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MA YANSONGFrom (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition / Entre la modernidad …
MAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architecture based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature. All of MAD's projects - from residential complexes or offices to cultural centres - desire to protect a sense of community and orientation toward nature, offering people the freedom to develop their own experience. Founded in 2004 by Ma Yansong, th…
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- 9781638408369
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[UN]Precedented Pyongyang
Despite the notorious fact of it being one of the most veiled countries in modern history, North Korea recently has started to get engaged with the rest of the world, and now we can easily witness various socio-economic changes of the nation which was seen in the 1990s in other post-socialist countries. And as the capital of the nation, Pyongyang has already entered into fast transformation sta…
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Ancient Architecture of the Southwest
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mex…
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Think Like an Architect
An award-winning architect and educator demystifies the process of making architecture and explains why good architectural design matters. The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environments in which we live, work, and play useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. What many don't realize is that…
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The American Idea of HomeConversations about Architecture and Design
Over thirty leaders in American architecture discuss the most significant issues in the field today. "Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a cons…
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- 9781477312896
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MCHAP Book OneThe Americas
MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN – Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radi?, Cristián Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaug…
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Landscape TuningsAn Urban Park at the Danube
Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to one's dispositions and wellbeing—an emotional space of social relevance, tuned with and for its communities. In this book, OFICINAA examines the design potentials of the Danube River as a civic anchor, a bioclimatic medium, and a space for collective …
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La place de la Landsgemeinde à Trogen
Grâce au florissant commerce du textile, la place du village appenzellois de Trogen s'est dotée de riches palais en pierre d'inspiration française ou italianisante. Leur magnificence reflète l'intensité des échanges culturels et commerciaux de l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle. En quelques décennies, sous l'égide des familles Zellweger et Honnerlag, les maîtres d'oeuvre Grubenmann et Langeneg…
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Kirchbühl bei Sempach
Die von einem Friedhof umschlossene Martinskirche von Kirchbühl liegt in malerischer Aussichtslage oberhalb des Sempachersees. Sie hat als eine der wenigen Kirchen Luzerns ihren mittelalterlichen Charakter im wesentlichen bis heute bewahren können und besticht vor allem durch ihre bedeutenden hochgotischen Wandmalereien und ihre aus spätgotischer Zeit stammenden Ausstattung. Dem Wanderer emp…
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Book of the SchoolDepartment of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 187…
Articles by Pennsylvania professors and alumni covering the sixty-year record of the School and the cultural and academic elements of the study and practice of architecture. Includes a Who's Who of all graduates from 1877 to 1934.
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