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How buildings learn: what happens after they're built

How buildings learn: what happens after they're built

Stewart Brand - Architecture - 1995 - 243 pages
Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that ...
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Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design As a Healing Art

Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design As a Healing Art

Christopher Day - Architecture - 2004 - 309 pages
Revised to incorporate the changes in opinions and attitudes since its first publication, this text reminds us that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy ...
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Before object, after image: Koshirakura landscape 1996-2006

Before object, after image: Koshirakura landscape 1996-2006

Shin Egashira, Architectural Association (Great Britain) - Architecture - 2006 - 228 pages
Each summer for the past ten years the AA's Shin Egashira has organized a workshop in the remote village of Koshirakura, in a mountainous region north of Tokyo. Each summer ...
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Persia the Land of the Imams: A Narrative of Travel and Residence 1871 to ...
Lyons Israel Ellis Gray: buildings and projects 1932-1983

Lyons Israel Ellis Gray: buildings and projects 1932-1983

Neave Brown, Architectural Association (Great Britain) - Architecture - 1988 - 215 pages
The work of Lyons Israel Ellis Gray was seen in the 1950s and 1960s as epitomizing a new, optimistic and frankly modern approach to architecture known as brutalist. The ...
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Morphogenesis of flux structure

Morphogenesis of flux structure

Mutsurō Sasaki, Toyoo Itō, Arata Isozaki - Architecture - 2007 - 111 pages
"This publication describes the morphogenesis of the concept of flux structure through four projects - Island City Central Park and Kakamigahara Crematorium (with Toyo Ito) and ...
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By design: a ten-year report by the Architecture + Environmental Arts ...
Bodyline: the end of our meta-mechanical body : studies of Diploma unit 5 ...

Bodyline: the end of our meta-mechanical body : studies of Diploma unit 5 ...

George L. Legendre, Architectural Association (Great Britain) - Sports & Recreation - 2006 - 42 pages
"Each of the studies was completed as part of a three-year agenda in the AA's Diploma Unit 5, led by George L. Legendre and Lluis Viu-Rebés. The students' breadth of responses ...
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Practical Geometry for Art Students: A Course of Lessons on the Construction ...
Cinematic Architecture