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14145 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14145 | 2018-01-11 22:54:28 | Living Roofs | 9783832732455 | Teneues | Penthouses and rooftop terraces let you reach for the stars and the only limit on what you can design in your exclusive oasis is your imagination. In densely populated areas, rooftop gardens inject a lovely note of green into the urban landscape. People grow their own vegetables or use grass and shrubs to frame an opulent lounge area or pool. This book explores the sophisticated interplay of indoor and outdoor living among the clouds and immerses you in the feeling of living between heaven and earth. Peace and relaxation are the focus in this slice of paradise, a place where you can quite literally sit back and watch the world go by. |
208 | 250 x 320 x 23mm | 1,420g | 01 Jun 2016 | teNeues Publishing UK Ltd | Kempen, Germany | English | 200 farbige Abbildungen | 3832732454 | 305,143 | US$45.00 | US$55.00 | Hardback | teNeues Media GmbH & Co. KG | ||||||||
14146 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14146 | 2018-01-11 22:54:38 | Handbook of Biophilic City Planning and Design | 9781610916202 | Timothy Beatley | What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their technical services like storm water reduction, from a biophilic viewpoint, they also facilitate experiences that contribute to better physical and mental health: natural elements in play areas can lessen children's symptoms of ADHD and adults who exercise in natural spaces can experience greater reductions in anxiety and blood pressure. The Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design offers practical advice and inspiration for ensuring nature in the city is more than infrastructure, that it also creates an emotional connection to the earth and promotes well-being among urban residents. Divided into six parts, the Handbook begins by introducing key ideas, literature, and theory about biophilic urbanism; followed by chapters that highlight urban biophilic innovations in more than a dozen global cities; the final part concludes with lessons on how to advance an agenda for urban biophilia and an extensive list of resources.As the most comprehensive reference on the emerging field of biophilic urbanism, the Handbook is essential reading for students and practitioners looking to place nature at the core of their planning and design ideas and encourage what pre-eminent biologist E. O. Wilson described as "the innate emotional connection of humans to all living things." |
"Professor Beatley grasps the fundamental role of ecological restoration and stewardship in achieving urban environmental sustainability and resilience. He performs a heroic service by meticulously illustrating that communities all around Earth are reintegrating nature into everyday life in their own place-based ways."--Peter Brastow, Biodiversity Coordinator for San Francisco, California "In moving beyond green architectural, infrastructural, and technological fixes, Beatley emphasizes an integrated socio-ecological approach to nature-centered urban living--an approach that is increasingly urgent and essential in the Anthropocene. Grounded in theory and accompanied by an international suite of best-and-next practices, this work offers a timely call to action for the planning and design of resilient cities that nurture, protect, and connect with the nature that sustains us."--Nina-Marie E. Lister, Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada "As humans have now become predominately an urban species the need for a connection to nature is ever more important. Timothy Beatley has beautifully documented the nature-connecting strategies that different cities are using to improve the health and well-being of their citizens and local ecosystems."--Bill Browning, Founding Partner, Terrapin Bright Green "Ecological urbanism has taken root and blossomed over the past four decades. Tim Beatley's Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design gathers the fruits of that movement: a rich cornucopia of inspiring projects and practices from across the globe, which are models for all cities."--Anne Whiston Spirn, author of "The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design" |
352 | 178 x 254 x 18mm | 567g | 05 Jan 2017 | Island Press | Washington, United States | English | 80 photographs and 5 illustrations | 1610916204 | 357,071 | US$40.70 | Timothy Beatley is Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. He is the author of many books including Planning for Coastal Resilience, Biophilic Cities, and Green Urbanism (Island Press). | Paperback | ||||||||
14147 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14147 | 2018-01-11 22:54:43 | A House in the Country | 9780865653290 | Katie Ridder | Nestled amid the lush, gently rolling hills of cattle and horse farms in Millbrook, New York, is a handsome Greek Revival house that looks like it's always been there. In fact, it is brand new--the collaborative effort of architect Peter Pennoyer and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder. This irresistible book, exquisitely illustrated with photographs, finely rendered plans, and hand-painted illustrations, tells the home's story. The design followed Pennoyer's conviction that historical examples are a springboard for the imagination and offer compelling solutions for new architecture. So, though many characteristics of the house are classical, and, more specifically, Greek Revival, it is also thoroughly contemporary and environmentally friendly, with an exuberantly colorful interior. Of equal weight to the house's interior and exterior design is the fabulous landscape. A passionate, self-taught gardener, Ridder brought her design talent to the creation of the home's garden, inspired by an English cottage garden, with a lush, dense mix of more than 200 perennials, annuals, rare plants, shrubs, and bulbs. The book features a gatefold pullout of the garden plan, complete with a comprehensive key to flowers and plantings. |
228 | 254 x 305 x 25.4mm | 1,790g | 27 Sep 2016 | Vendome Press,U.S. | United States | English | 0865653291 | 74,411 | 2.75 | US$42.29 | US$55.00 | Peter Pennoyer's eponymous firm is widely published and recognized for imaginative and elegant designs that draw from history and tradition. The firm is on the AD100 and Pennoyer is the winner of the Veranda Art of Design Award and the Frederic E. Church Award. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and has written and lectured about architecture and style. Peter Pennoyer Architects has projects from Hong Kong to Newport, Rhode Island, and commissions for leading artists and tastemakers across the country. Katie Ridder has been included in the Top 100 lists of designers for House Beautiful, Elle Decor, and New York magazine. Her firm produces fabrics, wallpaper, and rugs of her design. Architectural historian and author Anne Walker has collaborated with Peter Pennoyer on four monographs on the history of 20th-century American architecture. Interiors photographer Eric Piasecki contributes to Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, and many other publications. |
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14148 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14148 | 2018-01-11 22:54:55 | How to See | 9780714873831 | Nelson George | A new edition of George Nelson's classic guide to visual appreciation, released on the fortieth anniversary of its original publicationOriginally published in 1977 by iconic American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, George Nelson's critically acclaimed manifesto on how to recognize, evaluate, and understand the objects and landscape of the man-made world has influenced generations of design professionals, students, and aficionados. Forty years later, this cult book has been brought back to life with a fresh, new look and feel. At a time when our collective fascination with design has gone global, by one of the 20th century's most important design thinkers and will continue to educate and inspire readers everywhere. |
"The multitalented George Nelson made a name for himself in architecture, industrial design, graphic design, and as the man who brought Charles Eames and Alexander Girard together at Herman Miller, but of his many talents, we believe his writing to be the greatest, and most underappreciated. How to See is the perfect primer for the uninitiated." -Dwell "An education in visual literacy... Phaidon [...] has brought the book back to life with a new design... [Nelson] was convinced that we could learn to read images in the same way we learn to read words: through experience, exposure and practice. How to See is his primer."-JocksAndNerds.com "How to See by George Nelson has been the North Star of design exploration since it was first published in 1977. Now after a full-scale revamp, it's as relevant as ever."-ShortList "A new edition of George Nelson's insightful 1977 book, How to See, shows how visual literacy can be learned - and its teachings have never more been needed... The intention behind this book as admirable and simple... Thankfully the writing style is anything but stuffy and academic... It doesn't even matter what order you read the book in. dip in and out at will. You'll always find an insightful nugget and an entertaining piece of wisdom... It's hard of course to avoid appearing somewhat pompous whilst accusing the general population of being visually illiterate. But this terrific book pulls it off spectacularly well. Buy one. And buy another for your worst client."-Creative Review "Phaidon rereleases George Nelson's nifty 1977 How to See" -New York Magazine "Four decades following its initial publication, and in a world even more saturated with advertising, images, and consumer objects, How to See remains relevant in its consideration of our complacency and the value of paying attention."-Hyperallergic "On the 40th anniversary of its initial release, [George Nelson's] guide to parsing the visual world and cutting through "aesthetic pollution" is as relevant today as ever."-Surface |
248 | 216 x 234 x 24mm | 1,202.02g | 13 Sep 2017 | Phaidon Press Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 0714873837 | 27,762 | 3.94 | US$27.00 | US$29.95 | One of the founding fathers of American modernism, industrial designer and architect George Nelson produced some of the twentieth century's most iconic objects, and served as the long-time director of design at Herman Miller. | Hardback | |||||||
14149 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14149 | 2018-01-11 22:55:01 | BIM Handbook | 9780470541371 | Chuck Eastman | The BIM Handbook presents the technology and processes behind BIM to aid architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors, construction and facility owners (AECO). The BIM Handbook combines in-depth technical background, business process discussion of each of the major professional groups in AECO, and offers guidelines for assessment, adoption and use. It includes real world case studies identifying both the benefits and successes of BIM, and study questions for professionals, educators and students to engage in discussions about the many issues with respect to implementing and transitioning to BIM. |
Foreword. Preface. Chapter 1 BIM Handbook Introduction. 1. 0 Executive Summary. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 The Current AEC Business Model. 1.3 Documented Inefficiencies of Traditional Approaches. 1.4 BIM: New Tools and New Processes. 1.5 What Is Not BIM Technology. 1.6 What Are the Benefits of BIM? What Problems Does It Address? 1.7 What Challenges Can Be Expected? 1.8 Future of Designing and Building with BIM (Chapter 8). 1.9 Case Studies (Chapter 9). Chapter 1 Discussion Questions. Chapter 2 BIM Design Tools and Parametric Modeling. 2.0 Executive Summary. 2.1 The Evolution to Object-based Parametric Modeling. 2.2 Parametric Modeling of Buildings. 2.3 Beyond Parametric Shapes. 2.4 BIM Environments, Platforms and Tools. 2.5 Overview of the Major BIM Design Platforms. 2.6 BIM Platforms. 2.7 Lightweight Modeling Applications. 2.8 Conclusion. Chapter 2 Discussion Questions. Chapter 3 Interoperability. 3.0 Executive Summary. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Different Kinds of Exchange Formats. 3.3 Background of Product Data Models. 3.4 Other Efforts Supporting Standardization. 3.5 The Evolution from File-based Exchange to Building Model Repositories. 3.7 Summary. Chapter 3 Discussion Questions. Chapter 4 BIM for Owners and Facility Managers. 4.0 Executive Summary. 4.1 Introduction: Why Owners Should Care About BIM. 4.2 BIM Application Areas for Owners. 4.5 BIM Tool Guide for Owners. 4.6 An Owner and Facility Manager s Building Model. 4.7 Leading the BIM Implementation on a Project. 4.8 Barriers to Implementing BIM: Risks and Common Myths. 4.9 Guidelines and Issues for Owners to Consider When Adopting BIM. Chapter 4 Discussion Questions. Chapter 5 BIM for Architects and Engineers. 5.0 Executive Summary. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Scope of Design Services. 5.3 BIM Use in Design Processes. 5.5 Considerations in Adoption for Design Practice. 5.6 New and Changed Staffing within Design Firms. Chapter 5 Discussion Questions. Chapter 6 BIM for the Construction Industry. 6.0 Executive Summary. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Types of Construction Firms. 6.3 Information Contractors Want from BIM. 6.4 Processes to Develop a Contractor Building Information Model. 6.5 Reduction of Design Errors Using Clash Detection. 6.6 Quantity Takeoff and Cost Estimating. 6.7 Construction Analysis and Planning. 6.8 Integration with Cost and Schedule Control and Other Management Functions. 6.9 Use for Offsite Fabrication. 6.10 Use of BIM Onsite: Verification, Guidance, and Tracking of Construction Activities. 6.11 Synergies of BIM and Lean Construction. 6.12 Implications for Contract and Organizational Changes. 6.12 BIM Implementation. Chapter 6 Discussion Questions. Chapter 7 BIM for Subcontractors and Fabricators. 7.0 Executive Summary. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Types of Subcontractors and Fabricators. 7.3 The Benefits of a BIM Process for Subcontractor Fabricators. 7.4 BIM-Enabled Process Change. 7.5 Generic BIM System Requirements for Fabricators. 7.6 Major Classes of Fabricators and Their Specific Needs. 7.7 Adopting BIM in a Fabrication Operation. 7.8 Conclusions. Chapter 7 Discussion Questions. Chapter 8 The Future: Building with BIM. 8.0 Executive Summary. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 The Development of BIM Up to 2010. 8.3 Current Trends. 8.4 Vision 2015. 8.5 Drivers of Change and BIM Impacts up to 2020. Chapter 9 BIM Case Studies. 9.0 Introduction. 9.1 Aviva Stadium. 9.2 Courtyard by Marriott. 9.3 Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley. 9.4 Maryland General Hospital. 9.5 Crusell Bridge. 9.6 100 11th Avenue, New York City. 9.7 One Island East Project, Hong Kong. 9.8 Helsinki Music Centre. 9.9 Hillwood Commercial Project. 9.10 United States Coast Guard BIM Implementation. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. |
640 | 193.04 x 236.22 x 38.1mm | 1,224.69g | 01 Jul 2011 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 2nd Revised ed. | 0470541377 | 241,168 | 4.08 | US$80.49 | US$90.00 | Chuck Eastman is a Professor in the Colleges of Architecture and Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and Director of the Digital Building Laboratory, a university-industry consortium, where heleads research in IT in building design and construction. He has been active in building modeling research since the 1970s and currently works with a variety of industry groups developing BIM technology. Paul Teicholz is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. After twenty-five years innovating with IT solutions in the construction industry, he founded the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) at Stanford in 1988 and directed that program for tenyears. He was named the Construction Management "Man of the Year" by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985 and awarded the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology by the National Building Museum in 2006. Rafael Sacks is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering and Construction Management at Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He founded and leads the Virtual Construction and BIM Laboratory at the Israel National Building Research Institute, and has conducted primary and applied BIM research for industry, government, and public organizations in North America, Europe, and Israel. Kathleen Liston is CEO of Eco Offsite, a modular construction company. She co-founded Common Point Technologies, Inc., a construction simulation software company. She has worked with a variety of organizations, including Autodesk, Walt Disney, DPR Construction, and Mortenson Construction, developing technologies and processes to implement BIM. She has a PhD and master's from Stanford University in civil and environmental engineering and a bachelor of architecture from the University of Notre Dame. |
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14150 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14150 | 2018-01-11 22:55:03 | Computational Design Thinking | 9780470665657 | Achim Menges | The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the generation of integrated systems through designer-authored computational processes. While there is a particular history of such an approach in architecture, its relative newness requires the continued progression of novel modes of design thinking for the architect of the 21st century. This AD Reader establishes a foundation for such thinking. It includes multifaceted reflections and speculations on the profound influence of computational paradigms on architecture. It presents relevant principles from the domains of mathematics and computer science, developmental and evolutionary biology, system science and philosophy, establishing a discourse for computational design thinking in architecture. Rather than a merely technical approach, the book will discuss essential intellectual concepts that are fundamental not only for a discourse on computational design but also for its practice. This anthology provides a unique collection of seminal texts by authors, who have either provided a significant starting point through which a computational approach to design has been pursued or have played a considerable role in shaping the field. An important aspect of this book is the manner in which adjacent fields and historical texts are connected. Both the source of original inspiration and scientific thought are presented alongside contemporary writings on the continually evolving computational design discourse. Emerging from the field of science, principally the subjects of morphogenesis, evolution and mathematics, selected texts provide a historical basis for a reconfigured mindset of processes that generate, arrange and describe form. Juxtaposed against more contemporary statements regarding the influence of computation on design thinking, the book offers advancements of fundamental texts to the particular purpose of establishing novel thought processes for architecture, theoretically and practically. The first reader to provide an effective framework for computational thinking in design. Includes classic texts by Johan W. von Goethe, D'Arcy Thompson, Ernst Mayr, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Gordan Pask, Christopher Alexander, John H. Holland, Nicholas Negroponte, William Mitchell, Peter J. Bentley & David W. Corne, Sanford Kwinter, John Frazer, Kostis Terzidis, Michael Weinstock and Achim Menges Features new writing by: Mark Burry, Jane Burry, Manuel DeLanda and Peter Trummer. |
