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Galbraith's Building and Land Management Law for Students
by Anne Galbraith  Publisher Comments All students of 'built environment' subjects need to have a core understanding of the key areas of the law that affect the industry. This book allows them to learn these issues in a clear-cut and realistic approach giving them knowledge and a secure...
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Castles of Great Britain - Volume one
by Linda Lee Publisher Comments Although various types of fortification existed well before the Norman invasion and many modern 'Stately Homes' are often referred to as such, this book explores 30 of the countries surviving structures considered to be 'true castles'. Built between the...
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Urban Forms
by Ivor Samuels Publisher Comments For over 50 years, evident in cookie-cutter houses, wide, treeless, sidewalk-free roadways, mindlessly curving culde sacs and a streetscape of garage doors, urban growth, also known as urban sprawl has been extremely poorly managed. As a result urban...
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Transportable Environments
by Robert Kronenburg Publisher Comments This book explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today and the concerns and ideas for its future development....
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Architect's Portable Handbook
by Pat Guthrie Publisher Comments When it comes to providing architects with quick, accurate guidance for a complete range of on-the-job issues, no book matches The Architect's Portable Handbook from McGraw-Hill....
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Embedded Computing: A Vliw Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools
by Joseph , A. Fisher Publisher Comments The fact that there are more embedded computers than general-purpose computers and that we are impacted by hundreds of them every day is no longer news. What is news is that increasing performance requirements, complexity and capabilities demand a new...
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Power, Identity, and the Rise of Modern Architecture: from Siam to Thailand
by Koompong Noobanjong Publisher Comments Modern architecture is a creation of the West. In a non-Western context, it normally reflects a direct intervention of Western powers through colonization. Thailand, formerly known as Siam, is an exception. Thai people have argued that they adopted and...
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Sustainable Residential Development
by Avi Friedman Publisher Comments Capitalize on a Comprehensive New Process for Planningand Designing Sustainable Green Communities Written by internationally renowned architect Avi Friedman, Sustainable Residential Development equips you with a much-needed process and examples for...
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Stones Of Venice
by John Ruskin Publisher Comments And although the last few eventful years, fraught with change to the face of the whole earth, have been more fatal in their influence on Venice than the five hundred that preceded them; though the noble landscape of approach to her can now be seen no...
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Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
by Andrew Peterson Synopsis Now in an affordable paperback edition, this critically acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable source of artistic, technical, archaeological, cultural and biographical data on Islamic architecture from its beginnings to the present day. Covering the...
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Architect's Legal Handbook
by Anthony Speaight Publisher Comments An architect is not expected to know all the law in various areas related to their practice. However, they are expected to ensure that their clients do not suffer from the abscence of their legal knowledge. They are expected to know enough law to be...
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Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past
by Philip Gardiner Publisher Comments Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past by Philip Gardiner Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped it's authority on the face of the planet. Now...
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Bridge Watching
by Edmund Jupp Synopsis Wherever we go we seem to meet bridges. Mostly we tend to use them almost without noticing them, except when we see a particularly striking example like the suspension bridge over the river Tamar in Devon. This work aims to make bridges more interesting....
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Structural Aspects of Building Conservation
by Poul Beckmann Publisher Comments This indispensable guide to the assessment and repair of historic buildings is invaluable for structural engineers, architects, surveyors and builders working in all aspects of building conservation. Taking a practical step-by-step approach, the authors...
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Design Construction Roman Architect
by C. Edson Armi Publisher Comments In this study, Edson Armi offers a fresh interpretation of Romanesque architecture. Armi focuses on buildings in northern Italy, Switzerland, southern France, and Catalonia, the regions where Romanesque architecture first appeared around 1000 AD. He...
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Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories
by Daniel Watch Publisher Comments Planning to initiate designs for government, academic, and private research laboratories? Here's the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Filled with project photographs,...
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Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture
by Daniel , Archer Libeskind Publisher Comments 'The renowned architect introduces his iconoclastic approach to public space and shares his vision for the most important architectural project of our time, the 1776 Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Drawing on his uncommon background and...
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Framing Places
by Kim Dovey Synopsis "Framing Places" investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. The author contends that the nature of architecture and urban design lend them to practices of coercion and seduction, thus...
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Higher
by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America. In 1924, in...
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Gender Space Architecture
by Jane Rendell Publisher Comments This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture....
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