London Interiors

London Interiors

 2000 | ISBN: 3822862185 | 300 pages | JPG | 192 MB

It is a photographic material

London, staid London, becomes probably the most provocative, diametrically opposed city in the world when its living interiors are exposed. Edwards shows off her skills in this portfolio of 42 mainly urban spaces. Most owners are in the arts (or a related industry), in love with color, and experts at eclecticism. There's a male trio who believe in crowning all of their stuffed animals. An admitted spokesperson of the underworld surrounds himself (and his family) with suitably garish and kitsch furnishings. And the book pays tribute to Margaret Tyler, owner of the largest stash of royal memorabilia in the nation (if not anywhere in the world). Exuberant color photographs and minimalist text make for a repeatable and enjoyable viewing experience.

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Lofts of Scandinavia

Lofts of Scandinavia

2004 | 216 pages | JPG | 125 MB

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Lofts

Lofts

2006 | PDF | 330 pages | 7 mb

Although loft living once meant converting old industrial warehouses, today it has evolved into a style and approach for modern living spaces. This new volume in the Good Ideas series provides more than 50 recent examples of contemporary lofts from around the world, ranging from remodeled industrial buildings to old farmhouses and garages transformed for today's lifestyle. With 800 photographs, Good Ideas: Lofts is an incredible value for anyone who dreams of owning or living in a loft.

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Lighting Design Basics

Lighting Design Basics

2004-04 | 192 Pages | PDF | 5,8 MB

Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master, element of interior design, and Lighting Design Basics provides the information you need in a concise, highly visual format. Two leading designers, both with decades of experience, offer straightforward coverage of concepts and techniques, and present realistic goals you can use as guides to creating simple, typical lighting designs and when collaborating with professional designers on more complex projects.

Design scenarios for more than twenty different spaces illustrate real-world case studies for illuminating residential and commercial spaces, from kitchens to doctors' offices. Each scenario includes an in-depth rationale for the proposed solution, insightful lighting distribution diagrams, floor plans, and details for lighting installation and construction. In addition, exercises allow you to develop lighting design skills in preparation for working on actual projects, as well as the NCIDQ and NCARB exams.

Packed with informative illustrations, Lighting Design Basics is an invaluable resource for students, as well as interior designers and architects studying for professional licensing exams.

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LEXIQUE D'ARCHITECTURE ILLUSTRE - معجم الهندسة المعمارية

LEXIQUE D'ARCHITECTURE ILLUSTRE

معجم الهندسة المعمارية

Ce lexique comprend les termes (et leurs définitions) propres au bâtiment, ses constituants et son environnement, dans les deux langues; l’arabe et le français. Les définitions ont été données dans le soucis de mieux cerner le sens recouvert par chacun des termes et par là permettre un usage plus juste de ce dernier.

Le lexique est structuré de manière à offrir la possibilité d’être consulté selon quatre voies différentes:

  1.  L’ordre alphabétique des termes français suivis de leurs définitions, en face de chacun d’eux se trouve le terme correspondant en langue arabe ainsi que sa définition.

  2.  L’ordre thématique où les termes sont regroupés selon plusieurs rubriques dont chacune est constituée en fonction de la proximité du sens ou de l’appartenance à un même thème en architecture.

  3.  L’ordre alphabétique des termes arabes jumelés avec leurs correspondants en français.

  4.  Les illustrations qui comportent les termes qui les désignent dans les deux langues.

Les domaines recouverts par La terminologie sont: Le chantier · La construction · Les matériaux de construction · Les types de bâtiments · Les espaces intérieurs · Les espaces extérieurs ·L’histoire de l’architecture · La ville · Les arts · La représentation.   

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Legacies for the Future: Contemporary Architecture in Islamic Societies

Legacies for the Future: 

Contemporary Architecture in Islamic Societies

1998 | English | 177 Pages | 104MB | PDF

In the rapidly changing tastes and styles of Western culture, the most highly acclaimed designs in contemporary architecture are often unconnected to the social and cultural contexts from which they spring. In contrast, in Islamic societies around the world, architecture often plays a far more responsible role, responding to the immediate needs of local and personal exigencies. As a result, some of the most humanist contemporary architecture is overlooked by the fashions of today's international design periodicals.

