Ecohouse : A Design Guide

Ecohouse : A Design Guide

Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas

Ecohouse is an exciting and timely text that tells you how to design low energy, environmentally friendly buildings today. It also provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and stepping stones towards the zero-carbon emission buildings of tomorrow.

This guide to the ecohouse also explores 21 case-studies from around the world, from Norway and Sweden to India and Japan, Argentina and Mexico. Chapters by Christopher Day, Katerine Bohn and Andre Viljoen on ecological building materials and methods and a contribution by Robert and Brenda Vale - all experts in this field

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In Detail: Solar Architecture: Strategies, Visions, Concepts

In Detail: Solar Architecture: Strategies, Visions, Concepts

Christian Schittich

In the very near future energy-efficient building will be the rule rather than the exception. Insulating glazing, multi-functional facades and organic solar cells are examples of important new developments in the field of solar thermal technology, photo-voltaics, heating and ventilation technology which are suitable for a wide range of uses from large-scale urban-planning projects to individual single family houses, and can make significant contributions to the conservation of natural resources in sustainable building. Carefully selected articles provide information on planning methods and techniques which will enable the user to assess and apply appropriate measures. The essays are complemented by a selection of built examples which demonstrate innovative solutions and the importance of an integrated planning process in realized projects, complete with full plans and large scale details.

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Building-Integrated Photovoltaic

Building-Integrated Photovoltaic

Designs for Commercial and Institutional Structures

A Sourcebook for Architects

Patrina Eiffert, Gregory J. Kiss

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Building with Earth : Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture.

Building with Earth : Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture.

Gernot Minke

For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal.

The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail.

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Building for Life : Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection

Building for Life : Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection

Stephen R. Kellert 

Island Press | 2005-09-13 | 264 pages | PDF | 6,3 MB

Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability.

In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life.

This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials, as well as more unexpected methodologies-the use of metaphor, perspective, enticement, and symbol-architects can greatly enhance our daily lives. These design techniques foster intellectual development, relaxation, and physical and emotional well-being. In the works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, and Michael Hopkins, Kellert sees the success of these strategies and presents models for moving forward. Ultimately, Kellert views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life, and he proposes many practical and creative solutions for cultivating a more rewarding experience of nature in our built environment.

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Building a Straw Bale House : The Red Feather Construction Handbook

Building a Straw Bale House

The Red Feather Construction Handbook

by Nathaniel Corum

"This book is a timely and important tool for the empowerment of communities facing housing deficits.The Red Feather project is extremely important; it is truly making a difference."Jane Goodall

For more than a decade the Red Feather Development Group, a volunteer-based organization, has built and repaired straw bale houses for Native Americans. Somewhere along the wayand this was certainly not the planthey created an architectural phenomenon: This inexpensive, environmentally sound, easily constructed, and downright beautiful form of building has, for good reason,caught the public's imagination. Here, Red Feather provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow manual for would-be strawbale buildersindeed, they supply everything you'll need but time, energy, and lots and lots of straw. Informative sections on safety, design, tools, and materials, and case studies picked from over thirty-five Red Feather projects give a comprehensive overview to straw-bale building.

But this book is much more than a construction manual. It is also the inspiring story of Red Feather itself, a tale of community action and cooperation that suggests a can-do solution to the growing housing crisis on America's Native American reservations.

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Architecture et Efficacité Énergétique - Principes de Conception et de Construction

Architecture et Efficacité Énergétique - Principes de Conception et de Construction

Roberto Gonzalo, Karl J. Habermann, Yves Minssart,

Birkhauser Basel | 2008 | 221 pages | PDF | French

Comment construire un bâtiment énergétiquement performant? Quels sont les critères déterminants pour la planification urbaine et la conception des plans ? Quelles proportions le bâtiment doit-il respecter pour être conforme à la gestion de l’énergie et au type d’utilisation ? Quels sont les éléments et systèmes de construction adaptés aux objectifs? Autant de questions auxquelles répond cet ouvrage qui, reprenant les étapes de la planification, décrit tous les critères et paramètres à prendre en compte dans la planification urbaine, les projets et la construction durable. Il présente aussi les grands potentiels d’économie d’énergie dans la rénovation de l’ancien. Des réalisations classées par type d’utilisation sont étudiées et évaluées à l’aune de ces critères. De nombreux plans et informations techniques permettent d’expliciter le "profil énergétique" de chaque bâtiment. L’accent est également mis sur l’importance d’une programmation détaillée et minutieuse. Un index commenté ainsi que la liste des principales institutions compétentes complètent utilement l’ouvrage. 

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Universal Design : A Manual of Practical Guidance for Architects

Universal Design

A Manual of Practical Guidance for Architects

by Selwyn Goldsmith

Universal Design is Selwyn Goldsmith's new authoritative design manual, the successor to his internationally acclaimed Designing for the Disabled. A clear and concise design guide for practising and student architects, it describes and illustrates the differences there are between universal design and 'for the disabled' design

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Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Gunter  Pfeifer  and  Per  Brauneck

This book is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principlethe row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling cornersis followed by the systematic presentation of the different types.

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Research and Technology Buildings - A Design Manual

Research and Technology Buildings - A Design Manual

Hardo Braun, Dieter Grömling

A handbook on planning and designing architecture for research and technology, with 70 up-to-date international case studies of built works by architects such as Foster and Partners, Nicholas Grimshaw, Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, and Nicholas Grimshaw.

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New Environments for Working

New Environments for Working

The re-design of offices and environmental systems

for new ways of working

Andrew Laing, Francis Duffy, Denice Jaunzens, Steve Willis

The workplace is changing radically, yet the building designs and environmental systems for conventional offices fail to support the more fluid use of space and time practised by these new kinds of office work. Prepared by the team who wrote The Responsible Workplace in 1992, this book is based on a major research project undertaken by DEGW and the BRE. It identifies the key organizational changes, patterns of work, work settings and types of space layouts and it will help specifiers and users of environmental systems understand what products will be suitable for innovative ways of office working.

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Medical and Dental Space Planning, 3rd Edition

Medical and Dental Space Planning, 3rd Edition

Jain Malkin 

2002 | PDF | 627 pages | English | 21.44 MB

This definitive reference offers detailed  of more than thirty medical and dental specialties and their respective space planning requirements.

New to the third edition is coverage of new medical specialties including reproductive enhancement, LASIX eye surgery, breast care centers, larger ambulatory centers, and medical oncology. It also offers up-to-date information on digital technology-electronic medical records, digital imaging, diagnostic instruments, and networked communications-and how it impacts the design of medical and dental facilities. You'll also find out about recent changes in regulatory agency reviews of office-based surgery practices and ADA compliance. 

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Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools

Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools

Bradford Perkins


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Designing Better Buildings : Quality and Value in the Built Environment

Designing Better Buildings

Quality and Value in the Built Environment

Edited by Sebastian Macmillan

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples. Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit.

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Childrens Spaces

Childrens Spaces

Mark Dudek

This collection of essays is concerned with the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit, as well as with architecture and landscape architecture.

International examples of innovative childcare practice are illustrated together with the design processes which informed their development. The emphasis here is on new and experimental childcare projects which set-out to reassert the rights of children to participate in a complex multi-faceted world, which is no longer available to them, unless under adult supervision. Research supports in depth recommendations regarding the ideal children's environment, across a range of contexts and dimensions. 

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Building Your Own Home For Dummies

Building Your Own Home For Dummies

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Architecture in Use : An Introduction to the Programming, Design and Evaluation of Buildings.

Architecture in Use : 

An Introduction to the Programming, Design and Evaluation of Buildings.

Theo JM van der Voordt

Herman BR van Wegen

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Airport Planning & Management , 5th Edition

Airport Planning & Management

5th Edition

Alexander T. Wells, Seth B. Young,

593 pages

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Airport Engineering , Third Edition

Airport Engineering

Third Edition

Norman Ashford & Paul H. Wright.

528 pages

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Airport Design and Operation, Second Edition

Airport Design and Operation ; Second Edition

ANTONÍN KAZDA & ROBERT E. CAVES

539 pages / English

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AISC Design Guide Books Collection

AISC Design Guide Books Collection

AISC | 2006 | | 19 Books | 21 PDF | 59 Mb

The American Institute of Steel Construction, often abbreviated AISC, is a not-for-profit technical institute and trade association for the use of structural steel in the construction industry of the United States. It is headquartered in Chicago, IL. Their mission is to make structural steel the material of choice for new structures. They supply specifications, codes, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development for its members.

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Les éléments des projets de construction - Tome 7

Les éléments des projets de construction-Tome 7

551 pages | French | PDF

L'ouvrage répertorie des milliers d'éléments de base cotés et fournit des plans type qui sont utilisés par tous les concepteurs pour débuter un projet. Il reste le livre outil indispensable à tout professionnel de l'architecture, du bâtiment, de l'urbanisme ou des aménageurs. Cette nouvelle édition fait une distinction décisive entre les trois approches principales de la notion de bâtiment que sont : les ouvrages constitutifs d'une construction ; les types de bâtiment ; les techniques constructives. Cette nouvelle organisation thématique qui permet d'aborder intuitivement les différentes informations utiles à l'étude et à la réalisation d'un projet d'architecture et d'approfondir ses connaissances dans un domaine particulier de l'art de bâtir.

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The Crit - An Architecture Student’s Handbook

The Crit - An Architecture Student’s Handbook

Edited by

Charles Doidge with Rachel Sara and Rosie Parnell

Cartoons by Mark Parsons

The architectural crit, review or jury is a cornerstone of architectural education around the world. Students defend their ideas, drawings, and models in open forum before staff and fellow students. What academic staff see as healthy creative debate, students see as hostile confrontation, an ego-trip for staff and humiliation for them. 

This accessible and readable book, written by students and illustrated by telling cartoons, guides them through this academic minefield with creative humour. It provides practical advice based on experience of many recent students and draws on recent experimentation at Sheffield University and De Montfort University Leicester. The aim is twofold: first to suggest how to get the most out of the traditional experience and second, to describe ways in which this is being developed into an experience that will be more constructive and prepare future students to build more creative relationships with clients and users, and across the industry.

While much has been written about the crit, review, or jury, little has been done to prepare students for it or to develop it in the light of changing professional attitudes and relationships. This book is a timely guide to a timeless experience in a changing profession.

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The Architect's Studio Companion : Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design

The Architect's Studio Companion : Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design

3rd Edition

Edward Allen and Joseph Iano

Expert technical guidance for the earliest stages of building design

This laborsaving resource reduces complex engineering and building code information to simple approximations that can be easily incorporated into initial design explorations. It helps architects prepare buildable preliminary designs as a realistic basis for the more detailed design development stage that will follow.

Completely revised to reference the new International Building Code, this fully updated Third Edition responds to the growing interest in sustainable design solutions with a new section on daylighting. Like its predecessors, this new edition offers quick access to reliable rules of thumb that offer vital help for:

• Selecting, configuring, and sizing the structural system
• Selecting heating and cooling systems
• Configuring and sizing mechanical and electrical systems
• Configuring and sizing egress systems
• Designing within building code height and area limitations
• The Architect’s Studio Companion, Third Edition is a recommended study reference for the Building Planning section of the Architect’s Registration Exam and an invaluable sourcebook that can save architects time and effort throughout their careers.

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The Access Manual : Auditing and Managing Inclusive Built Environments

The Access Manual : 

Auditing and Managing Inclusive Built Environments

Second Edition

Ann Sawyer, Keith Bright

This manual covers the design, improvement, maintenance and management of accessible environments. As a building designer or manager, it will show you how to provide and run buildings, services, and employment facilities to enable independent and convenient use by everyone. 

With its comprehensive information on standards, legislation and good practice, the manual will make sure you can: 

• be fully aware of the issues involved in accessibility 
• understand and commission access audits 
• create and manage an access improvement programme 
• maintain accessibility in buildings and working practices 
• respond effectively to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. 

Inclusive design is about people and their needs; The Access Manual shows you how to achieve an accessible, inclusive built environment that enables people to participate fully in all aspects of society.

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Safety, health and welfare on construction sites

Safety, health and welfare on construction sites 

A training manual 

International Labour Office     Geneva 

134 pages

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Construction Site Security

Construction Site Security

Michael J. Arata, Jr.

In order to meet insurance requirements or earn incentives, construction companies must now put a security plan in place for every construction site. This comprehensive resource covers all the essentials of planning, prioritizing, and implementing construction site security.

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Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors - Basic Skills

Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors - Basic Skills

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Building: A Field Guide to the Building Codes (Code Check Building)

Building: A Field Guide to the Building Codes (Code Check Building)

by Michael Casey mon , Redwood Kardon , Douglas Hansen 

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Building Security - Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design

Building Security - Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design

Barbara A. Nadel

Whether planning for new construction, renovations, or security upgrades of existing facilities, Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design is the definitive twenty-first century reference on security design, technology, building operations, and disaster planning.

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Architect’s Pocket Book

Architect’s Pocket Book

Charlotte Baden-Powell

Second edition

English

The book includes data about planning, structure, services, building elements, materials and addresses, and is intended to be used both at the drawing board and on site.

The selection of the material by the author is based on many years' experience of architectural practice in both public and private offices.

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The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings

The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings

THIRD EDITION

1998-10-08 | | 736 pages | PDF | 29 MB

This book documents the step-by-step evolution of a complete set of architectural working drawings. Enriched with more than 900 illustrations, this book also has a companion Web site and many case studies, including a new case study featuring an office complex.

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Working Drawings Handbook - Fourth Edition

Working Drawings Handbook

Fourth Edition

Keith Styles and Andrew Bichard

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Working Drawings Handbook (3rd Edition)

Working Drawings Handbook

3rd Edition

Keith Styles

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Principles of Architectural Detailing

Principles of Architectural Detailing

By Stephen Emmitt, John Olie, Peter Schmid

Blackwell | 2004-04-16 |  | 264 pages | PDF | 6.7 mb

• * Why are buildings detailed the way they are?
• * Why do architects and engineers seem to come to the same kind of solutions to their detailing problems?
• * Are we satisfied with such a situation?

With environmental concerns so high on designers' agendas, the answer to this third question has to be 'no'. Collectively architects, engineers and specifiers need to revisit how they detail the built environment, and address the most important and potentially difficult area of the joint between materials and components.

In Principles of Architectural Detailing the authors question the way in which buildings are detailed and in particular challenge familiar joint solutions. They offer practical guidance and a number of tools to help the student of architectural detailing in the decision-making process. The emphasis throughout is on using knowledge of construction in a creative and productive way to contribute towards a built environment that enhances our well-being and which is also sustainable 

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Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning

Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning

1992

english / PDF

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Architects Data

Architects Data

3rd ed 2000
english / PDF

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Perspective - A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers

Perspective - A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers

Gwen White

This classic study of perspective is an absolute must for any serious students of design, benefiting amateurs and professionals alike. Dozens of examples are illustrated, including parallel, angular, and oblique perspectives, as well as ascending and descending planes. Other images show how to create a “cone of rays,” and add depth and realism to curved objects. The techniques can be used for laying out a garden, predicting the shadow effects of a tall building, and accurately capturing the interplay of angles, light, and shadow.

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Drawing the Human Head

Drawing the Human Head

by Burne Hogarth

In 300 extraordinary drawings, Hogarth shows how to draw the head from every angle, age the face from infancy to old age, and delineate every feature and wrinkle.

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رسم تنفيذي

رسم تنفيذي

Dessin technique - cours en Arabe

Arabic Book

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Architects Sketches - Dialogue and Design

Architects Sketches - Dialogue and Design

Kendra Schank Smith

Concepts from architects’ minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationship between architectural sketches and the process of creative manipulation. Sketches comprise a thinking mechanism, and through the qualities of ambiguity, quickness and change, they initiate a dialogue for architects. As a medium to facilitate communication, recording, discovery and evaluation, their pertinence lies in their ability to exhibit both the precise and the imprecise. Exploring four related theoretical approaches, play, memory-imagination-fantasy, caricature and the grotesque, the book shows how imprecision stimulates imagination to conceive new forms in the dialogue of architectural sketches.

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Architects Drawings

Architects Drawings

A Selection of Sketches by World Famous Architects Through History

KENDRA SCHANK SMITH

The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect’s life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect’s thinking and intentions. 

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Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

Phaidon Press Editors / 2004 / 373 MB

PDF ( photography )

Presents a global survey of the most oustanding works of contemporary architecture from around the world completed in the last five years. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, regional and sub-regional maps locating each building, the book illustrates more than 1,000 completed buildings, and includes some of the most influential projects as well as many lesser-known buildings from around the world. 

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The Architecture of Modern Italy, Volume I + II

This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in lively prose, it recounts more than 250 years of experimentation, creativity, and turmoil that have shaped the landscape of contemporary Italy. 

The Architecture of Modern Italy, Volume I : The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900

by Terry Kirk

Princeton Architectural Press / English

Volume I: The Challenge of Tradition, 1750-1900, explores the dynamic balancing of forces demanded by a reverence for Italy's unparalleled architectural patrimony and a desire for new means of expression and technological innovation. From the neoclassical fantasies of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the spectacular steeland-glass gallerias of Milan and Naples, it reveals an underappreciated history of richness and complexity.

The Architecture of Modern Italy is exhaustively illustrated with rare period images, new photography, maps, drawings, and plans. With Colin Rowe's Italian Architecture of the 16th Century, it provides a nearly complete overview of the history of Italian architecture.

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The Architecture of Modern Italy, Volume II : Visions of Utopia, 1900-Present

by Terry Kirk

Princeton Architectural Press / English

Volume II: Visions of Utopia, 1900-Present, tracks the development of Italys architectural avant-garde through the upheavals of the twentieth century. Beginning with the development of Italian art nouveau--"stile liberty"--and moving through futurism, fascism, rationalism, and on to the creative experimentation of the present day, it explores the work of such pivotal figures as Raimondo dAronco, Antonio SantElia, Adalberto Libera, Giuseppe Terragni, Pier Luigi Nervi, Gio Ponti, Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi, and Renzo Piano. 

The Architecture of Modern Italy is exhaustively illustrated with rare period images, new photography, maps, drawings, and plans. With Colin Rowe's Italian Architecture of the 16th Century, it provides a nearly complete overview of the history of Italian architecture.

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