New Books - November 2007
24H Architecture
By: Boris Zeisser and Maartje Lammers
From the Publisher: Access to thousands of digitized American history primary source documents from the National Archives, including the Lincoln assassination papers, Project Blue Book UFO investigations, Revolutionary War files.
NA1153.A15 A4 2007Cities in a Time of Terror: Space, Territory, and Local Resilience
By: H.B. Savitch
From the Publisher: This book is about urban terror--its meaning, its ramifications, and its impact on city life. Written by a well-known expert in the field, Cities in a Time of Terror draws on data from more than a thousand cities across the globe and traces the evolution of urban terrorism between 1968 and 2006. It explains what kinds of cities have become prime targets, why terrorism has become increasingly lethal, and how its inspiration has changed from secular to religious.
HV6431.S29 2008The Contemporary Tea House: Japan’s Top Architects Redefine a Tradition
By: Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, and Terunobu Fujimore
From the Publisher: Modern Japanese architects have found the challenge of redefining this highly formalized and constrained idiom almost impossible to resist. The Contemporary Tea House features twenty works that reveal the way world-renowned Japanese architects approach this intriguing subject using materials as disparate as charcoal plastic, and titanium. The participating architects are Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Terunobu Fujimori, Hiroshi Hara, and Kengo Kuma.
NA8306.J22 I86 2007 (Oversize)Designing the good life: Norman M. Giller and the Development of Miami Modernism
By: Norman M. Giller
From the Publisher: Miami Modernism, or MiMo, is the exotic brand of mid-century architecture ubiquitous in the world-famous city. Designing the Good Life is a personal account of the post-World War II movement that shaped a city and defined an era. This captivating story offers a unique look at the architecture of Norman M. Giller, one of the early godfathers of MiMo.
NA737.G534 A4 2007Green Roof: A Case Study
By: Christian Werthmann
From the Publisher: Green roofs are the great green hope of many environmentalists, politicians, and architects interested in more efficient and environmentally aware buildings. From a design standpoint, however, there is less consensus. To address this quandary, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) commissioned renowned landscape architects, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in collaboration with the Conservation Design Forum to design a 3,300-square-foot green roof garden for its Washington, D.C. headquarters. In Green Roofs, author Christian Werthmann uses this detailed case study to explain the history, methodology, and design process of green roof garden construction.
SB419.5.W47 2007Harnessing AutoCAD 2008
By: Thomas A. Stellman and G.V. Krishnan
From the Publisher: Updated to the latest release, Harnessing AutoCAD continues in the tradition of previous editions by providing the widest selection of discipline-specific exercises and projects for learning how to use today's leading desktop design and drawing software.
T385.S751875 2008The Holy Place: Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia
By: Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorij Kozlov
From the Publisher: This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glorious monuments to themselves and their ideologies on this site. The history of their efforts reflects the story of the nation itself and its repeated attempts to construct or reconstruct its identity and to repudiate or resuscitate emblems of the past.
NA5697.M627 A45 2007Katsuya Iwamoto: Embody Design
By: Katsuya Iwamoto
From the Publisher: This title includes over 60 works from restaurants, cafe & bars, clubs, shops, clinics and beauty salons that Mr.Katsuya Iwamoto, a radical interior designer, has handled for the past 10 years. It also includes drawings, products, and rejected works.
NA2765.I886 2006Mirei Shigemori, Rebel in the Garden: Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture
By: Christian Tschumi
From the Publisher: Mirei Shigemori decisively shaped the development of Japanese landscape architecture in the 20th century. Active beginning in the 1920s, he founded the Kyoto Garden Society in 1932 and published the 26 volume Illustrated Book on the History of the Japanese Garden in 1938. One year later he designed his own first masterwork, the garden of the main hall of Tfuku-ji Temple. Between then and his death in 1975, he went on to design 240 gardens throughout Japan. Among the most famous are the Tenrai-an tea garden (1969) and the Matsuo Taisha garden (1975).
