Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects

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"The contour line is the only precise and accurate means for representing the free and natural formation of terrain in the plan; so learn to use this instrument!" Professor Hans Loidl, Landscape Architect and Teacher The two design elements of landscape architecture are plants and terrain. While the subject of vegetation is well documented by numerous publications, there is a lack of technical literature in the field of grading. This volume fills that gap: History,... More >>

Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects

Richard Diebenkorn

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Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism.

This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a rich selection of the artist's oeuvre. Until the mid-195... More >>

Richard Diebenkorn

Building Your Own Greenhouse

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Building a greenhouse can be easy and inexpensive with this comprehensive handbook. Practical instructions guide you through every step of the process: Selecting a site; Laying a foundation; Framing; Glazing; Ventilating; Insulating; Plumbing; Wiring. Eleven specific examples from simple cold frames to large free standing and attached to the house structures are featured.... More >>

Building Your Own Greenhouse

Savannah Squares A Keepsake Tour of Gardens, Architecture, and Monuments

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Discover the wonderful gardens, charismatic and quaint city squares, and unique architecture of Savannah, Georgia, through this enchanting new book. Over 150 beautiful color photographs showcase the famous residential squares of Savannah, as well as many of its monuments, fountains, and parks. The citys rich history is traced in the entertaining text. Explore these charming spaces, each a geographic landmark in this beloved small Southern city.... More >>

Savannah Squares A Keepsake Tour of Gardens, Architecture, and Monuments

Target Field: The New Home of the Minnesota Twins

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In 2010, major league baseball in Minnesota heads outdoors for the first time in nearly two decades—and at one of the finest baseball facilities anywhere. Target Field explores the Minnesota Twins’ long journey to getting a new ballpark and celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of its design and construction. With first-hand insight from the designers, engineers, workers, and team executives who made it all happen, the book gives an insider’s tour of the... More >>

Target Field: The New Home of the Minnesota Twins

NCIDQ Section 3 Practice Exam for the Interior Design Practicum

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The best way to prepare for Section 3 of the NCIDQ exam is by creating solutions for design exercises—the more solutions, the better. NCIDQ Section 3 Practice Exam for the Interior Design Practicum contains seven design exercises that cover all Section 3 content areas. The practice exam includes descriptions and building code requirements for all design exercises to simulate the actual exam's format and level of difficulty and enable you to assess your exam readin... More >>

NCIDQ Section 3 Practice Exam for the Interior Design Practicum

Michael S. Smith: Elements of Style

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Acclaimed designer Michael Smith has earned a reputation as the thinking celebrity's decorator, with a client list that includes Cindy Crawford, Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Pairing lush interiors with dynamic insider advice, Michael Smith's Elements of Style beautifully captures the essential building blocks of good interior design. Smith covers in depth the most common decorating decisions everyone faces: working with colo... More >>

Michael S. Smith: Elements of Style

500 Bungalows

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Popularity meets affordability as America's favorite house style (according to a 2005 survey on About/Architecture.com) comes at a price point that every bungalow fan can afford. There is perennial interest in all things bungalow related. Every year there are numerous books, magazines and floor plans published that are all geared to the bungalow enthusiast. Taunton Press has published several bungalow-related books to great success including Bungalow Style and Updat... More >>

500 Bungalows

Seven Discourses on Art

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Art / Criticism;... More >>

Seven Discourses on Art

Decorating with Architectural Details

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Decorating with Architectural Details offers the latest inspirational ideas for the most popular design trend in today's market. Incorporating classic design elements such as mantels, window seats, shelving, and more, homeowners learn how to turn a humdrum room into a distinctive living space. Readers can create a custom look for any room using the numerous style concepts. Hundreds of lavish photographs by renowned photographer Jessie Walker capture the in... More >>

Decorating with Architectural Details

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities

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Essential information for the design of healthcare facilities

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the design process and successfully complete a healthcare project, large or small, on time and within budget. Leading architects from across the United States share their firsthand knowledge in order to guide you through all aspects of healthcare faci... More >>

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities

When Not to Build: An Architect's Unconventional Wisdom for the Growing Church

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Wise insight on building a church, growing a church, and keeping costs low. For pastors, leaders, and building committees.... More >>

When Not to Build: An Architect's Unconventional Wisdom for the Growing Church

Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time

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Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years w... More >>

Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time

Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio

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To an outsider, the world of ham radio is one of basement transmitters, clunky microphones, Morse code, and crackly, possibly clandestine, worldwide communications, a world both mysterious and geeky. But the real story is a lot more interesting: indeed, there are more than two million operators worldwide, including people like Walter Cronkite and Priscilla Presley. Gandhi had a ham radio, as do Marlon Brando and Juan Carlos, king of Spain.
Hello World takes us o... More >>

Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio

Understanding Boat Design

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For new boating enthusiasts--even if they've been at it awhile--there are scores of burning questions. If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a fin keel? Why does one powerboat have more flare in its topsides than another? And what is flare? Why do some hull shapes lo... More >>

Understanding Boat Design

Cottages by the Sea: The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America's First Artist Community

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Carmel, California, has always been a community of artists, writers, and freethinkers. During the early part of its rich history, the area was home to Robinson Jeffers, Mary Austin, Ansel Adams, Charles Greene, Jack London, George Sterling, Upton Sinclair, and Henry Miller, among other great artists of the twentieth century. During the late 1980s, actor Clint Eastwood, a longtime resident, served as mayor.

While much about Carmel has changed since the days wh... More >>

Cottages by the Sea: The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America's First Artist Community

New York: 15 Walking Tours, An Architectural Guide to the Metropolis

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The devastating events of 9/11 have brought a renewed interest in the rich architectural history of New York City. This highly acclaimed well-illustrated "carry-along" walking tour provides the updated information that tourists, students, architects, and historians need to fully appreciate the architectural aspects that have made NYC one of the most vital cities in the world. This new third edition features:
* 15 walking tours of NYC's most im... More >>

New York: 15 Walking Tours, An Architectural Guide to the Metropolis

Construction Management Fundamentals

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Construction Management Fundamentals is intended as an introduction to both technical and business sides of construction, and is intended for use in an undergraduate Civil Engineering curriculum or for graduate courses in Construction Management. The text covers fundamentals of construction in a logical, simple, and concise format, and many examples reinforce construction and management concepts through applications, photographs, and illustrations derived from actua... More >>

Construction Management Fundamentals

Building Systems for Interior Designers

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Building Systems for interior designersSecond EditionCorky Binggeli, asidThe updated guide to technical building systems for interior designersAs integral members of the building design team, interior designers share an increasingly complex and crucial role. Now revised in its second edition, Building Systems for Interior Designers remains the one go-to resource that addresses the special concerns of the interior designer within the broader context of the rest of th... More >>

Building Systems for Interior Designers

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

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For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, wh... More >>

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency