This "Design and Development Guide" is an essential book for those who are involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts, from local to metropolitan locations.

Wydawnictwo: Architectural Press

One of the oldest and most versatile building materials available, brick is used for period landscape design in walkways, entry pavements, courtyards, terraces, porticoes, steps, and fencewalls.

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

"Beyond Archigram" is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine "Archigram", the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it.

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

This text shows how Beirut is now beginning to recover after the desolation and destruction of the early 1990s. This process is attributed to SOLIDERE, the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of the Beirut Central District, which has undertaken the revitalization of the city.

Wydawnictwo: Academy Group Ltd

To appreciate England's earliest Gothic buildings and art--the great cathedrals at Canterbury, Lincoln, Salisbury, and Wells and contemporary Gothic texts and images--it is necessary to understand the religious and ethical ideals of the individuals and communities who sponsored them.

Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press

Wydawnictwo: Philipp von Zabern

Wydawnictwo: Philipp von Zabern

"Assessing Urban Design" is a search to better understand how people perceive the physical environments that surround them. Touching on issues of urban design, planning, architecture, historic preservation, and tourism,

Wydawnictwo: Lexington Books

Dr Khan was probably the greatest architectural engineer of the 2nd half of the 20th century. He revolutionized the design and construction of tall buildings through his invention of the "braced tubular system," which allowed the construction of such buildings as the 100-story John Hancock Center and the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago.

Wydawnictwo: Rizzoli International Publications

The comprehensive, prize-winning guide introduces the reader, whether visitor or resident, to the unparalleled visual wealth and historical interest contained in London art and architecture.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

The Abbey of Le Thoronet in Provence, one of the wonders of 12th-century Cistercian architecture, was restored in the 19th century and consists of an austere church, a cloister and 12th-century monastic buildings.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

During the nineteenth century, the Shakers conducted America's first successfulexperiment in utopian living. From Maine to Kentucky, they built communal villages whose unique buildings were designed to accommodate hundreds of inhabitants unified in the common purpose of work and worship.

Wydawnictwo: Countryman Press

The book is as sumptuous as the words are spirited ... it's a joy to read' - FX 'Carefully selected, amazingly atmospheric images, worthy of the architecture they bring to life ... an elegant book at an affordable price'

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

A guide to the architectural history and significance of the most famous structures in Britain Britain is a gold mine for the student of architecture. Ranging from ancient times to the present day - from Stonehenge to the Millennium Dome - this volume's 76 entries include palaces, casties;

Wydawnictwo: Greenwood Publishing Group

Archer, an architectural historian in the cultural studies/comparative literature department of the U. of Minnesota, has written an account of the philosophies and political and social realities that led to and sustain the notion of the "dream home" in England and the US. Beginning with an extensive chapter on the influential thought of John Locke,

Wydawnictwo: University of Minnesota Press

"Architectural Design and Ethics" offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.

Wydawnictwo: Architectural Press

From the targeted demolition of Mostars Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction.

Wydawnictwo: Architectural Press

Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage.

Wydawnictwo: Architectural Press