* Provides an interdisciplinary overview of this cutting-edge subject. * Fully documents a recent symposium on the topic of organicity. * Involves key architectural names. * Offers up-to-the-minute solutions to major architectural issues.

The Organic Approach to Architecture

Arts & Photography

GANS, Deborah

Kuz, Zehra

Architecture

Academy Editions Ltd

Using computational techniques and a complex variable formulation, this book teaches the student of kinematics to handle increasingly difficult problems in both the analysis and design of mechanisms all based on the fundamental loop closure equation.

Analytical Kinematics: Analysis and Synthesis of Planar Mechanisms

Science & Math

Technology

Butterworth-Heinemann

The Le Corbusier guide

History

Princeton Architectural Press

First published in 1987, The Le Corbusier Guide has been a favorite with architects and Le Corbusier aficionados for ten years. Available in several languages, it is the premier guidebook to the work of Le Corbusier, and the most affordable and careful reference to his built work. This edition has been completely updated by the author and includes a new introduction, additional entries, factual corrections, and an updated bibliography that reflects recent scholarship on Le Corbusier.??The Le Corbusier Guide features photographs, plans, and precise descriptions of over 70 of Le Corbusier's extant buildings in Europe, Japan, Russia, Africa, India, and North and South America. An essay by Alan Plattus and a biographical note introduce the reader to the life and ideas of this great architect. The guidebook also contains maps, directions, and visitor information, including opening hours and telephone numbers. Its complete alphabetical index, glossary of terms, and biographical introduction make it the perfect reference for the scholar, student, and tourist.

The Le Corbusier Guide

Princeton Architectural Pr

"This is the kind of book I have been waiting for, I think, for the better part of my life. Nothing is more frustrating to architecture buffs than to travel across the continent to see a celebrated building and then, since scholarly histories never deign to offer practical information, not to be able to find it....[With] Deborah Gans' superb book, life [is] vastly easier. Her excellent text is detailed...[and] contains excellent maps and photographs." —Paul Goldberger, New York Times 
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there's no real substitute for personal experience. Anyone who's visited the architecture of Le Corbusier knows just how true this is. Our indispensable The Le Corbusier Guide, first published in 1987 and now in its third edition, will help you do just that. This architectural handbook tells you everything you need to know to get to Le Corbusier's extant buildings in Europe, Japan, Russia, Africa, India, and North and South America, and includes updated maps, directions, and visitor information.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap that separates short-term emergency needs from long-term sustainable recovery. Questions about the role and responsibility of architects in disaster recovery have been circulating since the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004. In the last decade, 200 million people have been affected by natural disasters and hazards. Ninety-eight percent of these victims are in the developing world, where billions of dollars in aid are absorbed annually by climatic and geologic crises. Those in the developed world are not immune, as extreme temperatures, intense heat waves, increased flooding and droughts expose vast numbers of people to the experience of the eco-refugee. Beyond Shelter is a call to action. It features 20 generously illustrated reports from the field, written by the founders of some of the world's most provocative architecture and engineering firms and studios (Arup, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Urban Think Tank); accomplished nonprofits and research centers (Architectes de l'Urgence, Article 25 Development and Disaster Relief, the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University, Development Workshop France); and leaders of such prominent organizations as the Red Cross, UN-Habitat and the World Wildlife Fund. All of these people are on the frontlines of disaster prevention and recovery, in rural and urban areas alike. Beyond Shelter presents projects in such diverse locales as Manila, New Orleans, Gujarat, São Paulo, rural Vietnam, Kashmir, the Gola Forest in Sierra Leone, Greensburg, Kansas and the village of Soba, outside Khartoum. Together they illustrate the reality that evolving risk requires new ways of thinking, and that architects have a leading role to play.

Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity

Harris, Victoria

Brillembourg, Alfredo

Klumpner, Hubert

Coulombel, Patrick

Cruz, Teddy

Norton, John

Palleroni, Sergio

van Breda, Anita

D'Urzo, Sandra

Metropolis Books

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