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The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book updated & revisedEverythin…
This updated and revised edition of The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book gives you the information essential to planning and executing interior projects of all shapes and sizes in a format that is easy to use—now including interviews with top practitioners from across the field of interior design. With detailed charts, specifications, diagrams, and digital information f…
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British EmbassiesTheir Diplomatic and Architectural History
A unique and glamorous book about British Imperial and post-Imperial architecture and a lively and evocative read for anyone interested in the international projection of British power and culture. British Embassies have a special role in our history. They represent our country in bricks and stone and have often expressed – at least in the eyes of foreigners – our national characte…
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HeadspaceThe Psychology of City Living
More and more of us are choosing to live in the man-made environment of the city. The mismatch between this artificial world and our nature-starved souls can contribute to the stresses of city living in a way that is barely noticed – but is crucially important. What does the science of architectural psychology tell us about how the world of brick and concrete affects how we think, feel an…
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The Meaning of Home
We are so familiar with the features of our homes, the myriad little decorative details, that we have forgotten how to see them. We might look at a church, read a book or watch a film and attempt to understand its symbolism and its references, but we rarely look at our homes in the same light. Yet from the most ordinary apartment to the most extravagant mansion, every home is a deep well of ech…
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Modernist Estates - EuropeThe buildings and the people who live in them today
From the pre-war Viennese Werkbund Estate (designed by the likes of Gerrit Rietveld and Adolf Loos), the post-war Swiss Siedlung Halen (by Atelier 5) to more recent builds such as the Medina Complex in Eindhoven (Neave Brown),Modernist Estates: Europeshowcases 15 housing schemes through archival and contemporary photography, alongside a series of interviews with current residents. This beautifu…
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Anti-UglyExcursions in English Architecture and Design
Since 2004 Gavin Stamp, one of Britains most eminent and readable architectural historians, has written a monthly column for Apollo, the esteemed architecture and fine art magazine. The subject is simply whatever in design or architecture happens to take his fancy. It might be the splendid reopening of the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, or the dilapidation of a little-kn…
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Color, Space, and StyleAll the Details Interior Designers Need to Know but Ca…
A comprehensive handbook of all the crucial information interior designers need to know on a daily basis. In the world of interior design, thousands of bits of crucial information are scattered across a wide array of sources. Color, Space, and Style collects the information essential to planning and executing interiors projects of all shapes and sizes, and distills it in a format that is as ea…
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Water-Efficient Landscaping in the Intermountain WestA Professional and Do-It…
This working manual provides complete information on the technical aspects of designing, building, and maintaining waterwise landscapes in the Mountain West. Written particularly for professionals, including landscape designers, architects, contractors, and maintenance and irrigation specialists, it has an attractive, well-illustrated, user-friendly format that will make it useful as well to DI…
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L'architettura e l'esperienza dello spazioIuav November Talks 2019
Da tempo l'esperienza è diventata una parola chiave che lega indissolubilmente la persona umana agli spazi architettonici, sottolineando gli aspetti fenomenologici dello spazio vissuto, le relazioni tra l'uomo e il suo ambiente. L'esperienza dello spazio assume centralità per un'architettura di relazioni, che conduce alla pratica della progettazione architettonica, urbana e del paesaggio come…
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La coscienza del paesaggioArmando Dillon e la tutela in Liguria
Per il paesaggio gli anni Cinquanta sono anni di attesa e di lotta. La legge 1497 del 1939 sulle bellezze naturali, offriva all'Italia repubblicana una concezione del paesaggio come nesso inscindibile di natura e storia, e introduceva l'idea della pianificazione paesaggistica. Ma nell'Italia della speculazione edilizia e della nascita del turismo di massa la tutela del paesaggio è tutt'altro c…
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