The Architecture of Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architecture of Community write by Leon Krier. This book was released on 2009-05-08. The Architecture of Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.
Local Architecture
Local Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Architecture write by Brian Mackay-Lyons. This book was released on 2014-12-16. Local Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years in the hands of some of the world's most accomplished architects is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kéré, designers everywhere are championing an architecture that exists from, in, and for a specific place. The stunning projects, presented here in the first book to examine this global shift, were featured at the thirteenth and final Ghost conference held in 2011, organized by Nova Scotia architect, educator, and local practitioner Brian MacKay-Lyons. The result is the most complete collection of contemporary regionalist architecture available, with essays by early proponents of the movement, including Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Pritzker Prize–winning architect Glenn Murcutt.
Community and Privacy
Community and Privacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Community and Privacy write by Serge Chermayeff. This book was released on 1965. Community and Privacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community write by Peter Katz. This book was released on 2014-07-08. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today!
Architecture
Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture write by Léon Krier. This book was released on 1998. Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.
