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Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: from Colonial to Global
This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global – the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture. The book reveals hardships the city encountered in the 1950s and the glamour enjoyed in the 1980s. It depicts the public and private developments, and especially the public housing which has sheltered millions of residents. The author identifies t…
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- 978-981-10-1003-3
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- XXIX, 337
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Electric Light: An Architectural History
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture--as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving an…
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- 9780262347310
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Why Architects Draw
The centerpiece of Robbins's provocative investigation consists ofcase study narratives based on interviews with nine architects, adeveloper-architect, and an architectural engineer. The narratives areillustrated by the architects' drawings from projects in Japan,England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and the United States, fromconception through realization.
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- 9780262367783
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Why architects still draw :two lectures on architectural drawing
"Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. R…
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- 9780262321426
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- 1 online resource (133 pages)
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Histories of the immediate present :inventing architectural modernism
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288163
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Spaces speak, are you listening? :experiencing aural architecture
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268714
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- 1 online resource (xi, 437 pages) :illustrations, music
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Why architects draw
Examines the social uses of architectural drawing: how it acts to direct architecture; how it helps define what is important about a design; and how it embodies claims about the architect's status and authority. Case study narratives are included with drawings from projects at all stages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367785
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- 1 online resource (315 pages) :illustrations.
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Louise Blanchard Bethune Every Woman Her Own Architect
As America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm, Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs, scholars have struggled to provide a complete picture of this trailblazer. …
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- 9781438492896
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European Planning History in the 20th Century A Continent of Urban Planning
The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense ex…
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- 9781003271666
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The Visual Language of Technique Volume 1 - History and Epistemology
The book is inspired by the first seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. "Dealing with the Image Ivory Towers and Virtual Bridges" was the motto of this meeting, aiming to stimulate a discussion among engineers, designers and architects, all of whom are traditionally involved in the use of the Image as a specialized language suppo…
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- 978-3-319-05350-9
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