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Mark Hertzberg

Book DescriptionFrank Lloyd Wright devoted his revolutionary creativity to refining his famed Prairie style, especially in Racine, Wisconsin, called "invention city" for all the innovative products developed there. After 1900, Racine witnessed the most significant stages of the architect?s career. Award-winning photojournalist Mark Hertzberg, Director of Photography for the Racine Journal Times, presents a well-researched compendium of warm, lively and revealing anecdotes from people who lived in Wright?s private homes and worked in his public buildings. Special attention is devoted to the SC Johnson Administration Building, the subsequent Research Tower, and the Wingspread residence?Wright?s last and largest Prairie home and built ina unique pinwheel design. Other important commissions discussed and photographed include the Hardy and the Keland houses, the unrealized Roy Petersen House, the YWCA, and the airport lounge/cafe project. Hertzberg also briefly...

Book DescriptionThis book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.

Brian Hanson

Book DescriptionBrian Hanson examines how the authority of architects was created within the changing working practices of eighteenth and nineteenth century British architecture. Incorporating new methods, he compares diverse figures, such as Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott, and Street, and provides a new context for Ruskin's arguments about "The Nature of Gothic." He demonstrates how Ruskin is closer to the classical tradition represented by Chambers than the Arts and Crafts Movement of Webb and Morris, which he supposedly inspired.

Book DescriptionWith over 1200 illustrations, plans, and detail drawings, Constructing Architecture is a veritable encyclopedia for anyone interested in the essential technical information needed for building and construction, regardless of design style.This lavish but systematically organized book is divided into sections on materials, building components, building types, case studies, and a catalog of components, all drawn to a common scale, providing everything the professional or the student might need to transform their designs into built projects. Underlying this enormously practical book is a respect for the primacy of design, the belief that building is not simply a fact of engineering or technology, but the translation and culmination of a creative act that can only be successfully completed if the technical principles of construction are well understood. Anyone seeking that knowledge will find it bursting from the pages of Constructing Architecture.

Stephen Skinner

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Ian A Melville

Inspections and Reports on Dwellings: Reporting for Buyers

Erica Mitie Umakoshi, Joana Carla Soares Goncalves

Tall buildings represent one of the most energy-intensive architectural typologies, while at the same time offering the high density work and living conditions that many believe will an important constituent of future sustainable communities. How, then, can their environmental impact be lessened? This insightful book takes in: - an overview of the tall building and its impacts (looking at cityscape, place, mobility, microclimate, energy and economics) - design principles and the development of the sustainable tall building - global perspectives (covering North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia) - detailed, qualitative case studies of buildings in design and operation - the future for sustainable tall buildings Not simply another showcase for future utopian designs and ideals, the information presented here is based on hard research from operating buildings. Highly illustrated and combining analysis with solid detail for practice, this is essential reading for...

Keith Styles

Book DescriptionCovering every aspect of drawing preparation, both manual and computer-aided, this comprehensive manual is an essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists. Showing what information is required on each type of document, how drawings relate to specifications, and how to organize and document your work, this handbook presents a fully illustrated guide to all the key methods and techniques. Thoroughly revised and redesigned, this fourth edition has brand newcomputer-generated drawings throughout and is updated to cover all aspects of computer use in the modern building design process. 1. A working tool that provides practical help, written in an accessible style 2. A comprehensive guide presenting not only what to draw, but how and in what sequence 3. Stylishly presented and concise content makes it easy to learn methods and techniquesDownload DescriptionWorking drawings produced both manually and using packages such as...