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English
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form- but it remains mysterious to most of us.
In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and...
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Publisher
Book House
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Featuring plenty of astounding information about ancient construction techniques, building materials and stories behind these miracles of masonry, Big Buildings of the Ancient World reveals all - from the inside out! .
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Publisher
World Book
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"An exploration of the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries in the fields of architecture and engineering. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, biographies, and a timeline, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Art of faith is a visually sumptuous series exploring the architecture and art of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each program is presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy, who visits many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings of the world. Art of faith: Judaism Judaism visits one of the earliest synagogues on the mountain fort of Masada, the Gothic Old-New Synagogue in Prague and nineteenth-century houses of worship...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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What is the oldest building in the world? How big is the largest space station? How tall are the biggest skyscrapers? Find out all about the brilliant buildings that set world records?from the tallest and longest to the busiest and the most expensive?all in stunningly designed infographics.
Publisher
Punctum Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past ten years, Organs Everywhere (Œ) has promoted conversations that approach architectural design from the edges of the discipline -- testing its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems, and keeping them unstable. It has valued transdisciplinary, speculative and irreverent explorations over strict publishing formats and academic purity, promoting a profanatory and open-ended ethos.Each issue has strung together disparate...
17) Storybook homes
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Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Discusses how storybook homes were thought up and designed.
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ABC
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In The Mind Of The Architect is a three-part television documentary series and multimedia presentation about the thing we call architecture..but more particularly about us.. This is the story of how buildings and public spaces get to be made, told principally through an exposure of the public and private realms of a number of very different Australian architects.. This series is about politics, art, history, poetry, philosophy...about dreams and despair....