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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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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue of ancient and modern books, prints, & books of prints, for the year 1791. The Books in general are in good Condition, many of them the best Editions, and in various elegant Bindings' amongst many others equally scarce and curious are the following valuable Articles: -. s. d. Miller's Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vol. col. - - 18 18 0 Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 60 No. in 5 vol. col. - - 14 0 0 Fifty Plans of Cities, by Faden and others, col. - - 10 0 0 De L'isle's Atlas, eighty-four Maps, 2 vol. col. - 8 0 0 Camden's Britannia, by Mr. Gough, 3 vol. - - 10 18 0 Chambers's Dict. of Arts and Sciences, by Rees, 5 vol. 12 12 0 Journals of the House of Commons, 40 vol - - 9 9 0 Herbarium. Blackwellianum cura Trew, 3 v. tab. depict. 15 15 0 Montfaucon L'antiquite Expliquee, 15 tom. - - - 14 14 0 Grosse's Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 vol. Cook's Voyages round the Worls, 9 vol. - - - 18 6 0 Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, 7 vol. col. - - - 8 18 6 Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, 16 Numbers - 10 13 0 -. s. d. Encyclopedic Methodique, 20 Livraisons in 66 tom. 25 0 0 Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, 11 vol. - - 13 13 0 Archaeologia, Tracts relating to Antiquity, 9 vol. - - 9 9 0 Bp. Warburton's Works 7 v. 6 6 0 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 11 vol. - - - - - 14 14 0 Dow's Hindostan, 3 vol. - 4 14 6 Schreber Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, 2 tom. col. 6 6 0 Annual Register, with a General Index, 31 vol. - - 10 10 0 Monthly Review, from 1749 to the End of 1739, 83 vol. 25 0 0 Gentleman's Magazine, from 1731 to 1789, 62 vol. - 18 18 0 Statutes at Large, by Picketing, 36 vol. - - - - 14 0 0 Oeuvres de Voltaire, 27 tom. 5 15 6 Johnson's Works of the English Poets, 75 vol. - - 13 15 0 Bell's Poets of Great Britain, 109 vol. in 51 - - - 10 10 0 Bell's Shakespeare, 20 vol. 5 10 0 Which will begin to be sold extremely Cheap, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Tuesday the 7th of December, 1790. By J. Todd, bookseller, stationer, and print-seller, In Stonegate, york. - The full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books: Also Books exchanged and Libraries catalogued. Catalogues, Price 6d. may be had of Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Paternoster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1790]- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their ramp and twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the newest Taste. With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or, the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions, both Theoretical and Practical; and a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety and Beauty. Also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and found Reason: Likewise A New Criterion, or Universal Estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate to the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wherever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Job; and practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Kinds of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, A treatise of arithmetick, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. The second edition, corrected, with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases. By Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: 1776