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Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture

Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture

1975 | 200 pages | DjVu | 3,1 MB

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Landscape Design (Park)

Landscape Design (Park)

2005 | English, Korean | 291 pages | PDF | 35,9 MB

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Laboratory Design Guide

Laboratory Design Guide

pages: 384 | 2004 | PDF | 10,8 mb

This is a very readable textbook, on a subject which rarely receives the attention in technical literature which it deserves. Modern laboratories cannot be designed successfully by non-specialist architectural/engineering teams. Even those with experience require guidelines as well as reference to facilities which have proved their worth through successful operation.

The guide is particularly rich in demonstrative examples not only of completed projects involving the Author and other architects, but also of some under construction or at the design stage. The 43 case studies represent a good spread of laboratory design principles and practices. This section, and the associated collection of schematics, details and photographs forms perhaps the most informative part of the book, with equal relevance to general architectural practice and the specialist.

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L' Architecture du XXe Siecle

L' Architecture du XXe Siècle

French | 2001 | 431 pages | PDF | 618 MB

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Kisho Kurokawa : Selected and Current Works

Kisho Kurokawa : Selected and Current Works

English & Chinese | 2002 | PDF | 218 pages | 128 MB

Kisho Kurokawa has always aimed to create an architecture of, what he calls, 'the age of life' principle, which employs the concepts and vocabularies of life systems, biology and ecology. Simultaneously, his intention when designing a structure is to address how cultural identity can be incorporated into contemporary architecture so that people everywhere will understand it. These two demanding challenges do indeed breathe life and bring meaning to his varied and distinctive portfolio of work, a selection of which is featured in this book.

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Japanese Gardens

Japanese Gardens

English | 2003 | PDF | 240 pages | 30 MB

The Japanese garden, like all gardens, is more than mere nature; it is nature crafted by man. It needs the hands of the designer to give it meaning. The Japanese garden belongs to the realm of architecture; at its best, it is nature as art.

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Introduction to Naval Architecture: Formerly Muckle's Naval Architecture for Marine Engineers (4 Ed.)

Introduction to Naval Architecture: 

Formerly Muckle's Naval Architecture for Marine Engineers (4 Ed.)

2004-12-21 | 464 pages | PDF | 10,9 MB

The fundamental characteristics of a ship's design, and how they affect its behaviour at sea are of crucial importance to many people involved in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of all marine vessels. Naval architects and those working in ship design need to understand these principles in depth. 

Marine engineers must likewise recognise the degree to which their activities are influenced and bounded by these principles. Finally, senior crew - both Ship's Engineers and Commanders - need an understanding of the principles of naval architecture in order to properly fulfil their duties. This book offers a clear and concise introduction to the subject and is of great value to both students and practising professionals in all of the above fields.

* Covers introductory level courses in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

* Updated to cover key developments including double-hulled tankers

* Fully revised fourth edition accompanied by exercises and worked solutions for the first time

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Intervention Architecture - Building for Change

Intervention Architecture - Building for Change

 2007 | English | 195 Pages | 74MB | True PDF

The most recent cyclical monograph, “Intervention Architecture: Building for Change”, describes the 2007 award-winning projects and contains essays by leading thinkers and practitioners on the broader themes and issues discussed during the 10th Aga Khan Award cycle.

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Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

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In the Scheme of Things

In the Scheme of Things

One of the field’s most innovative thinkers reconsiders the purpose and practice of architecture. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, architecture is in a state of crisis. Numbed by an ugly and shoddily constructed built environment and outraged by the cost of high-profile design projects, the public has become disinterested in and contemptuous of architecture as both a profession and an art. At the same time, some of our most creative designers have isolated themselves from the tastes and needs of mainstream society, reflecting a similar malaise found in design and architecture schools around the country. In this troubling climate, Thomas R. Fisher—who challenged architects as editorial director of Progressive Architecture, becoming recognized as one of the field’s most original thinkers—contends that the purpose and prospects of architectural practice must be reconsidered and reenergized. In the Scheme of Things looks at architecture’s need to respond creatively and meaningfully to the extraordinary changes affecting the profession now, changes that include the global economy, the advent of computer-aided design, and the growing disconnection between design schools, architectural practice, and the public. 

