Architects are rarely invited into the theological debate the way scientists often and artists sometimes are, this despite the obvious analogies between design and Design. Even when they are designing places of worship, the shape of their own faith is given no special place, nor the theological implications of what they are doing regardless of faith. (Indeed, mention "architecture" and "religion" or "God" in the same sentence, and the mind automatically flips to churchs and synagogues, and then to fifty cliche forms.) The idea behind this volume was to blaze a new trail in thinking rationally about religion, theology, and everyday life. It opens, new avenues of debate and discussion about the meaning of religious faith in the 21st century. For not only architects, of course, but also film-makers, writers, composers, painters, scientists, institution-builders, and inventors create-design-with similar if not the same ethical constraints and incentives. The desire of everyman to be creatively involved in life is, we submit, an essentially religious desire. Understanding why and how this is so through architecture might make this clearer to all, and more realizable.

CENTER, Volume 15: Divinity, Creativity, Complexity

Michael Benedikt

Thomas Fisher

William S. Saunders

Stanley Tigerman

Michael Ruse

Charles Jencks

John F. Haught

Richard Becherer

Tom Spector

William C. Richards

Sheryl Tucker de Vasquez

Jin Baek

Alvaro Malo

Center for American Architecture and Design

Designing To Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design

Routledge

In Pennies to Billions, You will learn the following: - The 14 Top Wealth Methods for Generating Wealth - The 4 Stages of Wealth - A Leveraged Financial Plan to Achieve Any Level of Wealth You desire - Personal Development Skills to Make You a Wealth Generating Machine Pennies to Billions covers it all. Real Estate, Investing, Starting Your Own Business to Buying &amp; Selling Businesses. Every major way to generate wealth is covered within this book. You will learn how "Peter" a fictitious character goes through each of the 4 Stages of Wealth, using the 14 Wealth Methods. This example will show you that its more then possible for You to generate unlimited wealth. More importantly you can decide on how you want to create your own Leveraged Financial Plan using the concepts and knowledge in this book!

Pennies to Billions: How to Go from Broke to Billionaire Step by Step

Business & Money

Personal Finance

Outskirts Pr

Winner of the 2004 AIA Firm of the Year Award, Lake/Flato has been designing practical buildings since 1984. These are buildings whose ingenuity and craftsmanship merge tradition with new technologies. Their work seeks a modern vernacular yet builds upon the traditions of regional architecture by adapting local materials and craft to build well-sited structures that recognize the need for comfort and a strong connection to nature.
As William Turnbull wrote in his foreword for Lake/Flato?s 1996 monograph, "nothing sensual or exotic, no visual fireworks of fashion, just architecture that intrigues the mind, delights the soul, and refreshes the eye with its elegant detail and simplicity".

Lake/Flato: Buildings & Landscapes

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Rockport Publishers

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism--or "public-interest architecture"--that might function akin to public-interest law or medicine by expanding architecture's all too often elite client base. With 30 essays by practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and members of other fields, this volume presents recent work from around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can address issues of social justice.

Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

Bryan Bell

Katie Wakeford

Steve Badanes

Roberta Feldman

Sergio Palleroni

Katie Swenson

Metropolis Books

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, is one of most innovative architectural offi ces in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their integrated design process embodying collaboration with experts, clients and future users as well as the diversity of their aesthetically refined and finely detailed designs. The work ranges from cultural institutions such as the Toronto International Film Festival and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis to ecologically innovative concepts such as Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnipeg, developed with leading climate engineers Transsolar of Stuttgart. A respectful approach toward the integration of heritage buildings is also a characteristic feature, illustrated by the designs for the Royal Conservatory and the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Finally, educational and research facilities are also a strong focus in KPMB’s work exemplified by the Centre for Innovation and Governance Campus in Waterloo, Ontario, and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management in Toronto, as well as future projects for the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and Princeton University in the United States.

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Mark Kingwell

George Baird

Mirko Zardini

Birkhauser

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