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Speaking of Buildings
Author | : Naomi Stead,Janina Gosseye,Deborah van der Plaat |
Publsiher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781616898908 |
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By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. Speaking of Buildings offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people.
When Buildings Speak
Author | : Anthony Alofsin |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226015071 |
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The canonical inventors of International Style have long dominated studies of modern European architecture. But in this text, Anthony Alofsin broadens this scope by exploring the rich yet overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states.
A Pattern Language
Author | : Christopher Alexander |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780190050351 |
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
Can Buildings Speak
Author | : Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury |
Publsiher | : Evans Brothers |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0237533995 |
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Looks at the shapes and patterns on buildings, what a building's exterior tells about its purpose and compares building materials used in the past with those used today. Includes an activity to design a stained-glass window. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Performance Concept in Buildings
Author | : Bruce E. Foster |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : IND:30000098998077 |
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Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works House of Representatives
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1672 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Public works |
ISBN | : UOM:39015081287180 |
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Public Buildings and Grounds
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433004203398 |
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Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Public buildings |
ISBN | : UCLA:L0076779511 |
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