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  • WELLNESS ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB / LAHRA TATRIELE
    Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices. Wellness Architecture and Urban Design presents definitions, an analysis of the wellness literature, and a brief history of the wellness movement. Specific planning and design strategies are presented ...

    $1,000.00

  • THIN PLACE DESIGN
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design, and the numinous experiences that accompany them have been an integral dimension of our culture. Up-lifting spaces, dramatic use of natural light, harmonic proportional geometry, magical landscapes, histori...

    $960.00

  • BIOPHILIC URBANISM
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healthy. The principles of biophilia are intended to support appreciation and direct engagement with nature, to responsibly utilize on-site natural resources, and to plan according to climatic conditions and local ecological processes. It...

    $1,000.00

  • ELEMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures, it incorporates a broader framework of considerations, including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental design. The book is structured around the ancient Greek and medieval alch...

    $1,160.00

  • THE GREENING OF ARCHITECTURE
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB / A. SENEM DEVIREN
    Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century. This text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects ...

    $1,760.00

  • SERENE URBANISM
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    Serenity is becoming alarmingly absent from our daily existence, especially within the urban context. Time is dense and space is tumultuous. The idea of the serene has gained currency in postmodern discussions, and when combined with urbanism conjures questions, even contradictions, as the two ideas seem improbable yet their correspondence seems so inherently desirable. Integra...

    $1,320.00

  • ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, AND SPIRITUALITY
    THOMAS BARRIE / JULIO BERMUDEZ / PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a diverse range of perspectives, grouped according to topical themes: Being in the World; Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary...

    $1,420.00

  • PLACEMAKING THROUGH MYTHS, EXPERIENCE, AND DRAWING
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    This book reveals the profound connections between placemaking, mythology, and experience as focused on creating vital and meaningful places through the process of drawing. By delving into these concepts, Tabb explores how we can unlock powerful tools for designers, architects, planners, and communities. Exploring ancient stories, embarking on journeys to historic places, and c...

    $1,040.00

  • SPIRITUAL WELLNESS AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
    PHILLIP JAMES TABB
    Imagine a world where buildings and cities actively nurture our well-being, not just physically but spiritually. There is a growing awareness of the need for a more inclusive and comprehensive approach to wellness strategies in everyday life. This book explores spiritual wellness as a foundational attribute of urban planning and design with the hope of influencing a more flouri...

    $1,040.00