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Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Architecture and Interior Design Ser.
A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), ...Show more
Building Mixity! - Cremorne2025/37. 83°S/144. 993°e' by Maud Cassaignau; Markus Jung; Matthew Xue
Category: Architecture | Series: Monash Art Design and Architecture Ser.
In times of inflationary investment and explosive urban growth, Building Mixity! challenges the status quo of expansive and unequal development in Melbourne, Australia. The long forgotten and unique post-industrial suburb of Cremorne serves as a blueprint for an alternative vision of robust and producti ...Show more
Chinese Furniture : A Guide to Buying Antiques by Karen Mazurkewich; A. Chester Ong (Photographer)
Category: Craft | Series: Architecture and Interior Design Ser.
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles--from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still avail ...Show more
Computers: an Illustrated History by Christian Wurster
Category: Fiction | Series: Architecture & Design S.
The computer as calculating aide, as military wonder weapon, as electronic data processor that rationalises workplaces, as plaything and partner, as the tool for creativity and communication, as a memory and intelligence booster, and finally as a super- or hyper-medium - the computer has been accorded a ...Show more
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure - Making and Using the Urban Environment by Nigel Bertram
Category: Architecture | Series: Design Research in Architecture Ser.
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before a ...Show more
Gaudi: The Complete Buildings by Rainer Zerbst
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture & Design S.
The complete works of the great Antoni Gaudi (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Antoni Gaudi - the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain, it was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous ...Show more
Moscow Metro Architecture and Design Map by Nikolai Vassiliev
Category: Maps | Series: Public Transport Architecture and Design Maps Ser.
Architectural historian Nikolai Vassiliev has curated the second in Blue Crow Media's new series of maps dedicated to the architecture and design of the world's finest public transport systems. With photography by Alexei Narodizkii, this bilingual (English andRussian) two-sided cartographic guide is an ...Show more
OLIVIER LEMPEREUR by PAUWELS WIM
Category: Interior Design | Series: Architecture & Design S. No. 2
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