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Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design ...

Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...

The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her ...

The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...

Celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result ...

This book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues ...

Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed nearly one hundred single-family houses. Aalto, who is also ...

Sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century ...

This book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies ...

Explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees ...

Explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other ...

This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's ...

This book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students ...

Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising ...

Residential Buildings are normally the first design projects encountered by the student in his or her training. The focus ...

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and ...

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced ...

Brings together highlights from DETAIL about wood as a material. Besides a theoretical basis, the publication also offers ...

Ideas we associate with the 18th century are clearly seen in work published from the latter decades of the 17th century through ...

Discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, ...

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