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Illustrated Building Pocket Book, Second Edition

Illustrated Building Pocket Book, Second Edition

2006 | 240 pages | PDF | 9,3 MB

Building and architecture has developed a language of its own, with terms and jargon that can confuse an expert let alone an outsider. Misunderstandings over what a word means can be irritating but unimportant, but could in the worst cases be costly or even dangerous.

Traditional building dictionaries rely on the reader to already know what the correct word is, and that's not always the case. Roxanna McDonald's technique is radically different, and makes full use of the power of visual communication to convey information. Each stage of the building and design process is illustrated, and each hand-drawn illustration is carefully labelled with the relevant technical terms, to ensure that each term is used correctly and consistently by everyone working on a project.

The 'Illustrated Building Pocket Book' is a radical approach to the age-old problem of the ambiguous use of technical language in building and architecture. By using drawings - which leave little room for ambiguity - clarity, safety and certainty can be achieved.

* Detailed hand-drawn images explain what terms mean and show how to use them

* Logical progression though the building process

* Avoid costly and dangerous misunderstandings about what is meant by building jargon

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I Grandi Pittori - Mantegna

I Grandi Pittori - Mantegna

Italian | PDF | 65 Pag. | 50.2 MB

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House Design

House Design

2005 | PDF | 399 pages | 274 mb

In recent years the lines that define the characteristics of the modern house have lost the severity that distinguished them in the past. Although the uses that a home must fulfil - cooking, relaxation, personal hygiene, interaction with other people, etc. - remain the same as ever, the solutions for tackling them are now very different and diverse. As a result, no specific formula can be established to define how a home should be. 

This book shows crossfire of examples of international designers, which have drafted houses with many considerations in mind. Adaptation to the terrain and the climate, the budget and the needs of its future inhabitants has been born in mind. As well the home's three indispensable areas (the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom) have been focused. For example the bathroom is presented in multifarious variations: Either a functional space is apart or it can occupy a privileged spot alongside the garden, with large windows, spread itself out inside the house to such and extent that the bathtub turns into an indoor swimming pool.

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Homes That Heal (and those that don't) : How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family's Health

Homes That Heal (and those that don't) : 

How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family's Health

2004 | PDF | 321 pages | 5,2 MB

Media reports focus increasingly on the declining health of children in industrialized countries. Asthma, autism, learning and behavior problems, and cancer are all on the rise. At the same time, there is consistent news about poor indoor air quality, mold and how buildings can make people sick. 

Homes that Heal addresses both of these developments, revealing that our own homes can contribute to many of these health problems.

A passionate examination of our built environment and the alarming impact today's chemically polluted world is having on the health of present and future generations, Homes That Heal is easy-to-read, solutions-oriented and humorous, full of stories and advice that empower families to take back their health on a daily basis.

Topics covered include:

• A Healthy Home Quiz that enables readers to evaluate the health of their own home and identify many of the common home health hazards

• factors impacting indoor air quality

• A room-by-room examination of typical problems and solutions

• Toxic materials used in building a new home or remodeling

• Cleaning products and other consumer hazards found in the home

• An easy-to-understand introduction to the science of Bau-biologie (Building Biology), an internationally recognized approach to healthy construction.

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Historia de la Arquitectura: Arquitectura Románica

Historia de la Arquitectura: Arquitectura Románica

Spanish | 1982 | 219 pages | PDF | 18 MB

El término románico se refiere a las creaciones del estilo artístico que desde finales del siglo IX hasta principios del siglo XIII, se produjeron en distintos puntos de Europa. Los progresos de este arte van a darse fundamentalmente en el ámbito de la arquitectura religiosa. A veces se cree que es un estilo uniforme o unitario, sin embargo, se trata de un arte muy complejo con diversidad de planteamientos.

Románico, tomado del latino romanicus, romano, aparece como tal término por primera vez en la bibliografía científica sobre arte a comienzos del siglo XVIII. Estudios posteriores confirman que si bien el precedente romano de la arquitectura románica es innegable, también intervienen en su conformación, el arte paleocristiano, el arte bizantino, el carolingio e incluso el islámico. El asunto se complica cuando se advierte que en cada país o región, se mezclan determinadas formas románicas con las locales de épocas anteriores. Debido a esta diversidad de fuentes, el arte románico difiere de un país a otro, incluso, de una región a otra. En consecuencia, sus rasgos externos, formales, no pertenecen a un tipo básico general y de carácter normativo para una gran extensión, como ocurrirá luego en el gótico que sí consigue unificar artísticamente a Europa, sino que sólo se deducen de la visión del conjunto de las diversas manifestaciones locales en una continua adaptación a las necesidades sociales y religiosas.

