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The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects "The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between...
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Wiley
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2002-04-08
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Building Type Basics
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Discover how you can run the practical side of your practice more profitably. This comprehensive guide to managing an interior design business gives you an arsenal of proven procedures and practical tools and techniques perfected over the course of some thirty years....
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Wiley
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2002-04-08
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The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in...
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Wiley
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2002-02-28
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This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge granite pile of the State,...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-04-20
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All buildings are ultimately the products of building cultures--complex systems of people, relationships, rules, and habits in which design and building are anchored. In this book of thirteen chapter-essays, Davis uses historical, contemporary and cross-cultural...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-01-06
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Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects, and industrial magnates. These are the places, carefully saved and...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-02-08
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By the first years of the twentieth century the memory of old-time New England was in danger. What had once been a land of small towns populated by tradition-minded Yankees was now becoming almost unrecognizable with a floodtide of immigrants and the constant change of...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-11-09
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The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists and architects to offer a variety of perspectives on the relation between postmodernism and architecture.The contributors...
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University of California Humanities Research Institute
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1994-02-17
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Focusing on the Mediterranean area where water management is crucial, this pioneering study is the first to show how the supply, distribution, and drainage of water contributed to the urbanization of ancient cities. Drawing from classical archaeology, the theory and...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-06-24
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Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that embraced capitalism and open-market trading. In many instances, the company town came to symbolize the wrecking of the...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-10-01
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Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman setsPalladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and...
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Penguin
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1991-07-25
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The antebellum era and the close of the 19th century frame a period of great agricultural expansion. During this time, farmhouse plans designed by rural men and women regularly appeared in the flourishing Northern farm journals. This book analyzes these vital indicators...
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Oxford University Press
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1988-06-16
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An incisive illustrated history of the ill-planned and calamitous construction of Halifax's railway from the author of Atlantic's Last Stop.
Halifax in the early twentieth century had a problem. It was in the wrong place in a thinly populated country, far from...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2025-11-04
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Professor Erwin Panofsky’s study, ''Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,'' captured and holds an eminent place in a series that is not without distinction, the Wimmer Lectures.
Erwin Panofsky, in “Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,” indicates with grace and...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-12
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Jacob Burckhardt, eminente storico dell'arte svizzero del XIX secolo, ha rivestito un ruolo fondamentale nella formazione del pensiero storico e nella comprensione del Rinascimento europeo. La sua opera, in particolare questo celebre trattato, ha scolpito una visione...
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Cactus
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2024-10-23
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Winner, AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Second PrizeWinner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated) A National Bestseller The legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more — torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost — are...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2022-03-22
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The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-12-12
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“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a connection even exists between the two words. Some women didn’t agree.
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart...
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Baraka Books
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2014-12-15
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This book traces the fascinating history of what Montrealers still call the city’s “grande dame”. From the complex’s earliest beginnings with developer William Zeckendorf, through its later transformations, the reader will discover in these pages a broad swath of our...
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Québec Amérique
Parution :
2012-09-12
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Journeying across the globe – from a skyscraper in Vancouver, B.C., to a department store in Los Angeles, and from super-cinemas in Bombay (Mumbai) to radio cabinets in Canadian living rooms – this richly illustrated book examines the reach of Art Deco as it affected...
Editeur :
Presses de l'Université du Québec
Parution :
2012-09-07
Collection :
Patrimoine urbain
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