology 3. The changing nature of technology and its impacts on office buildings 4. Digital transformation and big data Part III: People 5. Wellbeing 6. Research-led design 7. Workplace as a catalyst for behaviour change Part IV: Delivery 8. Energy, materiality and specification 9. Design leadership in procurement 10. The future of design practice 11. Conclusions: fast-forward to the future
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