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High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

2011 | PDF | 195 pages | 14.6 mb

This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development.

Even though traditional discourse of high-rise housing is not always positive, new forces are redefining its place in 21st century urbanity. Many cities around the world are reembracing high-rise in urban agenda under current narrative of sustainable development. High-rise is fast becoming a priority area in international research agenda. The quest is for livable and sustainable high-rise development. Against the background of current trends--globalization, urbanization, mixed-use development, and new-built taller buildings in inner city areas in both developed and developing countries, this book examines the software: design, economics, estate management, legal and property rights, physical environment, planning, community development, and social dimensions of high-rise living. Analysis is with the widely acclaimed successful high-rise public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore to understand the advantages and worries of high-rise living, and to distill the key points and lessons in the making of a ‘good’ highrise living environment. Hong Kong and Singapore have been constructing high-rise for more than four decades each. The majority of their population has moved to live in high-rise, selecting to live high-rise, and registering consistently high residential satisfaction. The height of apartment buildings in both cities continues to rise. The tallest is anticipated to be 70-storey. It is the contention of this book that contrary to earlier common negative discourses on public high-rise living, the high-rise environment may yet offer urban residents a satisfying dwelling experience. Leading housing academics, researchers and practitioners in the two cities have contributed to this book. This book presents a timely contribution to our understanding of a widening urban phenomenon that will affect a growing number of the world’s population.

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Houses & Interiors vol 2

Houses & Interiors vol 2

Harry Seidler

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Houses & Interiors vol 1

Houses & Interiors vol 1

Harry Seidler

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Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers

Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers

 3 edition | 2001 | PDF | 246 pages | 75 MB

For architects, drawing is more than a convenient way to communicate ideas; it is an integral part of the creative process that has a profound impact on thinking and problem-solving. In Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers, Third Edition, Paul Laseau demonstrates that more versatile and facile sketching leads to more flexible, creative approaches to design challenges. To encourage this flexibility and stimulate graphic thinking, he introduces numerous graphic techniques that can be applied in a variety of situations. He also helps readers acquire a solid grasp of basic freehand drawing, representational drawing construction, graphic note-taking, and diagramming.

Important features of this new edition include:

* Easy-to-understand discussions supported by freehand illustrations

* A new format with superior representation of techniques and concepts

* Dozens of new and updated illustrations

* Extensive coverage of new technologies related to the graphic thinking process

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Graphic History of Architecture

Graphic History of Architecture

1999 | 192 pages | PDF | 63 MB

What is a hammer-beam roof? Where does a voissoir fit in an arch? What churches did Nicholas Hawksmoor design? Now architecture students and others interested in the history of the built environment can consult a single reference book to find the answers to these and to hundreds of other questions, quickly and in the form most easily comprehended: clear and logical drawings. There are 2000 drawings in this book covering the history of Western architecture from Egypt through Wright, Saarinen, and Fuller.

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Atlante delle terrazze

Atlante delle terrazze

Grande Atlante di Architettura

Italian | 1998 | PDF | 286 pages | 38 MB

I volumi del Grande Atlante di Architettura costituiscono, nel loro insieme, una completa guida alla progettazione. Gli argomenti sono trattati sotto ogni punto di vista: cenni storici, approfonditi elementi tecnici, esempi di realizzazioni, normativa. Inoltre, i numerosissimi particolari costruttivi, disegnati in scala e immediatamente utilizzabili dai progettisti, fanno di quest’opera una guida sicura e preziosa per la pratica professionale e per la progettazione.

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Atlante del Legno

Atlante del Legno

Grande Atlante di Architettura

 Italian | 1999 | PDF | 360 pages | 52 MB

I volumi del Grande Atlante di Architettura costituiscono, nel loro insieme, una completa guida alla progettazione. Gli argomenti sono trattati sotto ogni punto di vista: cenni storici, approfonditi elementi tecnici, esempi di realizzazioni, normativa. Inoltre, i numerosissimi particolari costruttivi, disegnati in scala e immediatamente utilizzabili dai progettisti, fanno di quest’opera una guida sicura e preziosa per la pratica professionale e per la progettazione.

