Illustration of the Public Buildings of London with Historical and [...] Accounts of Each Edifice. By J. Britton... and A. Pugin,...
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Luther Ford
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1916, Ford's proposal for the grouping of public buildings in Connecticut provides a fascinating glimpse into the early history of American urban planning. The book outlines a plan for the development of a cohesive, aesthetically pleasing group of public buildings centered around the State Capitol in Hartford. While Ford's specific proposal may never have been fully implemented, The Grouping of Public Buildings remains an important historic document, shedding light on the evolution of American architecture and design. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 780
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 3
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 332
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 638
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 1216
ISBN-13: 0190050357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 640
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 640
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes entries for maps and atlases.