For many, the French Quarter is New Orleans, yet how much do they really know about the Vieux Carré? Truman Capote wrote, "Of all secret cities, New Orleans... is the most secretive... [Its] architecture deliberately concocted to camouflage, to mask, as at a Mardi Gras Ball, the lives of those born to live among these protective edifices." Through striking photographs and polished prose, The Majesty of the French Quarter opens the locked door and...

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The skill of managing design teams effectively involves combining strategic thinking, creativity, and leadership to foster teamwork, spur innovation, and produce positive results.This informative ebook deals with the ability to create a supportive work environment, encourage candid communication, and provide team members with the tools they need to succeed is the foundation of good design team management.The guide states how a manager can efficiently...

Under a canopy of magnolias and live oaks, bordered by the streets of Jackson, Magazine, Louisiana, and St. Charles, spacious mansions serve as a gallery of fine architecture in a section of New Orleans known as the Garden District. Once home to a grand plantation, the property was sold and divided for residential use more than 150 years ago. In his final work, critically acclaimed photographer Paul Malone visits forty-three picturesque landmarks...

El funcionamiento de las edificaciones: Administración y mantenimiento tiene como objetivo caracterizar, dentro del ciclo de vida de las edificaciones, la fase de funcionamiento; revisar los elementos conceptuales que permitan reconocer su importancia, destacar su papel en el proceso de producción de obras de edificación, expresado este en su puesta en operación y uso, con el fin último de prestar un servicio acorde con su tipología y la función...

This is a thorough and profusely illustrated guide to building a timber-frame house. Grounded in ancient tradition, timber-frame construction is admirably suited to fulfill today's need for durable, energy-efficient housing and other building needs. First published in 1977, this book is now in its ninth printing and is established as a classic in the field.

Más allá del rótulo "romántico" que la literatura le ha impuesto, María es la visión idealista, mas no escéptica, del amor. Es también una novela que toca de manera aguda la problemática social latinoamericana de su época, resultante del establecimiento, por parte de los terratenientes locales, del modus vivendi europeo de comienzos del siglo xix. A pesar del cambio que las formas eróticas, culturales y sociales han experimentado desde...

How do architects and contractors use math and geometry to help build a house? Readers will find out in this engaging nonfiction book that features bright images and charts, informational text, and intriguing facts that will familiarize children with cons

Architecture and design may be topics too advanced for kids but they're great boosts to knowledge. It's recommended to introduce a variety of subjects to children to give them a chance to figure out their interests. Maybe your kids are into architecture and design? You'll know when you give them this book!

Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations we come to know the philosophy of life and death in ancient Egypt.