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The emerald city and other essays on the architectural imagination / Daniel Willis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1568981740
  • 9781568981741
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 21
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 W525 1999
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Preface / Robert Harbison -- Introduction: Heavy, not dead -- Architecture as medicine -- The valor of iron : an introduction to the material imagination -- The weight of architecture -- The emerald city : a study of substance and place -- Active architecture from Christo to Christmas trees -- Vernacular architecture and the economics of dwelling -- Gendered words, neutered spaces, and the trouble with new urbanism -- The contradictions underlying the profession of architecture -- Seven strategies for making architecture in the twenty-first century -- The work of architecture in the age of efficient production -- The impact of the computer on architectural practice.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 720.1 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A255553B

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Robert Harbison -- Introduction: Heavy, not dead -- Architecture as medicine -- The valor of iron : an introduction to the material imagination -- The weight of architecture -- The emerald city : a study of substance and place -- Active architecture from Christo to Christmas trees -- Vernacular architecture and the economics of dwelling -- Gendered words, neutered spaces, and the trouble with new urbanism -- The contradictions underlying the profession of architecture -- Seven strategies for making architecture in the twenty-first century -- The work of architecture in the age of efficient production -- The impact of the computer on architectural practice.

Also issued online.

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