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Birkhäuser Basel | 2008 | ISBN: 3764379952 | 192 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB Nanotechnology is widely regarded as one of the twenty-first century’s key technologies, and its economic importance is sharply on the rise. In architecture and the construction industry it has potentials that are already usable today, especially the coating of surfaces to lend them functional characteristics such as increased tensile strength, self-cleaning capacity, fire resistance, and others. ... Ebook description

Routledge | 2003-01-17 | ISBN: 0419246908 | 304 pages | PDF | 6,9 MB International clients have long emulated American buildings such as skyscrapers, have followed patterns of American urbanism and have adopted American concepts of form and space for lesiure activities. This unique study examines how North American architecture has been 'transplanted' elsewhere throughout the 20th century. It explains how, why and where American architects, contractors, developers, planners, or building material exporters have marketed architecture overseas. ... Ebook description

234 pages | re.press (July 25, 2009) | 0980544025 | PDF | 1 Mb Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How can Benjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of the present? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and much more. ... Ebook description

Стройиздат | ISBN: N/A | 690 pages | 1973 | JPEG | 200 MB Двенадцатитомная «Всеобщая история архитектуры» — фундаментальное издание, охватывающее историю мирового зодчества от его зарождения до наших дней. ... Ebook description

Стройиздат | ISBN: N/A | 686 pages | 1973 | JPEG | 200 MB Двенадцатитомная «Всеобщая история архитектуры» — фундаментальное издание, охватывающее историю мирового зодчества от его зарождения до наших дней. ... Ebook description

Стройиздат | ISBN: N/A | 740 pages | 1973 | JPEG | 174 MB Двенадцатитомная «Всеобщая история архитектуры» — фундаментальное издание, охватывающее историю мирового зодчества от его зарождения до наших дней. ... Ebook description

Стройиздат | ISBN: N/A | 514 pages | 1973 | JPEG | 140 MB Двенадцатитомная «Всеобщая история архитектуры» — фундаментальное издание, охватывающее историю мирового зодчества от его зарождения до наших дней. ... Ebook description