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Donald Watson

Book Description * The foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places * International coverage including recent European and Asian sustainability initiatives * Covers essential topics such as preservation, renewal, patterns of settlement and more * Outstanding contributors include Alan Plattus, Dean of the College of Architecture, Yale University

Book DescriptionThis innovative look at the sleek new library at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, designed by the renowned architect Wiel Arets, takes readers on a floor-by-floor tour while it draws wider implications about the changing role of thelibrary in the twenty-first century. Arets? design for the Utrecht University Library embodies the fundamental changes now taking place in library architecture in the information age. Dynamically designed to echo the building?s construction, this book allows readers to experience every floor, as well as its foundations. Woven throughout are interviews and essays that focus on Arets? inspired design, how it fits in with the campus as a whole, and other perspectives on library design from renowned architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito, Jacques Herzog & de Meuron, and Dominique Perrault. Other highlights of the book include an essay, "In the Library," which was commissioned specifically for this book; a series of...

Chapters: Amphoe Mueang Lopburi, Amphoe Phatthana Nikhom, Amphoe Lam Sonthi, Touraneena, Amphoe Khok Charoen, Amphoe Nong Muang, Amphoe Chai Badan, Amphoe Sa Bot, Amphoe Tha Luang, Amphoe Tha Wung, Amphoe Khok Samrong, Amphoe Ban Mi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mueang Lopburi District - Lopburi is an ancient city. In Khmer era, it was Lavo or Lava Pura, the important city of the eastern part of Chao Phraya river valley. In Ayuthaya kingdom, it was the northeastern frontier city. The glorious period of Lopburi was during the reign of King Narai the Great. He stayed in his palace 89 months a year, making Lopburi was the 2nd capital of the kingdom. After his reign, the city became nearly deserted, only to be enriched again when King Mongkut visited and renovated King Narai's Palace. Field Marshal Plaek...

Eric Howeler

Book Description No building type has the power to capture the imagination like the skyscraper, yet following 9/11, the future of the skyscraper has been called into question. The author presents convincing evidence that the future of tall buildings is as secure today as it was over 100 years ago. Described and accompanied by striking full-color photography are over fifty new skyscrapers that punctuate the skyline of major cities around the world. Essays delve into cutting-edge skyscraper design and construction, a brief history of the skyscraper's origins, the evolution of the "green" or sustainable skyscraper, symbolism and skyscraper design, and the rise of the skyscraper in Asia. A special section is devoted to the designs for Ground Zero. Far from being a dying breed, skyscrapers are increasingly vital, and continued reinvention of the form awaits us as the next decade unfolds.

John Chase

Book DescriptionIn this free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, from movie-star mansions to the alleys of the homeless, urban planner John Chase combines gossip, anecdote, archival research and tabloid-worthy self-revelation, grounding architecture as a multi-disciplinary art.

Laurie Dickson

Book DescriptionEvery creative spirit whether painter, writer, sculptor, or designer craves inspirational settings in which to exercise his or her craft. The right physical space can conjure up the artist?s muse, stir up new ideas, and ignite passion for one's work. This unique volume is a celebration of the important relationship between artists and their environments. Written by a veteran photographer and editor, Artists' Interiors features intimate, visual profiles of international artists working in a range of mediums and disciplines. Get inside the stylish flat of jazzy Parisian painter Francoise Biver. Be amused by the fabulous, fanciful, phantasmagoric Luna Parc home of the New Jersey multimedia artist Ricky Boscarino. Be inspired by theSan Francisco chic of Brazilian-born sculptor and painter Silvia Poloto. Filled with beautiful photographs and inspirational insights from each artist's unique world, this is a book for every artistic spirit who wants to create a...

Book DescriptionSince antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years, architects have been looking again at science as a source of inspiration in the production of their designs and constructions. This volume evaluates the interconnections between the sciences and architecture from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Architecture and the Sciences shows how scientific paradigms have migrated to architecture through the appropriation of organic and mechanical models. Conversely, architecture has provided images for scientific and technological discourse. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains. Contents include: Alessandra Ponte, Desert Testing; Martin Bressani, Violet-le-Duc's Optic; Georges Teyssot, Norm and Type: Variations on a Theme; Reinhold Martin, Organicism's Other; Catherine Ingraham, Why...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Caulking is a term used to describe several different process to seal joints or seams in various structures and certain types of piping. The oldest form of caulking is used to make the seams in wooden boats or ships watertight, by driving fiberous materials into the wedge-shaped seams between planks. A related process was formerly employed to join sections of cast iron sewerage pipe. Caulking is also the term to describe the process used to make riveted iron or steel ships and boilers watertight or steamtight. The same term also refers to the application of flexible sealing compounds to close up gaps in buildings and other structures against water, air, dust, insects, or as a component in firestopping. In the tunnelling industry, caulking refers to the sealing of joints in segmental precast concrete tunnels, commonly by using concrete.

Robert L. Winzeler

Book DescriptionPresent-day travelers visiting Borneo to see the marvelous buildings pictured in books are liable to wonder if they somehow ended up in the wrong place. Much of the architecture of Borneo and other areas of the humid tropics was never intended to last and, built as it is of wood and other organic materials, last it has not. Among Borneo's spectacular indigenous buildings, the longhouses, mortuary monuments, and other architectural forms of the interior are some of the most outstanding, and much of the renewed interest in indigenous architecture has focused on the rapidly vanishing or now extinct traditional forms of a small number of surviving examples or recreations. Drawing on the author's extensive research and travel in Borneo, this impressive and original study offers a more comprehensive account of this architecture than any previous work. Organized into two sections, the book first documents and explains traditional built forms in terms of tools and...

James H. Bentley