New Books - January 2008
The Architecture of Parking
By: Simon Henley, photographs by Sue Barr
From the publisher: This book is at once a survey of the finest examples of parking garages and a presentation of exciting and innovative design. An introduction covers the history and architectural significance of these buildings and their relevance today, and is followed by chapters that define the most influential aspects of parking design: elevations, materials, the use of light, and innovation and experimentation.
TL175 .H46 2007
Construction Specifications: Principles and Applications
By: Hans W. Meier & David J. Wyatt
From the publisher: Unlike any other book on the market, Construction Specifications: Principles and Applications addresses specification writing as a valuable tool that can play a critical role in managing professional risk, enhancing the value of an architect’s or engineer’s instruments of service, and increasing the profitability of facilities in both public and private sectors.
TH425 .M438 2008
GIS for the Urban Environment
By: Juliana Maantay & John Ziegler
From the publisher: This introduction to urban planning applications and problem solving with GIS is appropriate for students and professionals in the fields of geography, urban studies, urban planning, urban public health, urban environmental assessment, and hazard and emergency management. Technical jargon is minimized while the analytical concepts are fully described, enabling full use and understanding of GIS techniques. Infused in the included laboratory exercises are real-world activities that are often required in urban GIS projects but rarely included in prepared lab work, such as data acquisition, integrating data into the GIS, and manipulation of real data. Project design and analysis methodologies are also demonstrated with real-life examples of urban GIS projects.
HT153 .M314 2006
Miami: Mediterranean Splendor and Deco Dreams
By: Beth Dunlop
From the publisher: Miami is a world-renowned, cosmopolitan city with an architectural history to match. Its many treasures include not only Miami Beach's Art Deco buildings and Coral Gables, but also the houses and commercial buildings of the immediate postwar era, tropical vernacular architecture, mid-century modernism, and avant-garde high-rise buildings on the waterfront. What all these creations have in common is the intention to allure, delight, and engage the imagination and senses. Indeed, many of Miami's architects have conceived of the city in theatrical terms-a city as stage set. This book covers both well-known masterpieces and the overlooked ones, featuring spectacular color photography as well as archival imagery. With a text that is superbly informed, Miami is at once a definitive scholarly work and a seductive compendium of the area's fabled architecture.
NA735.M398 D86 2007 (Oversize)
Odile Decq: Architecte
By: Lionel Lemire
From the publisher: This book is an invitation to be washed over by the visually striking interplay of 300 images and plans with their fantastic colors and layouts; to enter a world mixed with red and black, flame and darkness, violence and peace; to get acquainted with the architect, a French woman and free radical, her works and her stories told by friends and other prominent architects.
NA1053.D42 L46 2007 (Oversize).
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
By: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
From the publisher: Paulo Mendes da Rocha won the 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize, bringing him to the attention of a worldwide audience after many years of producing buildings mainly in Brazil. He is known for his provocative use of concrete and steel in innovative architectural designs that are both critically acclaimed and popular.
NA859.M46 A4 2007 (Oversize)
Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
By: Robert Gottlieb
From the publisher: Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.
HT168.L6 G68 2007
Richard Meier Houses and Apartments
By: Richard Meier
From the publisher: One of today’s most influential and widely emulated architects, Richard Meier began his career by designing private homes in a modernist style. A decade ago, Rizzoli published Meier’s first fourteen masterful houses; this companion volume, with an in-depth essay on the early houses, picks up where the first volume left off and documents Meier’s most recent residential projects.
NA737.M44 A4 2007 (Oversize)
Stupa and Swastika: Historical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal’s Kathmandu
By: Mohan Moorti Pant and Shuji Funo
From the publisher: Stupa and Swastika examines urban structures in the city of Patan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. The religious architecture of the city and its overall design illustrate the connection between Buddhist symbolism and South Asian concepts of urban design found in the Indus Valley and suggest links with Southeast Asia.
HT169.N352 K38 2007
Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation
By: Nina Rappaport
From the publisher: Many of the major works of the early twenty-first century would have been difficult to build or even conceive without the contributions of firms like Ove Arup & Partners, Buro Happold, and Mutsuro Sasaki & Partners, to name just a few. Support and Resist is the first book to focus on the revolution in engineering culture in which structure shares the stage with design.
TA636 .R37 2007
