A unique and handsome book for novice and professional gardeners. The plans, with full commentary and plant lists, offer a wide range of designs easily adapted to one's own needs.
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• Introduction to the Virtual Village / Jerzy Wojtowicz
• The Modernist Collectives / K.C. Lye
• Digital Pinup Board -- The Story of the Virtual Village Project / Jerzy Wojtowicz, James N. Davidson and Takehiko Nagakura
• Kat Hing Wai and the Electronic Red Line / Davis van Bakergem
• Critical Reflections I / John Bradford
• Critical Reflections II / Renato Garcia
• Sharing the Dream / Colin Seow
• Aspects of Asynchronous and Distributed Design Collaboration / Jerzy Wojtowicz, Pegor Papazian, Josep Fargas, Nancy Cheng and James N. Davidson
• The Future of The Virtual Design Studio / William J. Mitchell
• Postscript: The Virtual Design Studio 1994 / Jerzy Wojtowicz, Nancy Cheng and Thomas Kvan
• Appendix I: Digital Dialogue
• Appendix II: Design Narratives
• Appendix III: Studio Bulletins
• Appendix IV: Studio Participants
• Appendix V: Image Credits.

This book establishes a new paradigm for CAD, expanding computer tools beyond the technical processes of computer-aided design to include the discussion and negotiation which are a necessary complement to developing design ideas, thus introducing the concept that design is fundamentally a social process.

• Introduction. Natural Lands: Special Places in Your Community
• Ch. 1. How This Handbook Can Help You
• Ch. 2. Conventional Layouts versus "Conservation Designs": Comparisons and Contrasts
• Ch. 3. Advantages of Conservation Design
• Ch. 4. Roles and Responsibilities of Various Parties
• Ch. 5. Steps Involved in Designing Conservation Subdivisions: A Straightforward Approach
• Ch. 6. Linking Conservation Lands in Future Subdivisions to Create an Interconnected Open Space Network: A Greener Vision
• Ch. 7. Creating Conservation Subdivision Designs on Seven Different Sites
• Ch. 8. Regulatory Improvements
• Ch. 9. Management Techniques for Conservation Lands
• Ch. 10. Toward a New Land Ethic in Your Community
• App. A. Summary of Conservation Statistics for the Seven Sites Described in Chapter 7
• App. B. Results of Citizens' Design Exercise at Poconos Workshop
• App. C. Detailed Houselot Designs at Higher Net Densities
• App. D. Sample House Designs for Compact Lots in Open Space Layouts
• App. E. Economic Benefits of Open Space upon Real Estate
• App. F. Sample of Real Estate Ads Mentioning Proximity of Homes to Greenways
• App. G. Sample of Newspaper Articles Related to Conservation Design Issues
• App. H. Model Ordinance Provisions.

In most communities, land use regulations are based on a limited model that allows for only one end result: the production of more and more suburbia, composed of endless subdivisions and shopping centers, that ultimately covers every bit of countryside with "improvements." Fortunately, sensible alternatives to this approach do exist, and methods of developing land while at the same time conserving natural areas are available. In Conservation Design for Subdivisions, Randall G. Arendt explores better ways of designing new residential developments than we have typically seen in our communities. He presents a practical handbook for residential developers, site designers, local officials, and landowners that explains how to implement new ideas about land-use planning and environmental protection. Abundantly illustrated with site plans (many of them in color), floor plans, photographs, and renditions of houses and landscapes, it describes a series of simple and straightforward techniques that allows for land-conserving development. The author proposes a step-by-step approach to conserving natural areas by rearranging density on each development parcel as it is being planned so that only half (or less) of the buildable land is turned into houselots and streets. Homes are built in a less land-consumptive manner that allows the balance of property to be permanently protected and added to an interconnected network of green spaces and green corridors. Included in the volume are model zoning and subdivision ordinance provisions that can help citizens and local officials implement these innovative design ideas.
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• Foreword / William Seale
• Prelude
• No blueprint for the new nation, 1789-1851
• The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865
• Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874
• The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894
• The Tarsney Act, its passage and postponement in implementation, 1893-1896
• Proponents of "Academic Classicism, " 1895-1925
• The public buildings program in eras of affluence and depression, 1926-1939
• Epilogue: 1940.

This unique and carefully researched study traces the evolution and accomplishments of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States - the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge granite pile of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such "restorations" as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerable efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.
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• After the fall
• What remains
• First response
• The center cannot hold
• A plan for downtown
• Six months
• Thinking inside the box
• Crossing the site
• The dimensions of aura
• A memorial
• The world peace dome
• Herbert's list
• The lotus
• Security
• A brief reconstruction
• Who decides?
• And then there were two
• In the end the void
• Back to zero.

