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  • Courts of Pre-Colonial South Indiaby Jennifer Howes

    RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 190.00

    An investigation of how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space. more...

  • Salmela Architectby Thomas Fisher; David Salmela; Peter Bastianelli-Kerze

    University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 105.00

    Salmela Architect showcases twenty-six completed buildings and sixteen current projects in lavish color photographs and architectural drawings of one of America's leading ?critical regionalist? architects, enabling readers to get a sense of the practicality, ethnicity, and playfulness in David Salmela's work. Architecture critic Thomas Fisher explores Salmela's propensity to draw from regional roots as he creates designs with universal appeal. more...

  • Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmasby Nicholas Ray

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 69.95

    Ethical issues, both practical and philosophical, are constantly arising in architectural work. This volume relates a broad range of theoretical questions to dilemmas encountered in practice, informed by contributions from many different disciplines. more...

  • An Inclusive Environmentby Maritz Vandenberg

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 134.00

    People can be excluded from freedom and the good things in life by age, disability, poverty, unfair discrimination, crime or the fear of crime, and arrogant and unresponsive governments. This practical reference deals with all of these factors, and shows the links between them. In addition to several hundred shorter notes it includes over a thousand major entries, each of which comprises: a summary of relevant facts, incisive commentary to help readers cut through the fog of jargon and propaganda that confuses many of these issues and websites where the latest information may be found. It concludes with a detailed bibliography of around 500 useful references. The work will be found useful by professionals and managers in all walks of... more...

  • Exit-Architecture Design between War and Peaceby Stephan Truby; Robert Payne

    Springer 2008; US$ 29.95

    a oeFirst we shape things, then they shape usa, was Churchilla (TM)s view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The authora (TM)s answers to these questions are a surprise. Through war and proximity to stress. After a tour da (TM)horizon through Roman temples, Washingtona (TM)s corridors of power and Meccaa (TM)s anti-panic architecture it becomes clear that architecture is anything but in the background. Instead it is situated in the hot spot of transmission dynamics and is capable of altering cultures, empires and even religions. more...

  • Millionenstädte Chinas: Bilder- und Reisetagebuch einer Architektin (1958) Herausgegeben von Karin Zogmayer im Auftrag der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (German Edition)by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky; Karin Zogmayer; Universität für Angewandte Kunst; A. Speer; P. Werkner

    Springer 2007; US$ 39.95

    Als Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 1956 von ihrer zweiten Chinareise zurückkehrt, schreibt sie dieses kleine Buch über die Millionenstädte Chinas. Die Doyenne der österreichischen Architektur berichtet von den vier großen, voneinander in ihrer geographischen Lage, Baugeschichte und städteplanerischen Aufgabenstellung grundverschiedenen Städten Peking, Nanking, Schanghai und Wuhan. Reich bebildert stellt diese lebendige Erzählung ein Land im Aufbruch vor, das im Nachwort von Albert Speer durch einen Blick auf das gegenwärtige China ergänzt wird. "Dieses kleine Buch versteht sich als Beispiel dafür, wie sich Europäer und Asiaten, aus zwei so völlig verschiedenen Welten kommend, auf Grund von fachlichen, wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Auseinandersetzungen... more...

  • Finlandby Roger Connah

    Reaktion Books 2006; US$ 33.95

    From museums to schools to subsidized housing developments, Roger Connah's Finland is an important survey of the country's architecture. more...

  • Baumschlager Eberle 20022007: Architektur | Menschen und Ressourcen | Architecture | People and Resources (German and English Edition)by Winfried Nerdinger; E. Hueber; Judith Wolfframm; D. Steiner; G. Ullmann; K. Daniels; M. Corrodi; O. Herwig; C. Fuchs; V. M. Lampugnani; A. Lepik; O. Schoch; A. Simon; G. Walden

    Springer 2007; US$ 69.95

    Nach Baumschlager-Eberle erfordert ganzheitliche Architektur konstruktive Intelligenz, �kologie, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Akzeptanz. Das Buch trägt ihrem Selbstverständnis Rechnung und gliedert sich in drei Teile: "Architektur" stellt in klassischer Form mit Bildern, Texten und Plänen 18 neue, realisierte Projekte des erfolgreichen Büros vor. "Menschen" untersucht den Gebrauchsaspekt ausgewählter Bauten und deren gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz. "Ressourcen" analysiert ihre Nachhaltigkeit. Das Buch fügt sich in die Reihe der bei Springer erschienenen Baumschlager-Eberle Monografien ein und schlie�t direkt an die zuletzt erschienene Publikation an. more...

  • Exit-Architektur. Design zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Mit einem Vorwort von Heiner Mühlmann und einem Projekt von Exit Ltd. (TRACE Transmission in ... Arts and Cultural Evolution) (German Edition)by Stephan Trüby

    Springer 2008; US$ 29.95

    "First we shape things, then they shape us", wusste Winston Churchill. Was sind wahrhaft prägende Architekturen? Wen prägen sie? Und womit prägen sie? Der Autor gibt folgende überraschende Antwort auf diese Fragen: durch Kriegs- bzw. Stressnähe. Nach einer Tour d'horizon durch römische Tempelbauten, Washingtons Korridore der Macht und Mekkas Anti-Panikarchitekturen wird deutlich: die Architektur ist alles andere als Background. Sie steht mitten auf dem heißen Pol der Transmissionsdynamik und vermag Kulturen, Imperien, ja Religionen zu ändern. more...

  • Nexus Network Journal 10,2by Kim Williams

    Springer 2008; US$ 89.95

    This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to Canons of Form-Making, in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary. more...