SB470.S45 T73 2007 (Oversize)Preserving and Enhancing Communities: a Guide for Citizens, Planners, and Policymakers
Edited By: Elisabeth M. Hamin, Priscilla Geigis, and Linda Silka
From the Publisher: This book starts from the premise that each community chooses its future every day, through the incremental decisions made by planning and zoning boards and other citizen volunteers, as well as professional staff. The challenge is to ensure that these decisions support the preservation of what is special about the community, while still fostering necessary and appropriate growth. In this volume, twenty-nine experts from a variety of fields describe in very practical terms the "community preservation" approach to these issues. As opposed to the top-down regulatory mechanisms that are sometimes used to manage growth, the contributors favor a more flexible, locally based approach that has proven successful in Massachusetts and elsewhere.
TD160.P74 2007Insight Out: Contemporary German Landscape Architecture
By: Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten bdla (Hg.) ; [Übersetzung ins Englische: Michael Robinson]
Text in German and English.
SB470.55.G3 U24 2007 (Oversize)Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing. 2nd ed.
By: Global Green USA
From the Publisher: Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely revised and expanded second edition of the groundbreaking 1999 publication, this new book focuses on topics of specific relevance to affordable housing.
TH4860.B59 2007Sustainability by Design: a Vision for a Region of 4 Million
By: Design Centre for Sustainability
From the Publisher: The Greater Vancouver region's population is expected to double in the next 50 years with a 250% increase in citizens over 65. Sustainability by Design addresses the challenge of transforming livability into sustainability while accommodating this demographic change. Focusing on jobs, housing, transportation, infrastructure, parks and open space, this beautifully illustrated and designed book is an invaluable resource for city planners, design professionals, elected officials and citizens interested in a sustainable future.
HC79.E5 S866 2007Housing for People of All Ages: Flexible, Unrestricted, Senior-friendly
Edited By: Christian Scittich
From the Publisher: Communal living, intergenerational living, living for families, handicap-accessible living, living and working, living and leisure time – the wide variety of current demands is shaping future concepts in housing, which will have to do justice to the needs of our increasingly multilayered society. The examples in this new volume in the In Detail series are correspondingly diverse. From the demand for stroller- and wheelchair accessible housing through facilities that accommodate the needs of senior citizens all the way to the modernization of existing buildings, the selection of projects offers a panoramic overview.
NA2545.P5 H57 2007Masters of Light: Designing the Luminous House
Edited By: Peter and Jenny Hyatt
From the Publisher: A new book by Peter and Jenny Hyatt. Light is the primary language of architecture. It gives form, power and nuance. Masters of Light considers the world's greatest living exponents of design where light is paramount.
NA2794.M37 2007 (Oversize)Rediscovering Mixed-use Streets: the Contribution of Local High Streets to Sustainable Communities
By: Peter Jones, Marion Roberts and Linda Morris
From the Publisher: Local urban high streets have frequently suffered from neglect in comparison to town centres and out-of-town retail. Yet they have the potential to meet contemporary policy aspirations with regard to sustainability, social inclusion and place making. Rediscovering mixed-use streets is the first in-depth investigation of local mixed-use high streets. Drawing on case-studies in three different locations in England, the report provides a wealth of data and findings produced from a variety of sources, both quantitative and qualitative.
HT133.J63 2007Architectural Drawing and Light Construction. 7th ed.
By: Edward J. Muller, Philip A. Grau, and James G. Fausett
From the Publisher: This new edition of Architectural Drawing and Light Construction, a classic in the field, has been updated to include new methods, materials, and media. This text serves as an excellent introduction to the fields of architectural drawing and construction. It covers drafting and drawing principles, light frame construction principles, and the building design documentation process.
NA2700.M8 2005Reading Architectural Working Drawings: Residential and Light Construction
By: Edward J. Muller and Philip A. Grau III
From the Publisher: Unique in coverage, this text-workbook introduces concepts essential to a basic introductory understanding of residential and light construction—drawing, mathematics, geometry, terminology, materials, systems—while providing hands-on experience in reading architectural working drawings.
NA2713.M85 2004Scheduling Construction Projects: Principles and Practices
By: Sandra Christensen Weber
From the Publisher: Explaining both simple and difficult concepts through examples and its easily-read style, this complete book should support any needs the professional has on the job. Particular attention is paid to the concepts most frequently used in industry practice, in order to produce the best book possible on the subject of effective scheduling. Topics covered emphasize: precedence network diagramming; resource allocation; monitoring; control; as well as report generation and interpretation.
TH438.4.W43 2005