Stories
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Titans in the landscape
Catalogue
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Architecture hydraulique, ou l'art de conduire, d'elever et de menager les eaux pour les différens besoins de la vie ... / Par M. Belidor.
Belidor, M. (Bernard Forest de), 1697?-1761.Date: 1737-1753- Books
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A treatise on civil architecture, In which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. By William Chambers, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, of the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris, and of the Society of Sciences in Stockholm, architect to the King, the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
The treasures of the Foundling Hospital / with a catalogue raisonné based on a draft catalogue by John Kerslake.
Nicolson, Benedict.Date: 1972- Books
Tactile pictures : pictorial representations for the blind, 1784-1940 / Yvonne Eriksson.
Eriksson, Yvonne.Date: 1998- Books
Places of the soul : architecture and environmental design as healing art / Christopher Day.
Day, Christopher, 1942-Date: 2014