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Topotek 1. Martin Rein-Cano / Lorenz Dexler. Rosemarie Trockel
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 60.00Landscape architecture meets art more...
Grüner Wohnen / Green Living
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 64.95This volume in the series on contemporary landscape architecture is concerned with how life quality can be increased by improving our living environment through planning and raising the quality of public space. How green do we want our housing to be? What are the essential criteria of a successful planning of open space in residential architecture?... more...
Responsive Environments
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 70.00Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings. This is a practical book about architecture and... more...
Making Landscape Architecture in Australia
UNSW Press 2012; US$ 49.99This first history of landscape architecture in Australia profiles the people who have shaped the nations landscape and forged a profession: designers, architects, public servants and activists. Using archival images and plans, the book recounts in fascinating detail milestones such as the creation of Melbournes public parks, the acclaimed... more...
Violets & Vines
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 6.50Violet &?Vines is an analogy of maintaining and tending a garden. Each chapter takes the reader through the needs to keep their life garden vibrant and colourful, and demonstrates how, although things are not always easy and take great courage, brutal decisions are sometimes essential in order to restore sanity and self-belief. more...
Landscapes of Memory and Experience
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 80.95It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines. This book explores possible ways out of this impasse in such a way that landscape studies would become pivotal through... more...
The Architect in Practice
Wiley 2013; US$ 65.00The Architect in Practice was first published in 1952. Originally written by a quantity surveyor and an architect it has remained, through its nine editions, a leading textbook used in the education of architects world-wide. While the format of the book has developed, the message and philosophy remains the same as the original: to provide the student... more...
An American Proceeding
Meadowside Press 2013; US$ 21.99The story of the man who built his own Frank Lloyd Wright House more...
American Architecture and Urbanism
Trinity University Press 2013; US$ 19.95A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines architecture as a continuing dialogue between generations... more...
Indigenous Modernities
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 70.00This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding. ... more...









