Titoli in Architettura

In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell - host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place - introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up.  

 Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone, built ingenious hoists and cranes to carry an estimated 70 million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction. 

Because of the way technology has impacted real estate sales, buyers and sellers have greater access to information and even the ability to direct the sales process. While knowing market information is helpful in real estate sales, most people still lack a key aspect: expertise. By presenting an inside view on sales, McLaughlin provides a guide for maximizing the value of the sale and purchase of homes.

At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis. 

As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people, primarily because the Dutch have built a cycling culture accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or economic means. Building the Cycling City examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing lessons from across the Atlantic. 

Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the 17th century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the 20th century's Great White Way. We learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness construction of the Ansonia Apartments, Trinity Church, and the Flatiron Building and the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum.

From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years.

This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past.

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris' world-famous Hôtel Ritz - a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity and of dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance.

When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli.

Author Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront. 

The green-building movement has produced hundreds of "how-to" books and websites that are filled with tips about green building and what homeowners should do to go green. While helpful and informative, when it comes to making actual purchasing and installation decisions, these books do not make it any easier for a homeowner to prioritize against a budget. Here, Melisssa Rappaport Schifman shares her knowledge and experience for others to use in their journey toward a greener way of living. 

A History of the Church Through Its Buildings takes the listener to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces where the story of the Church took shape. Buildings are about people, the people who conceived, designed, financed, and used them. Their stories become embedded in the very fabric itself, and as the fabric is changed through time in response to changing use, relationships, and beliefs, the architecture becomes the standing history of passing waves of humanity. 

An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall.

A great Ruskin book that is better listened to than read because of the complexity and detail of his writing.

История европейской интеграции началась не после 20 века нашей эры: это был лишь эпилог очень долгого процесса политического, религиозного и социокультурного...

Ce cinquième tome est l’atelier final où la théorie devient chantier: un guide précis du « travail de maçonnerie » et de l’« art de toiser » qui apprend à mesurer, estimer et organiser une opération de construction de bout en bout. Rondelet y montre comment passer de l’ouvrage projeté au prix juste, en détaillant mesures métriques vs. anciennes, conversions, unités pratiques, et toutes les composantes d’un devis: matériaux, déchets, taille, montage, mortier, faux-frais et bénéfice.

Voici le tome de la mise en œuvre: un parcours complet de la charpente et de la couverture, qui part des origines en bois jusqu’aux combles les plus savants, pour guider du choix des essences au tracé des fermes, des cintres et des toitures selon le climat et l’usage. On y apprend quand couper le bois, comment le sécher, quelles propriétés attendre du chêne, du sapin, du mélèze ou du cèdre, et pourquoi certaines pièces résistent mieux au feu, aux vers ou à l’eau en fondations sur pilotis.

Voici le tome qui transforme la théorie en ouvrage: un guide vivant et rigoureux de la construction en pierre de taille, des appareils antiques aux principes de stabilité, jusqu’à la taille précise des voussoirs et la pose des voûtes les plus exigeantes. On y traverse Égypte, Grèce, Rome et même Andes pour comparer appareillages, dimensions colossales et liaisons, puis l’auteur formalise les règles: centre de gravité, équilibre, assises, parpaings, crampons, et chaînes de bois selon Vitruve.

Voici le volume où l’Art de bâtir devient une science exacte: un cours limpide de statique appliquée, qui relie calcul, géométrie et expérience pour dimensionner fondations, murs, arcs, dômes et contreforts avec sûreté. Rondelet y clarifie la place de la théorie (de Vitruve aux modernes) et montre comment centres de gravité, leviers, plans inclinés, frottement et poussées conduisent à des choix de formes, d’épaisseurs et d’appareils réellement stables.