BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design

Cooperation: The Engineer and the Architect

Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design

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During July and August, you may notice changes as we install new carpet and paint upstairs. This first phase of the LADC's renovation is scheduled from July 9 to August 24 (but we hope to finish by August 16th).

The process will involve moving books onto temporary shelving located on the ground floor and in the CADC Gallery, before the work of carpet installation and painting is to be completed on the 2^nd floor from July 16 to August 3. The assembly of temporary shelving is under way, and the shifting of books from upstairs began this week (see photos below).

We plan to have all of the books assembled in call number order on the temporary shelves (and the shelves marked with call number signs) by next week. Although the stacks will be marked, they might be difficult to navigate, so we will be happy to help you find anything you need. LADC staff and student employees will also be able to retrieve books on demand during the move.

Temporary shelving for the theses being assembled.

The shifting begins! Theses are being consolidated to make room for more temporary shelving.

The temporary location of the theses.

Two temporary stacks assembled on the ground floor for books from upstairs.

Empty shelving upstairs. The books are being shifted to the ground floor to prepare for new carpet upstairs!

Temporary location of books A 1 - NA 1011.

Books the LADC received in June 2012 included:

The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture

The Cultural Role of Architecture

Garden Cities

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 Eco-Urban Design

For the Love of Cities

 Density is Home

International Mechanical Code (2012)

Accidental Design

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Click on the title to link to the item's information in the Catalog.

 The Designed World

 The Modernist

J.B. Fischer von Erlach: Architecture as Theater in the Baroque Era

Eric Mendelsohn's Park Synagague: Architecture and Community

Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe, 1470-1540

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The LADC has recently subscribed to Log, a journal of architecture and urbanism [Link to catalog record]. Log was founded in 2003 and continues to be published three times a year by Anyone Corporation for the purpose of advancing knowledge & understanding of architecture and and the contemporary city.

The current issue, number 24, is titled Architecture Criticism, and includes essays by scholars such as Jeffrey Kipnis, Anthony Vidler, Charles Jencks, and Sylvia Lavin [click on the names to view books at AU Libraries from these authors]. Articles in this issue treat topics such as Piplotti Rist's installation at the Wexner Center, Reiser + Umemoto's 0-14 tower, Colin Rowe's review of La Tourette, contextual counterpoint in recent work of Herzog & de Meuron and Edouard François, and Lacaton & Vassal's transformation of Bois-le-Pretre tower in Paris, among others.

Log is located on the current periodicals shelving at the LADC.

The LADC has subscribed to Uppercase Magazine, "a magazine for the creative and curious."

   <-- Received issues No. 12 and 13.

Articles in Uppercase feature all sorts of amateur and professional artists and their work, play, products, projects or creations. The carefully crafted pages will appeal to visual types and to those involved in creative pursuits; and the experience of the magazine (the feel of the heavy paper, the pictures and layouts) is reminiscent of a scrapbook,  a sketchpad, or even a diary. Take a look at this publication at their blog or website, or just come flip through the magazine at the LADC! Uppercase is located on our Current Periodicals shelf.

We've had a lot of new books arrive this month! Here's a list of the titles:

 No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff

The Universe of Design: Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture

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The Great Builders, edited by Kenneth Powell, an architectural historian, critic, and consultant, was published by Thames and Hudson in 2011.

Call number: NA 40 .G74 2011*

In this series of short biographies, Powell focuses on the fascinating people who have been responsible for some of the world's most famous built structures, and on the contributions they made that allowed them to

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