Two essays and a set of original diagrams consider the parameters of the "something beyond" in James Carpenter's projects. Photographs and extended captions from Carpenter complete this book's documentation of key projects.

Beyond BIM explores the vast and under-explored design potential undertaken by information modeling. Through a series of investigations grounded in the analysis of built work, interviews with leading practitioners, and speculative projects, the author catalogs the practical advantages and theoretical implications of exploiting BIM as a primary tool for design innovation. Organized by information type, such as geographic data, local code, or materials, each chapter suggests a realm of knowledge that can be harvested and imported into BIM to give meaningful specificity to architectural form and space. While highly sustainable, the work documented and envisioned in this book moves well beyond ‘normalization,’ to reveal inventive takes on contemporary practice. Beyond BIM serves as a primary resource for professional architects from practice, researchers and designers engaged in information related spatial design processes, as well as students and faculties of architecture schools in search of BIM design inspiration. Likewise, those highly attuned to computation and unconventional ways of creating form and space, particularly built outcomes that utilize BIM, will find this book meaningful and essential.

The Lady's Paladin: A Policeman's Guide for the American Woman and the Western _ inker is interlaced with encouraging, helpful information for women of all ages regarding a number of subjects. Within its pages, women will see their gender from a heightened perspective, thereby sensing much greater potential within themselves. In this process, they will come to better understand men""the fine and decent and, most notably, those to avoid in any relationship. Married or single, young or old, the reader will be taken behind the scenes in police settings and read accounts of tragic incidents, some of which could have been prevented. DeLaMater skillfully navigates numerous police cases, providing the reader with helpful insight to better help her avoid potential pitfalls for herself and loved ones, including potentially harmful relationships. His vast police experience will keep the reader on the edge of her seat at times and occasionally bring disgust upon learning of officials who failed society through their arrogance, incompetence, or impotence. At the same time, he clearly applauds the dedicated, competent, and hardworking. Beyond heart-wrenching accounts of tragic events, many in which the author was personally involved, he effortlessly traverses to romantic stories with a touch of humor. Unafraid of self-criticism, he is likely to bring delightful thought and encouragement to the unsuspecting reader. She will surely find in him a kindred spirit and a true friend as his respect for women is clearly visible. Humility and deep thought emanate from this read as the author adeptly mixes things up a bit to stimulate the mind""all to benefit women in relationships with others, including their children. Finally, this work ties together one's present status with great future potential as it introduces a heartwarming destiny for any woman seeking the most of what life has to offer. Yes, The Lady's Paladin: A Policeman's Guide for the American Woman and the Western Thinker is based on both logic and a compilation of facts and evidence. It is truly an eye-opening work unlike no other.

In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few "founding fathers," but was also marked by widespread and passionate popular involvement; print media more politically potent than that of later eras; and political conflicts and influences that crossed lines of race, gender, and class. Contributors: John L. Brooke, The Ohio State University Andrew R. L. Cayton, Miami University (Ohio) Saul Cornell, The Ohio State University Seth Cotlar, Willamette University Reeve Huston, Duke University Nancy Isenberg, University of Tulsa Richard R. John, University of Illinois at Chicago Albrecht Koschnik, Florida State University Rich Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology Jeffrey L. Pasley, University of Missouri, Columbia Andrew W. Robertson, City University of New York William G. Shade, Lehigh University David Waldstreicher, Temple University Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture. Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary Mcleod, Beatriz Colomina, Stan Allen, Joan Ockman, Robert Somol, Sarah Whiting, Michael Speaks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin.

These communities, Spiro argues, are replacing bonds that once connected people to the nation-state, with profound implications for the future of governance."--BOOK JACKET.