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Classic Country Homes is a collection of Don Gardner's 100 finest and most apealing country and farmhouse designs.Ranging in size from 1,674 to 3,699 square feet of living space, these comfortable and well-appointed homes are grouped into four convenient sections:

Country Homes with Open Floor Plans and Excellent Traffic Patterns,

Country Homes with Bonus Rooms and Extra Space to Expand,

Country Homes with Eye-Catching Windows, Dormers and Glasswork,

Country Homes with Inviting Outdoor Living Areas, Porches and Decks

Each home in this colorful books is displayed with a beautiful, four-color rendering or photograph of the front of the house, so that readers can see how the home looks from the street.And, nearly as important, many designs also depict a color view of the rear of the home. ... Read more

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Museums are architectural trend-setters. Culture sponsoring and their increasing role as tourist attractions are guarantees for an ongoing boom in museum construction. A tradition and typology developed over the centuries, the planning and practical experience gained in recent decades and cutting-edge technology all contribute to the practice of modern day museum building.History and form, site development, floor plan, air-conditioning and climate technology are just some examples of the subjects treated systematically and contextually in the first section of this design manual.Some 70 international museum case-studies by renowned architects such as Tadao Ando, Stephen Holl, Renzo Piano and Herzog & de Meuron exemplify solutions and emphasize specific museum design issues such as spatial organisation and lighting. ... Read more

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A cube. It's one of nature's purest, most basic forms. We see cubes every day, usually made of elemental materials like sugar and ice. But what if the cube is something altogether more complicated? What happens when cubes are constructed of plywood and bamboo, foam and hay, chopped up telephone books and strands of chicken wire? Cube is a speculative investigation of this primal shape, a tactile exploration of the imagination in which unexpected materials create surprisingly beautiful and intriguing objects. Imagine you're asked to create something interesting out of this simplest of forms using whatever materials you can find at hand. That's the design exercise architect David Morrow Guthrie gives his students each year at Rice University, and the results, over 50 of which are presented in this handy little block of a book, will inspire any designer who is looking for ideas and inspiration, whether from elemental forms or innovative ways of using materials. Simple and perfect, that's Cube. ... Read more

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A guide to renovation design for architects and engineers. The design of renovations is like any other building design, but more complicated, because the questions that architects and engineers face in the process are complicated by the existing building's form, materials, peculiarities of age, and construction. The Design of Renovations outlines the basic pertinent principles of design and construction and explains how to apply them to renovation that meets the physical and aesthetic needs of the job, given the constraints of the materials involved. Dozens of actual case studies illustrate the practical application of the theory, methods, and procedures. ... Read more

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* First book to explain programming--the first step in the design process--in depth
* Shows how to accurately assess the client's needs, tastes, and goals
* Covers programming for large- and small-scale, architectural and interior renovations, and new projects
* Hundreds of photos, drawings, and diagrams show problems and solutions in practice
* Provides examples, exercises, and two complete case studies: ideal for course use ... Read more

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this book is the best what i read about the architectural programming, I take a few informations and I use it in my projects.

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Enthusiastically recommended!
And I mean "enthusiastically" very pragmatically. This book is a refreshing addition to my resource collection because it opens up alternative methods to approach programming. I come to this stage of the process with much more confidence and resolve because I have this great book to consult If I should get stuck somewhere.

If you are a person that is seeking to become powerfully informed about this stage of designing, or if you are a person seeking to supplement some additional points of view about programming, this book would serve you extremely well. ... Read more

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Conceived as a set of "Flexible Standards," this new addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series proposes a new way of thinking about roadways in cities. By reexamining the urban expressway as a political, physical, and mythic manifestation of American culture, this compelling pamphlet serves as a design manual for planners, a novel atlas for drivers, and a collection of proposals that reaffirm the role of architecture in urban planning. The thirteen projects take as their subject a site of contested transportation infrastructure -- the Sheridan Expressway. By proposing new typologies for this site, these studies seek to mediate the spaces in the city where local and regional meet. Referencing the introduction of the modern parkway into the Bronx, the grading of the Central Park transverse roads, and other works that have redefined the relationship between parks and roads, author Jonathan Solomon suggests a system by which large projects might again be built in American cities. ... Read more

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Published at the end of the academic year, Projects Review portrays the spirit and priorities of the Architectural Association in London -- the preoccupations of the teaching units, the debates around ideas, the investigations of new techniques. Each unit, from foundationlevel to the graduate school, makes its own selection of the best student work produced during the year, contributing to a unique record of the activities of one of the world's most vital schools of architecture. Projects Review is read by students and architects alike as an indicator of the latest trends, experimental projects, and theoretical concerns. ... Read more

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The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of Illinois Institute of Technology, one of the landmarks of modern American architecture. With a master plan and twenty renowned buildings by Mies van der Rohe, IIT has long been a pilgrimage site for architects and students of design. Thousands of visitors arrive each year to see International Style masterpieces such as S. R. Crown Hall, home of IIT's College of Architecture and one of Mies's greatest works. Today, IIT is in the midst of an exciting new chapter in its design history. A new student center designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture has once again put IIT at the forefront of the design world. Meanwhile, a new master plan for the campus, new landscaping, and a residence-hall complex by Helmut Jahn have reinvigorated student life and revitalized the surrounding community of Chicago's South Side. Featuring archival images of the Mies buildings as well as newly commissioned photographs of IIT's latest additions, this beautifully produced guide presents a comprehensive architectural walk through America's most distinguished modern campus. ... Read more

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Lateral forces is traditionally one of the most baffling subjects for architectural candidates.This course by Robert Marks, P.E., removes the mystery by providing a clear, practical, and understandable approach to both lateral forces and structural systems.

Among the subjects covered in the six lessons of this course are:
* Conventional structural systems
* Long span structural systems
* Trusses
* Earthquake design
* Wind design

The earthquake lesson comprises a comprehensive review of earthquake design, including code requirements, lateral load resisting systems, diaphragms, torsion, regular and irregular structures, and a step-by-step example of earthquake design for a small building.Of particular interest is a lesson describing the architecture and structure of a number of notable historical and modern buildings.

The course is supplemented with tables, sketches, formulas, sample calculations, a glossary of structural terms, a bibliography, and an index.A review quiz followseach lesson, and the course is concluded with a simulated examination.Complete explanations of all quiz and examination answers are included.

This edition incorporates references to both the 1994 and 1997 editions of the Uniform Building Code. ... Read more

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This imaginative book offers architecture students over 100 examples of visual problem-solving in architectural design. Paired before-and-after illustrations demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can manipulate form, space, and material to achieve desired effects: emphasizing or diminishing building elements, imposing visual order on a facade, or adding grace notes. 250 b/w illustrations. ... Read more

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Finally, a visuall book about visual quality!
Why this book has not been written before? its arguments are compelling, the evidence is before our eyes. Why was I never exposed to a similar book during my 8 years of studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts?
"The Designer's Eye" is about visual tradecaft. It shows on the same page, on the right side the way a building could have been, and on the left side the way it is. The difference between the 2 images is a visual detail, sometime very simple (say, a painted horizontal line) sometime more elaborate (say, a cornice). The visual result of this before and after approach is compelling.
From time to time a little humorous vignette is added to illustrate with a non architectural detail - usually borrowed from women fashion - the visual point made on the page.
The great strength of Brolin's book is that it shows real examples selected among a wide range of buildings. Some are architectural icons like the "Palazzo Nuevo" from Michelangelo, other are anonymous buildings like a suburban house in Pensylvania.
Ninety percent of the book is visual, no long winded theory, just two images next to each other, and a few lines of comments below, in case ones doesn't get the point right away.
The Designer's Eye demonstrates that no building needs to be visually unpleasant. A little care about the way things will look from the street will do wonder. Designers and builders who do not have instinctively this visual sensitivity would be well advised to borrow freely from Brolin's examples which are grouped by architectonic themes, facades, edges, details, etc.
For those who think that they are already visually creative, a little reminder of all the tricks of the trade might also help.
This book is a must for architects, remodellers, and more broadly for people interested in improving the visual quality of their own environment, at least when they have any control over it.
I only regret that the book is not in colour, or may be on a CDROM. May be a future coffee table book edition?
PS. I know why this book has not be written before. Without digital images and the possibility of modifying them easily this book would be impossible to produce. Previous books dealing with the same subject would have to ask the reader to imagine what the Michelangelo' capitol would look like without the "Grand Ordre" spanning two floors. Impossible to do without becoming terribly verbose, and therefore boring for the visually oriented. ... Read more

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32 Beijingew York is a new "non-thematic, non-hierarchical" journal developed as a platform for critical and theoretical exchange in architecture. Its juxtaposition of illustrative and literary elements creates a multiplicity of interactions, generating broader discourse and deeper research into current architectural issues. By considering spatial ideas within a political, economic, cultural, and technological context, 32 challenges the way we read, interpret, and make architecture. ... Read more

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beautiful design
The journal has only 32 pages but makes up for it with beautiful design. Each large format page is a design object on its own. The magazine is beautifully laid out, with thoughtful and quirky juxtapositions of image and text on every spread. The articles are very short--really more like aphorisms and musings than full-fledged essays. ... Read more

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Candidates planning to take the General Structures Test are advised to get both Structural Technology 1 and 2.

