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Architecture of Counterrevolution
After over 120 years of French colonial rule in Algeria, the growing aspirations for independence culminated in the Algerian Revolution of 1954, which lasted until 1962. In order to combat the uprisings, the French civilian and military authorities reorganized the entire territory of the country, swiftly erected new infrastructures and pursued building policies that were ultimately intended to …
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Architectural Knowledge,
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Architectural Design Decision Documentation through Reuse of Design Patterns
Software design patterns are evaluated and recognised architectural solutions for recurring design problems. They are often described in pattern catalogues that contain known patterns for a certain application domain, for example, patterns for object-oriented software by Gamma et al. or patterns for distributed computing by Buschmann et al.. However, design patterns are still often misunder…
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- 978-3-7315-0292-0
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Against and For Method
Can design processes constitute genuine forms of research? Of course they can. “Against and For Method” highlights exemplary cases of how studio architects teach architectural design, both with and without methodological and research approaches strictly in mind. This edited volume openly addresses deficiencies in studio teaching and proposes possibilities for integrating methodological appr…
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- 978-3-85676-450-0
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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.
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The architectural model :histories of the miniature and the prototype, the ex…
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- 9780262354233
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Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors, and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. Amid this flood, your attention pract…
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Possible Palladian villas :(plus a few instructively impossible ones)
Drawing on Palladio's original published legacy of approximately 40 designs, the authors attempt to reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Using a computer, they test each rule in every possible application.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262367851
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- 1 online resource (188 pages) :illustrations.
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Drawing on architecture :the object of lines, 1970-1990
How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture. Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as a means to an end. But, just as the boundaries of architecture itself were shi…
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- 9780262344401
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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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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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