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Atlante del Cemento

Atlante del Cemento

Grande Atlante di Architettura

Italian | 1998 | PDF | 286 pages | 125 MB

I volumi del Grande Atlante di Architettura costituiscono, nel loro insieme, una completa guida alla progettazione. Gli argomenti sono trattati sotto ogni punto di vista: cenni storici, approfonditi elementi tecnici, esempi di realizzazioni, normativa. Inoltre, i numerosissimi particolari costruttivi, disegnati in scala e immediatamente utilizzabili dai progettisti, fanno di quest’opera una guida sicura e preziosa per la pratica professionale e per la progettazione.

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Atlante dei tetti

Atlante dei tetti

Grande Atlante di Architettura

Italian | 1998 | PDF | 394 pages | 46 MB

I volumi del Grande Atlante di Architettura costituiscono, nel loro insieme, una completa guida alla progettazione. Gli argomenti sono trattati sotto ogni punto di vista: cenni storici, approfonditi elementi tecnici, esempi di realizzazioni, normativa. Inoltre, i numerosissimi particolari costruttivi, disegnati in scala e immediatamente utilizzabili dai progettisti, fanno di quest’opera una guida sicura e preziosa per la pratica professionale e per la progettazione.

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German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

English | 2000 | 192 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth-century architects, were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernists ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.

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Facades

Facades

2006 | Only 152 pages | JPG | 90 MB

Face up to facades--with full information on dozens of construction materials.Priceless guide to creating the public face of any building! Stunning color photographs plus detailed technical information! What gives a building its personality? Its facade, of course. Facades Selection offers an exhaustive study of the public face of buildings, from first idea to final execution. Each chapter focuses on a specific material, exploring the design possibilities and construction details of each one. With more than 600 photographs and illustrations, Facades Selection is an indispensable one-volume resource.

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Design from Scandinavia No.23

Design from Scandinavia No.23

Selected Nordic design, Interiors and Architecture

2009 | PDF | 152 pages | 62.7 mb

Design from Scandinavia is your selected guide to one of the most trend-setting environments in the world. Experience new talents, products, companies, architects and designers, defining the scandinavian way of living today. Get inspired - and get in touch with more than 300 designers and companies from Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. More than 500 colour illustrations of design items and texts in english, german, french and danish.

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Design from Scandinavia No 22

Design from Scandinavia No 22

Your selective guide to Nordic Design, Interiors and Architecture

2007 | PDF | 164 pages | 25.9 mb

DESIGN from SCANDINAVIA is your selective guide to one of the most trend-setting design environments in the world. Experience new talents, products, companies, architets and designers, defining the Scandinavian way of living today. Get inspired and get in touch with more than 300 designers and companies from Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

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Building a New Millennium: Architecture Today and Tomorrow

Building a New Millennium: 

Architecture Today and Tomorrow

1999 | 576 pages | PDF | 592 MB

The earth seems smaller after reading this ambitious book. Its aim: to present the world's most exciting new buildings as humanity enters the new millennium. The book illustrates and analyzes more than 80 projects by 50 well-known architects. While acknowledging the existence of local styles, Philip Jodidio--editor of a prestigious French art journal--emphasizes the global nature of architecture today. The selection of buildings here is truly multicultural, from the new Hong Kong airport and Kyoto's train station to daringly designed homes, schools, museums, even contrasting styles of crematoria (one each from Germany and Japan). With new "space age" materials and very large sums of public and private money, today's architects experiment in creating innovative spaces in which cultural, religious, and other more mundane events can be experienced. The buildings often seem ends in themselves: a $10 million museum in Seoul houses just two Rodin sculptures in a light-filled, inspirational environment; the Jewish Museum in Berlin deliberately opened empty, with no collection of any sort, the dark, jagged architecture sending its own message. The book's international flavor is enhanced by the practice of the publisher, Taschen, to offer text in three languages: English, German, and French. This presents design difficulties that are handled well, with text boxes, alternating triple columns, and restful light-blue "breathing spaces."