Foreword
Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist
Introduction
Computational Design Thinking
Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges
Formation and Transformation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On the Theory of Transformations, Or the Comparison of Related Forms
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Variational Evolution
Ernst Mayr
The Meaning of General System Theory
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Systems Generating Systems
Christopher Alexander
The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics
Gordon Pask
Towards a Humanism Through Machines
Nicholas Negroponte
A New Agenda for Computer-Aided Design
William J Mitchell
Algorithmic Form
Kostas Terzidis
Architecture and Practical Design Computation
Mark Burry
An Introduction to Creative Evolutionary Systems
Peter J Bentley and David W Corne
Constrained Generating Procedures
John H Holland
Real Virtuality
Manuel DeLanda
A Natural Model for Architecture
John Frazer
Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence
Michael Weinstock
Philosophy of Mathematics for Computational Design:
Spatial Intuition Versus Logic
Jane Burry
Associative Design: From Type to Population
Peter Trummer
Integral Formation and Materialisation:
Computational Form and Material Gestalt
Achim Menges
The Computational Fallacy
Sanford Kwinter
Select Bibliography
Index |
224 | 167.64 x 241.3 x 15.24mm | 453.59g | 13 Dec 2011 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 1. Auflage | black & white tables, diagrams, figures | 0470665653 | 220,024 | 3.9 | US$28.75 | US$52.95 | Professor Achim Mengesis Director of the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. Currently he is also Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor for the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme at the Architectural Association in London. Sean Ahlquist is a research associate at the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. He has taught at University of California Berkeley and California College of the Arts and founded the design firm, Proces2. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme at the Architectural Association in London. |
Paperback | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | ||||
14151 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14151 | 2018-01-11 22:55:10 | Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture | 9780486472621 | Giacomo Barozzi Da Vignola | One of history's most published architectural treatises, this Renaissance volume solidified the architectural canon of the past five centuries. In these pages, the distinguished architect known as Vignola identified the five orders Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite and illustrated them in full-page elevational detail. Vignola's engravings have been copied countless times since their original publication in 1562. The clear images with brief captions constitute a practical rather than theoretical work, offering even lay readers a system of tools that provide accurate proportions. An essential reference for professional architects, this book has guided generations of architects, including those who rebuilt London after the Fire of 1664. This new edition features an Introduction by architectural historian David Watkin." |
108 | 205.74 x 274.32 x 10.16mm | 272.15g | 16 Feb 2012 | Dover Publications Inc. | New York, United States | English | Illustrations, unspecified | 0486472620 | 336,661 | 4.33 | US$14.17 | Paperback | |||||||||
14152 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14152 | 2018-01-11 22:55:11 | Sketching and Rendering Interior Spaces | 9780823048533 | Ivo Drpic | A book featuring a marker-based method of sketching for beginners as well as advanced design professionals to produce finished sketches of exactitude and polish. The practical techniques simplify the construction of interior space and show how to achieve verisimilitude of surfaces with a minimum of technical skills. Arranged in logical sequence of mastery there are twenty-five step-by-step demonstrations of sketching spaces and individual details. Information covers methods to increase speed in sketching, advise on materials needed and how to create five kinds of perspective and plans. |
176 | 210 x 276 x 12mm | 698.53g | 01 Jul 1988 | Watson-Guptill Publications | New York, United States | English | FULL COLOR THROUGHOUT | 0823048535 | 253,812 | 4 | US$26.62 | US$29.95 | Ivo D. Drpic is an architect licensed in his native Bolivia who holds bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the University of Houston. He is founder and preseident of ID Architectural Renderings and Ivo Drpic and Associates of Houston, Texas. His work as a renderer includes projects undertaken for many major architectural firms, especially in the south central United States, and for government agencies around the world. |
Paperback | Whitney Library of Design | ||||||
14153 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14153 | 2018-01-11 22:55:14 | Tooling | 9781568985473 | Benjamin Aranda | The latest instalment in the renowned "Pamphlet Architecture series" features the technologically progressive young firm Aranda/Lasch, illustrating their use of advanced computational methods and algorithmic code in architectural design. Tooling is broken down into seven sections: blending, cracking, flocking, losing, packing, spiralling, and weaving, each corresponding to a pattern generated by computer codes, which in turn creates an organizational template for putting projects together - from building materials to large-scale populations. Each section is broken down through a simple recipe that describes the organizational template; sketches and geometric diagrams of that recipe; an architectural project that utilizes the algorithms; and finally the computer code of the various algorithms created for the book. |
96 | 175.3 x 208.3 x 12.7mm | 181.44g | 01 Feb 2006 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | New York, United States | English | 100 illus. | 1568985479 | 242,155 | 4.03 | US$17.72 | US$19.95 | Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch established their New York-based architecture firm in 2003. Their work has appeared in The LA Times, Metropolis, and Else/Where, and their Brooklyn Pigeon Project was featured on the PBS program "Reel New York." | Paperback | |||||||
