Apple is offering this book in 13" x 16.25" for $299 for 450 pages, a plain white embossed cover, and maybe a dust jacket, but none shown in the photos. Sample photos appear to have ample white space, which is a great way to compose these photos, but it also cuts down on printing costs. It's worth noting that the pages and the cover are cut flush, which is a nice detail, but it's not a $100 detail.

Gustav Klimt: Complete Paintings in 12.5" x 18" is list price $200 for 676 pages, which includes several foiled pages. This book cost more to print than the Apple book, period.

The complete Da Vinci in 10" x 15" is list price $70 for 700 pages. This is probably closer to the quality of the Apple book.

Frank Lloyd Wright is 13" x 10" is list price $70 for 500 pages. This is pretty comparable in size to the smaller, $200 apple book (10.2" x 12.75").

HERE ARE MY GODDAMN NOTES BECAUSE I AM ABOUT SOURCES NOW I AM NOT A FUCKING AMATEUR YOU FIGGITY FUCK ALTHOUGH I HAD TO FIGURE SOME OF THIS SHIT MYSELF THIS SHIT TOOK ME LIKE 5 HOURS TO MAKE

BRITS - AACHEN CATHEDRAL: 42 METERS

>http://www.britannica.com/topic/Palatine-Chapel-Aachen-Germany

• "The cupola crowning the chapel’s dome rises to a height of 101.5 feet (30.9 metres)."
  
  
• Judging by that, the spire is probably around 42-ish meters
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral
  
  
• I outlined wikipedia's picture of Aachen Cathedral
  
  CELTS - ROCK OF CASHEL: 28 METERS
  
  >http://www.watersidecottages.ie/rock_of_cashel.html
  
  
• I outlined this picture
  
  >http://www.britainirelandcastles.com/Ireland/County-Tipperary/Rock-of-Cashel.html
  
  
• This website claims a height of 90 feet, or 27-28m in height
  
  >http://roundtowers.org/cashel/index.htm
  
  
• This website claims a height of 28 meters, agreeing with the above website
  
  FRANKS - CHARTRES CATHEDRAL: 113 METERS
  
  >http://chartrescathedral.net/chartres-cathedral-facts/
  
  
• "Height of NW Tower: 113 meters"
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral
  
  
• I took an outline of Wikipedia's picture of Chartres Cathedral
  
  SPANISH - TORRE DEL ORO: 20.7m
  
  >http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php?do_id=1329&lang=en
  
  
• "Dimensions : Height 20.70m"
  
  
• I also took an outline of the picture on this website
  
  ITALIANS - GENOA CATHEDRAL: 44-47M
  
  >http://www.amazon.com/The-Cathedral-St-Lawrence-Genoa/dp/8857004759
  
  
• I took the outline from an Amazon page for this...book? At least I think it's a book?
  
  >http://www.marcuslink.com/travel/journal/italy/liguria/genoa.html
  
  
• I had to figure out the estimate height of the Genoa Cathedral with this picture as a reference; the guy standing at the entrance on the right I named Rufio. Assume he's somewhere between 5'08" to 6'00". I measured out the tallest tower to be roughly 25.5 Rufios. So that means the tower is anywhere between 1734-1836 inches, or 144.5-153 feet, or 44-47m
  
  BELEM TOWER: 30M TALL
  
  >https://books.google.com/books?id=x7ogAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=%28tower+OR+torre%29+belem&lr=&as_brr=1&cd=30#v=onepage&q=(tower%20OR%20torre)%20belem&f=false
  
  
• Page 181 claims that the Tower is "about one hundred high" or 30m tall
  
  >https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Torre_de_Bel%C3%A9m
  
  
• I made an outline of this picture
  
  TEUTONS: MARIA LAACH ABBEY: 16-17 M
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Laach_Abbey
  
  
• I used this picture for the outline, and I couldn't find a source for the height online. I used the old dude in the backpack on the lower left as a reference (I shrank him slightly to scale with the people standing on the very ground). I named that dude Old Man Rufio. Old Man Rufio looks like about 5'06", so 66 inches. The Cathedral is roughly 10 Rufios tall so about 660 inches, or 55 feet.
  
