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A Table in Newport: Dining with the Titans and Royals of the Gilded Coast. This book A Table in Newport, provides an in-depth examination of the intricate social history of Newport, tracing its prog……続きを見る

Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde takes a terminological, sociological, and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a t……続きを見る

The ante bellum homes of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, are both more numerous and more distinctive in design than those of many communities of similar age. Founded in 1775, Lexington by th……続きを見る

During the eight decades preceding the Civil War, Kentucky was the scene of tremendous building activity. Located in the western section of the original English colonies, midway between North and So……続きを見る

Sustainable Style: The Ultimate Guide to Ethical Fashion by Fiona Sterling is your essential companion for making responsible and stylish fashion choices. In a world increasingly concerned with sust……続きを見る

Museums of the Commons examines L’Internationale, an ongoing confederation between six museums and contemporary art institutions in Europe. Drawing on extensive interviews with the directors, curato……続きを見る

This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terr……続きを見る

Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low- and middle-income gr……続きを見る

Turn water scarcity into water abundance; as you enable your home, yard, school, place of worship, and/or neighborhood to generate more resources and life! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyo……続きを見る

Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers. Ins……続きを見る

When disaster strikes, the damage isn’t just physicalーit’s social, economic, and deeply uneven. Rising seas, stronger storms, and growing inequality have made resilience planning an urgent priority……続きを見る

Despite a 2016-18 glut in fossil fuel markets and decade-low fuel prices, the global transformation to sustainable energy is happening. Our ongoing energy challenges and solutions are complex and mu……続きを見る

Presenting the state-of-the-art in sustainable retrofits in post war residential towers, this book captures and re-informs the current intense refurbishing process that is taking place in Britain, w……続きを見る

Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides a……続きを見る

With the increased use of computers, architecture has found itself in the midst of a plethora of possible uses. This book combines theoretical enquiry with practical implementation offering a unique……続きを見る

In design, the problems that designers are called upon to solve can be regarded as a problem of permutations. A permutation is an ordered arrangement of elements in a set. In our case, the set is de……続きを見る