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There are books that cover the nature of the sustainability problem. There are books that cover climate change from greenhouse gases. There are books about nature and ecosystems as models of sustainability. There are books about environ…

TRIMWORK IS PRACTICAL AN DECORATIVE. IT COVERS ROUGH EDGES AND SEAMS BETWEEN DIFFERENT MATERIALS, AND IT ADDS A DISTINCTIVE TOUCH THAT GIVES A HOME ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL AND CHARACTER

The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the…

Th ere is something that draws people to visit abandoned buildings;
the hulking ruins of the coliseum, the jungle-shrouded pyramids of
Yaxchilan, the shaded courtyards of the Alhambra all attract millions
of visitors willing to trek far, wait…

Every newspaper has its own style book, a set of rules telling
journalists whether to write e-mail or email, Gadaffi or Qaddafi ,
judgement or judgment. The Economist’s style book does this and a bit
more. It also warns writers of some common…

It would risk extreme hubris to start without acknowledging the vast body of preceding work by
others, which I’ve attempted to synthesize and organize
into this brief. Often, it is by people I have never met but
whose writings or designs. I have…

This manual began as a reader for a sequence of design drawing
courses offered by the Department of Architecture at the
University of Washington. Its subsequent development is
largely the result of the many discussions, suggestions,…