  GOTHS - MASOLEUM OF THEODORIC: 12 M
  
  >http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Theodoric_the_Great
  
  
• I used an outline of a picture of the Masoleum from this articles' picture. I also had to estimate the height of the building with the dude in the picture. He looks fairly tall so let's assume 6-ish feet. I counted like 7 of him to the top so the building is roughly 42 feet so roughly 12 meters.
  
  VIKINGS - BORGUND STAVE CHURCH: 17.6 M
  
  >http://www.thousandwonders.net/Borgund+Stave+Church
  
  
• I took a photo from this website to estimate the size of the Church
  
  >http://static.thousandwonders.net/Borgund.Stave.Church.original.14557.jpg
  
  
• This one. The guy in red, whom I named Red Man I estimate is like 5'06". 10 Red Men are slightly taller than the spire, but the perspective of the picture is off so let's give say it really is 10 Red Men tall, or maybe 10.5. So I estimate 693 inches, 57'09" at about 17.6 meters
  
  HUN - ARCH OF CONSTANTINE: 21m
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Constantine
  
  
• Finding sources sucks dicks
  
  >http://www.rustichelli.net/rome/index.php/Arch_of_Constantine.html
  
  
• I stole the outline from this website
  
  SLAVS - KIZHI CHURCH: 37M
  
  >https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Kishi_church_0.jpg
  
  
• I used this photo from wikipedia to outline. Also, fuck outlining.
  
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizhi_Pogost
  
  
• 37 meters according to Wiki
  
  
• I am really starting to dig Kiesza
  
  MAGYARS - CORVIN CASTLE: 48m
  
  >http://romaniatourism.com/castles-fortresses.html#corvinesti
  
  
• I outlined a picture on this one
  
  
• I don't fucking know bro but just by looking at it, I'd say about 36 meters from where the bridge hits the building. The gap between the bridge and the bottom of the moat looks roughly half the height of the castle from the bridge up, so I'd say like if you measure from the fucking bottom of the thing and up I don't fuck
  
  BYZANTINES - HAGIA SOPHIA: 55M
  
  >http://www.digilibraries.com/html_ebooks/101252/26319/www.digilibraries.com@26319@[email protected]
  
  
• "the stupendous central vault, which rises 180 feet"
  
  
• I also shamelessly stole that website's outline of the Hagia Sophia instead of making my own, but I still had to fucking do part of it fuck fuck fuck

The Barcelona Pavilion was a temporary structure designed by Mies van der Rohe as the German national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. It was dismantled in 1930 and rebuilt in 1983-86 by the City Council. The architects responsible for the reconstruction were Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos and they published a book on their research and site supervision.

"Architecture of Happiness" by Alain de Botton
A really great read about the 'humanness' of architecture and how different spaces affect behaviors.

"Finding Form" by Frei Otto. An incredibly unique and artistic exploration of lightweight form and surface geometries. Otto died this year like 2 days before they announced that he had won the Pritzker Prize.

"Citizens of No Place" by Jimenez Lai. An 'architectural graphic novel'. A bunch of semi-sequential short stories speculating the future of urban design and architecture, told through graphic novel. A very very fun read.

"Condemned Building: An Architect's Pre-Text" by Douglas Darden. Darden, a reluctant GSD grad, assembled this book of 'unbuilt architectures' that chronicles a bunch of high-concept projects rooted in a narrative of some kind (novels, poems, or original characters). A cool and different way to look at the act of 'building'.

I don't know whether to be happy or not (even tho it's Thurs). In the NE, with this weather we're having this week, it's difficult to function; I can't even think straight this morning; and I have to get ready for work—stat! The good news is, today we have a reprieve (of a sorts), as it's slightly cooler and overcast. Also, after buying three "modern" table lamps for my new apt over the last month, I am almost completely set up to read, study, write, and edit at the drop of a hat, with perfect lighting, at any time, day or night. (Yes, that's a goal.)

Dating, unfortunately, is completely on the back burner. Still haven't called it quits with my PT GF. We are supposed to talk on the phone this weekend. That's the closest she's willing to get. (That should say something right there, eh?) There is a meetup on Saturday that I desperately want to go to, run by M, who is famously social, fun, and sexy, and to whose meetups dozens of people my age regularly flock. However, the timing is bad: smack dab in the middle of the worst heat index time frame prediction of the entire week; so I'm not going—too dangerous for my health.

In other good news, I got my car back from the shop ($2,000, but the 80,000-mile maintenance found some problems)—yay, and the stereo system in my new apt is finally wired for Airplay in all of the four big rooms. Four months on, my new apt is very close to being perfect.

Hopefully I can work on the novel and get some cleaning done while staying in during the weekend's heat wave.

A bit lonely, but happy to be listening to Bartok Quartets today, and thrilled with the purchase of Elements of Architecture from the Strand in NYC recently, one of the best books I've ever purchased. Yes, expensive, but at over 2000 pages, the price per page is a steal!!

These two books are a fantastic read.

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Private-Sky-Buckminster-Science/dp/3037785241

https://books.google.com/books/about/Your_Private_Sky.html?id=NIF3WoNBjIoC

In the second book is a picture of a letter Mr. Fuller wrote to Einstein. On the pages before the picture section is his secretary's version of the same letter. I would buy the book just for the experience of reading both versions.

Maybe this will help:
.http://www.archdaily.com/91273/ad-classics-jewish-museum-berlin-daniel-libeskind/
.https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.daapspace.daap.uc.edu%2F~larsongr%2FLarsonline%2FPostOrthoGe_files%2FLibesJewish.pdf (bad quality)
.http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Jewish+museum+berlin+facade#page=0
.http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Libeskind-Jewish-Museum-Berlin/dp/3791320750 (book about the building)

This will help:) :
.http://earth.google.com/kmlpreview/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.keyhole.com%2Fubb%2Fubbthreads.php%3Fubb%3Ddownload%26Number%3D182599 (model of the building on google earth. You can donwload it here: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=377625&site_id=1#import)

FLW Monograph 5

FLW Monograph 4

Yeah, there are five of them... maybe just get them one of them. Probably volume five as it has most of his more prominent work in it.

Here is a great book written by him with an abundance of images and material studies. If you can get a hold of it, your presentation is done haha. Best of luck.

recommendation 1
recommendation 2

has to be the most comprehensive Zaha book there is
http://www.amazon.com/Zaha-Hadid-Complete-Works-1979-2009/dp/3836502941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321343912&sr=8-1

as for other suggestions one of my all time favorites is S,M,L,XL by OMA, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau
http://www.amazon.com/S-M-XL-Rem-Koolhaas/dp/1885254865/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321344076&sr=1-5

One of my favorite MCM homes and a good collection of photos of it.

If you like A. Quincy Jones: https://www.amazon.com/Quincy-Jones-Building-Better-Living/dp/3791352652

One of the best

A budget choice

Also others in the series.

If you really love her you should get her this: http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Zumthor-Thomas-Durisch/dp/3858813044/ref=la_B001JOR4U0_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409680881&sr=1-3

I would like to contribute to a Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) , internet, White Hat exploration about whether or not space and time are quantized.

keywords: minimal length, fundamental length, fundamental units, discrete, quantized, quantum spacetime, space quantization, quantum geometry

related: causal dynamical triangulation, quantum regge calculus, causal sets, string theory,

The following NOVA article seems pretty good as a starter:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/are-space-and-time-discrete-or-continuous/

or one could start with this Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/06/14/are-space-and-time-quantized-maybe-not-says-science/#498917e558ea

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Are atoms or the fundamental "particles" an expression of the quantization of spacetime?