14154 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14154 | 2018-01-11 22:55:22 | Matter in the Floating World | 9781568989969 | Blaine Brownell | It can be argued that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of existence, creating a rich dialogue between the concrete and the abstract. |
256 | 175.26 x 238.76 x 20.32mm | 748.42g | 03 Sep 2011 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | New York, United States | English | New. | 425 Colour | 1568989962 | 248,418 | 4.25 | US$30.45 | US$40.00 | Paperback | |||||||
14155 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14155 | 2018-01-11 22:55:29 | Green Metropolis | 9781594484841 | David Owen | In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan- the most densely populated place in North America -rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn't matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn't reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world's nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with. |
A convincing case...Pugnacious and contrarian The New York Times Turns conventional wisdom on its head and takes a clear-eyed look at what 'green' might truly mean San Francisco Chronicle | 368 | 138 x 210 x 24mm | 322.05g | 25 Aug 2011 | Penguin Putnam Inc | New York, United States | English | Reprint | 1594484848 | 282,769 | 3.7 | US$16.49 | David Owen is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of a dozen books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman, and their two children. | Paperback | Riverhead Books,U.S. | ||||||
14156 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14156 | 2018-01-11 22:55:32 | How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar | 9781891267000 | Richard M. Gold | After 20 years of being the ultimate do-it-yourself wine cellar guide in America, this best-selling title is now available in the UK.Worried that your beloved Montrachet is coveting the 50-degree embrace of another's cellar? Think one of your own is out of reach? The classic naturally air-conditioned wine-cellar construction guide is now revised and updated for the modern wine collector who wants or needs a wine cellar but lacks the means to fund a massive renovation, or has do-it-yourself-ness in the blood.The book begins with how to plan for optimum humidity and temperature with a discussion on the best positioning (key to a passive system that takes advantage of an existing structure's natural cooling capabilities and keeping temperature fluctuation to a minimum) and insulation.Section two outlines, step-by-step and with detailed diagrams, every level and aspect of construction, including building of racks and storage bins.Section three is all about the art and science of selecting, recording, tracking and enjoying your wines at their peak performance. |
144 | 132.08 x 213.36 x 17.78mm | 272.15g | 01 Jan 2008 | Wine Appreciation Guild | Healdsburg, United States | English | 4th ed. | diagrams and illustrations throughout | 1891267000 | 335,098 | 3.48 | US$25.37 | US$29.95 | Richard M. Gold, MD, is a wine connoisseur. | Paperback | Chalk Hill Press | |||||
14157 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14157 | 2018-01-11 22:55:39 | Basics Design Ideas | 9783764381127 | Bert Bielefeld | Design Ideas offers students a variety of different ways to go about finding a design solution. In addition to suggesting fundamental ways to get the creative process moving and develop a design approach, it also proposes various sources of inspiration for design ideas. It focuses on the three elements of place, form, and function, which can sometimes constitute immediate springboards for concrete designs. These elements must eventually be incorporated as the design process.Subjects: Creativity in the design process; Sources of inspiration and design approaches; Working with place; Working with form; Working with function. |
Introduction.; Creative force.; Creativity and finding ideas.; Experience.; Design approach and architectural language.; Creative principles.; Inspiration and stimulation.; Intuitive design with aids.; Implementing leitmotifs.; Guidelines from architecture.; Guidelines from other arts.; Deriving ideas from nature.; Geometry and mathematics.; Location - function - form .; Relating to location.; Topography and buildings.; Orientation.; Built environment.; Town planning requirements.; Dealing with the location.; Function.; Volume/area required.; Spatial programme.; Function scheme/organization of the building.; Working with the user.; Designing from function.; Finding form.; Construction.; Geometrical forms.; Free forms.; Proportion.; Elements and jointing principles.; Material quality.; The design idea. |
84 | 152 x 218 x 8mm | 140.61g | 01 Jan 2017 | Birkhauser | Basel, Switzerland | English | 85 Illustrations, black and white | 3764381124 | 346,416 | 2.57 | US$17.51 | US$17.99 | Bert Bielefeld, Architekt und Projektsteuerer in Dortmund, Lehrbeauftragter an der Universitat Dortmund. | Paperback | Birkhauser Verlag AG | |||||
14158 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14158 | 2018-01-11 22:55:46 | The Japanese House | 9784805312094 | Alexandra Black | With over 200 stunning photographs, this Japanese design and architecture book showcases some of the most beautiful homes in Japan. The pure beauty of Japanese architecture and design has inspired many of the world's top architects and designers. The grace and elegance of the Japanese sensibility is reflected in both modern and traditional Japanese homes, from their fluid floor plans to their use of natural materials. In The Japanese House, renowned Japanese photographer Noboru Murata has captured this Eastern spirit with hundreds of vivid color photographs of 15 Japanese homes. As we step behind the lens with Murata, we're witness to the unique Japanese aesthetic, to the simple proportions modeled after the square of the tatami mat; to refined, rustic decor; to earthy materials like wood, paper, straw, ceramics, and textiles. This is a glorious house-tour readers can return to again and again, for ideas, inspiration or simply admiration. |
-Fifteen Japanese homes, complete with shoji screens and tatami mats, in 224 color photos.- --Associated Press | 216 | 248.92 x 248.92 x 17.78mm | 1,111.3g | 10 Apr 2012 | Tuttle Shokai Inc | Kawasaki, Japan | English | , colour illustrations | 4805312092 | 195,555 | 3.84 | US$31.28 | Alexandra Black spent five years in Japan studying Japanese language, culture, and art and architecture. She lives in London. Noburu Murata is one of Japan's most proficient interiors photographer. His photos can be found in the Japanese EllT Deco and other leading lifestyle magazines. He lives in Tokyo. | Paperback | |||||||
14159 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14159 | 2018-01-11 22:55:55 | Classic Country | 9781423625384 | Kathryn M. Ireland | Relaxed country living with one of the world's top designers. Using her renovated farmhouse in Toulouse, France, as well as her residence in Santa Monica and a few other choice homes, Kathryn Ireland shows how to scheme a room using patterns, textures and colors together to create the feeling of a well-lived life. Relaxed and classic, casual yet sophisticated describes her style, influenced by European and international elegance and design. Kathryn M. Ireland is an interior designer based in Los Angeles. She has decorated homes for Hollywood A-listers, English aristocracy and neighbors next door. She is a featured decorator on Bravo TV's Million Dollar Decorators, which previewed in 2011. She lives in Santa Monica. |
224 | 215.9 x 254 x 22.86mm | 997.9g | 01 Apr 2012 | Gibbs M. Smith Inc | Layton, United States | English | 250 Colour Photographs | 1423625382 | 308,054 | 3.35 | US$31.82 | Paperback | |||||||||
14160 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14160 | 2018-01-11 22:56:01 | Original Copies | 9780824836061 | Bianca Bosker | A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysees Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen's Guard patrols Shanghai's Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities from Fuyang to Shenzhen. These examples are but a sampling of China's most popular and startling architectural movement: the construction of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West. Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and spot-welded to Chinese cities. These copycat constructions are not theme parks but thriving communities where Chinese families raise children, cook dinners, and simulate the experiences of a pseudo-Orange County or Oxford. In recounting the untold and evolving story of China's predilection for replicating the greatest architectural hits of the West, Bianca Bosker explores what this unprecedented experiment in "duplitecture" implies for the social, political, architectural, and commercial landscape of contemporary China. With her lively, authoritative narrative, the author shows us how, in subtle but important ways, these homes and public spaces shape the behavior of their residents, as they reflect the achievements, dreams, and anxieties of those who inhabit them, as well as those of their developers and designers. From Chinese philosophical perspectives on copying to twenty-first century market forces, Bosker details the factors giving rise to China's new breed of building. Her analysis draws on insights from the world's leading architects, critics and city planners, and on interviews with the residents of these developments. |
With her lively, authoritative narrative, the author shows us how, in subtle but important ways, these homes and public spaces shape the behavior of their residents, as they reflect the achievements, dreams, and anxieties of those who inhabit them, as well as those of their developers and designers.-- "www.goodreads.com" The topic is multifaceted, to be sure; Bosker's account handles it comprehensively, presenting the various angles with patience and care.-- "Publishers Weekly" The topic is multifaceted, to be sure; Bosker s account handles it comprehensively, presenting the various angles with patience and care.-- "Publishers Weekly" In her fascinating new book . . . Bosker focuses on the suburbs for the upper class that began to be built in the late 1990s, following the privatization of real estate. These are not just individual buildings but entire streetscapes, with cobblestone alleys, faux churches (often used as concert halls), towers, and landscaping designed to reproduce the feel of European and North American cities. . . . Original Copies is filled with analysis about why these developments flourish.-- "NYR Blog" The analysis draws on a wide range of sources from architects, critics, builders, city planners, and residents of the replicated landmarks. Well written and organized, this book contains plenty of vivid photos from real estate brochures, websites, and the author's own camera. It is a valuable read for students who are interested in the cultural and social aspects of architecture in contemporary China.-- "Choice" |
208 | 186 x 232 x 14mm | 479.99g | 31 Jan 2013 | University of Hawai'i Press | Honolulu, HI, United States | English | New | Illustrations (some col.) | 0824836065 | 281,829 | 3.72 | US$36.65 | Bianca Bosker is a graduate of Princeton University. She lives in New York and is senior tech editor at the Huffington Post. | Paperback | ||||||
14161 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14161 | 2018-01-11 22:56:07 | Drawing Architecture AD | 9781118418796 | Neil Spiller | We are in the second decade of the 21st century and, as with most things, the distinction between digital and analogue has become tired and inappropriate. This is also true in the world of architectural drawing, which paradoxically is enjoying a renaissance supported by the graphic dexterity of the computer. This new fecundity has produced a contemporary glut of stunning architectural drawings and representations that could rival the most recent outpouring of architectural vision in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Indeed, there is much to learn by comparing the then and the now. The contemporary drawing is often about its ability to describe the change, fluctuations and mutability of architecture in relation to the virtual/real 21st-century continuum of architectural space. Times have changed, and the status of the architectural drawing must change with them. This reassessment is well overdue, and this edition of AD will be the catalyst for such re-examination. * Features the work of: Pascal Bronner, Bryan Cantley, Peter Cook, Perry Kulper, CJ Lim, Tom Noonan, Dan Slavinsky, Neil Spiller, Peter Wilson, Nancy Wolf, Lebbeus Woods and Mas Yendo. * Contributors include: Nic Clear, Mark Garcia, Simon Herron and Mark Morris. |
5 EDITORIAL Helen Castle 6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR Neil Spiller 8 SPOTLIGHT Visual highlights of the issue 14 INTRODUCTION Architectural Drawing: Grasping for the Fifth Dimension Neil Spiller 20 All Night Long: The Architectural Jazz of the Texas Rangers Mark Morris 28 Emerging Technologies and Drawings: The Futures of Images in Architectural Design Mark Garcia 36 Two Sides of the Page: The Antifact and the Artefact Bryan Cantley 44 New Malacovia Pascal Bronner 50 AVATAR: Nothing is Impossible Neil Spiller 56 A World Below Perry Kulper 64 A Two-Speed Landscape: The Reforestation of the Thames Estuary Tom Noonan 70 Drawing Time Nic Clear 80 Looking and Drawing Peter Cook 88 Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery Mark Smout and Laura Allen 94 Plug-In, Clip-On, Tune-Up: A Throwaway Architecture with Optional Extras Simon Herron 102 London Short Stories: Drawing Narratives CJ Lim 108 Dragons Adrift: The New Chinese Landscape Nancy Wolf 112 The Poetics of the Island of Vessels Neil Spiller 120 Bildungsroman Series: Architectural Daring for the 21st Century Dan Slavinsky 124 Could Architectural Drawings Save Us From Philosophical Bankruptcy? Mas Yendo 128 COUNTERPOINT The Art of Drawing Mario Carpo 134 CONTRIBUTORS |
136 | 210 x 272 x 10mm | 579.99g | 28 Oct 2013 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | New York, United States | English | 1. Auflage | 1118418794 | 247,303 | 4.16 | US$27.16 | US$45.00 | Paperback | |||||||
14162 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14162 | 2018-01-11 22:56:11 | Passive House Design | 9783955532208 | Rainer Vallentin | "Passive House Design" provides architects with the confidence required to deal with the Passive House Standard. It shows where there is significant scope for design and explains design strategies that lead to better passive houses. A selection of international buildings illustrate how design, construction and building technology combine in passive houses. Chapters on building physics, building services engineering and energy balancing round out the planning guidelines. |
144 | 212 x 298 x 18mm | 959.99g | 31 Jul 2014 | Edition Detail | Munich, Germany | English | 380 Illustrations, black and white | 3955532208 | 35,591 | 4.5 | US$67.57 | US$84.01 | Dr.-Ing. Roberto Gonzalo and Dr. -Ing. Rainer Vallentin, Munich, Germany. | Hardback | |||||||
14163 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14163 | 2018-01-11 22:56:20 | The Eco-Home Design Guide | 9780857843050 | Christopher Day | Designing an eco home is much more about working with your house's plce and situation than relying in intrusive technology and hi-tech mateirals. In this book, Christopher Day draws on his extensive experience to explain the key principles of eco-home design, using common-sense methods to create a pleasant, comfortable and healthy home. With beautifully simple hand-drawn illustrations, Christopher takes you through: - Using the local topography, combined with landscaping, to improve your home's microclimate - Designing to keep your home dry and warm in the winter, and cool in the summer - Minimizing hidden environmental impacts - Making the house safe and healthy, both emotionally and physically The book includes several case studies of eco hoomes, reviewing (with hindsight) what worked well and what could have been better. |
"This book is informative, and builders, designers or anyone planning a self-build project will find much useful information and advice." -- David Phythian "Besides widening the eco-design debate beyond simplistic energy-conservation, this book describes complicated issues clearly enough for the most non-technical reader to understand." -- Prof. Dr Justyn Ochocki, Medical University of Lodz "Christopher is the UK's foremost practitioner of soulful architecture and place-making. I would urge anyone considering building a new house to read his latest gem, The Eco-Home Design Guide." -- Peter Stirling, Managing Director, Stirling Developments Ltd "The generous use of illustrations and side notes makes this an easy to use guide, and it is a must-have reference for every architect, homeowner, and developer in the operation and construction of homes, retail, and office buildings." -- Richard Erganian, developer "A delightfully accessible reach-for book. I find so many people blundering and wandering in circles on their eco house creation journey, this is just the thing they were missing." -- Vicky Moller, Welsh Assembly election candidate for Plaid Cymru, Party of Wales "A unique text in the study of the elements which constitutes effective, sustainable architectural de-sign for healthy living." -- Lino Bianco, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta "Christopher Day is one of Britain's most outstanding holistic and ecological architects and this book is a timely gift when freeing ourselves from the dependence on fossil fuel has become an urgent imperative." -- Satish Kumar, Editor-in-Chief, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine "This book is an ideal guide for those who wish to explore to the greatest depth the possibilities for designing their own eco-homes." -- Professor Chris Tweed, Welsh School of Architecture "In The Eco-Home Design Guide, Christopher Day makes the technical simple even for non-scientific readers. With gentle humour, this most gifted of architects shares his vision of a living architecture, demonstrating that eco-design CAN be supremely nourishing for the soul." -- Susan Swire, Author of Secrets of the Feel-Good Home "You could hardly find a better man to lead you through the challenging process of creating an eco home from scratch, or of renovating an existing building to meet eco criteria." -- Angela Neustatter, journalist and author of A Home for the Heart |
256 | 205 x 255 x 22.86mm | 839.15g | 01 Feb 2016 | GREEN BOOKS | Totnes, United Kingdom | English | 75 Illustrations, black and white | 0857843052 | 405,212 | 3 | US$32.45 | US$36.99 | Christopher Day has studied architecture and sculpture and has been committed to eco-architecture and an ecological lifestyle since the 1970s. He has received four design awards, including a Prince of Wales Award, for his work on eco-houses and Steiner schools. He pioneered a consensus design method, which has now been used in over 60 projects. As a designer, consultant, lecturer or teacher, Christopher has worked in 20 different countries from California, USA to New Zealand, managing the construction of 150+ eco-homes across many income-levels cultures and climates. Continuing to work despite being disabled for the last fifteen years, Christopher has developed a further specialism in adapting environmentally friendly buildings for disabled residents. |
