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Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Rowan Moore shows how buildings are driven by human emotions and desires -- such as hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home -- and how buildings then shape our experiences. He explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation, and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing, in response to the lives around it. Moore takes us on a personal journey, moving freely across the globe...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert...
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"In The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton tackles a relationship central to our lives. Our buildings - and the objects we fill them with - affect us more profoundly than we might think. To take architecture seriously is to accept that we are, for better and for worse, different people in different places. De Botton suggests that it is architecture's task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be. Turning the spotlight from the humble terraced...
9) Pyramid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
Author
Publisher
Walker and Company
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Examines various basic shelters from all over the world: mud-brick adobe structures, desert nomads' tents, travellers' quick fixes, timber frame buildings and modern innovations including strawbale houses and geodesic domes"--Jacket.
15) The joy of home
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Interior designer Ashley Gilbreath's fresh approach to Southern decorating is guided by her respect for family and tradition with an eye on practicality and warmheartedness. Her first book reveals the breadth of her casually elegant style. Whether it's in town, on the water, or in the countryside, each home exhibits thoughtful planning and attention to detail in harmony with the client's vision. Gilbreath gives readers insight into her design process,...
Publisher
KNPB
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
House with A History, offers viewers an educational look at historic homes in northern Nevada. The featured residential structures are more than mere shelter. These homes are the result of visions of different personalities. They embody the collective spirits of owners, architects and designers. These historic houses stand as a cultural testament to a particular age and architectural style.
20) The glass room
Author
Language
English
Description
Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abteilung He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House becomes More ... an instant masterpiece. Viktor and Liesel, a rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all of their hopes for their marriage and budding family...
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