Stories
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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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The Key to Memory: Write it down
Nick Dent explores what the Library of the Human Genome can tell us about how and why we remember.
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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry
Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.
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Vivid nights, dream-filled days
Each night, intense and memorable dreams create another life for Katie da Cunha Lewin. Find out how her waking and dreaming selves have become enmeshed, allowing her powerful self-knowledge.
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The art of sound building, demonstrated in geometrical problems: shewing geometrical lines for all kinds of arches, niches, groins, and twisted rails, both regular and irregular With several other Draughts of Buildings and Staircases. All Curiously Engrav
Halfpenny, William- Pictures
Carpentry: timber framing, staircases, and roof joists. Engraving after A.M. Perrot.
Perrot, A. M. (Aristide Michel), 1793-1879.Reference: 501060i- Pictures
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Architecture: designs for helical (spiral) staircases with twisted iron reinforcing bars. Lithograph by Dunn & Wright.
Reference: 44351i- Archives and manuscripts
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Staircase as modernised, 1965
Date: 1965Reference: RET 1/8/3/2/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- E-books
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The art of sound building; demonstrated in geometrical problems, shewing geometrical lines for all kinds of arches, niches, groins, and twisted rails, both regular and irregular. With several other draughts of buildings and staircases all curiously engrav