Young Architects: Scale

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Young Architects: Scale - The measure of Architectural Imagination

Young Architects: Scale
Douglas Pancoast
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1568982194

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Every spring for the last 18 years, the Architectural League of New York has invited young architects from around the world to submit their portfolios to be selected as the best of a new generation of talent. The Young Architects program has identified many of the best-known names in architecture today, including Steven Holl, Neil Denari, Billie Tsien, and Carlos Jimenez. This year's honorees are six young practices whose projects range in scale from an intimate theater to a floating football stadium.. The firms are: Douglas Pancoast, Vrinda Khanna and Robert Schultz, Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels, Edward Mitchell, Omar Khan and Laura Garófalo, and Shih-Fu Peng and Róisín Heneghan.?

This colorful title, the first to come out of the Young Architects program, includes photographs of built work, computer renderings, drawings, diagrams, and text, all in an inspiring mix of fresh ideas and creative vision. An introductory essay by Nina Rappaport provides an overview of current state of architectural practice.?

Future volumes of Young Architects will appear annually; these titles will serve as a guide to tomorrow's architectural luminaries.

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Young Architects: Scale - The measure of Architectural Imagination.......2007-09-14

The first volume of the book series dedicated to show casing emerging talents via winners of the Architectural League of New York - Young Architects Forum.

The book begins with The Connections Theatre by Douglas Pancoast, an installation constructed in the extended Cranbrook Institute of Science, Detroit in Michigan (by Steven Holl Architects). The Theatre creates a treshhold and mediation between the tectonics of architecture and emerging digital technologies...

Skipping from the public realm the next project by Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels delves into the most personable of activities a pissoir for women, proposing an architecture of space and outfit... an outfit and situation that in this case the animated Aeon Flux character would most certainly be enamoured with.

Further architectural propositions range from extensions to residences to Hawk and Falcon Preserves to constructed naratives from real time video performance to floating Football Stadia...

A good book to have on the shelves to take down once and a while for an inspirational flick thru.

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Situated in the South Texas borderlands some fifty miles west of Corpus Christi, San Diego was a thriving town already a hundred years old at the turn of the twentieth century. With a population that was 90 percent Mexican or Mexican American and 10 percent Anglo, the bicultural community was the seat of Duval County and a prosperous town of lumberyards, banks, mercantile stores, and cotton gins, which also supplied the needs of area ranchers and farmers. Though Anglos dominated its economic and political life, San Diego was culturally Mexican, and Mexican Americans as well as Anglos built successful businesses and made fortunes.

This collection of nearly one hundred photographs from the estate of amateur photographer William Hoffman captures the cosmopolitan town of San Diego at a vibrant moment in its history between 1898 and 1909. Grouped into the categories women and their jobs, local homes, men and their businesses, children at school and church, families and friends, and entertainment about town, the photos offer an immediate visual understanding of the cultural and economic life of the community, enhanced by detailed captions that identify the subjects and circumstances of the photos. An introductory historical chapter constitutes the first published history of Duval County, which was one of the most important areas of South Texas in the early twentieth century.

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Interesting.......2004-01-24

Especially for those who have relatives who grew up in San Diego, Texas.

Turn-Of-The-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas

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Turn-Of-The-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas
Sara R. Massey A. Carolina Castil Crimm
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORL42C

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on June 3, 1999. The length of the article is 1072 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Inviable, hasta en lo técnico: Dolarizar a costa de la soberanía.(México)(TT: Non feasible, even on the technical part: more value on the dollar, at the expense of sovereignty.)(TA: Mexico)
Author: Magdalena Galindo
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: June 3, 1999
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 45 Issue: 2398 Page: 47

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La absurda proposición de dolarizar la economía mexicana.(TT: The absurd proposition of basing the Mexican economy on the dollar.): An article from: Proceso

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La absurda proposición de dolarizar la economía mexicana.(TT: The absurd proposition of basing the Mexican economy on the dollar.): An article from: Proceso
Juan Castaingts Teillery
Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00099KFXO
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on February 21, 1999. The length of the article is 1648 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La absurda proposición de dolarizar la economía mexicana.(TT: The absurd proposition of basing the Mexican economy on the dollar.)
Author: Juan Castaingts Teillery
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 21, 1999
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 38

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GREAT BOOK.......2007-03-13

Great material, helpful information. It is a somewhat heavy read, but that is to be expected with the material it is covering. My only complaint would be that the paper the pages are printed on is thin and prone to getting bent etc.

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Thought provoking, helpful and practical

Assessing Writers
Carl Anderson
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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When it comes to writing assessment, there's no better judge of what your students know and are able to do than you. And when it comes to advice on best practices for assessment, there's no better source than Carl Anderson's Assessing Writers. Like he did in the popular and highly acclaimed How's It Going?, Anderson offers smart, ready-to-use ideas for assessment. Assessing Writers offers practical methods for gathering information about every writer in your classroom and shows you how to create writing lessons that address the needs of individual students as well as the whole class.

Anderson's straightforward approach helps you imagine an ongoing assessment program that takes you from meeting new students to designing curriculum. In Assessing Writers you'll find out:

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Thought provoking, helpful and practical.......2006-08-06

Dr. Anderson provides his readers with a very readable and helpful book - one that you wish to read more than once at different stages of your work with younger people and your own development. He gives his readers helpful insights and is intellectually stimulating. His ideas on how to work with young writers as well as ways to explore the issues that they are encountering is very helpful. He provides you with suggestions and makes you want to delve deeper into working to help younger writers write and he shows how the conference method is a very successful vehicle. Carl Anderson stimulates you to want to explore the theoretical bases for his apporaches that are provided as references. His second book is a brilliant follow-up to this one and truly helpful to both educators and those committed to supporting the learning process.

Assessing Writing (Cambridge Language Assessment)

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Assessing Writing (Cambridge Language Assessment)
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The Literacy Principal: Leading, Supporting and Assessing Reading and Writing Initiatives
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Seeing with New Eyes: A guidebook on teaching and assessing beginning writers using the six-trait writing model

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Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum offers guidelines for effective assessment of student writing performance in various content areas such as English, science, mathematics and social studies at the junior or senior high school level. The book suggests a change in teaching methodology in order to make writing a key part of the instructional process. Written by teachers, it offers examples of applications and tools for assessment, concluding with a list of additional resources for further research.

Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum addresses issues such as assignment design, communication of expectations, scoring rubric design, and student involvement in writing assessment. It emphasizes writing to learn versus writing to test. This change in emphasis allows the student to understand how writing can contribute to his or her thinking and learning about a subject. The book utilizes the knowledge editors Duke and Sanchez have accumulated in directing National Writing Project sites and in their extensive in-service work on writing assessment with teachers.

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