The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the late 20th century's most profound architectural statements. It is a living institution dedicated to research and teaching as well as to contemplation and commemoration. It is one of the most visited museums in the US.
This book provides local governments and interested stakeholders with insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing climate change.
This book provides local governments and interested stakeholders with insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing climate change.
Explains the essentials of architecture. This book covers highlights of architectural history, from Great Pyramids to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
Innovation in building design and construction depends on innovative strategies being developed by teachers and practitioners, made available to students and then professionally adopted. This title examines the strategies to manage effectively a growing number of students and a changing student profile in the built environment sector.
This book celebrates the humble and not so humble shed, from artists' studios to beach huts. My Cool Shed features 35 sheds, small cabins, garden rooms, beach huts, and modern architectural mini masterpieces given purpose by their owners to pursue their hobbies, careers, creative endeavours or just to find some peace and solitude.
Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.