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Author : John Chase
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859848074
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving written by John Chase and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An architectural designer and an important architectural critic, Chase explores a myriad of locales and examines their architectural features - from the gay community space of West Hollywood, to the stucco box apartment complexes of the 1950s, to the truly weird mix of domestic arrangements in Venice Beach, to gated communities, to some of the historic houses of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and to the most recent transformations of the casino architecture in Las Vegas."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Author : John Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756798055
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Download or read book Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving written by John Chase and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.

Author : John Chase
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859841389
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving written by John Chase and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004-07-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.

Author : Alana Wilcox
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 9781552451946
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GreenTOpia written by Alana Wilcox and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City. What would make Toronto a greener place? In the third volume of the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians think big and small about sustainability. From suggestions for changes to our transit system and more mixed-use neighbourhoods to a tongue-in-cheek proposal for a painted line aroudn the city and a short comic book about Toronto in the year 2057, GreenTOpia challenges the city and its residents to rethink what it means to be green in a metropolis, and how to take their love of the city one green step further. Other pieces include an interview with Mayor David Miller and a breakdown of the ecological impact of our morning coffee. GreenTOpia features photos, maps and a 56 page green directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs promoting sustainability in the GTA.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1976 pages
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Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895402
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book USA written by Gwendolyn Wright and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending conventional arguments about the origin of American modern architecture, Wright shows that it was not a mere offshoot of European modernism brought across the Atlantic Ocean by émigrés but rather an exciting, distinctive and mutable hybrid. USA traces a history that spans from early skyscrapers and suburbs in the aftermath of the American Civil War up to the museums, schools and ‘green architecture’ of today. Wright takes account of diverse interests that affected design, ranging from politicians and developers to ambitious immigrants and middle-class citizens. Famous and lesser-known buildings across America come together--model dwellings for German workers in rural Massachusetts, New York’s Rockefeller Center, Cincinnati’s Carew Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in the Arizona desert, the University of Miami campus, the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Plant, and the Corning Museum of Glass, among others--to show an extraordinary range of innovation. Ultimately, Wright reframes the history of American architecture as one of constantly evolving and volatile sensibilities, engaged with commerce, attuned to new media, exploring multiple concepts of freedom. The chapters are organized to show how changes in work life, home life and public life affected architecture--and vice versa. This book provides essential background for contemporary debates about affordable and luxury housing, avant-garde experiments, local identities, inspiring infrastructure and sustainable design. A clear, concise and richly illustrated account of modern American architecture, this timely book will be essential for all those who wonder about the remarkable legacy of American modernity in its most potent cultural expression.

Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353871
Total Pages : 881 pages
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Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses written by Virginia Savage McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

Author : Renate Brosch
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643111649
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Download or read book Moving Images, Mobile Viewers written by Renate Brosch and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision and movement seem to have shifted center stage in modes of experience in the last century: as a result of their joint effect, slow contemplative gazes at static images seem to be increasingly displaced by distracted "vernacular" ways of seeing. Looking out of the window of a speeding car, receiving photographs of Earth from outer space, watching the flickering images of the TV screen, scrolling through a text, zooming in on a location in Google Earth, or sending images via mobile phones or webcams - all these are unique visual experiences that were impossible before various inventions in the 20th century originated completely new kinds of movement. The double meaning of "moving images" is meant to signal the specificality of motion to these imagi(ni)ngs and, at the same time, to express the emotional power of those visual images which are able to transcend the constant stream of images in contemporary perception. (Series: Kultur und Technik. Schriftenreihe des Internationalen Zentrums fur Kultur- und Technikforschung der Universitat Stuttgart - Vol. 20)

Author : John Chase
Publisher : Kestrel Press
ISBN 13 : 094028314X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture written by John Chase and published by Kestrel Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: