The Wall As Living Place

Author : Francesco Cacciatore
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788862421232

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The wall as living place by Francesco Cacciatore Pdf

There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenuous pursuit of new things. The buildings shaped like soft clouds and gelatinous bowels, or the spiked bravura pieces designed by today's fashionable architects have no relation with either construction or history. Louis Kahn, instead, kept form, structure and history paradigmatically together. The book systematically reviews the intense structural experimentation that, in terms not just of building engineering but of spatial and representational potential, marked Kahn's work since the beginning and would eventually lead him, after a long apprenticeship, to an almost constant adoption of 'hollow' structural forms. By reviewing this long and intense journey of research, the book underlines how Louis Kahn, in each work and based on a constant dialogue between structural innovation, building tradition and figural evocation, succeeded in awakening our interest in a new 'fascinating' structure and at the same time our emotion for a deeply meaningful, universal and timeless form.

Author : Shawna Coronado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781591866244

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Grow a Living Wall by Shawna Coronado Pdf

Make a beautiful, practical, environmentally conscious garden, even in a small space - grow UP with a living wall!

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416544661

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Pdf

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

Author : Jorge Arango
Publisher : Rosenfeld Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781933820941

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Living in Information by Jorge Arango Pdf

Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren’t intended to support these activities. Instead, they're designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder. Living in Information draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Solar air conditioning
ISBN : UVA:X002229378

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Proceedings of Annual Solar Heating and Cooling Research and Development Branch Contractors' Meeting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : UCAL:B3546932

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The Works of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Kyle Witmer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105357497

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Living in the Wall by Kyle Witmer Pdf

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Young Men's Christian associations
ISBN : WISC:89059432815

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Men by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190050351

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A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander Pdf

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.

Author : Joe Beath,Elizabeth Price
Publisher : Thames & Hudson Australia
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781922754929

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Never Too Small by Joe Beath,Elizabeth Price Pdf

Joel Beath and Elizabeth Price explore this question drawing inspiration from a diverse collection of apartment designs, all smaller than 50m2/540ft2. Through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and drawing on architectural images and detailed floor plans, the authors examine how architects and designers are reimagining small space living. Full of inspiration we can each apply to our own spaces, this is a book that offers hope and inspiration for a future of our cities and their citizens in which sustainability and style, comfort and affordability can co-exist. Never Too Small proves living better doesn’t have to mean living larger.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504019170

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A Room to Die In by Ellery Queen Pdf

A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder in this classic whodunit from one of the greatest names in mystery fiction. Ann hasn’t seen her mother in three years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without warning, Elaine shows up on her daughter’s doorstep, dead broke and hungry for scotch. Ann’s father has just come into an inheritance, and Elaine wants every penny. After a few drinks, she stumbles on her way. A month later, Ann has nearly forgotten her mother’s visit—until a policeman shows up to announce that her father is dead. He was found in his study, the windows shut, the doors locked from the inside. There was a .38 beside him on the floor and a note on the desk suggesting blackmail. The police are convinced that he took his own life, but Ann is certain her father was murdered—and she’ll risk her neck to find out who killed him.

Author : Hazel Reid,Linden West
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317909293

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Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change by Hazel Reid,Linden West Pdf

In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the role of narrative and how it can be constructed to compose a life story, considering the roles of significant others, inspirational, educational and fictional characters, and those in myth and legend. The book discusses how personal narrative, often neglected in social and psychological enquiry, can be a valuable resource across a range of settings. Reference is made to the evolving role of narrative in education and health care, medicine and psychotherapy. This includes how particular narratives are hardwired into culture in ways that stifle personal and social understanding. Rather than providing a ‘how to’ guide, the book illustrates the range and power of narrative, including poetry, to re-awaken senses of self and agency in extremis. Each chapter draws on specific research, describing the context, explaining the methodology, and illuminating important findings. Discussing implications for research and practice, this book will be key reading for postgraduate and doctoral students in auto/biographical and narrative studies, and across a range of disciplines, including education, health and social care, politics, counselling and psychotherapy. It will be of interest to academics teaching research methods, and those developing biographical and auto/biographical narrative research.

Author : Geoff Manaugh
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780374710286

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A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh Pdf

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it. Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried vaults of banks, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city. With the help of FBI Special Agents, reformed bank robbers, private security consultants, the L.A.P.D. Air Support Division, and architects past and present, the book dissects the built environment from both sides of the law. Whether picking padlocks or climbing the walls of high-rise apartments, finding gaps in a museum's surveillance routine or discussing home invasions in ancient Rome, A Burglar's Guide to the City has the tools, the tales, and the x-ray vision you need to see architecture as nothing more than an obstacle that can be outwitted and undercut. Full of real-life heists-both spectacular and absurd-A Burglar's Guide to the City ensures readers will never enter a bank again without imagining how to loot the vault or walk down the street without planning the perfect getaway.

Author : Mary Norton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152047379

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The Borrowers by Mary Norton Pdf

The story of a family of miniature people who live in a quiet, out-of-the-way country house and who tried never to be seen by human beings.