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Welcome to Introducing Autodesk® Maya® 2016 and the world of
computer-generated imagery (CGI). Whether you’re new to 3D graphics or
venturing into Autodesk’s powerhouse animation software from another 3D
application, you’ll find this book…

Evolution and education, like nature and nurture, have often been put into oppo- sition. Here, our aim is to bring them together. The brain has evolved to educate and to be educated, often instinctively and effortlessly. The brain is the machine that…

why postmodernism, yet again? Is it not either too late or too early,too academic or too obvious, to return to that moment when architecture was taken up by so many thinkers for its evidentiary status, as marking
a momentous interruption, or at…

Well below freezing the air inside the plane turns breath
to fog and windows to ice. Heat from a hand pressed
against the glass makes a patch of window transparent
long enough for a glimpse of the snow-blown expanse of
rock three hundred metres…

I WOULD LIKE to thank the following people who in innumerable ways have made this book possible. First, to all of the brilliant contributors without whom this book would not be what it is, Margaret Janik for being my mirror, Stephen Perrella for his…

It is admittedly a bold venture to take on Vitruvius. More than twenty centuries have elapsed since he wrote. The language he wrote in is long dead. Iconic classical status has petrified De architectura and added further to its remoteness. If I have…

This handbook has been produced through ICCROM and the Getty Conservation
Institute (GCl) to provide information on conserving historic buildings, monuments, and
archaeological sites in earthquake-prone areas. It is recognized that such a handbook…

Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds between individuals have become weakened or transformed, and cities have increasingly become agglomerations of atomized individuals, public open spaces have also…

A design wall is simply a vertical space
where you can compose quilts. Why vertical?
Because you are making an art quilt that
will be hung, and therefore seen, vertically
when it is finished. Thus, it is important that
when you make decisions…

The Hill Country Galleria is a mixed-use lifestyle centre on the
edge of Austin
.
The client commissioned RTKL for graphics
and signage that would be straightforward and utilitarian
and provide much-needed navigation. The design team saw
an…