Candidates may enroll in both Structural Technology 1 and 2 for a special combined fee of $102. ... Read more

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Throughout history, great faiths have been subjected to persecution and attack from beyond the wall - literally walls, in Peter Harrison's remarkable book of the great monastery-fortresses, and church-fortresses, of the world.The fortified religious buildings of Christendom, Islam and Tibetan Buddhism are some of the most dramatic buildings of the middle ages. Though they shared a common purpose in defending the living faith from the armies of the unbeliever, they are astonishingly different from each other. Peter Harrison has spent a lifetime in scholarly pursuit of fortified religious buildings dating from a thousand years ago and more, in the Old and New Worlds, the Orient, and the Occident, ranging through New Mexico, North Africa and Tibet, though the majority are to be found in Europe.The wild, often hostile, terrain in which these fortresses were built speaks of a militant faith, and Peter Harrison's purpose is to show how and why religious establishments incorporated military architecture. He considers this unstudied subject from a uniquely wide point of view, historical, military, and architectural. Every form of religious building that received fortifications is illustrated, from the humble parish churches of the Anglo-Scottish Borders to the Potala Palace of the Dalai Lama and the Vatican. Particular features of this book are the author's photographs, taken in some of the wildest and most inaccessible parts of the world, and his own very detailed plans and illustrations of many of the buildings described.Dr PETER HARRISON is Research Associate, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. ... Read more

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Twelve self-improvement profiles help you gain a new focus on your personal life and career. ... Read more

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As someone who has a background in the fine arts and who has recently began working at a metal shop I found this book to be an extremely valuable and understandable introduction into the world of metal fabrication. It is well writen with many color photograghs. It is not ment for the advanced metal worker, except maybe as a reference, but as a beginer it is a must read. ... Read more

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Inconsistant and encumbering.
I found that this book was helpful on a few minor levels. However, the first thing I realized while studying from this book was that the Site Design protion of the Site Planning exam was missing the building square footage information - I had to look at the answer in order to find the correct building size. On the exam - the buildings for this division are already created for you as 'blocks'. The other thing I noticed was that the Schematic Design mock vinette of the Building Design exam was answered improperly - or at least did not follow the guidelines set by the program. The diagram showed that the Chapel and the Robing room are to be directly connected - the solution showed a serparation by a corridor. On the exam - if two spaces are to be directly connected - then they must be shown directly connected on the solution. I found that this book was not really helpful in studying for the exam because the difficulty of the questions posed in this book were much easier than that of the real exam. On the other hand, Ballast's other two books for the Non-Structures and Structures portions of the exam are helpful - but this guide falls short of the mark and makes preparation for the exam less effective.
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Armed with this book you are not merely a beach day-tripper. You are at once a visionary and historian, an architectural genius, a builder of empires! The authors show how you can duplicate the architectural glories of antiquity with just damp sand and a straight-edged stick of any kind.Clear instruction and step-by-step photographs make it easy to achieve the same incredible results for a whole series of seemingly monumental structures. Designed in an easy-to use format, this beautiful book is lavishly illustrated with nearly two hundred color photographs on building these wonderful structures. The many ideas and extraordinary work in Sandtiquity are bound to transform beaches everywhere! ... Read more

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Not worth the money if you want more than pretty pictures
Although I compliment the authors for the beautiful things they created, this book was not much more than a picture book of what could be done. There was very little of the "howto" of sand castle building. 'The S.o.B. "take me to the beach" Sand Castle Book' by Lucinda Wierenga, while only a booklet and all black and white images, gives some wonderful tips on not only what you can do, but **how**.

Fun and informative
Breaking free from the typical "drippy castles" and sand bucket designs, the author reveals through photos how he and his family and friends build "monumental" architecture at the beach. Simple tools and instructions inspire you to get out your staight edge and head to the shore.

A quick read. I hoped for more designs and specific how-to's of the various structures, but basic concepts are clearly explained and give you enough information to build your own exotic and elegant sand castles.

A fun departure from the author's unusual books on earth-sheltered, earth-friendly architecture. ... Read more

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Effective program even the most sophisticated facilities. Here's the easy to gather, organize, and assess any client's building use data--so you can effectively design everything from office towers to health and educational facilities. Loaded with checklists, forms, and questionnaires that help you determine room size, use and function requirements, staff and employee projections, permit fees, and much more. Architectural Programming, by Robert R. Kumlin, will help you: select and organize the programming team; compile architectural data; choose and utilize common area measurement systems, including AIA, ANSI, and NRC; determine and communicate the priorities of the project in guiding and evaulating the design process; overcome conflicting interests and achieve a creative program consensus; much more. ... Read more