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   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Shanghai Alleyway House

   A Vanishing Urban Vernacular

   By Gregory Bracken

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sustainable Retrofit and Facilities Management

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   Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per cent reduction by 2050, when twenty-eight million buildings that currently exist will still be standing; this represents a challenge to improve...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Stadia

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5. Architecture Re-assembled

   The Use (and Abuse) of History

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   Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. François Blondel

   Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

   By Anthony Gerbino

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Architecture and Embodiment

   The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

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   In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge