Letters to Architects

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483135373
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to Architects by : Frank Lloyd Wright

Download or read book Letters to Architects written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to Architects presents letters addressed to architects practicing throughout the world, many of them contemporaries with Frank Lloyd Wright during the first half of the twentieth century. Taken as a whole, this selection of letters aims at revealing an underlying unity of purpose: the growth of his work and the unquestionable magnitude of influence it engendered in the world of architecture. The letters are organized into five sections. Section One presents the first publication ever to be made of the letters between Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis H. Sullivan. Section Two traces Wright's concern, through letters addressed to both European and American architects, that his work be understood as the cornerstone of an American Culture. In Section Three, correspondence has been selected to include three specific persons: Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Lewis Mumford, and Howard Myers. These men offered Wright a special forum from which he could speak to the profession as a whole, most particularly through the medium of publication. Section Four narrates, by means of letters to various architects concerned with the assembling and exhibition of the largest one man architectural exhibition ever to be produced, the details, trials, problems, and results of such a large undertaking. Section Five recounts the honors bestowed on Frank Lloyd Wright first in England, in 1941, and then in his own country, in 1949. It shows his concern for the profession of architecture in the moving address he gave at the occasion of his receiving the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects.

Letters to a Young Architect

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ISBN 13 : 9788192156804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (568 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to a Young Architect by : Christopher Benninger

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Standard Letters in Architectural Practice

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405147741
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Standard Letters in Architectural Practice by : David Chappell

Download or read book Standard Letters in Architectural Practice written by David Chappell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects and contract administrators spend a great deal of timewriting letters of various types. Many of them are routine andrepetitive in character, but they require proper consideration ifpotentially dangerous liability situations are to be avoided. This book provides some 285 standard letters for use at allstages of project administration. To assist the user, they aregrouped into sections which correspond with the RIBA Plan of Work:the aim is to cover all the common situations encountered inpractice. The book has been revised to take account of the latest contractrevisions and many letters have been added. Unless otherwisestated, all letters are suitable for use with: JCT 98 WCD 98 IFC 98 MW 98 GC/Works/1 (1998) The latest edition also takes account of the three new RIBAStandard Forms of Agreement for Appointment of an Architect:SFA/99, CE/99 and SW/99 Although primarily written for architects and contractsadministrators, the book will also be of use to project managersand employers’ agents under WCD 98. Contractors will alsofind much of interest.

How to Architect

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262516993
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Architect by : Doug Patt

Download or read book How to Architect written by Doug Patt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basics of the profession and practice of architecture, presented in illustrated A-Z form. The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb—coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In How to Architect, Patt—an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture—presents the basics of architecture in A-Z form, starting with "A is for Asymmetry" (as seen in Chartres Cathedral and Frank Gehry), detouring through "N is for Narrative," and ending with "Z is for Zeal" (a quality that successful architects tend to have, even in fiction—see The Fountainhead's architect-hero Howard Roark.) How to Architect is a book to guide you on the road to architecture. If you are just starting on that journey or thinking about becoming an architect, it is a place to begin. If you are already an architect and want to remind yourself of what drew you to the profession, it is a book of affirmation. And if you are just curious about what goes into the design and construction of buildings, this book tells you how architects think. Patt introduces each entry with a hand-drawn letter, and accompanies the text with illustrations that illuminate the concept discussed: a fallen Humpty Dumpty illustrates the perils of fragile egos; photographs of an X-Acto knife and other hand tools remind us of architecture's nondigital origins. How to Architect offers encouragement to aspiring architects but also mounts a defense of architecture as a profession—by calling out a defiant verb: architect!

The Little Architect's Alphabet

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ISBN 13 : 9781717112750
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis The Little Architect's Alphabet by : Lora Nicole Teagarden Aia

Download or read book The Little Architect's Alphabet written by Lora Nicole Teagarden Aia and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This alphabet book teaches concepts of architecture and design through materials, buildings, and shapes - all while learning your ABCs! Each letter is taught through a main lesson page and a secondary page where the child can see, learn, and find more of the letter being learned. Here's to all of the little future architects learning their letters and words!

