Almanac of Architecture & Design, 2003 - Softcover

Yankopolus, Jennifer Evans; Szenasy, Susan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967547768 ISBN 13: 9780967547763

Publisher: Greenway Communications, 2003

Synopsis

The annual Almanac of Architecture & Design is the essential and definitive tool for architecture and design—including architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, industrial design, historic preservation, and planning. The 2003/Fourth Edition is fully updated and expanded with a foreword by Susan Szensay, the editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine.

Highlights of the 2003 edition include the acceptance speeches by recent award winners Glenn Murcutt and Tadao Ando, the results of the only annual ranking of architecture and interior design school rankings, and an updated salary and compensation guide for architects and designers.

The Almanac contains many exclusive listings of information including architecture critics from the nation's leading newspapers, the United States’ major aquariums and their requisite architectural statistics, the most popular U.S. buildings as ranked by architects at varies points in history, an up-to-the minute list of all the major sports stadiums and their architects, and much more.

In addition to its new features, the 2003 edition fully updates the information and statistics found in past editions, including over 20 worldwide design museums and their 2003 exhibition calendars, an updated list of the world's tallest buildings and most impressive skylines, all the latest award winning projects and designers, the most recent historic preservation award winners and programs, fully updated design and construction statistics with charts, recent obituaries of design leaders, the Top 25 Most Visited Historic House Museums for 2003, and much more.

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Review

Indispensable for any public library, any design firm, and any school of architecture, landscape architecture, or interior design...solid, reliable -- Robert Campbell

Indispensable for any public library, any design firm, and any school of architecture, landscape architecture, or interior design...solid, reliable -- Robert Campbell

The Almanac is more than a mere compilation of numbers and words and charts and graphs...It is about ideas -- Blair Kamin

The Almanac is more than a mere compilation of numbers and words and charts and graphs...It is about ideas -- Blair Kamin

The only source book of its kind, this almanac is the design professional’s definitive resource. -- MSN.com

The only source book of its kind, this almanac is the design professional’s definitive resource. -- MSN.com

The reader who uses this book well will come away with a richer sense of the texture of the profession -- Paul Goldberger

The reader who uses this book well will come away with a richer sense of the texture of the profession -- Paul Goldberger

a core reference title for personal, professional, and academic reference collections. -- Midwest Book

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenway Communications
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967547768
• ISBN 13: 9780967547763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 700