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Carrot City
By Gorgolewski, Mark -
Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. Focusing on the need and desire to grow food within the city to supply food from local sources, the contributions of architecture, landscape design, and urban design are...

Publisher: The Monacelli Press - ISBN: 1580933114 - Dimensions: 10.90inx8.50inx1.00in

 
Modern Architecture 4e
By Frampton, Kenneth -
"One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today." Architectural Design

Publisher: Thames and Hudson - ISBN: 0500203954 - Dimensions: 8.35inx6.00inx1.20in

 
EcoCities
By Register, Richard -
Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention.EcoCities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability, cultural vitality and health of the Earth's biosphere....

Publisher: New Society Publishers - ISBN: 0865715521 - Dimensions: 9.00inx7.50inx1.00in

 
Colours of Light
By Pare, Richard -
The Colours of Light is a beautiful, dense little book that showcases English photographer Richard Pare's stunning takes on the respected, influential Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Pare photographed Ando's work over a 10-year period, and with a remarkable consistency has realized the intricacies of Ando's constructed confrontations between architecture and...

Publisher: Phaidon Press - ISBN: 071483999X - Dimensions: 6.37inx5.62inx1.25in

 
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
By Fuller, R Buckminster -
Buckminster Fuller (18951983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the worlds problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the...

Publisher: Lars Muller - ISBN: 3037781262 - Dimensions: 7.52inx4.84inx0.75in

 
Patterns of Home
By Jacobson, Max -
The key to creating a house that is memorable, satisfying, and enduring is to apply a group of design concepts--or "patterns"--that focus on the experience of being in a home. In this groundbreaking work, internationally respected architects Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow present the ten essential patterns that shape and define a well...

Publisher: Taunton - ISBN: 156158696X - Dimensions: 10.82inx9.24inx0.73in

 
Compact Houses
By Broto, Carles -
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications - ISBN: 849626310X - Dimensions: 8.75inx8.75inx0.75in

 
Architecture
By Borden, Daniel -
Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, Architecture: A World History is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In this pocket-sized book bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to significant architectural movements, time lines that explore the evolution of the practice, and capsule biographies of great architects and...

Publisher: Abrams - ISBN: 0810995123 - Dimensions: 6.38inx4.50inx1.50in

 
Return Of Sacred Architecturre
By Bangs, Herbert -
An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture • Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity’s greatest civilizations • Reveals how the ancient laws of sacred proportion and...

Publisher: INNER TRADITIONS - ISBN: 1594771324 - Dimensions: 10.00inx8.00inx0.72in

 
Home
By Rybczynski, Witold -
Walk through five centuries of homes both great and small—from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to today's Ralph Lauren-designed environments—on a house tour like no other, one that delightfully explicates the very idea of "home." You'll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing, learn the...

Publisher: Penguin Books - ISBN: 0140102310 - Dimensions: 7.80inx5.24inx0.72in

 

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