Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in ...
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Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.
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Very Good++ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with a couple of tiny edge-tears to the top of the spine area of the jacket, otherwise jacket is clean and intact, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light wear to the boards with "sharp" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 3.5 lbs; White dust jacket with title in gray lettering; 2011, Lars M√ šller Publishing; 480 pages; "Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain, " by Stan Allen & Marc McQuade.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket has a couple of closed edge-tears to the back top edge, otherwise is clean and glossy, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light overall wear to the boards with one slightly "bumped" edge-corner; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 3.5 lbs; White dust jacket with title in gray lettering; 2011, Lars M√ šller Publishing; 480 pages; "Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain, " by Stan Allen & Marc McQuade.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. A small closed tear on the top of the DJ (now protected with BroDart)-else a fine copy of this. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade. Essays by Allen, Reyner Banham, Kenneth Frampton, David Gissen and Michael Jacob. Illustrated profusely in color and black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 479 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.