We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

    

    Ada Louis Huxtable brings clarity as well as passion to her consideration of the problems and pleasures of architecture and urban planning.

    Looks at the last period in Wright's career, reassessing his Usonian houses, his Taliesin working communities, and his plan for Broadacre City.

    This text serves as an excellent introduction to the fields of architectural drawing and construction. It covers drafting and drawing principles, light frame construction principles, and the building design documentation process. The text covers both manual drawing techniques and the use of computer-aided design and drafting software to create drawings. The text presents the concepts with easy-to-follow text and numerous illustrations to highlight and provide examples of key concepts. Other features of this text include: *Review questions and exercises that allow students to apply both the theory and the skills presented in the text. *CADD boxes that highlight the use of design and drafting software to create drawings. *Updates of examples, standards, and methods that reflect current industry standards and practices. *Examples and drawings from the field to reinforce the application of the concepts to real-world situations.

    Since 1975 N. J. Habrakenhas been Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT. The other three authors are still teaching at Eindhoven. In an Introduction prepared for the English edition, Habraken writes that It was hoped .. .that the design of supports would help solve some of the problems traditionally associated with the design of masshousing ... . It is not possible to evaluate the design of a support by examining the dwelling unit plan since there is no such predetermined plan. The support building must be judged in a different way. There is a PROBLEM OF EVALUATION when the support has to be judged on its potential for accommodating dwelling unit plans, which satisfy the individual requirements of different users, throughout its life span. To solve this problem a systematic way must be found to test the support by generating a series of representative possible floor plans and judging those by a set of general criteria. The method presented in this book provides tools to cope with the problem of evaluation . .. .The process of evaluation must test what is possible with in a given structure (e.g. the possible final floorplans) against what is generally desirable (e.g .specificaily stated standards). The method basically offers a series of operations that give, in increasingly complex situations, such comparisons. Given the width of a bay, what meaningful combinations of spaces or functions can be accommodated? In certain locations within a structure what kinds of activities are possible? Or conversely, given certain necessary relationships between functions, what bay width offers an optimum solution within certain technical and financial constraints? In what specific areas of a structure can certain desirable activities be located? The result of each separate operation within the method is always what is called a series of VARIATIONS, a number of possible solutions that give us the information we need to make decisions and proceed in the design process. In order to make the resultant variations comparable with others, that result from other operations, they must be generated in a systematic way. This means that the way we annotate the variations and the way that the system of annotation is arrived at must be formalized in order to avoid ambiguity.The first four chapters are devoted to a step-by-step description of the method, while later chapters show examples of possible applications and provide some explanation of the theoretical background. The contents are organized in such a way that the relationship between practical applications and theoretical background is made explicit. The book is profusely illustrated with plans and photographs of rooms and buildings. It is being distributed by The MIT Press for the MIT Laboratory of Architecture and Planning.

    Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by reality, some determined ideatists carved out enclaves in order to develop collective models of what they believed to be more perfect societies. All such communitarian groups consciously attempted to express their social ideals in their buildings and landscapes; invariably, ideological predispositions can be inferred from a close study of the environments they created. The interplay between ideology and architecture, the social design and the physical design of American utopian communities, is the basis of this remarkable book by Dolores Hayden.At the heart of the book are studies of seven communitarian groups, collectively stretching over nearly two centuries and the full breadth of the American continent-the Shakers of Hancock, Massachusetts; the Mormons of Nauvoo, lllinois; the Fourierists of Phalanx, New Jersey; the Perfectionists of Oneida, New York; the Inspirationists of Amana, Iowa; the Union Colonists of Greeley, Colorado; and the Cooperative Colonists of Llano del Rio, California. Hayden examines each of these groups to see how they coped with three dilemmas that all socialist' societies face: conflicts betweeft authoritarian and participatory processes, between communal and private territory, and between unique and replicable community plans.The book contains over 260 historic and contemporary photographs and drawings which illustrate the communitarian processes of design and building. The drawings range in scale from regional plans showing land ownership, access to transportation, and availability of natural resources, through site plans of communal domains and building plans of dwellings and assembly halls, down to detailed diagrams of furniture configurations. To aid readers in making comparisons, a series of site and building plans drawn at constant scales has been provided for all seven case studies.

    Photos of famous stupas, line drawings, diagrams.

    

    This reputation rested partly on its once-famous elms and partly on a certain quality of urban grace that long characterized the city. Starting with the original town plan of the famous Nine Squares, this concern for urban design has been a continuing tradition for three centuries, highlighted by the layout of the Green in Federal period, by the creation pf handsome squares and streets before the Civil War, by the park system of the 1880’s, and finally by the widely publicized redevelopment program of our own time. This unique guidebook views New Haven as the product of an urban community. Elizabeth Mills Brown concentrates not only on the magnificent architecture of the Yale Campus and the spectacular works of modern architects, but also on the vernacular production of the anonymous builders whose competent designs have provided the scenery of urban life. Exploring faded backwaters as well as showplaces, she looks at the city with a fresh curiosity and a sensitivity to the tides of urban change and social history that have influenced its architecture.The book is divided into fifteen tours, accessible by foot, bicycle, or car. Capsule descriptions and a map accompany each tour, and cross references, a chronological table of buildings, and indexes are also provided. Over five hundred buildings are illustrated, and information is supplied on another hundred. This handsome guidebook, full of pertinent data on cultural and architectural history, will be useful to students of urban design and American architecture as well as to New Haven residents and tourists. Elizabeth Mills Brown is an architectural historian with a longtime interest in New Haven’s urban design.

    Hess. Includes an Index of Places (locations where the photographs were made). Designed by Malcolm Grear Designers. 114 pp., with 89 duotone plates, and numerous black and white reference illustrations, beautifully printed on fine paper (Warren Cameo Dull) by Pentacle Press. 11 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 7500 total copies.

    The book depicts conversions of a chicken coop, a barn, a mews house, carriage house, firehouse, creamery, icehouse, water tower, powerhouse, an armorer's workshop, a doll factory, industrial buildings in Paris and San Francisco, a cannery, factories, a bakery, boats and barges, a caboose, a Pullman car, railroad stations, a bank, a schoolhouse, a church and more.

    "...John Turner is something much rarer than a housing expert; he is a philosopher of housing, seeking answers to questions which are so fundamental that they seldom get asked."--from the Introduction by Colin Ward

    Here Nikolaus Pevsner shares his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye with readers curious about the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. He describes twenty types of buildings ranging from the most monumental to the least, from the most ideal to the most utilitarian. More than seven hundred illustrations illuminate the text.