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This book takes a look at the architectural design of library. Forty nine libraries are targeted, and includes plans of each library.
Features New York's most celebrated architects
Features facilities for ersearch and education in medicine, marine biology, biochemistry, physics, general science and technology and others.
Religious architecture has a timeless quality; sacred spaces have been built for thousands of years. But today architects are called upon to design buildings that respond to a variety of faiths, and the needs of different and changing congregations. This lavish book presents the best in new religious architecture, filled with four-color photographs and drawings that explain how each building fulfills the design requirements of various denominations. More than 30 projects are included, representing a range of faiths: Christian, Jewish and Islamic. Among the projects which are found across the western hemisphere, is the work of internationally known architects including Steven Holl, Fay Jones, Ricardo Legoretta and Andras Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. This book is valuable resource on recent religious architectural design.
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Michael Crosbie's theme for his latest book for IMAGES is the architect's own office. As with most professions, first impressions are paramount, but architects who design their own offices have their own reputations on the line, an in acutely public manner.
The enthusiasms of the Centerbrook partners are embodied in the design work they create - not only the specific enthusiasms that are so well explained in this book, but also a belief in taking chances, in pursuing one's enthusiasms even if they lead to u
In this book, Helmut Jahn is revealed as an architect committed to exploring the material and perceptual possibilities of creating architecture in a new millennium, one with 'a simplicity of form and construction and a clear expression of its component p
Illustrations of various architectural details introduce the numbers one through ten. On board pages.
How does spirituality enter the education of an architect? Should it? What do we mean by ‘spirituality’ in the first place? Isn’t architectural education a training ground for professional practice and, therefore, technically and secularly oriented? Is there even room to add something as esoteric if not controversial as spirituality to an already packed university curriculum? The humanistic and artistic roots of architecture certainly invite us to consider dimensions well beyond the instrumental, including spirituality. But how would we teach such a thing? And why, if spirituality is indeed relevant to learning architecture, have we heard so little about it? Spirituality in Architectur...