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Kohn Pedersen Fox: External Forces Shape Multiform Towers by ANDERSON, GRACE

The development of Shape / by Rowland, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The forces which shape materials -- Modern materials -- need modern shapes -- Shapes with a purpose -- Honest shapes express their function -- The surface of form: pattern and colour -- A tool and a building: two efficient shapes.…”

Structure: the essence of architecture / by Wilson, Forrest

Table of Contents: “…Preface - Structure - Space - Man in space - Space communication - Structured man - Size in no accident - Structure - Optimization - Forces - Balance - Frustrating flexure - Columns and beams - Curves of compression - Vaults and domes - Encircled man - The jokers - Modern architecture - Walls - Trusses and space frames - Rigid frames - Slabs - prestressing -- Shells - Cables - Membrane structures - Breaking out of the box - The counter culture - The sense of structure - Process-systems - Conclusion…”

Urban economics by O'Sullivan, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and axioms of urban economics -- Part I: Market forces in the development of cities -- Why do cities exist? …”

When Democracy Builds / by Lloyd Wright, Frank

Table of Contents: “…The shadow-of-the-wall -- Democracy: the gospel of individuality -- Our present social and economic disease -- The basis of the present city: a makeshift -- The victim of the battle of the increments -- This nation as an experiment -- The case for the individual -- The law of change -- The illusion -- The forces tearing the vortex down -- The exodus -- Descentralization and the new scale of spacing -- When machinery goes to work for the citizen, mobility enables us to go where we want to go -- What thought is urge to action? …”

L'Object Créé par L'Homme / by Kepes, Gyorgy

Table of Contents: “…Erikson -- Élements fondamentaux de la fabrication des objects au Japon / Kazuhiko Egawa -- La rencontre: l'homme et l'object fabriqué par l'homme implications architecturales -- Les vieux vetements de l'empereur / Marshall McLuhan -- D'un ensemble de forces à une forme / Christopher Alexander -- La forme, expression tangible d'une réalité / Leonardo Ricci -- Genèse du design / Mercel Breuer -- Rietveld et l'object créé par l'homme. …”

Sustainable urban services 2001-2003 programme. First synthesis

Sustainable urban services