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Steel : from mine to mill, the metal that made America

Tác giả: Brooke C. Stoddard

Contents: Introduction. A history of iron and steelmaking to 1851. From the 1850s to the 1950s: a century of steel. North Country. The Gray Goddess. On turning iron into steel. Pressing the flesh. Exeunt the American gods.

Architecture

Tác giả: Jonathan Glancey

Significant architectural movements, biographies of famous architects and in-depth examinations of their masterpieces. See how and why certain features were common during specific time periods and how these buildings have stood the test of time. Unique specially-commissioned CGI artworks throughout ...

Set in stone : rethinking a timeless material

Tác giả: Dirk Meyhöfer, Sophie Steybe

Set in stone is well-known metaphor to describe something immortal and immovable. Stone is considered to be an archaic and ultimate building material. In times when sustainability has ecome the keyword of climate-adapted construction, stone architecture is gaining more and more attention. This ...

Furnitecture : furniture that transforms space

Tác giả: Anna Yudina

Presents a wave of designers who are applying architectural techniques to create innovative new furnishing options, including bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, and self-contained, expandable kitchen cubes.

The big Asian book of landscape architecture

Tác giả: Jillian Walliss, Heike Rahmann

This book provides one of the first comprehensive discussions of contemporary landscape architecture practice across the Asian region. Bringing together established designers, writers, and thinkers with those of the new generation, Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann explore what it means to design, ...