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OBELISK. A HISTORY

Nearly every empire worthy of the name'from ancient Rome to the United States'has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ...

GRID BOOK, THE

Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. And yet, ...

DEL DESTINO DELLA CITTA

Il volume raccoglie alcuni testi recenti dell' illustre teorica dell'urbanistica il cui pensiero ha infl uenzato, anche in Italia, intere generazioni di architetti e ...

PALLADIO: GABINETTO DEL MUSEI CIVICI DI VICENZA. I DISEGNI DI ANDREA PALLADIO

Nell'ambito del vasto progetto di studio sistematico delle collezioni civiche conservate in palazzo Chiericati, il presente volume, dedicato agli autografi di Andrea Palladio della ...

RESTAURO E RECUPERO DEGLI EDIFICI A STRUTTURA MURARIA

E' d'aiuto sicuro questo specifico Manuale, frutto di grande esperienza, che fornisce gli strumenti per progettare correttamente il ripristino degli edifici in muratura, caso ...

SYNTHETIC TIMES. MEDIA ART CHINA

We live in a world that operates on bits and bytes. Reality has become synthetic, a convergence of the material and the immaterial. The ...

LICHTENSTEIN: ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Roy Lichtenstein's popular appeal'and his influence on pop culture, seen in everything from greeting cards to sitcoms'at times overshadows his importance to contemporary art. ...

HSIEH: OUT OF NOW. THE LIFEWORKS OF TEHCHING HSIEH

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of ...

RE:SKIN

In re: skin, scholars, essayists and short story writers offer their perspectives on skin'as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality. The twenty-first ...

EVERYDAY ENGINEERING. AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF DESIGN AND INNOVATION

Everyday Engineering was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they ...

CULTURAS DE ARCHIVO

PUENTE DE LA JIRAFA, EL

Una comedia trágica sobre la relación que une a tres seres aislados: Lucio, que acaba de divorciarse; Félix, que se ha marchado por fin ...

PEQUEÑOS MAESTROS, LOS

RECUPERO E CONSERVAZIONE DELL' EDILIZIA STORICA

L'opera una rielaborazione sistematica dei risultati di studi storico-critici e tecnologici e di esperienze e realizzazioni sperimentali sulla conservazione ed il recupero dell'edilizia storica ...

POSTDAM BERLINO. L' ARCHITETTURA E IL MODELLO

Il Centro Allende della Spezia ospita una serie di fotografie realizzate dal fotografo svizzero Patrick Giromini che mostrano la trasformazione urbana della città tedesca ...

UNA BREVISIMA HISTORIA DEL MUNDO

CONFESSIONS OF A COUNTRY ARCHITECT

Reminiscent of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small", this wonderful volume captures the life of a domestic country architect with wry humour and ...

REINFORCED CONCRETE

For one-semester, junior/senior-level and graduate courses in Reinforced Concrete in the department of civil engineering. Now reflecting the new 2008 ACI 318-08 Code and ...

LIMITS OF BOUNDARIES. WHY CITY-REGIONS CANNOT BE SELF-GOVERNING

With city-regions becoming increasingly important as sources of innovation and wealth in our society, does it follow that their institutions of government will become ...

CITY TREES. A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY FROM THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem ...