The Nature of Design

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Finally, here's a design basics book that works the same way a designer's brain does-visually. This innovative guide sets itself apart from all those text-heavy, introductory titles on the market by showing creatives how to find inspiration in their everyday surroundings. Readers will learn all the rules of design with a look at how everything from graphics and architecture to fashion and product design shape the world. These are the fundamentals that help desi... More >>

The Nature of Design

SolidWorks For Dummies

• ISBN13: 9780470129784
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Whether it’s your first venture into 3D technical drawing software or you’re switching to SolidWorks from something else, you’re probably excited about what this CAD program has to offer.   Chances are, you figure it’s going to take awhile to get the hang of it before you can begin cranking out those perfectly precise 3D designs. SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edition, can help you dramatically shorten that get-acquainted period!SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edi... More >>

SolidWorks For Dummies

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

• ISBN13: 9780226764726
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Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features. Carl Smith’s fascinating history reveals the Plan’s central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself.

His concise and accessible narrative begins with a sur... More >>

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Pure California: 35 Inspiring Houses in the New California Tradition

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This inspiring and beautiful book takes the reader on a journey of 35 of the most recent homes designed by Bassenian/Lagoni Architects of Newport Beach, CA. From an early Cailfornia home in Coro de Caza, to a California Cottage on Balboa Pennisula, to an Old World Tuscan Adaptation in Rancho Santa Fe, this collection reveals some of the finest examples of what admiring critics are calling "The New California Tradition" in American housing.... More >>

Pure California: 35 Inspiring Houses in the New California Tradition

Encyclopedia of Window Fashions: 1000 Decorating Ideas for Windows, Bedding and Accessories

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The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions is the best-selling window decorating book in the world, with 1000 decorating ideas for windows, bedding, and accessories, and tons of practical information. Chapters include: Draperies (90 drapery styles), Valances (97 styles), Swags and Cascades (68 styles), Cornice Boxes (102 styles) to name a few. It offers the largest scope of decorating ideas of any book available.... More >>

Encyclopedia of Window Fashions: 1000 Decorating Ideas for Windows, Bedding and Accessories

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

• ISBN13: 9780262013826
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This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of... More >>

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

The Ethical Function of Architecture

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Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the ... More >>

The Ethical Function of Architecture