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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: An Giang
    publisher: Island Press
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: vie
  physical description:
    extent: 224tr.
  abstract: Celebrated architect Ralph Knowles, Distinguished Emeritus at USC’s School of Architecture, has carefully crafted a book for architects, designers, planners—anyone who yearns to reconnect to the natural world through the built environment. He shows us how to re-examine a shadow, a wall, a window, a landscape, as they respond to the natural cycles of heat, light, wind, and rain. Analyzing methods of sheltering that range from a Berber tent to a Spanish courtyard to the cityscape of contemporary Los Angeles, Ritual House shows us the future: by coining the concept of solar access zoning, he introduces a radical yet increasingly viable solution for tomorrow’s mega-cities.
  abstract: About the Author
  abstract: Ralph Knowles has a had a long and distinguished career in architecture, both academically as a professor and researcher, and professionally as a policy and design consultant. He has an MA in Architecture from MIT, held academic posts at Auburn, Hawaii, and USC, and is currently an Emeritus at USC. See his C.V. at http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~rknowles/index.html.
  subject:
    topic: Achitecture
  subject:
    topic: Urban Design
  classification: 720.47 / R300T-r
  identifier: 1597260509
  record info:
    record creation date: 110321
    record change date: 20110321000000
    record identifier: TVCDKTCT12775