Through the generosity of Luca Vignelli, the son of Massimo and Lella, Massimo's copy was used to create this new edition.

    there suddenly emerges a place for family enjoyment, a space carved out from nature...""Then a man and a woman walking in the rain, open an umbrella, there is immediately created under the umbrella a world of 'just you an me'... "These are exterior spaces – and this book is a complete handbook for the architect on the subject of exterior design. Both the theory and practise of designing exterior space – the city plaza, the exterior of and setting for a building or group of building, the garden, the courtyard, and others– are discussed here in a thoroughly professional approach. Through the imaginative use of illustrations and striking visual-image examples, the author communicates a basic feeling for the concepts of exterior design as well as a clear understanding of the specifics. "When architects create space, not with umbrellas or rugs, but with architectural materials, floors, walls, and ceilings are all important elements. Suppose, for example, that we have built a brick wall on ordinary ground where sunshine sparkles..."Exterior Design in Architecture is a practical handbook. It deals with the realities of design–the problems involved, the approaches possible, examples of what has been done in the field. Mr. Ashihara, who is an internationally known architect, has traveled all over the world gathering material for the book. Japanese and Western (primarily American and Italian) approaches to design are compared and analyzed as to their various merits and possibilities.

    Since publication of the third edition of Juran's classic in 1974, the entire field of quality control has undergone a series of unprecedented changes-due largely to (1) intensified competition, which has resulted in huge loses in market shares and massive exports of jobs and (2) expanded government regulation, with accompanying growth in the number of lawsuits and the size of the awards. This updated and revised new edition offers, in ready-reference form, the know-how managers need in industry today-and in the years ahead-to keep their quality competitive at minimum cost.

    Offering imaginative insight into the area where mathematics and the arts meet, this book may be used as a practical tool by the architect, designer or scientist who has to deal with such problems as defining space, distributing patterns, packing and stacking, and communication links.

    Over 2,500 monogrammatic and alphabetic designs are displayed in plates from "Dictionnaire du Chiffre-monogramme," etc., by Charles Demengeot (1881); "Monograms and Ciphers," by H. Renoir (1870–74); "Knight's New Book of Seven Hundred & Fifty Eight Plain, Ornamented & Reversed Cyphers" (1830); and "Monograms in Three and Four Letters," by J. Gordon Smith (n.d.).There are monograms in every two-letter combination and extensive selections of three and four letters; name devices ("Alice," "Theodore," etc.), crowns, crests, coats of arms and helmets. There are heavy, intricately entwined monograms that appear as though engraved on metal; lighter, thick-and-thin script styles; fanciful and formal designs; monograms in circles, ovals, square shapes, and free outline; and an immense variety of letter styles, including many designed for the particular device.A notable feature of this volume is the Index of Monograms and Ciphers, listing alphabetically every letter combination shown and the page or pages on which each appears ("S W", for example, is drawn in three different styles; "A L" in five; but "F N H W" in only one); and an Index of Names and Devices. Both features add greatly to the usefulness of the book. Importantly, every device shown may be reproduced by the purchaser free of charge.Artists, designers, engravers, and craftspeople will find this book a prolific source of inspiration and unusual styles; typographers, calligraphers, draftspeople , and students will use it as an aid in creating their own letter designs; while those in the printing, publishing, advertising, and allied fields will call upon it whenever a distinctive monogram or decoration is needed.

    

    Vision and Invention - Many beautiful drawing inside this book!

    He came to know it intimately and was welcomed by its residents, who are Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Negro. Suttles contends that the residents of a slum neighborhood have a set of standards for behavior that take precedence over the more widely held "moral standards" of "straight" society. These standards arise out of the specific experience of each locality, are peculiar to it, and largely determine how the neighborhood people act. One of the tasks of urban sociology, according to Suttles, is to explore why and how slum communities provide their inhabitants with these local norms. The Social Order of the Slum is the record of such an exploration, and it defines theoretical principles and concepts that will aid in subsequent research.