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This Asian interior design and architecture book showcases the best luxury homes and interior spaces of the Pacific region. Asia has emerged in the last couple of decades as the global leader in tropical villa design. With innovative indoor/outdoor architecture engineered to facilitate relaxed, al fresco lifestyles, there are myriad solutions to suit every taste and pocket. Featuring hundreds of homes, garden estates, hotels, restaurants and more...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Sidewalks and streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians. These uses are bound up with circulation, but are not identical with it.
#2 The public peace of cities is not kept primarily by the police. It is kept primarily by an intricate network of voluntary controls and...
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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 3
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Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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A roof, a door, some windows, a floor. All houses have them, but not all houses are alike. Some have wings (airplane homes), some have wheels (Romany vardoes), some float; some are made of straw, some of snow and ice. Some are enormous, some are tiny; some are permanent and some are temporary. But all are home. Take Shelter explores the way people live all over the world and beyond-from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from an underground house in Las...
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Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915. What would Toronto look like today if it had hosted the Olympics in 1996 or 1976? And what was the downtown expressway that Frederick Gardiner really wanted? With over 150 photographs, maps, and illustrations, Unbuilt Toronto 2 tracks the origins and fates of some...
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- Identificar las condiciones básicas de manipulación de materiales y productos para su carga o descarga en relación con su naturaleza, estado, cantidades, protección y medios de transporte utilizado.
- Clasificar y describir los distintos tipos de paletización, relacionándolos con la forma de constitución de la carga a transportar.
- Interpretar y aplicar la normativa referente a la prevención de riesgos laborales y de la salud de los trabajadores.
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En palabras de Lorenzo González Casas, el siglo XX «fue una era inédita de globalización de la arquitectura», en la que la idea de lo moderno se propagó por el mundo. En el ámbito venezolano, la pasada centuria estuvo marcada por el petróleo, la modernidad, la gran ciudad y el establecimiento de una «nueva tradición disciplinar en arquitectura», que lidia con la tensión entre lo permanente y lo transitorio. Tomando en cuenta estas variables,...
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Originally published in 1890: The object of this little work is to assist young beginners and others who, though in the trade many years, have not had the opportunity of seeing so much of the higher branches of practice as they might desire. I also trust it will not be thought unworthy the notice of the more skilled mechanic. I have no hesitation in saying the methods here employed in drawing and cutting arches , also in mixing the materials and executing...
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Medellín se convirtió en un referente internacional de la innovación urbana al dejar de ser una de las ciudades más peligrosas del mundo en menos de dos décadas.
Aunque el mérito se atribuyó a diversos íconos políticos y electorales, un análisis crítico resalta el protagonismo de la ciudadanía. Jorge Pérez supera los relatos imperantes que plantean heroísmos inexistentes para trasmitir el verdadero sentido del proceso.
Desde una novedosa...
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El texto presente surge para darle materialidad a las intenciones exquisitas de la Asociación Art Nouveau de Buenos Aires de visibilizar el patrimonio para poder disfrutarlo. En esta ocasión AANBA, en su misión de "fábrica de cristalización de sueños", ha puesto su mirada sobre el Kavanagh y por tal, lo engarza en el collar de Edificios Emblemáticos. Humildemente y con mucha alegría nos unimos a todas las publicaciones prestigiosas que se...
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Affordable reprint of rare 1909 catalog, featuring authentic illustrations and floor plans for homes ranging from simple three-room bungalows to elaborate 10- and 12-room structures with sitting rooms, libraries, parlors, and wraparound porches. An excellent reference for home restorers, preservationists, and students of American architectural history. A delight for Americana fans and nostalgia lovers.
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Ezequiel Gabrielli, pintor y arquitecto, gravita con rigor entre la ciencia y el arte para investigar y analizar la arquitectura en distintos contextos, como el amazónico o el francés, desde el trabajo del urbanista Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Esta obra se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera hay una aproximación al entendimiento del pensamiento del maestro mediante su hoja de vida, documento que en sí mismo es una obra de arte y describe a grandes...
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Profusely illustrated critical appraisal vividly describes the glories of world architecture, from Spain and Egypt to other areas of the Middle East. Captioned drawings, maps, and photographs contrast, for example, the internal ornamentation of Spain's Alhambra with the austerity of Egypt's Mosque of Ibn Tulun, comparing both to the Ottoman mosques built in Turkey.
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Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional as the region provided the perfect environment for the Movement's ideals and principles. Arts and Crafts architects relished the robust vernacular precedent as it channeled their ideas and stimulated their imaginations. Its rational basis and dependence on craft skills had lasting value, and it was no coincidence...
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Reprint of rare book contains scores of illustrations and floor plans for 80 charming American homes, among them a spacious Pennsylvania fieldstone colonial; a modest, three-bedroom suburban bungalow; and an artist's two-story studio/residence in California. An invaluable primary reference for architects and students of architectural history. 104 black-and-white illustrations.
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Las obras maestras, como es el caso de Las ciudades invisibles (1972) de Italo Calvino, son inagotables. Los relatos de los viajes que Marco Polo describe a Kublai Kan sirven de desencadenante para iniciar un fértil diálogo entre la arquitectura, la literatura y la filosofía. Nada puede ser más actual que hablar de aquello que habla de lo intemporal. Nada puede ser más bello que soñar a partir de un poema de amor a las ciudades, especialmente...
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This classic book by Percy Brown contains a wealth of information on Indian architecture during the Islamic period, and will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. This volume deals with the development of Moslem architecture in India up to modern times and is concerned with the building art of India as visualized and put into effect by a forceful people who, beginning towards the twelfth century brought...
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HAVING been called on, a few years ago, to make frequent journeys between this country and the Riviera, the author was greatly impressed with the extraordinary variety and abundance of the ancient architectural monuments of Provence. This country was found to contain not only special styles of Mediæval Art peculiar to itself, but likewise an epitome of all the styles which have prevailed in Southern Europe from the time of the Romans. It proved to...
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Este libro presenta los resultados de las investigaciones desarrolladas por los autores con sede académica en el Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Tiene por objeto describir y valorar la trayectoria de Vittorio Meano, el arquitecto del Congreso y Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, y del Palacio Legislativo de Montevideo, obras ampliamente conocidas...
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