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Book University of Virginia Arts Precinct Conceptual Design

Download or read book University of Virginia Arts Precinct Conceptual Design written by William Rawn Associates, Architects and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Rawn Associates Architects

Download or read book William Rawn Associates Architects written by William Rawn Associates Architects and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Rawn & Associates is committed to designing buildings, especially in the civic or public realm. The firm believes that successful architecture through active engagement of its civic context fosters the values of diversity, meritocracy and participation that are fundamental to the American democratic experience. The main focus of these master architects is the enhancement to community or student life through new or renovated architecture, particularly in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Some of their major projects include: · Center for Theater and Dance at Williams College · Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College · Alice Paul and David Kemp Residence Halls at Swarthmore College · Pritzker Science Center at Milton Academy · Temple Beth and Bason Chapel · Resorts of Carneros Inn in the tranquil spa residing in the beautiful Napa Valley · New multi-use residence hall for Berklee College of Music · New home for performing arts, health and wellness at The Winsor School · Fine and Performing Arts Center at Pittsburg State · The Cedar Rapids Federal Courthouse · W Boston Hotel William Rawn & Associates is renowned for transforming old to new, and combining the best of the contemporary with the finest of the traditional.

Book The Interaction of Walls and Spaces

Download or read book The Interaction of Walls and Spaces written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Virginia is currently constructing an Arts Studio building in the parking lot of their Architecture School. The University's original Jeffersonian foundation and its repeated imitation throughout history has told its citizens that this is what the architecture of the University must be, without actually questioning the reasons. Can we design new, exciting buildings that still belong on the campus without designing exactly as Jefferson did two-hundred years ago? This Thesis is my own design for UVA's Art Studio building. In this design I have used the interaction of walls and spaces to create an environment that leads a visitor through the many stages of an Art School. The visual and physical connections of the processes within the school are intended to inspire the artists within while living in the twenty-first century.

Book Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities

Download or read book Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities written by David J. Neuman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential information for the design of college and university facilities Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the planning process and successfully complete the design of college and university buildings, large or small, on time and within budget. Award-winning architect and planner David J. Neuman and a roster of industry-leading contributors share their firsthand knowledge to guide you through all aspects of planning higher education facilities, including learning centers, academic buildings and professional schools, scientific research facilities, housing, athletics and recreation facilities, social and support facilities, and cultural centers. The book combines up-to-date coverage of essential issues related to campus planning, programming, and building design guidelines with detailed project examples. This new edition offers: Numerous photographs, diagrams, plans, and sections Updated project examples, including several buildings completed in the last decade Up-to-date coverage of sustainability and technology issues A new chapter on historic preservation, rehabilitation, and adaptive use of existing buildings New material on the influence of interdepartmental collaboration and renewed communication on the built environment for campuses This conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluable guide for busy, dedicated professionals who want to get educated quickly as they embark on a new project. Like every Building Type Basics book, it provides authoritative, up-to-date information instantly and saves professionals countless hours of research.

Book Inside UVA

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Inside UVA written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagery

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  • Author : Bob Nugent
  • Publisher : Board and Bench Publishing
  • Release : 2007-10-01
  • ISBN : 1891267922
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Imagery written by Bob Nugent and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985, winemaker Joe Benziger and Sonoma artist Bob Nugent struck on the idea of putting original art on special releases of Imagery Estate wines. The goal was straight-forward: commission the world's modern art luminaries to create works for reproduction onto wine labels. Two decades and 160 labels later, they have assembled a staggering collection of contemporary art, from the likes of Sol Lewitt, Terry Winters, Nancy Graves, John Baldessari, Judy Pfaff, and Bob Arneson. This book highlights 133 works of art, the best of the Imagery collection. The images are big and lush, and accompanied by biographical sketches of the artists' careers, as well as a short description of their individual ideas and methods. The pictorial index shows the works in their label-form, from 1985 to the most recent vintages. These images are evocations of wine's multi-faceted ability to inspire us.

Book Theater Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : George C. Izenour
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300067755
  • Pages : 697 pages

Download or read book Theater Design written by George C. Izenour and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a comprehensive reference to all aspects of theatre planning and construction and a history of theatre design from ancient times to the present. Drawing on examples from Greek and Roman models to Renaissance and baroque theatres to contemporary buildings around the world, it discusses such requirements as structural systems, seating, acoustics and visual volume in detail, considering the optimum conditions for both musical and dramatic performance. This edition includes, as an appendix, a new set of drawings, in addition to the original 900 illustrations.

Book Modulus

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  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Modulus written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

Download or read book Annual Report written by National Endowment for the Arts and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.

Book Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design

Download or read book Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design written by Professor Geoffrey Broadbent and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-09-06 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions.

Book New Pencil Points

Download or read book New Pencil Points written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speculative Everything

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  • Author : Anthony Dunne
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2013-12-06
  • ISBN : 0262019841
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Speculative Everything written by Anthony Dunne and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.

Book Peter Pran

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  • Author : Peter C. Pran
  • Publisher : Papadakis Publisher
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 1901092089
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Peter Pran written by Peter C. Pran and published by Papadakis Publisher. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architecture of Additions

Download or read book The Architecture of Additions written by Paul Spencer Byard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, the author poses the question "Why save architecture?", and offers a critical foundation for the preservation and the management of change.

Book Landscape Architecture

Download or read book Landscape Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building for the Arts

Download or read book Building for the Arts written by Peter Frumkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers for the visual and performing arts. Among the projects that emerged from the boom were many brilliant successes. Others, like the striking addition of the Quadracci Pavilion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, brought international renown but also tens of millions of dollars of off-budget debt while offering scarce additional benefit to the arts and embodying the cultural sector’s worst fears that the arts themselves were being displaced by the big, status-driven architecture projects built to contain them. With Building for the Arts, Peter Frumkin and Ana Kolendo explore how artistic vision, funding partnerships, and institutional culture work together—or fail to—throughout the process of major cultural construction projects. Drawing on detailed case studies and in-depth interviews at museums and other cultural institutions varying in size and funding arrangements, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Atlanta Opera, and AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Frumkin and Kolendo analyze the decision-making considerations and challenges and identify four factors whose alignment characterizes the most successful and sustainable of the projects discussed: institutional requirements, capacity of the institution to manage the project while maintaining ongoing operations, community interest and support, and sufficient sources of funding. How and whether these factors are strategically aligned in the design and execution of a building initiative, the authors argue, can lead an organization to either thrive or fail. The book closes with an analysis of specific tactics that can enhance the chances of a project’s success. A practical guide grounded in the latest scholarship on nonprofit strategy and governance, Building for the Arts will be an invaluable resource for professional arts staff and management, trustees of arts organizations, development professionals, and donors, as well as those who study and seek to understand them.