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Eisenman Architects/University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals
From the publisher: The basic form of the American sports stadium has not changed much in the last century. But in an unexpected and controversial act of daring, the Arizona Cardinals football team selected awarding-winning architect and intellectual provocateur Peter Eisenman to design their stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Opened in the summer of 2006, Eisenman's latest work rejects all traditional and staid notions of the sports stadium.
The Future Envelope 1: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Edited by: Ulrich Knaack and Tillmann Klein
From the publisher: What is the future of the façade and how can we get there? What are current trends and future developments? Experts from the fields of architecture, structural and climate design, material science, construction and product development, industry, planning and building innovations will reflect on current projects and their vision for the future.
The Northwest Green Home Pimer
By: Kathleen O'Brien and Kathleen Smith
From the publisher: Everyone can make green home decisions on a budget with this inspiring, information-packed guide. Whether you are building, remodeling, buying, or just curious, here are real-world strategies for getting the greenest results from your budget, with hundreds of ideas for a home that is built to last, comfortable and healthy, money- and time-saving to maintain in the long term, and kind to the planet. This basic training manual will help novice and professional alike.
Peter Gisolfi Associates: Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape
By: Peter Gisolfi
From the publisher: Peter Gisolfi is an architect, landscape architect and educator whose substantial design practice extends over 20 years. Most of his work consists of carefully crafted buildings that relate to a larger setting. A variety of public and private projects completed throughout the United States are featured in this first monograph. The common thread in these projects are that indoor and outdoor spaces are created in harmony with each other, that buildings are placed to define outdoor spaces, and that natural context and man-made context strongly influence the design.
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Smart Structures: Innovative Systems for Seismic Response Control
By: Franklin Y. Cheng, Hongping Jiang, and Kangyu Lou
From the publisher: Proven to be very effective in protecting structures against the effects of extreme weather and earthquakes, smart structural systems are something with which all engineers and construction professionals need to be familiar. Drawing together current information, this volume provides an organized accounting of all smart structure systems currently in vogue as well as those in development. It offers extensive details on regulations, presents mathematical formulations, explores modeling, and discusses cost-efficiency and other practical considerations.
Sustainable Facilities: Green Design, Construction, and Operations
By: Keith Moskow
From the publisher: A vital working tool for all building professionals interested in green architecture and construction, Sustainable Facilities presents an in-depth look at 20 facilities that were designed for environmental organizations and were constructed and now operate using green building methods and materials.
Teaching about Place: Learning from the Land
Edited by: Laird Christensen and Hal Crimmel
From the publisher: The mobility of modern Americans and the homogenizing tendencies of our economy and culture have left us detached from an authentic sense of place and knowledge of the bioregions we occupy. The seventeen writers who contribute to Teaching About Place-all of them distinguished environmental educators-reflect on the challenges of teaching students about place and their connection to it. Teaching About Place is an important record of experiments in the growing practice of place-based pedagogy, examining both the possibilities and the limitations of this approach.
Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers
By: Daniel G. Parolek, Karen Parolek, Paul C. Crawford
From the publisher: A growing alternative to conventional zoning laws, Form-Based Codes go beyond land use to address not just the physical form of buildings but also surrounding streets, blocks, and public spaces in order to create, protect, and revitalize sustainable communities. Written by three recognized leaders in the field of New Urbanism, including an urban planner and an architect, this book is the first to address this subject comprehensively.
Fundamental Trends in City Development
By: Giovanni G.G. Maciocco
From the publisher: This book investigates how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved, and what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens. The author adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation.
The Informed Gardener
By: Linda Chalker-Scott
From the publisher: In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. The answers may surprise you. In her more than twenty years as a university researcher and educator in the field of plant physiology, Linda Chalker-Scott has discovered a number of so-called truths that originated in traditional agriculture and that have been applied to urban horticulture, in many cases damaging both plant and environmental health. The Informed Gardener is based on basic and applied research from university faculty and landscape professionals, originally published in peer-reviewed journals.
Key Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections, and Elevation
By: Rob Gregory
From the publisher: Third in the series of Key books, this volume offers newly drawn plans and color photographs of a wide range of buildings by outstanding architects arranged by plan: centralized and radial plans; linear structures; terraced houses; stacked plans; orthogonal and eccentric courtyards; special cityscape responses; and infills, additions, and extensions. 150 color, 500 line illustrations with CD-ROM.
Mobilities
By: John Urry
From the publisher: Issues of movement — of people, things, information and ideas—are central to people's lives and to most organizations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave-trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of 'mobility' are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with 'mobility' which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop.
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Edited by: Yukio Futagawa
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Edited by: Yukio Futagawa
Public Markets
By: Helen Tangires
From the publisher: The public market is a worldwide urban phenomenon with a tradition as old as cities themselves, continuing today in the greenmarket movement. Surveyed here by type are open-air marketplaces, street markets, street vendors, markets that occupy the ground floor of public buildings, open-sided sheds situated in the middle of wide streets, and fully-enclosed market houses, as well as central markets and wholesale markets, whose complex of buildings and streets encompass entire market districts.
Reciprocal Frame Architecture
By: Olga Popovic Larsen
From the publisher: In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of buildings both ancient and modern. This new book explores the principles of these apparently simple structures and demonstrates how they can be used in the context of a modern building.
The Water Garden
By: Leslie Geddes-Brown
From the publisher: Well-known author Leslie Geddes-Brown traces the history of the decorative use of water in the garden, from the tinkling fountains of ancient Persian enclosures to the most avant-garde creations by twenty-first century designers. Thematic chapters present water gardens of all types, from Islamic and Oriental to romantic and formal, and from landscape gardens to town gardens. The book includes the work of such celebrated designers as Harold Peto, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Helen Dillon and Derek Jarman, and such revered gardens as Stourhead, Giverny and the Villa d'Este.
Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
By: Richard Florida
From the publisher: It's a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Whistler or a beach house in the Caribbean as in the office. According to Richard Florida, this is plain wrong. Globalization is not flattening the world — it's making it "spikier." Place matters more than ever to the global economy and to our individual lives. Where we live determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the people we meet, and the "mating markets" in which we participate. Where we live determines where the good ideas come from — and even whether they come at all.
