Engineering

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  1. Book ImageUrgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World

    Bridgette Meinhold

    Disaster-proof, environmentally friendly housing solutions for a changing climate.More

  2. Book ImageHotel Design, Planning, and Development

    Richard H. Penner, Lawrence Adams, Stephani K A Robson

    Second Edition

    A fully revised edition of the book architects and developers consider the bible of hotel design.More

  3. Book ImageHospital and Healthcare Facility Design

    Richard L. Miller, Earl S. Swensson, J. Todd Robinson

    Third Edition

    An updated version of a work that has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art in creating healing environments.More

  4. Book ImageLight Color Sound: Sensory Effects in Contemporary Architecture

    Alejandro Bahamón, Ana María Álvarez

    Showcases an array of contemporary buildings that glitter, glow, and resound thanks to advanced technologies.More

  5. Book ImageDams

    Christine Macy

    A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States.More

  6. Book ImageHistorical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

    Donald Friedman

    Second Edition

    An updated edition of the classic text detailing the ins and outs of old building construction.More

  7. Book ImageTadelakt

    Michael Johannes Ochs

    The first comprehensive description of an old Moroccan plaster technique that creates unique, sensual, natural effects.More

  8. Book ImageCorporate Architecture: Building a Brand

    Alejandro Bahamón, Ana Cañizares, Antonio Corcuera

    How the fashion, banking, automotive, and telecommunications industries use architecture as a tool of marketing strategy.More

  9. Book ImagePublic Markets

    Helen Tangires

    An illustrated history of the buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace for fresh food.More

  10. Book ImageCorrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier

    Simon Holloway, Adam Mornement

    When Henry Palmer of the London Dock Company was granted the first patent for “indented or corrugated metallic sheets” in 1829, he little realized what he was starting.
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  11. Book ImageBridges

    Richard L. Cleary

    An account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved.More

  12. Book ImageLighthouses

    Sara E. Wermiel

    The fourth title in the Norton/Library of Congress series, this abundantly illustrated book conveys the romance and beauty of lighthouses and beacons while explaining the development of the forms, materials, architecture, and engineering of their structure: wood, masonry, cast-iron plate, on- and off-shore skeletal, caisson, and reinforced concrete.More

  13. Book ImageExhibition Design

    David Dernie

    A survey of the conceptual themes and practical concerns—display, lighting, color, sound, and graphics—of exhibition design.More

  14. Book ImageTheaters

    Craig Morrison

    The latest title in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Theaters offers a richly illustrated history of a revered cultural artifact and a technological challenge, following its progression from the eighteenth-century opera house to the modern movie multiplex.More

  15. Book ImageCanals

    Robert J. Kapsch

    A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.More

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