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No
person can have devoted
much time
and pains to the
in-
vestigation of Christian
architecture, as it
was practised in
this country
during
the Middle Ages, without feeling
the im-
portance of acquiring an
accurate
knowledge of…

Architecture is born out of the shrewd alignment of
concept and matter. The product of what Louis Kahn
termed “the measurable and the unmeasurable,” architecture
is
the fulfillment
of a spatial
premise
by
way
of
material
substance.
…

1. Political economy or economics is a study of mankind in
the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of
individual and social action which is most closely connected with
the attainment and with the use of the material requisites…

Japanese cinema is deceptively familiar to most of us. We know some of the
outstanding directors and actors, at least those who have become popular in
the West. Many of us have marveled at the technical prowess of one or more
anime. We, as…

This book is devoted to the parametric statistical distributions of economic size
phenomena of various types—a subject that has been explored in both statistical and
economic literature for over 100 years since the publication of V. Pareto’s…

Learning is fundamentally about change – persistent change in a person’s abilities, attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, mental models, and skills. In the past, technology to support learning has been touted as offering many opportunities for dramatic…

Ah, acknowledgments. While all the glory of writing a book is consumed by the authors, it
takes so many more people than just us to actually make this happen. Just like building
design, the process of writing and publishing a book is truly a team…

With these words regarding Marina City—a pioneering mixed-use complex on
the north bank of the Chicago River—the influential British architecture critic
Reyner Banham envisioned a new heroic period of Chicago’s architecture.
This book…