books by Michael Crosbie     books:     Michael Crosbie      The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook Inc. Steven Winter Associates Wiley, 1997 The only complete guide to passive solar design and construction The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook is an unbeatable guide for architects and building contractors who want to satisfy the growing demand for passive solar residential design. A complete revision of the bible of passive solar design originally published by the ...             Architecture Counts (Preservation Press) Michael J. Crosbie, Steve Rosenthal John Wiley & Sons, 1993 Great Book with a new perspective! I like this book because it teaches children to relate the things they are learning (ie counting) to the real world. The photographs are clear and visually interesting. This book provides a great alternative to the basic counting books. I also find it more fun to ...             Arches to Zigzags: An Architecture ABC Michael J. Crosbie Harry N. Abrams, 2000 Architecture is for kids too By now you've probably plowed your way through lots of those children's books that are about impossible for grownups to enjoy. I won't mention any names, but I've tried lots of them and the kids don't seem to like them much either! Here's a book that children enjoy, ...             Houses of God: Religious Architecture for a New Millenium Michael J. Crosbie Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd., 2007 Finest Book on Religious Architecture in the Last 25 Years Over the span of my professional career, I have focused on religious architecture. Having done extensive research on the topic over the course of my career, this book stands out as the finest compilation on this building type. The projects and religious organizations ...             Architecture ANIMALS (Preservation Press) Michael J. Crosbie, Steve Rosenthal John Wiley & Sons, 1995 Clever kids book. As an architect, I enjoy giving these books as gifts because they are different from your run of the mill children's books. I like how they use building pieces to teach about basic shapes and colors. It is not a book that highlights popular or historic architecture - ...             Time-Saver Standards for Building Types McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2001 A great reference book This is a book that sometimes resembles Neufert's, but it has a lot of additional information you might need that will make easier the process of designing various types of buildings. It gives you notions, ideas, proportions, measures and everything you need to know ...             Time Saver Standards for Architectural Design : Technical Data for Professional Practice, 8th Ed. Donald Watson, Michael J. Crosbie McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004 Useful Reference Excerpt: Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Design, 8th edition, is a ref¬erence for architects, design and construction professionals, and edu¬cators. It represents the result of more than a half-century of documenting the knowledge and technical database for ...             Architecture Shapes (Preservation Press) Michael J. Crosbie, Steve Rosenthal John Wiley & Sons, 1993 My twins LOVE this book! The book shows basic shapes through line drawings and on the facing page different architectural elements of that shape, mainly photos of windows. My twins are 13 months old and they choose this book as one of their favorites. The photographs are crisp and reality ...             Architecture Colors (Preservation Press) Michael J. Crosbie, Steve Rosenthal John Wiley & Sons, 1993 An elegant board book. This small cardboard book features photographs of buildings and architectural details. The photographs are beautiful - curious subjects in luminescent hues; there is no text other than the names of the colors. If you are a parent bored to tears with green frogs and ...             Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer: The Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva: New Classicists Michael J. Crosbie Images Publishing, 2008 The New Look of Summer on Cape Cod This is a great book! Below is an edited version of my article that appeared in The Cape Cod Chronicle, July 24, 2008: "Inventive reinterpretations of historical elements" are major features of the houses of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders (PSDAB), ...             Living Together: Multi-Family Housing Today Michael J. Crosbie Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd., 2007 Today, more than ever, multi-family housing is recognised as vital to modern, urban communities. This type of housing requires immense dexterity from an architectural perspective, because while promoting a sense of community living, a sense of aesthetics must also prevail. Michael J. Crosbie has selected more than 45 remarkable examples of ...             Petronas Twin Towers: The Architecture of High Construction Cesar Pelli, Michael J. Crosbie Academy Press, 2005 PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS In a world with jumbo jets, microchips and artificial hearts architecture had appeared to have losts its wonder, but with the building of the petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, now thw tallest buildings on earth, this has changed and their construction has rightfully restored architecture as a world wonder. The ...             Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Design Data Michael J. Crosbie, John Hancock Callender Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 1997 contens of the I want to read The main contents of the book,please             Curtain Walls: Recent Developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates Michael J. Crosbie Birkhäuser Basel, 2005 The curtain wall a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the ...             Plush: The Selected Poems of Sky Gilbert, Courtnay McFarlane, Jeffery Conway, R.M. Vaughan, and David Trinidad Ecw Press, 1995 This collection of poetry features five hot gay poets from Canada and America whose work is sublime, lush, and arresting and expresses feelings of eroticism, pain, love, hope, and grace.          products you might be interested in search for books architectural, architecture, developments, multi-family, preservation, professional      toavi.com    web we recommend A great reference book randomly chosen electronics: FIC K7MNF-64 nVidia nForce 2 Socket A mATX MB w/Snd, VID LAN