Architecture on Ice
Author: Howard Shubert
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0773548130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn architectural and cultural history of skating rinks and hockey arenas in North America.
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Pamphlet Architecture 20: Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and Midgets
Author: Mary-Ann Ray
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1997-04
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781568981031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates unusual spaces in Italy, ranging from a honeycombed and mazelike series of rooms and stairs for midgets, to the dining chambers of a Pompeiian estate, to a half-buried sphere that serves as a place for ice storage. Ray reveals these quixotic spaces through constructed drawings, collaged photographs, and insightful text.
Ice Houses of Iran
Author: Hemming Jorgensen
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781568592695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional Persian ice houses were built at villages on the perimeter of the large deserts on the Central Plateau. Their cone-shaped domes, up to 20 meters high, consisted of mud and mud bricks from the excavation of the deep ice pits protected by the domes. The ice houses served as reservoirs that stored blocks of ice in the winter for further use in the summer. The ice was either hauled in from nearby mountains or produced in open basins at the ice house site. Such local ice production plants were typically supplied with fresh water from qanats, the ingenious water supply tunnels, that brought water for human settlements and irrigation from the distant mountains. The ice houses, whose origin is believed to go back more than 2000 years, gradually became obsolete with the advent of electricity and the introduction of the refrigerators to the households. Because they were made of perishable materials, most of the ice houses have disappeared and the rest are facing a grim future. In this book, Dr. Jorgensen, has made a remarkable effort in cataloguing still remaining ice houses and in the process has found other ice houses that are shaped differently. He has developed a typology, described and analyzed the layouts, shapes, dimensions, construction methods, materials, reinforcements, and decorations. He has also studied the operations and origins, and analyzed the preservation aspects. This book describes the first ever comprehensive study of the ice houses of Iran.
Modern North
Author: Julie Decker
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781568988993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Geographic Region Around the North Pole is a Raw and Exotic Area of Untouched Nature and Inescapable Beauty. Building in this extremely cold climate requires an advanced degree of ingenuity and resolve. Ecological conditions, including high winds, snowdrifts, and permafrost, combined with periods of little sunlight present seemingly impossible logistical hurdles for architects. Vernacular buildings have emerged, but like most indigenous structures they do little more than simply enclose and protect. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of exceptional new architecture and a new definition of a Northern building - one that is both extraordinarily responsive to place and aesthetically provocative." "In Modern North: Architecture on the Frozen Edge, author Julie Decker presents thirty-four of the most compelling and far-ranging possibilities of contemporary architecture in the North. These buildings - located in northern Canada, Scandinavia, and Alaska - are united in the way they embrace extreme conditions and provide visual stimulation in places that sometimes offer little more than a whitescape. The book contains innovative structures by both established and up-and-coming architects, including David Chipperfield Architects, Studio Granda, and Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, as well as essays by Brian Carter, Juhani Pallasmaa, Edwin Crittenden, and Lisa Rochon that place the projects in the context of a new architectural response to the North."--BOOK JACKET.
Home Ice
Author: Matthew Jasper
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11-22
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998448091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotography book of Minnesota Hockey Rinks
American Architect and Architecture
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Published: 1897
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitecture and Film
Author: Mark Lamster
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781568982076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. There are essays from contributors from a range of disciplines and interviews of those working behind the scenes.
Modern Wonders
Author: Shana Priwer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1317464575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Wonders, a title in the five-title series Frameworks: Science, Technology, and the Built Environment, illuminates the science, technology, art and architecture, and history of the world's greatest architectural and engineering achievements, including the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis Gateway Arch, World Trade Center, Mt. Rushmore, and the Millennium Wheel. Modern Wonders provides an interdisciplinary, visual approach that combines informative text, fascinating background information, and basic scientific principles with dozens of full-color photographs, illustrations, and other visuals (e.g. diagrams and equations). Appropriate for a broad audience of students, teachers, librarians, and general interest readers, Modern Wonders is an excellent supplemental resource for subjects covered throughout the curricula: science, technology, and society; art and architecture; economics; and world history and culture.
Architecture and Building
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 610
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