Whether it is a small container of water on a deck or patio serving as home to a few plants and water creatures or a more elaborate mix of waterfalls, fountains, rockwork, and lighting, the water garden can be a lovely, spirit-soothing addition to one's property--a place to unwind, relax, and escape the cares of the world. But while water has been a prominent feature in garden designs for thousands of years, it is only recently--with the...

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An introduction to housing in the United States: its characteristic forms and its environmental implications. What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the...

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Trần Hữu Tri : Artist and lecturer

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The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of ’50s and ’60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books. The exchange of visual information is crucial to the development, evolution, and promotion of architectural movements. If a building is not widely seen, its photograph rarely or never published, it simply does not enter into architectural discourse. Many...

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A monograph of one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed architects. Representing the latest generation of the universally popular High Tech movement - and one of its most refined practitioners - McAslan has built his reputation on a combination of sensitive restoration/renovation projects and slick new buildings. An introduction by established architect critic Kenneth Powell gives an overview of McAslan's influences and his career,...

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With the rapid development of the economy and tremendous changes in technology in contemporary China, people are no longer satisfied with the existing living condistions and they demand more comfort, variety, and adaptability. In addition to ensuring a continuing supply of houses, it is increasingly important to improve the functional quality in residential space design. The human-oriented concept pays more attention to the relationship...

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Collection Of The Details In Hotel Space This book uses all the live-action photos to record the details of the design in the top 100 hotels in China. It classifies the hotel space into public area, room area, restaurant area, recreation area and etc.

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HOPSCA (hotel, office, parking, shopping mall, convention, and apartment) is a rising concept for architecture design. With the fast pace of urbanization, we search for an efficient self-sufficient urban model. The projects here make a breakthrough from traditional single-function projects such as commercial places, offices, residences, entertaining places, transportation projects, and so on, to the establishment of organic relationships among...

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The Master Architect Series Revisited 2.0 Selected + current Works

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Atlas For Living

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As for present real estate development and building design, ever changing competitive market and market demands bring in not only opportunities and motive power but also challenges and pressure. About two seemingly opposed sides, changing and unchanging, this book is looking for a solution faced with the shock: market and policy have eternal changes but we should insist unchanging spirit of changing with requirements from beginning to end to...

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This book selects thirty typical hotels in European style. These projects truly demonstrate the representative features of European style, reflecting how the style influences other design elements. This is very constructive in understanding and designing the interiors for hotels at present. In addition, a lot of classical style details, furniture, and furnishings are truly represented in this book, which is particularly of great reference...

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