Crystals and the Future of Physics

Philippe Le Corbeiller, Scientific American, Vol. 188, No. 1 (January 1953), pp. 50-57

https://books.google.ca/books?id=se5iE4DMPioC&pg=PA874&lpg=PA874&dq=space+quantization+crystals&source=bl&ots=LFsmkS_2Vk&sig=ACfU3U0ZA-i2WHj-kvwrskxtSvRmymR9nw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQiNzJz87kAhXJKDQIHce-AnUQ6AEwEXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=space%20quantization%20crystals&f=false

Is a circular path finite or infinite?

https://hi.stamen.com/buckminster-fuller-and-the-beauty-of-bubbles-9fc3ff3a7c9f

"‘Inasmuch as the kind of mathematics I had learned of in school required the use of the XYZ coordinate system and the necessity of placing π in calculating the spheres, I wondered, “to how many decimal places does nature carry out π before she decides that the computation can’t be concluded?” Next I wondered, “to how many aribitrary decimal places does nature carry out the transcendental irrational before she decides to say it’s a bad job and call it off?” If nature uses π she has to do what we call fudging of her design which means improvising, compromisingly. I thought sympathetically of nature’s having to make all those myriad frustrated decisions each time she made a bubble. I didn’t see how she managed to formulate the wake of every ship while managing the rest of the universe if she had to make all those decisions. So I said to myself, “I don’t think nature uses π. I think she has some other mathematical way of coordinating her undertakings.””

— Buckminster Fuller, Your Private Sky, p.457

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https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Fundamental+Length

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2012/01/planck-length-as-minimal-length.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29519848_Physics_with_a_fundamental_length

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-quantized-in-othe/

"There are several ways to answer this question. 1) There is no conclusive evidence that time is quantized, but 2) certain theoretical studies suggest that in order to unify general relativity (gravitation) with the theories of quantum physics that describe fundamental particles and forces, it may be necessary to quantize space and perhaps time as well. Time is always a 1-dimensional quantity in this case. 3) My own work, which combines new theoretical ideas with observations of the properties of galaxies, fundamental particles and forces, does suggest that in a certain sense time may indeed be quantized. To see this we need some background information; in this scenario, time is no longer 1-dimensional!"

file:///home/chronos/u-391da1270ad994c0701bc1addae6c54228cff888/MyFiles/Downloads/Physics_with_a_fundamental_length.pdf

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"Amit Hagar, author of Discrete or Continuous?: The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2014),"

https://philpapers.org/rec/HAGLMT-2

https://philpapers.org/rec/HAGMLI-2

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https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.135.B849

http://inspirehep.net/record/284928?ln=en

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.2657

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703009

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/055032137890041X

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/lengths.html#compton_wavelength

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I've seen several papers that mention a fundamental minimal length of around the Compton length resulting from generalizing Special Relativity. One was by T. G. Papadopoulos which I haven't been able to relocate yet, and a minimal length is part of the Unified Field Theory model developed by Dr. Mendel Sachs.

Quantum Mechanics and Gravity by Mendel Sachs, pg. 89

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Q5LuCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=mendel+sachs+fundamental+length&source=bl&ots=OAWWhRNyid&sig=ACfU3U38FLYq1Ldgz16zle7jRdzni46osw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_vMHszc7kAhWFKn0KHTQBBvsQ6AEwEnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=mendel%20sachs%20fundamental%20length&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_sets

"The causal sets program is an approach to quantum gravity. Its founding principles are that spacetime is fundamentally discrete (a collection of discrete spacetime points, called the elements of the causal set) and that spacetime events are related by a partial order. This partial order has the physical meaning of the causality relations between spacetime events."

Pretty sure this is it: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Study-Houses-Basic-Art/dp/3836535602/

Cecil Balmond wrote a book I'd recommend: informal http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3791337769

He's Structural Engineer that has a lot of great projects imo, it's not strictly an engineer's solution. I think your background will most likely bring in a fresh perspective, you don't necessarily need the second degree to be involved in the design I guess it all depends on how much involvement and role you want in the design process. Not that i'm discouraging going for master's in architecture, it'd be a great experience.