Stupa and Swastika: A Study on the Planning Principles ...
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Japan Houses
Japanese residential design has evolved as a distinctive response to social, political, and climatic pressures-along with the powerful individual ideas of its architects. Japan Houses presents 28 of the country''s finest contemporary houses. Each house [... more]
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Frank O. Gehry the Architect's Studio
Frank O. Gehry is the first architect to be featured in The Architect's Studio, a series devoted to influential architects of the past decade and pace-setters for the next century. Gehry has stimulated debate on the architecture of the 90s, most recently [... more]
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Italian Architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini
The years from 1520 to 1630 were crucial in the development of Western architecture, but to label as Mannerist the transition from Michelangelo's licentious New Sacristy in Florence to Borromini's innovative S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is coming to [... more]
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The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England
While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England''s built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged. In the following century, former monasteries were eventually adapted to a [... more]
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Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on ...
For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In this [... more]
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Jujol
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Le Corbusier: Pavillion Suisse Hc
Planned in 1930/31 in extremely difficult circumstances, it is a minor miracle that the CitA(c) Internationale Universitaire Swiss halls of residence, when built, so closely resembled Le Corbusier''s original innovative design. The Pavillon Suisse has [... more]
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Berlin Capital City
By Ulf Meyer. Berlin, the new capital of unified Germany, is being reconfigured to house the politicians, embassies, ministries, and federal state offices that are in the process of moving from Bonn. Looking specifically at government buildings, this [... more]
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Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes
This classic volume by Edward Morse is a beautifully observed and meticulously recorded account of China and its traditional domestic architecture as they were in the 1880s. [... more]
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Vacant City: Brussels' Mont Des Arts Reconsidered
Vacant City deals with the project to revise and reconfigure the Mont des Arts -- a neighborhood in the center of Brussels where the museums and cultural institutions are concentrated -- the city's Museum Quarter . Originally designed from the [... more]
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Scottish Houses and Gardens: From the Archives of ...
This book is a peerless collection of Scotland''s finest houses at their height of beauty, before the destructive forces of the 20th century swept so many away and emptied others of their contents. Here are the famous palaces and castles, from [... more]
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