State-of-the-art in building facades -- Biomaterials for building skins -- Designing building skins with biomaterials -- Best practices -- Service life performance -- Portfolio of bio-based façade materials -- Future perspectives.Open AccessThis book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades,…
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: The Complex Process of City Regeneration -- CHAPTER II: Reconnecting Cities with Nature, Building Resilience at the Urban Scale -- CHAPTER III: Understanding the Benefits of Urban Density -- CHAPTER IV: Activating the Food-Water-Energy Nexus -- CHAPTER V: The Ten Strategies for an Urban Regeneration -- CHAPTER VI: Examples of the Ten Urban Regeneration Strategies in Prac…
Admiration and Awe -- Classical, Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque, and Gothic Architecture -- The Renaissance -- The Baroque in Southern and Western Europe -- The Baroque and Rococo in Central and Eastern Europe -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Dome in European Architecture.
Architecture of the Italian Enlightenment, 1750–1800 -- Napoleon in Italy, 1800–1815 -- Restoration and Romanticism, 1815–1860 -- Unification and the Nation’s Capitals, 1860–1900.“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms o…
Architects of the Avant-Garde, 1900s–1920s -- Architecture during the Fascism Regime, 1922–1944 -- Postwar Reconstruction, 1944–1968 -- Italian Architecture for the Next Millennium, 1968–2000.“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contr…
Conversations with Michael Van Valkenburgh -- Site Plan -- Site -- Scissoring -- Hypernature -- Surface -- Conscious Pragmatism -- Urban Land -- Gallery -- Outside the Self -- Criticism.In the field of landscape architecture, there is no more distinguished voice than Michael Van Valkenburgh, and it therefore seems appropriate that we begin this new Source Books in Landscape series with his rece…
American Tract Society Building -- Bayard-Condict Building -- Park Row Building -- Flatiron Building -- West Street Building (now 90 West Street) -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower -- Bankers Trust Company Building (originally 14 Wall Street) -- Woolworth Building -- Municipal Building -- Candler Building -- Equitable Building -- Bush Tower -- Shelton Towers Hotel (now Marriott East S…
Foundations -- Foundations -- Northeast Harbor, Islesboro, and the Shingle Style -- Northeast Harbor, Islesboro, and the Shingle Style (circa 1887–1900) -- Bar Harbor and the End of the Cottage Era -- Bar Harbor and the End of the Cottage Era (circa 1900–1924).Robert R. Pyle Our sense of place and community is made up of memories—personal memories of first-hand experience; oral memories t…
Walking Tour -- Walk, Part I -- Walk, Part II -- Walk, Part III -- Mies van der Rohe—A Short Biography -- Mies van der Rohe—A Short Biography.vii viii THE CAMPUS GUIDE Illinois Institute of Technology an architectural tour by Franz Schulze with photographs by Richard Barnes foreword by Lew Collens Princeton Architectural Press NEW YORK 2005 Princeton Architectural Press 37 East Seventh Stre…
City -- P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Project -- 156 Reade Street -- Colorado Court -- Viikki -- 1310 East Union Street -- Sea Train House -- The Solaire -- Suburb -- Solar Tube -- Charlotte Residence -- Villa Sari -- Little Tesseract -- Mill Valley Straw-Bale House -- Naked House -- Mountainside -- House with Shades -- SolarHaus III -- Great (Bamboo) Wall -- R128 -- Waterside -- Howard House -- Swart Resid…