George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon

Studio and Cube

Designing with Video: Focusing on the User-Centred Design Process

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The LADC recently acquired campus-wide access to BuildingGreen Suite, an online resource for building industry professionals and students that provides information on sustainable design and construction.

This database includes GreenSpec, an online product guide with 2,200+ environmentally preferable product listings, and 360+ project case studies provided by the High Performance Buildings Database, as well as articles & videos for continued education, blogs, discussions, the e-version of Environmental Building News, and more. BuildingGreen Suite also offers the option of browsing/searching information by CSI division or LEED credit.

Access: BuildingGreen Suite, or go to our Databases by Title page and click on BuildingGreen Suite.

Diversity in Design: Perspectives from the Non-Western World

Wohnen in Wien: 20 residential buildings

Scapes

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Auburn University Libraries recently subscribed to Material ConneXion's online Materials Database, which can be used to access information on over 6,500 materials for design, building, and manufacturing. Material ConneXion focuses on collecting the most advanced, innovative, and sustainable materials from around the world.

Materials in the database are categorized by their composition (polymer, natural, metal, glass, etc.). They can be searched by keyword, manufacturer, or country. With Advanced Search, you can narrow your search by selecting physical properties (such as translucent, flexible, or good impact resistance), usage (fire resistant, outdoor use, acoustics, etc.), sustainability (non-toxic, recycled, etc.), or processing (weldable, printable, etc.).

Here's the link: AU Libraries' portal to Material ConneXion.

You can also get into the Material ConneXion database through the LADC's home page, lib.auburn.edu/ladc. Under "Search for E-Resources," click on "databases", and you'll find the link to Material ConneXion under M.

The Medina: The Restoration & Conservation of Historic Islamic Cities

Eames: The Architect and the Painter [DVD]

Manufacturing the Bespoke

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BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design

Cooperation: The Engineer and the Architect

Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design

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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.