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Towns And Buildings

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Author : Steen Eiler Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1969

Towns And Buildings written by Steen Eiler Rasmussen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Architecture categories.

In the present book an effort has been made to bring the reader to look on the city as an entity which expresses certain ideals. The individual monuments, the buildings, thus become part of a whole. The cities are not all treated in the same fashion or according to a particular method. The chapters are as varied as the subjects, for there are no two cities in the world that are identical.

Newar Towns And Buildings

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Author : Niels Gutschow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Newar Towns And Buildings written by Niels Gutschow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.

A Pattern Language

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Author : Christopher Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20

A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Architecture categories.

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.

Western Towns And Buildings

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Author : Margaret Pitt Morison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

Western Towns And Buildings written by Margaret Pitt Morison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Architecture categories.

Architecture And Town Planning In Colonial North America

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Author : James D. Kornwolf
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002

Architecture And Town Planning In Colonial North America written by James D. Kornwolf and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.

Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

Newar Towns And Buildings

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Author : Niels Gutschow
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

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Building The Workingman S Paradise

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Author : Margaret Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1995

Building The Workingman S Paradise written by Margaret Crawford and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers’ homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts, through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial transformation, class struggle, and reformers’ efforts to control and direct these forces.