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1) Dwell
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Dwell
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Dwell is the unique modern architecture and design magazine for people who believe that good design is an integral part of real life. Get Dwell digital magazine subscription today.
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Conde Nast US
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Architectural Digest is the world's foremost design authority, showcasing the work of top architects and interior decorators. It continues to set new benchmarks for how to live well—what to buy, what to see and do, where to travel, and who to watch on the fast-paced, multifaceted global design scene.
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Prefabrication offers a simple path to the green home of your dreams, and in her latest book, Prefabulous author Sheri Koones highlights the many ways of using prefabrication to create almost-off-the-grid homeshouses that are not only environmentally friendly but often operate at nearly zero annual energy cost.
Taking energy from the grid when necessary and returning any excess energy produced, almost-off-the-grid homes function on a fraction...
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"Many architects today are looking to plants and animals to help solve their design challenges. Inspired by how nature already works, these architects are coming up with innovative ways to cool buildings, withstand earthquakes and save energy. In Wild Buildings and Bridges, bestselling author Etta Kaner explores these wild and wonderful feats of architecture. Kids will discover buildings and bridges inspired by cactuses, beetles, termite towers, trees,...
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An award-winning architect and educator demystifies the process of making architecture and explains why good architectural design matters.
The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environments in which we live, work, and play useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest.
What many don't realize is that professional architects design only about five...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Sidewalks and streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians. These uses are bound up with circulation, but are not identical with it.
#2 The public peace of cities is not kept primarily by the police. It is kept primarily by an intricate network of voluntary controls and...
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Chelsea Magazine
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Artists & Illustrators is the UK’s best-selling magazine for artists and art lovers, providing advice and inspiration every month. Published for almost 25 years, each issue of Artists & Illustrators contains a colourful palette of profiles and features, together with valuable practical ideas, expert technical advice and useful product tests. Whether you favour oils or watercolours, portraits or landscapes, abstract art or botanical illustration,
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View a stunning collection of beautiful birdhouses, plus design specifications and tips to buy your own and what your future feathered tenants will need.
Birds love houses as much as humans do. Well, not all birds-mainly the cavity nesters, which are just as comfortable inside a "house" hanging from a branch or mounted on a pole in someone's backyard as they are inside the trunk of a tree.
In Birdhouses of the World, author Anne Schmauss offers...
10) London Theatres
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London is the theatre capital of the world. From world-famous musicals to West End shows, from cutting-edge plays to Shakespeare in its original staging, from outdoor performance to intimate fringe theatre, the range and quality is unsurpassed.
Leading theatre critic Michael Coveney invites you on a tour of the forty-five theatres which make the London stage what it is, with stories of the architecture, the people and the productions which have defined...
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- Identificar las condiciones básicas de manipulación de materiales y productos para su carga o descarga en relación con su naturaleza, estado, cantidades, protección y medios de transporte utilizado.
- Clasificar y describir los distintos tipos de paletización, relacionándolos con la forma de constitución de la carga a transportar.
- Interpretar y aplicar la normativa referente a la prevención de riesgos laborales y de la salud de los trabajadores.
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A story of passion and idealism, which describes a group of men and women in the Middle Ages whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral. In a country torn by civil war, two generations struggle to rise above their primitive circumstances and create something beautiful.
13) The Colosseum
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""Engaging images accompany information about the Colosseum. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
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"Form follows function" decía Sullivan. Una propiedad esencial de la arquitectura del siglo XX es que la forma es resultado de la función. La arquitectura funcionalista responde a las necesidades antropológicas del hombre. Por ello, es llamativo que un alto porcentaje de las casas icono del Movimiento Moderno sean hoy en día museos de si mismas y no viviendas en uso ¿Se puede vivir en las casas del Movimiento Moderno? ¿Se pueden conservar sin...
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Según el Censo de 1947 el Conurbano Bonaerense tenía 1,74 millones de habitantes en tanto que en el censo de 2001 esa cantidad se había multiplicado por 5, alcanzando a los 8,68 millones. Esos habitantes viven hoy el 60% sin redes de cloacas, 25% sin agua corriente, segregados laboral y socialmente, expuestos a la inseguridad y a la droga. Quieren irse, volver a sus provincias, a sus costumbres y a sus raíces, pero no pueden, están como encadenados...
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Le patrimoine culturel n'est pas qu'une simple trace du passé. Il est le lieu o se rencontrent et s'hybrident les expériences et les valeurs des uns et des autres; il est rhizome. Au-delà de son existence en soi, il tire sa valeur des différents usages que l'on peut en faire, voire des liens qu'il permet de tisser entre les personnes et les communautés. Il ne s'agit plus seulement de l'identifier et de le préserver coûte que coûte, mais de...
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Whether we are practicing urban designers or interested citizens, virtually all of us want to live in communities that are safe, attractive, and healthy. Yet our good intentions face conflicting goals. How are we going to improve community health, reduce crime, and improve mobility in cities while at the same time expanding our cities to accommodate growth? How are we going to do all this with seemingly limited financial resources? How do we do more...
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LA IDEA CONSTRUIDA recoge algunos de los más interesantes textos de Campo Baeza en los que el arquitecto intenta plasmar sus ideas acerca de la Arquitectura. "En Arquitectura, de algún modo, las claves las desvelan los arquitectos en sus planos y en sus textos. Y así se agradecen los escuetos escritos de Mies Van der Rohe. O los más apasionados y extensos de Le Corbusier, y así quisiera que se entendieran estos textos que hoy aquí se publican...
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Society seems to be tied irrevocably to long-term patterns of resource use, and to producing unassimilatable waste, emissions, and ongoing environmental degradation. There also are seemingly irresolvable dilemmas between humanity and nature, society and ecology, and utility and beauty, where each decision we make seems to cause some harm. To change from our present path and resolve these, we must have the courage to break from traditions and use our...
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Live Happy With Less! Have you ever wondered why people live in Tiny Homes? Because they love it! The benefits of living in a Tiny Home aren't just felt in your wallet. You'll get physical and emotional benefits that you never even dreamed of! This book explores the Tiny House lifestyle and all that goes along with it. Inside Tiny House Happiness: The Benefits of Living Small, you'll learn: - What exactly are Tiny Houses? - The Emotional Benefits...
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