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This book explores 72 buildings from around the world and throughout history and enables readers to experience the projects through text, photos and drawings; the perfect introduction to reading architectural plans. Intended both as an introductory text for students and professi…
"This book explores 72 buildings from around the world and throughout history and enables readers to experience the projects through text, photos and drawings; the perfect introduction to reading architectural plans. Intended both as an introductory text for students and profess…
This book explores 72 buildings from around the world and throughout history and enables readers to experience the projects through text, photos and drawings; the perfect introduction to reading architectural plans. Intended both as an introductory text for students and professi…
Understanding Architecture is a text and pictorial tour through 75 buildings from the Pyramids and the Pantheon to the present day introducing readers to architectural styles, personalities, and principles. The volume is intended both as an introductory text for students and pro…
Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction: Seeing the World Whole -- Keynotes -- Critical Regionalism Revisited -- Architecture and Human Nature: A Call for a Sustainable Metaphor -- From the Beginning: Thirteen Questions -- Projects -- Deborah Berke Partners -- Marlon Blackwell Archite…
In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in th…
"In 1994 nine ambitious students joined architect and professor Brian MacKay-Lyons at his family farm on the coast of Nova Scotia, atop a nearly four-hundred-year-old stone ruin, to embark on a unique utopian architectural experiment. Housed in tents, without modern conveniences…
"In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in t…
"In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in t…
"In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in t…