Architect and social critic Michael Sorkin develops his own vision of the future lower Manhattan through a series of chronologically organized essays illustrated with full-color images of his own plans. Mixing his inimitable brand of social criticism with more personal reflections, Starting From Zero offers a striving challenge to the Ground Zero redevelopment plan recently chosen by New York's establishment insiders.
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• Introduction
• 1. The Evolution of the Workplace
• 2. Workplace Evaluation
• 3. Space Environment Models
• 4. Creating a Methodology
• 5. Implementation Strategy
• 6. Costing Strategies
• 7. Design and the Distributed Workplace.
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The Distributed Workplace provides in one volume essential information on sustainable work environments which will be invaluable to those developing workplace strategies for end-user organizations as well as suppliers of office buildings, information and communications technologies and building operation services. Municipal authorities and other organizations concerned with sustainable development and sustainable workplaces will also benefit from this book.
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• Chapter 1 - Talking and Listening to Children,
• Chapter 2 - Designing for Play,
• Chapter 3 - Place Making and Change in Learning Environments,
• Chapter 4 - The Building as Third Teacher,
• Chapter 5 - The Classroom is a Microcosm of the World,
• Chapter 6 - Designing the Classroom of the Future,
• Chapter 7 - The Schools We'd Like,
• Chapter 8 - The Electronic Landscape- Mark Dudek,
• Chapter 9 - Children in the Public Domain ,
• Chapter 10 - Razor Blades and Teddy Bears,
• Chapter 11 - The Sustainable Schoolyard,
• Chapter 12 - The Edible Landscape of School.
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This collection of essays is concerned with the experiences children have within the supervised worlds they inhabit, as well as with architecture and landscape architecture. International examples of innovative childcare practice are illustrated together with the design processes which informed their development. The emphasis here is on new and experimental childcare projects which set-out to reassert the rights of children to participate in a complex multi-faceted world, which is no longer available to them, unless under adult supervision. Research supports in depth recommendations regarding the ideal children's environment, across a range of contexts and dimensions. Until recent times, the needs of children within the urban environment were largely ignored. There is little tradition and no broadly agreed contemporary architectural or landscape theory as to how children should be provided for, beyond a limited functional agenda. There is a sense that architecture for childhood is not taken seriously; it is either whimsical and ephemeral or largely designed for adults, an adjunct to the more important business of adult needs and aspirations. Yet children access much of their education and development through play and social interaction with their childhood counterparts. The spaces in and around children"s daycare centres, schools, supervised parks and other dedicated children"s environments are the subject of this collection. As more and more purpose designed buildings and gardens for children are opened, the need to listen to children and their carers is becoming more aparant. Mark Dudek gathers together a number of internationally recognized experts in the field of childcare environments to write about different aspects of the landscape. They have been chosen in particular because of their background in enquiring, research orientated work, both theoretical and practical. They listen to and watch children. Contributors have considered the child"s environment as one which is secure and controlled yet offers additional environmental dimensions which extend developmental possibilities. Children often spend a great deal of time in daycare facilties and schools, as parents are absorbed in their own work and leisure activities. This places an emphasis on architects and planners to consider the needs of children in great detail. As such, the children"s environment must be conceived of as a rich, complex place; a "world within a world". We use the word LANDSCAPE in recognition that children do not differentiate between the inside and the outside, private and public; every part of their perception is open to stimulation by a stimulating environment.
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• Foreword Introduction Systematical presentation of different types by means of 50 projects
• Appendix: bibliography illustration credits.
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To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. A deeper understanding of the underlying types is indispensable for the success of the individual design, as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide variety of situations. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure. The first volume deals with the various types of the courtyard house, which utilizes the courtyard as an intimate outdoor living space. A presentation of the courtyard as a building block of the city is followed by coverage of the complete spectrum of types - cluster, network, carpet, terraces, etc. The second volume is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principle - the row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling corners - is followed by the systematic presentation of the different types. Within each type, variants are distinguished according to how they organize space, their number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans newly drawn to scale.
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• Foreword; From stone-age palaver to modern conferences; How space planning reflects internal structures; Evolution through communication: globalization and economic dynamics; Life-long learning: from an information society to a "learning society"; Structural change and new work environments: from an office factory to a centre of communication and cooperation; Sustainable architecture for office buildings: balance between economic requirements, social focus and environmental responsibility; Basic theses for planning conference and communication environments; Planning factors.

• Integrated areas for communication and cooperationChance encounters; Classic conference and meeting environments; Classic conference environments
• between prestige and functionality; From a conference room to a dynamic multimedia conference; At a glance: planning & specifying examples from meeting environments to a workshop for a dynamic multimedia conference; Meeting room for 8 persons; Meeting room for 8-10 persons; Seating in meeting environments; Single tables in meeting environments; Storage space in meeting environments; Conference room for 12 persons; Conference room for 12-16 persons.

• Conference room for 18-22 personsConference room for presentations and videoconferencing; Videoconferences; Variable videoconference; Conference room for 32 persons; Conference room with a table configuration for 45 persons; Table configurations in the conference room; Customized conference table configurations; Chairs in conference environments; Partitionable conference room with integrated media technology for 22 persons; Conference room with variable table configuration for 16 and 24 persons; Variable table configurations; Variable multimedia conference room: for 36 persons.

• ... And partitioned for 20 and 24 personsPartitionable conference room with static and mobile furniture; Dynamic multimedia conference workshop; Media technology in the conference room; solutions ranging from integrated to variable; Mobile media for visual presentation in conference and meeting environments; Training and seminar; Environments for a "learning organization"; At a glance: seminar rooms with variable and mobile interiors; At a glance: seminar rooms with flexible interior and integrated media technology.

• Seminar room with variable interior, integrated media technology and partition ... Utilization as a conference room or for training with scope for discussion; ... Utilization as a lecture room; . Utilization of partitioned rooms for conferences, presentations, training with interaction and instruction; Variable table systems for seminar and training environments; Multi-purpose room with mobile furniture and partition; ... Utilization for a conference group and training course with discussion; ... Utilization of partitioned rooms for training courses, lectures and conferences.

Englich und Remmers bieten eine umfassende, analytische und gleichzeitig programmatische Darstellung der Face-to-Face-Kommunikation in der Arbeitswelt.