Country Builder's Assistant

Country Builder's Assistant
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1989-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1557091048

This book revolutionized 19th-century American architecture and changed forever the type of building that was done in our country.

The American Builder's Companion

The American Builder's Companion
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1969-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486222365

The New England architect's work which provides instructions and designs for houses and churches as well as interiors

The Architect

The Architect
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1844
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Architect : Or, Practical House Carpenter by Asher Benjamin, first published in 1843, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Builders of the Vision

Builders of the Vision
Author: Daniel Cardoso Llach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317755952

Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping digital design technologies since the first numerical control and CAD systems were developed under US Air Force research contracts at MIT between 1949 and 1970: the cybernetic theorization of design as a human-machine endeavor; the vision of computers as "perfect slaves" taking care of the drudgery of physical labor; the techno-social utopias of computers as vehicles of democracy and social change; the entrepreneurial urge towards design and construction integration; and the managerial ideologies enabling today’s transnational geographies of practice. Examining the contrasting, and often conflicting, sensibilities that converge into CAD and BIM discourses - globalism, utopianism, entrepreneurialism, and architects’ desires for aesthetic liberation - Builders of the Vision shows that software systems and numerically controlled machines are not merely "instruments," or "tools," but rather versatile metaphors reconfiguring conceptions of design, materiality, work, and what it means to be creative. Crucially, by revealing software systems as socio-technical infrastructures that mediate the production of our built environments, author Daniel Cardoso Llach builds a strong case for the fields of architecture, media, and science and technology studies to critically engage with both the politics and the poetics of technology in design. Builders of the Vision will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners across disciplines interested in the increasingly complex socio-technical systems that go into imagining and building of our artifacts, buildings, and cities.

Building

Building
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 912
Release: 1900
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The Practical Builder

The Practical Builder
Author: William Pain
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486320618

DIVThis 1774 guidebook was a do-it-yourself manual for those who could not afford an architect's services. Annotated, meticulously rendered engravings depict cross-sections of chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, and other architectural details.

The Rise of the Community Builders

The Rise of the Community Builders
Author: Marc A. Weiss
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587981524

This is a reprint of a 1987 book * It is to be hand scanned, so as not to destroy the text or cover, and returned to Beard Books. The book deals with the evolution of real estate development in the United States, focusing on the rise of planned communities common in the American suburbs since the 1940s.

Construction

Construction
Author: Ivan S. Macdonald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1913
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: