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Written by popular food blogger Erin Gleeson, Forest Feast for Kids serves up quick, easy, and fun vegetarian recipes that kids will love to make. In addition to its recipes—which span meals, party food, snacks, and beverages—the book includes instructions on how to set a table, ideas for fun and crafty table decorations, guides on how to use utensils safely and a glossary of culinary terms. Vibrant photographs of the dishes, as well as of children making them, complemented by Erin’s own fanciful watercolour illustrations and hand-lettering, showcase the rustic simplicity of the fare.

Leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities—and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics.COVID-19 caused a significant global disruption of human activities with striking consequences for the built environment, causing an abrupt fear as it relates to architecture and building design. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. Immunizing the built environment against contagion is a monumental task requiring a variety of approaches and disciplinary expertise at multiple scales of inquiry. In this book, 60 of the world’s leading architects, designers, engineers, materials scientists, and public health experts contribute to an expansive overview of inoculation strategies for today’s world. These approaches are organized according to the primary sites of exposure, generally arranged by scale: surface (materials and tactile interfaces), system (mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and lighting assemblies), space (interior and exterior environments), and society (cities, regions, and the general public). This broad collection of perspectives elucidates the transformations underway in the built environment— and offers design strategies to limit the severity of subsequent pandemics. In this way, the book aims to serve both as a multidisciplinary snapshot of COVID-19’s effects and a guidebook for future-proofing architecture against widespread disease.

In The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities—and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics, viruses, and contagious diseases on every scale, from surfaces to society. Safety and sustainability in buildings and cities have taken on new meaning during the COVID -19 pandemic. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. In this essential resource for both practitioners and students of architecture, interior design, and urban design, 90 of the world's leading experts investigate a variety of approaches to future-proof architecture and buildings against widespread disease. These inoculation strategies are organized into five chapters: "Histories" offers an overview of past pandemics and prior architectural approaches; "Inside / Outside" addresses the roles of building envelopes and mechanical systems in improving indoor environmental quality; "Interventions" consists of contemporary methods for direct prevention and control; "New Strategies" consists of various architectural analyses and proposals for design changes; and "The Public Realm" considers the urban landscape and related social questions. This broad collection of perspectives explores the transformations underway in the built environment—and offers design strategies to limit the severity of subsequent pandemics.

A visually stunning exploration of the radical materials being developed to help the built environment generate power, clean the air, house wildlife, and provide clean and energy efficient housing.As architects and designers respond to the urgent challenges of climate change, resource use, and environmental impact, a new generation of materials is transforming what—and how—we build.In Radical Green, architect and materials expert Blaine Brownell explores visionary projects from around the world that push beyond traditional ideas of “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Featuring more than 200 photographs, this inspiring volume reveals the creative strategies and cutting-edge innovations shaping the future of sustainable design.Organized around six key approaches—upcycle, essentialize, harvest, store, thrive, and support—the book showcases extraordinary case studies, including:The transformation of Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux, France, where the relatively windowless concrete towers were wrapped in a new transparent skin, providing winter gardens for all 530 residential units.Drywall-free construction in Miami, Florida, that incorporates exterior insulation in the facade, thereby eliminating the need to cover interiors with toxic drywall.Solar skin technology in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the Copenhagen International School’s façade is covered with 12,000 solar panels as an energy harvesting strategy.A wind-catching facade in Nagoya, Japan, where a shopping mall's mid-rise structures are a wind-harvesting shroud and 775 multicolored windmills rotate at varying speeds, harnessing available wind gusts to generate power.And many more.At the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and design, Radical Green reveals new materials and methods that are redefining the built environment.

In Japan, the study of nihonjinron became popular after the Second World War in an attempt to explain the uniqueness of the country s culture and character. Some of the essays in this volume deal with these issues and explore aspects of the Japanese quest for a national identity. Today Japan is one of the world s largest economies, but it is facing enormous challenges on a social, cultural, financial and political level. These challenges are highlighted and analysed in this e-book through themes and topics from Japanese history: identity, architecture, religion, manga, Christianity in Japan, the Samurais and many other subjects.