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Shaping Seattle Architecture
A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region’s...
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Stories in Stone
Travels through Urban Geology
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to...
ISBN: 9780295746456
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The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag
From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape...
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Olmsted in Seattle
Creating a Park System for a Modern City
In the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted...
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Sculpture on a Grand Scale
Jack Christiansen’s Thin Shell Modernism
The Kingdome, John (“Jack”) Christiansen’s best-known work, was the largest freestanding concrete dome in the world. Built amid public controversy, the multipurpose arena was designed to stand...
ISBN: 9780295745619
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Ng’ambo Atlas
Zanzibar
Ng’ambo is the lesser known "other side” of Zanzibar Town. During the British Protectorate the area was designated as the Native Quarters; today it is set to become the new city center of Zanzibar’s...
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Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond
Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. Beginning in 1930, the arrival of émigré,...
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Improvised City
Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937
For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination...
ISBN: 9780295744780
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Gordon Walker
A Poetic Architecture
Gordon Walker’s (b. 1939) highly unusual design process has yielded an extensive architecture of extraordinary quality; he is a unique figure in the American architectural movement and in the history...
ISBN: 9781732821408
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Building Reuse
Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design
In Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design, Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing...
ISBN: 9780295742342
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Cities That Think like Planets
Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems
As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of...
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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya
An Ambivalent Modernism
To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern metropolitan...
ISBN: 9780295741413
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Banaras Reconstructed
Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially...
ISBN: 9780295741994
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Kas di Shon
Plantation Houses on Curacao: Past and Present
Driving through Curacao’s landscapes, the old plantation houses are visible from afar. The houses speak to us of a past long gone. A past in which plantations, homegrown food, cattle breeding,...
ISBN: 9789460224669
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Building the Golden Gate Bridge
A Workers' Oral History
Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building...
ISBN: 9780295995069
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Repairing the American Metropolis
Common Place Revisited
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant...
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The Carbon Efficient City
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized...
ISBN: 9780295991719
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Kirtland Cutter
Architect in the Land of Promise
In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of...
ISBN: 9780295987668
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The Merchant Houses of Mocha
Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port
Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most...
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Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture
In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue,...
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