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Architect's Professional Practice Manual

The Architectural Metals Pack

L. William Zahner


This box of 35 actual metal samples compliments Zahner's book,Architectural Metals. These samples permit designers and other buildingprofessionals to evaluate surfaces andcolors. The pack includes such metals as Blackened Copper, GreenStainless Steel, Pickled Finish Titanium, Color Anodized Aluminum andPre-Weathered Zinc. This practical boxcan be used for client presentations as well as storage.

CAD Layer Guidelines : Computer-Aided Design Management Techniques for Architecture, Engineering, and Facility Management

Michael Schley (Editor), Richard Buday (Editor), Ken Sanders (Editor)

Partnering Manual for Design and Construction

William C. Ronco, Jean S.


"Partnering" brings together architect, engineer, client, and realestate managers in a workshop communication structure to manage projectcommunications. Required by manygovernment agencies and large corporations, partnering helps to avoidcost over runs, litigation, and delays. This volume succinctly coversall aspects of partnering, showing how it can be used most beneficiallyand discussing the core specifics of partnering, the documents, trainingand structure, and case studies. (Booknews Inc.)

Asphalt Nation : How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Back

Jane Holtz Kay


Provides a thought-provoking look at the devastating impact on America of the automobile from a political, social, economic, and cultural perspective, and offers a range of innovativesolutions to help change Americans' relationships with their cars.

The City After the Automobile : An Architect's Vision

Moshe Safdie, Wendy Kohn


By restricting land use and concentrating development in city centers instead of on the fringes, Safdie argues that reliance on gas-guzzling automobiles would become a nonissue.His truly is a revolutionary idea, especially for a culture that idealizes suburbia. Although some of the suggestions in The City After the Automobile might seem fanciful, anyargument in favor of better planning, less pollution, and less waste of time, money, and resources makes a lot of sense. (Amazon.com)

Treehouses : The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

Peter Nelson, David Larkin (Editor)


All you need to know about designing, constructing and "living in" treehouses.

Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings : Placement, Design and Construction

Byron D. Halstead (Editor)


Although it dates from a time before power tools, electricity, and gasoline, this book abounds in simple ideas that rural householders and farmers find useful today. Barns, poultry houses, piggeries, corn cribs, ice houses, spring houses, granaries, smoke houses, root cellars and even kennels and birdhouses are includes in this fascinating compendium from days gone by.

A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein


The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify existant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Christopher Alexander

Timeless Way of Building

Christopher Alexander


All the great principles have one thing in common. They are simple. And, after one realizes such a simple but profound principle, one can not stop wondering how one survivedwithout it's knowledge. This book gives that feeling. If you are involved in architecture of any sort- buildings, software, organization or even politics- this book is a must for you.

The Oregon Experiment

Christopher Alexander

City of Bits : Space, Place, and the Infobahn

William J. Mitchell


Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits offers a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. "The digital realm has at last the writer it deserves."--Andrew Leonard, The Nation. 16 illustrations.