Architecture
epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:Dodsworth, Simon & Anderson, Stephen [Dodsworth, Simon]

5.9 The golden section rectangle is relatively straightforward to construct and it can be used to define and regulate the proportions of many elements of a design. The ken A ...
( Category: Interior Decorating January 18,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Carlo Rovelli [Rovelli, Carlo]

5. Spacetime is Quantum There is a paradox at the heart of our understanding of the physical world. General relativity and quantum mechanics, the two jewels that the twentieth century ...
( Category: Quantum Theory January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Azby Brown

Like their counterparts around Japan, these town-houses are models of natural climate control for high-density urban areas. Most have been designed with tiny gardens in back, and quite a few ...
( Category: Residential December 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Behrens, Roy R. [Behrens, Roy R.]

Lithographic plate from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by Owen Jones, an indispensable sourcebook for architects. Left half of a panoramic photograph of downtown Mason City in 1907. Photograph by ...
( Category: State & Local December 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Daly, Mark [Daly, Mark]

L. Cornelissen’s green frontage has been its signature for more than a hundred years . In the calligraphy section, four different types of quills are offered . The drawers and ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums December 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Seligmann, Ari [Seligmann, Ari]

Fig. 3.5 Tokyo Central Telegraph building, rooftop garden. (Courtesy of NTT Facilities Inc.) The rooftop garden provided an amenity for the office workers and highlighted further building and nature relationships ...
( Category: Regional December 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Brandt, Lydia Mattice [Brandt, Lydia Mattice]

Fig. 39. Illustration of the evolution of Mount Vernon, 1938. Fig. 40. West parlor, Mount Vernon, Frances Benjamin Johnston (photographer), 1937, in American Architect and Architecture (February 1938). Although Williams ...
( Category: History December 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Shapiro, Danielle [Shapiro, Danielle]

An article featuring “revolutionized” broadcast equipment, including the unified RCA 5-DX transmitter (above), the U-shaped 50-D control desk (center), and the streamlined 50-D transmitter. Broadcast News, July 1939. Courtesy of ...
( Category: History December 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy Beatley

Reimagining the Interstices of the City The very spaces around and between the buildings and streets in a city represent many other opportunities to inject and insert natural wildness. If ...
( Category: Architecture November 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Tychonievich, Joseph [Tychonievich, Joseph]

Nursery beds at Broadleigh Gardens in Somerset, England. Getting (and Making) More Plants Unless you are very lucky indeed, the selection of rock garden plants at your local garden center ...
( Category: Landscape November 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Matan, Annie & Newman, Peter [Matan, Annie]

PUBLIC SPACE PUBLIC LIFE – COPENHAGEN, 1996 Jan Gehl & Lars Gemzøe In 1996, the City of Copenhagen was selected as the European Capital of Culture by the European Union. ...
( Category: Architecture November 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Plummer, Henry [Plummer, Henry]

Herman Hertzberger, Centraal Beheer (1972), Netherlands, interior pedestrian street with alcoves and seats Herman Hertzberger, Centraal Beheer (1972), Netherlands, axonometric of rooftop plaza over cafeteria Herman Hertzberger, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (1978), ...
( Category: Buildings November 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Long, Christopher [Long, Christopher]

Figure 146 Beer House, view into the hall. Figure 147 Beer House, dining room. Figure 148 Beer House, view of the lower portion of the stair leading to the living ...
( Category: History November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Susie Hodge

Beaux-Arts France had been one of the first countries to create a formal system of architectural training with the founding of the Académie Royale d’Architecture in 1671. Although the academy ...
( Category: History November 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Eric Jay Dolin

Keeper Elson Small milking his cow at the St. Croix River Lighthouse in Maine. Mule Patty, always good Caused no trouble where she stood Always ready and seldom sick Died ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments November 12,2016 )