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Thomas Bitnar Architect: Selected Projects is a full-color monograph of architecture projects in Europe and the United States by award-winning international architect Thomas Bitnar FAIA.

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British architectural history has bequeathed to the modern age a rich tapestry of styles, one that can all too easily be taken for granted. This title introduces and explains these styles.

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"Traditional Building Materials".

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Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas. -- .

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The capture of Jerusalem by the "First Crusade" in 1099 heralded the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine. It was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of castles. This work covers the military history of the crusades and investigates the role of a wide range of castles.

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Those concerned with growth and development at national or local levels must pay significantly more attention to the physical structure of urban settings which house many of the leading sectors of the economies of nations.

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An essential collection of key readings and foundational sources in the study of the world's vernacular and traditional building cultures.

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The Victorian suburbs, now such a familiar element of the British townscape, were once building sites where armies of workmen converged to cover open land with streets of modest, comfortable houses. This title celebrates the work of the men who, plot by plot, translated surveyors' drawings and piles of materials into streets of dwellings.

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This book looks at the development and influence of buildings and why they are designed in a particular way.

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To help prepare students for the global interior design profession Visual Culture in the Built Environment offers an integrated survey of global interior environments written to explain significant design styles and movements.

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Dialectically linking architectural education and society, the book presents authors who conceptualize architectural pedagogy within a critical analysis of the larger society, and who construct forms of teaching and learning experiences that reveal and contest professional and societal directions.

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Draws upon the many historic precedents of designers overlapping several design principles, such as Paul Poiret who designed clothing, furniture and textiles. This text aims to increase students' understanding of the significant, subtle, and often subconscious roles that apparel and interior design play in our lives.

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This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. This book includes some of the only surviving material that documents the Hank Williams Village project.

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This self-taught Dutch architect was among the most widely copied architects of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Part IV, the Work Index, lists names and alternate names of works and parts of works, as revealed in the indexed sources.

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Wrought iron has been used as a decorative element in architecture from the eleventh century to the twentieth. At first a device to strengthen and embellish doors, wrought iron was soon adopted for free-standing screens and railings, examples of which can still be seen in churches and cathedrals.

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