The Architects Guide to Writing

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Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1864705728
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis The Architects Guide to Writing by : Bill Schmalz

Download or read book The Architects Guide to Writing written by Bill Schmalz and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a lot of good books available to help people write better. They include dictionaries, usage guides, and various types of writers’ manuals – and professional writers ought to have many of those books on their bookshelves. But most architects and other design and construction professionals are not professional writers. Instead, they are people who spend a large part of their professional lives writing. That’s a big difference, and that’s where this book will help. The Architect’s Guide to Writing has been written not by an English major, but by Bill Schmalz, an architect who knows the kinds of documents his fellow professionals routinely have to write, and understands the kinds of technical mistakes they often make in their writing. This book is designed to meet the specific needs of design and construction professionals. It’s not going to waste their time with the things that most educated professionals know, but it will help them with the things they don’t know or are unsure of. It’s not a Chicago Manual-sized encyclopaedic reference that includes everything any writer would ever need to know, because architects don’t need to know everything. But what they do need to know – and what they use every day in their professional lives – has been assembled in this book.

Letters to Architects

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to Architects by : Wright

Download or read book Letters to Architects written by Wright and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dear Architecture

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ISBN 13 : 9780990366447
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (664 download)

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Book Synopsis Dear Architecture by : Blank Space

Download or read book Dear Architecture written by Blank Space and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Architecture brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015.Dear Architecture is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world - the open letters challenge architects and designers to think deeply about the profession they are participating in.With a special cover designed by Irena Gajic, this book includes the three winning entries, and 12 honorable mentions to the competition, as well as a selection of additional noteworthy entries.

The Crystal Chain Letters

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Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262231213
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crystal Chain Letters by : Iain Boyd Whyte

Download or read book The Crystal Chain Letters written by Iain Boyd Whyte and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crystal Chain - "Die glaserne Kette" - was a utopian correspondence initiated by Bruno Taut in 1919-1920, in which a small group of like-minded architects and artists exchanged ideas on what form the architecture of the future should take. Unfettered by the demands of practicability, the members of the group described their visions of an ideal society and of a beneficent architecture in a series of dazzling, fantastic letters and drawings. Although the letters are referred to in almost every survey of twentieth century architecture, this is the first book to offer in English the complete texts of all the known Crystal Chain letters, including some which have never been published in German. The letters are accompanied by illustrations, an introductory essay, and explanatory notes. The Crystal Chain letters document the crisis of modernism that afflicted German architectural theory in the years immediately following the First World War. The trauma of the war and the subsequent social unrest led the radical architects to reject the materialism and positivism that had characterized the "Kaiserreich." The result was an ideological and aesthetic vacuum, and the search for suitable alternatives provided the basis for the correspondence. After a year of intense theoretical speculation, several of the links in the chain, including Bruno and Max Taut, Walter Gropius, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, and Hans Scharoun, emerged as leading advocates and practitioners of the new architecture in Germany. Iain Boyd Whyte is an English architectural historian. He is the author of several books including Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism, and the translator of Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG (MIT Press, 1984).

The Letters of Colin Rowe

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Publisher : Artifice Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781908967534
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis The Letters of Colin Rowe by : Rowe Colin

Download or read book The Letters of Colin Rowe written by Rowe Colin and published by Artifice Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a period of over half a century, from the early 1940s until his death in 1999, Colin Rowe wrote a multitude of letters to his parents in England and to friends Henry Russell Hitchcock and Ernst Gombrich; to colleagues Stanford Anderson, Robert Maxwell, Michael Spens, Alan Colquhoun, Alvin Boyarsky, John Miller; to architects Louis Kahn and Peter Eisenman; and most intimately and candidly, to his brother, sister-in-law, and nephews in Oxford, England.

Stories from Architecture

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543028
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories from Architecture by : Philippa Lewis

Download or read book Stories from Architecture written by Philippa Lewis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues. Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In Stories from Architecture, Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.

Our Days Are Like Full Years

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300223129
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Days Are Like Full Years by : Harriet Pattison

Download or read book Our Days Are Like Full Years written by Harriet Pattison and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year romance, with Pattison becoming the architect’s closest confidante, his intellectual partner, and the mother of his only son. Here for the first time, Pattison recounts their passionate and sometimes searing relationship. Married and twenty-seven years her senior, Kahn sent her scores of letters—many from far-flung places—until his untimely death. This book weaves together Pattison’s own story with letters, postcards, telegrams, drawings, and photographs that reveal Kahn’s inner life and his architectural thought process, including new insight into some of his greatest works, both built and unbuilt. What emerges is at once a poignant love story and a vivid portrait of a young woman striving to raise a family while forging an artistic path in the shadow of her famous partner.

Perfect Architect

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Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1847715117
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis Perfect Architect by : Jayne Joso

Download or read book Perfect Architect written by Jayne Joso and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia's husband Charles was an architect. Having discovered love letters after Charles' sudden death, Gaia is knocked back hard. She sets about organising a competition to design her perfect home, choosing the competitors from among her husband's former adversaries. The process gains her new friends and hard but rewarding lessons on the nature of erotic and artistic obsession.

Archibet

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Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780674117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis Archibet by : Federico Babina

Download or read book Archibet written by Federico Babina and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming collection of 26 detachable postcards features a card for each letter of the alphabet. Illustrated by architect and illustrator Federico Babina, each letter playfully resembles a building in the style of a famous architect. Covering names from Alvar Aalto to Zaha Hadid, this postcard book is perfect for sharing with or sending to architecturally minded friends.

Architecture for Teens

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Publisher : Rockridge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781647396725
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (967 download)

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Book Synopsis Architecture for Teens by : Danielle Willkens

Download or read book Architecture for Teens written by Danielle Willkens and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical introduction to architecture for aspiring teen architects Architecture is a fascinating, diverse field that blends technology, creativity, engineering, and even psychology. Discover the possibilities with this in-depth choice in architecture books for teens. Delve into the world of architecture, learn about recent innovations in sustainability and inclusivity, and uncover the details behind real architectural projects. Explore an overview of architectural movements and designers from prehistory to modern-day, and check out inspiring interviews with working professionals. With tons of practical advice for pursuing a career, you'll find out how you can become an architect and help build an environmentally responsible world from the ground up! Go beyond other architecture books for teens with: Architecture essentials--Get to know the five basic elements of architecture: structure, program, economics, aesthetics, and region. Creative career options--Learn what it means to work in residential or industrial architecture, specialize in historic preservation, create landscapes, innovate in urban planning, and more. Real-world examples--Go behind the scenes on real architectural projects with colorful illustrations, breakdowns of the design process, and thoughtful examinations of their impact. Learn all about the role of an architect with this comprehensive selection in architecture books for teens.

Writing for Design Professionals

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730265
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing for Design Professionals by : Stephen A. Kliment

Download or read book Writing for Design Professionals written by Stephen A. Kliment and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition—updated and expanded to address such issues as email etiquette and Web-based marketing, communication, and job searches—the best-selling Writing for Design Professionals is the standard guide for mastering the complexities of effective writing in professional practice. Stephen A. Kliment explains the principles of clear writing, from the formal “Dear Ms. Jones: I recently visited Polk Street Elementary School, and I agree the facility urgently needs to be modernized to make way for the progressive teaching techniques you have planned for your school district.... I believe that my firm, Izumi Associates, can make this happen” to the punchy remarks of the late William Caudill, “Say ‘frog,’ we’ll jump.” Dozens of sample letters, proposals, brochures, reports, book reviews, oral presentations, staff communications, and more—all drawn from the world of practice, and in both print and electronic formats—guide readers through the ins and outs of composing the end-products of writing. Writing for Design Professionals is organized for easy reference, and includes the following topics:• marketing: Web sites, correspondence, brochures and portfolios, proposals, newsletters, and other promotional tools• project writing• writing in school• job applications and Web-based job boards• writing in academe• writing for the media• writing as a career• public speaking plus: how to avoid jargon and gender-specific language, tailor your writing to your audience, enhance your writing with appropriate graphics, write to international clients, write as a product manufacturer, and measure the impact of what you write. Resources include lists of design media.Like a trustworthy desk-side consultant, Writing for Design Professionals, Second Edition, should be next to the computer of every architect, planner, interior designer, engineer, and student who wishes to present a polished, professional image through effective written communication.

Letters of an Architect, from France, Italy, and Greece

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters of an Architect, from France, Italy, and Greece by : Joseph Woods

Download or read book Letters of an Architect, from France, Italy, and Greece written by Joseph Woods and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: