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Architects' Guide to Fee Bidding
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95Fee bidding still generates emotive reactions from within many sections of the architectural profession. Fee bidding is not taught in most schools of architecture, so practitioners generally rely on hunches and guesswork. It is these wild card guesses, which exacerbate the poor levels of income for which the architectural profession is renowned. This... more...
Grand Avenues
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L?Enfant?a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers?to design the new nation's capital. L?Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his... more...
Historic Preservation and the Livable City
Wiley 2010; US$ 80.00For both the preservation professional and urban planner, this book shows how preservation is a key to the creation of livable cities. The author Eric Allison, the founder and coordinated of the graduate historic preservation program at Pratt Institute in New York City, offers tools and case studies that preservationists and planners can learn from... more...
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark Art in Public Space Styria
Springer 2011; US$ 39.99Das Jahrbuch stellt die im Rahmen von Kunst im ffentlichen Raum Steiermark realisierten Projekte des Jahres 2009 vor, darunter Projekte von Helmut und Johanna Kandl, Jochen Gerz, der K nstlergruppe IRWIN, Michael Kienzer, zweintopf und Werkstadt Graz. Neben umfangreichem Bildmaterial enth lt der Band einleitende Essays, Theorie und K nstlerstandpunkte... more...
The Role of Place Identity in the Perception, Understanding, and Design of Built Environments
Bentham Science Publishers 2012; US$ 59.00Readers of this e-book will gain an insight on the role of identity as a basis for the perception, experience, and appreciation of the form of built structures. It explains knowledge in relation to place identity, focusing both on people's identity, and related factors which play a part in this process, and most of all on a science of identity in the... more...
Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation... more...
Salmela Architect
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 105.00Salmela 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... more...
Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 30.95Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world?s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to ?read? the building and understand its starting point by analyzing... more...









