Reading Houses And Building Books

Author : Jonathan Bean
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374380236
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Our House written by Jonathan Bean and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family of four builds a house, back, away from the road, down a dirt lane, in the middle of an old, weedy field.

Author : John Mittendorf
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
ISBN 13 : 1593703422
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Reading Buildings written by John Mittendorf and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Reading Buildings focuses on the practical art of reading a building and applying its positive and negative attributes in developing a size-up for fireground operations that center on structure fires. First-due company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers will appreciate the practical “street-wise” lessons captured in the book. Chief officers, training officers, engineers, firefighters, and fire science degree candidates will benefit from the wide range of building construction topics covered in this text. Features include: • Understand the technical and practical aspects of building construction • Learn on-the-spot building construction assessment using the authors’ custom Rapid Street-Read Guides • Develop a quick construction size-up for immediate application to fireground operations • Recognize firefighter traps in newer and alternative construction methods • This text covers objectives for the National Fire Academy’s Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Building Construction for Fire Protection course

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190050357
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

Author : Adam W. Sweeting
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874517507
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Houses and Building Books written by Adam W. Sweeting and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays an author, architect, and landscape architect who greatly influenced antebellum American culture.

Author : Charles R. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484445785
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Charles R. Smith and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King Award-winners Charles R. Smith Jr. and Floyd Cooper deliver the compelling story behind the building of the White House, a powerful part of history rarely taught. The home of our president was built by many hands, several of them slaves', who undertook this amazing achievement long before there were machines to do those same jobs. With an insightful author's note and a list of selected resources, this book supports the Common Core State Standards.

Author : Gail Gibbons
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823446948
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How a House Is Built (New & Updated) written by Gail Gibbons and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houses are built with many different materials, and in many shapes and sizes. Step by step, this picture book explains how homes are built—from the architect's plans through the arrival of a happy family. The many processes of construction are explained with simple language and bright, clear illustrations, perfect for kids starting to wonder about how the world around them works. Many different careers—including carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and landscapers—are introduced, each doing their part to bring the picture wood-frame house to life. A great read for kids who love construction sites, or who can't get enough of Building a House by Byron Barton. According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butterfly. Her many honors include the Washington Post/Childrens Book Fuild Nonfiction Award and the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award.

Author : Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reading and Reference List of Books on Building and Building Trades in the Brooklyn Public Library written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marion Gartler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780136646648
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phoenix Reading Series written by Marion Gartler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janice Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521245248
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Build a House written by Janice Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janice wants to build her own house.She buys a wooded parcel of land and with a lot of hard work and determination, she does it!A non-fiction book great for kids. This step-by-step guide, geared for primary readers, takes the reader though the interesting process of building a home. There are real-life photographs of the authors very own house construction. #houseconstruction #home #building #architecture #trucks #lumber #construction #houses #childrensbook #kidsbook #kids #homeschool #homeschooling #story #nonfiction #memoir #photography #photograph

Author : Paul Westover
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319328204
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century written by Paul Westover and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights how, in the wake of American independence, the affection bestowed on authors who became international objects of celebration and commemoration was a major force in the invention of transnational ‘English’ literature, the popular canon defined by shared language and tradition. While love as such is difficult to quantify and recover, the records of such affection survive not just in print, but also in other media: in monuments, in architecture, and in the ephemera of material culture. Thus, this collection brings into view a wide range of nineteenth-century expressions of love for literature and its creators.