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Xanadu 2012: Favorite Books |
Category: Articles 2 comments 12 Feb 2006 @ 22:29 by swanny : Supplemental* Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous, Simon Keynes * Art of Natural Building by Joseph F. Kennedy, Michael Smith, Catherine Wanek * Crusoe of Lonesome Lake by Leland Stowe * Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy (Writing Architecture) by Guillén Fernández, Gina Cariño * Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin * Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia by Iain Thomson * How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand * MAGIC OF FINDHORN by Paul Hawken * Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins * Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake by John Edwards, Ed Gould, Stan Edwards, Ralph A. Edwards * Simply Sane: The Spirituality of Mental Health by Gerald May * The Canadian Encyclopedia : Year 2000 Edition by James H. Marsh * The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer by Stewart Brand * The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-exupéry, Richard Howard * The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird * The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling by Daniel D., Ph.d. Chiras * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig 22 Feb 2006 @ 15:48 by rayon : As promised: The Moderns – useful and or prized (Classical by request only) The Story of Architecture, Patrick Nuttgens - excellent reference book and commentary Rethinking Architecture – a reader in theory, Neil Leach - excellent collection of extracts from chief sources (all theorists should be made to qualify as architects before theorising, forming opinions without designing - anyone with a notion of an aesthetic in building which they can articulate does a valid comment) theorists can and do delineate the Genre, easing a broad point of consential reference Lotus 99 – Quarterly Architectural Review, Milan – contents incl. - Future of the Tectonic Form; Beyond Technique, Renzo Piano: Tectonic Masks, Steven Holl etc; Shed over Bridge, Santiago Calatrava; Domes,Toyo Ito; Robert le Ricolais, the Search for the Indestructable Idea (reason for acquisition) re work of M Mimram below. Le Corbusier Architect of the Century, Arts Council of G Britain, incl Tim Benton, biography of works The Modulor 1 & 2, Le Corbusier Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier, Dover Books Paris d’Engineurs, Bertrand Lemoine & Marc Mimram (Eng/arch), Editions du Pavillion de l’Arsenal Peter Cook 61-89, AU 89/12 Extra Edition Serge Chermayeff, Designer Architect Teacher (of the early modern movement), Alan Powers Paris Objet Trouve, Herbert Ypma, Thames and Hudson Architecture 2000 & Beyond, Charles Jencks, updating his previous thoughts of ‘60’s not completely true but amusing The End of Architecture, a round table discussion, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Ms Miralles, and others (architects, not theorists) Other entries in Articles 23 Aug 2022 @ 09:55: Gravity battery ref 23 Aug 2022 @ 09:53: Gravity battery ???. 2 May 2022 @ 06:45: How to Get Quality Dofollow Backlinks 23 Nov 2021 @ 18:26: What is Linkbuilding 25 Jun 2021 @ 15:37: Longitude at sea? 24 Aug 2020 @ 12:42: Climate and ocean 24 Aug 2020 @ 12:37: Climate update Aug 2020 15 Mar 2020 @ 19:11: Hang in.. 29 Jul 2019 @ 16:12: Onward 28 Feb 2019 @ 14:41: Solar Neighborhood pic
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