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Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing

2007  | 232 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely revised and expanded second edition of the groundbreaking 1999 publication, this new book focuses on topics of specific relevance to affordable housing including:

how green building adds value to affordable housing

the integrated design process

best practices in green design for affordable housing

green operations and maintenance

innovative funding and finance

emerging programs, partnerships, and policies

Edited by national green affordable housing expert Walker Wells and featuring a foreword by Matt Petersen, president and chief executive officer of Global Green USA, the book presents 12 case studies of model developments and projects, including rental, home ownership, special needs, senior, self-help, and co-housing from around the United States. Each case study describes the unique green features of the development, discusses how they were successfully incorporated, considers the project's financing and savings associated with the green measures, and outlines lessons learned.

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Beach houses of South America

Beach houses of South America

2006 |160 pages | JPG | 40 MB

Showcasing superlative architecture in some of the most stunning and remote areas of the South American coastline, Beach Houses of South America , is destined to inspire and delight. A number of renowned Latin American architects have chosen the continent's breathtakingly diverse coastline as a backdrop for their work, and their canvases range from the stark, arid locations to lusciously tropical settings. Within these beautiful landscapes, each project displays the architect's ability to strike a balance between nature and dwelling place, as well as their innate sense of what makes South American beach houses culturally unique. Many houses offer a new slant on an age-old culture, or are deeply influenced by their natural surroundings their architects always mindful of working in a fragile environment. There are simple, practical homes for families and friends and lavish seaside weekenders, all of which share one thing in common as beach houses they are also a sanctuary in which to relax.

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The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is a comprehensive portrayal of the finest built architecture from around the world completed since the year 2000. Divided into six world regions, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local trends in architecture for a wide range of users. The geographical contexts for twenty-first century architectural production are explored in a global framework presented in accessible graphic formats. Each of the six world regions is introduced by an in-depth look at their unique urban and architectural issues. This statistical data has been researched and analyzed by a team of from the London School of Economics.

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Art, Space and the City

Art, Space and the City

280 Pages | PDF | 5 MB

Drawing on a wealth of images from across the UK, Europe and the USA, Malcom Miles questions the effectiveness of public art in achieving more convivial urban environments. Using a range of critical perspectives, Art, Space and the City assesses the issues relating to the public art and explains how these issues are just as relevant to architecture, urban design and urban planning. 

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Architectures Experimentales 1950-2000

Architectures Experimentales 1950-2000

2005 | JPG | 576 pages | 285 mb

French / Français

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Architecture Guide Eindhoven

Architecture Guide Eindhoven

2010 | English | PDF | 132 pages | 85.19 Mb

Eindhoven - City Of Light, Design And Architecture.

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Architecture in the Digital Age: Design And Manufacturing

Architecture in the Digital Age: Design And Manufacturing

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Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office

Architects to the Nation:

 The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office

2000 | 352 pages | HTML | 11,8 MB

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, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such "restorations" as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerable efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.

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Antonio Sant'Elia Architect

Antonio Sant'Elia Architect

English, French, Italian | April 2003 | 80 pages | DJVU | 10,4 MB

Antonio Sant’Elia (Como 1888-Monfalcone, 1916), a notable Italian futurist architect was, especially after his early death, an important influence on the evolution of modern architecture. He studied in Milan and Bologna. He undertook few commissions and those which were completed were either later demolished or transformed. His imaginative drawings for future cities were displayed in 1914. He wrote two theoretical essays: Messagio and Manifesto dell’architettura futurista. In his projects the influence of the Vienna Secession, especially that of Otto Wagner, can be discerned, as well as the impact of the American skyscraper. His most important works were the Villa Elisi (1912), and his project for the "New City" in 1914 (la Città Nuova). He volunteered for the army in the First World War and died in the battle of Monfalcone.

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100 Houses

100 Houses

English |  2004 |  480 pages | JPG | 348 MB

The greatest challenge in designing homes is negotiating the delicate balance between aesthetics and the personal desires of the occupants. While it’s important for the structure to reflect the vision and style of the architect, the client must ultimately feel at home beneath the roof. It is particularly interesting, therefore, to examine the homes that architects create for themselves. If houses reflect their owners’ personalities, then architects’ own homes are like autobiographies. Location, layout, style, lighting, artwork, furnishings—every detail adds color to the story. Each of these 100 dwellings, presented A-Z by architect, speaks more about its designer than any other building possibly could.

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