Architecture And Community

Author : Leon Krier
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610911245
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Community written by Leon Krier and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.

Author : Serge Chermayeff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community and Privacy written by Serge Chermayeff and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Mackay-Lyons
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616894040
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Architecture written by Brian Mackay-Lyons and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years in the hands of some of the world's most accomplished architects is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kéré, designers everywhere are championing an architecture that exists from, in, and for a specific place. The stunning projects, presented here in the first book to examine this global shift, were featured at the thirteenth and final Ghost conference held in 2011, organized by Nova Scotia architect, educator, and local practitioner Brian MacKay-Lyons. The result is the most complete collection of contemporary regionalist architecture available, with essays by early proponents of the movement, including Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Pritzker Prize–winning architect Glenn Murcutt.

Author : Nick Wates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140104288
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Architecture written by Nick Wates and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan Bell
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983912
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Deeds, Good Design written by Bryan Bell and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores new thoughts and practices in the movement toward an architecture that serves everyone, including the poor.

Author : Michael Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500343302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Community written by Michael Webb and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international survey of the most inventive contemporary apartment buildings, to inspire architects, developers, urban planners, and informed city dwellers

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597263047
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Homes written by Mark Francis and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California is one of the few long-standing examples of sustainable community design. Mark Francis has been studying Village Homes for more than two decades and brings together existing research and writing on the community, studies about the children of Village Homes he conducted throughout the 1980s, and interviews with many parties involved with the project including designers, residents, gardeners, and maintenance people. Mark Francis takes a critical look at Village Homes, addressing its failures as well as its successes, and examines the question of why, despite its success, this development has not been replicated.

Author : Denise Scott Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Concepts written by Denise Scott Brown and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renata Holod
Publisher : Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Community written by Renata Holod and published by Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines fifteen architectural projects which have won awards for developing a modern style that derives from traditional Moslem design.

Author : Nick Wates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134618891
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals) written by Nick Wates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment is most effective when those who live in a particular area are actively engaged with its creation and daily administration. A work that has influenced policy makers and planning legislation, Community Architecture remains one of the key reference works for student architects and planners.