Roofing Failures

By Carl G. Cash

The book starts by setting out the duties of a building pathologist in the context of the modern roofing industry, defining failure and explaining its...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29925-1 (Taylor & Francis)

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Architecture and Nature

Creating the American Landscape

By Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy

Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award!

The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate....

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28359-5 (Routledge)

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Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000

By Jeffrey W. Cody

The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29915-2 (Routledge)

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Building the Post-War World

By Nicholas Bullock

Building the Post-war World examines the way in which World War II and the ten years of reconstruction that followed saw the establishment of modern...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22179-5 (Routledge)

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Nature and Space

Aalto and Le Corbusier

By Sarah Menin, Flora Samuel

This book is a unique comparative study of two of the very greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. In assessing the...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28125-6 (Routledge)

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Understanding Sustainable Architecture

By Helen Bennetts, Antony Radford, Terry Williamson

Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28352-6 (Taylor & Francis)

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Steelwork Corrosion Control

By D.A. Bayliss, D.H. Deacon

Engineers on major building projects continue to echo the sentiment that "painting amounts to 10% of the job, but provides 90% of the problems". This...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26101-2 (Taylor & Francis)

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Reading Architectural History

By Dana Arnold

Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25050-4 (Routledge)

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This is Not Architecture

Media Constructions

Edited by Kester Rattenbury

This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23180-0 (Routledge)

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Protection and Conservation of the Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Cities

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, Sevilla, Spain, 5-8 April 2000

Edited by E. Galan, F. Zezza

This volume contains 90 reviewed papers and four plenary lectures delivered at the 5th International Symposium. Topics include: environmental parameters on the Mediterranean basin; materials,...

2002 | Hardback: 978-9058092533 (Taylor & Francis)

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