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Zeichensprache der Architektur Zeichensprache der Architektur Adolf Reinle 364 p. : 27 cm OL1266954W
Histoire mondiale de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes Histoire mondiale de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes Michel Ragon 3 volumes : 25 cm OL15892044W
Recent waterscapes Recent waterscapes Herbert Dreiseitl After decades of being banished from residential areas, water is now becoming an increasingly significant feature in urban design. This book reveals the wide variety of possibilities for using water … OL16132147W
From ornament to object From ornament to object Alina Alexandra Payne "In the late 19th century, a centuries-old preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects--c… OL16499313W
Weather architecture Weather architecture Hill, Jonathan "This book considers climate as well as weather but its principal focus is everyday experience. Weather and climate differ in duration and scale. Unlike the weather, which we can see and feel at a sp… OL16624535W
El sentido de la arquitectura moderna El sentido de la arquitectura moderna Helio Pin o n Presents the curricula with bibliography for a Postgraduate program in Architecture of the 20th century for the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. OL16991278W
Architecture and disjunction Architecture and disjunction Bernard Tschumi "Index Architecture documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia Univer… OL1727574W
Event-cities 3 Event-cities 3 Bernard Tschumi 637 p. : 23 cm OL1727575W
Best Tall Buildings 2008 Ctbuh International Award Winning Projects Best Tall Buildings 2008 Ctbuh International Award Winning Projects Antony Wood "The design and construction of tall buildings has taken a global upswing, with the incomplete Burj Dubai already the world's tallest building and projects started or on the boards for the 150-story … OL17378661W
Miami Modern Metropolis Paradise And Paradox In Midcentury Architecture And Planning Miami Modern Metropolis Paradise And Paradox In Midcentury Architecture And Planning Allan T. Shulman 413 p. : 31 cm OL17497188W
Turn-of-the-century houses, cottages, and villas Turn-of-the-century houses, cottages, and villas R. W. Shoppell,Frances A. Davis 120 pages : 31 cm OL18285610W
Toward a concrete utopia Toward a concrete utopia Martino Stierli Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia's architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinc… OL19755175W
Total housing Total housing Tihamér Hazarja Salij,Albert Ferré "Total Housing Is A Selection Of 61 Exemplary Multi-Family Residential Projects Built In Europe, North And South America, And Asia During The Real-Estate Boom Of The Last Decade, Total Housing Provid… OL19947916W
Local architecture Local architecture Robert McCarter,Brian MacKay-Lyons "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 strive… OL19997147W
Design for aviation Design for aviation Allison Arieff Seventeen airport terminals designed by Gensler. OL20053085W
Home Home Tulga Beyerle,Deyan Sudjic Examining the broad spectrum of home design as well as house architecture, this book documents the relationship between interior and exterior space, the evolution of furniture, domestic appliances, a… OL20615902W
Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas Ingrid Böck Dutch architect, architectural theorist and urban thinker Rem Koolhaas (born 1944) has been a protagonist of the international architectural avant-garde since the 1970s; his numerous worldwide awards… OL20932623W
Rooted in the real Rooted in the real Geert Bekaert Geert Bekaert (1928) is the most influential and most productive architecture critic in the Dutch-speaking area. Since the fifties, he has been involved in every possible theoretical, critical or cul… OL23186521W
London 1900 London 1900 Alastair Service When Londoners celebrated the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the city the royal carriage rode through did not look like the capital of the largest empire in the world. London was still the… OL2526388W
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture Karl Kropf,Charles Jencks "Charles Jencks was the first to demonstrate that Modern architecture in the 1960s and 1970s had undergone a profound mutation into three major approaches - Post-Modernism, Late Modernism and New Mod… OL27974280W
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