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14164 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14164 | 2018-01-11 22:56:23 | Modern Construction Handbook | 9783035609554 | Andrew Watts | Modern Construction Handbook has become a modern classic of building construction literature. In the USA, it is used as a reference work for many architectural courses. With the chapters "Material", "Wall", "Roof", "Structure", "Environment" and "Applications" it systematically explores the subject and provides a clear and efficient structure to the reader.For the fourth edition, many of the 3D illustrations have been updated and, likewise, the technical information has been brought up to date. "Applications" showcases current developments, such as those relating to the customized manufacture of components, and presents material and construction innovations. A compact and systematic handbook filled with information, produced for students and young architects alike. |
504 | 210 x 297 x 38.1mm | 2,142g | 01 Jun 2016 | Birkhauser | Basel, Switzerland | English | 4th Revised edition | 1500 Illustrations, color | 3035609551 | 358,549 | 4.23 | Andrew Watts, Spezialist fur Gebaudehullen, grundete Newtecnic und unterreichtet in Cambridge und Univ. of Westminster. | Paperback | ||||||||
14166 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14166 | 2018-01-11 22:56:26 | Precedents in Architecture | 9780470946749 | Roger H. Clark | Precedents in Architecture provides students with a foundation for understanding architecture and creating their own designs through the examination of works by internationally known architects. A unique diagrammatic technique is used to analyze over 100 existing buildings and illustrate meaningful architectural concepts. Students become familiar thinking in terms of parti- the assumptions behind an architectural design and the choices made when realizing that design. The new Fourth Edition will examine work by current well-known architects from around the world that have emerged in the field in the past decade. |
Prefaces v Introduction xiii Analysis 1 Alvar Aalto 8 Tadao Ando 16 Erik Gunnar Asplund 20 Stephane Beel 28 Peter Q. Bohlin 32 Mario Botta 40 Filippo Brunelleschi 48 David Chipperfield 56 Sverre Fehn 60 Romaldo Giurgola 64 Nicholas Hawksmoor 72 Herzog & de Meuron 80 Steven Holl 84 Toyo Ito 88 Louis I. Kahn 92 Tom Kundig 100 Le Corbusier 104 Claude Nicholas Ledoux 112 Sigurd Lewerentz 120 Edwin Lutyens 124 Brian MacKay-Lyons 132 Richard Meier 136 Rafael Moneo 144 Charles Moore 148 Glenn Murcutt 156 Jean Nouvel 160 Andrea Palladio 164 Thomas Phifer 172 Henry Hobson Richardson 176 Alvaro Siza 184 James Stirling 188 Louis Sullivan 196 Yoshio Taniguchi 204 Giuseppe Terrangi 208 Ludwg Mies van der Rohe 216 Robert Venturi 224 Frank Lloyd Wright 232 Peter Zumthor 240 Formative Ideas 245 Plan to Section or Elevation 260 Unit to Whole 267 Repetitive to Unique 274 Additive and Subtractive 280 Symmetry and Balance 282 Geometry 288 Configuration Patterns 302 Progressions 312 Reduction 316 Index 321 Index by Architect 321 Index by Building 330 |
352 | 213.36 x 274.32 x 25.4mm | 793.78g | 28 Feb 2012 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 4th ed. | 0470946741 | 259,251 | 4.11 | US$60.71 | US$70.00 | Roger H. Clark, FAIA, is an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture in the College of Design at North Carolina State University and a practicing architect. He has received more than fifty design awards, publishes regularly in professional journals, and coauthored Kinetic Architecture. Michael Pause, PhD, is a former professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. During his thirty-three-year tenure at NCSU, he received fourteen university awards for excellence in teaching, advising, and mentoring. He is currently a color and light, graphic and residential design consultant. |
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14167 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14167 | 2018-01-11 22:56:35 | The New Mathematics of Architecture | 9780500342640 | Jane Burry | This one-of-a-kind survey of 46 international projects, compiled and written by leading experts on architectural mathematics, offers a thorough overview of how recent developments in maths and physics are being applied to architecture. This carefully researched book offers students and practitioners new ways of thinking about the future of designing and building. Each of the 46 projects, largely built, are by globally recognized architects, presented through specially drawn illustrations and plans, photographs and texts. Chapter introductions and case studies include cross-references to a complete illustrated glossary, which further elaborates on mathematical concepts introduced in the text. |
Written in refreshingly clear text with accompanying illustrations from nearly 40 international projects. Celebrates technology within the beauty of modern-day architecture | 272 | 224 x 242 x 30mm | 1,401.59g | 08 Nov 2010 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 628 illustrations, 435 in colour | 0500342644 | 266,360 | 4.16 | Hardback | |||||||||
14168 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14168 | 2018-01-11 22:56:43 | Site-writing | 9781845119997 | Professor Jane Rendell | The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, "Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism" puts the sites of the critic's engagement with art first. The book puts into shape what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity enter the writing of art criticism. The sites explored are the material, emotional, political and conceptual settings of the artwork's construction, exhibition and documentation, as well as those remembered, dreamed and imagined. Through five different spatial configurations - both psychic and architectural - "Site-Writing" explores artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne Al-Ani, Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Christina Iglesias and Do-Ho Suh, aiming to adapt such psychoanalytic ways of working as free association and conjectural interpretation to art criticism. |
'A timely and highly significant contribution to academic and professional fields of contemporary art, Rendell's Site-Writing offers the first substantial exploration of the situatedness of engagement with art. Here Rendell combines exemplary academic argument with immersive critical analysis of contemporary works. It is this distinctive voice which sets Rendell apart from her contemporaries and makes Site-Writing an essential volume for anyone interested in the specificity of viewing and engaging with, producing and writing about art.' - Claire Doherty, Director, Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol; 'Jane Rendell is a nomadic theorist and a theoretical nomad, whose formidable intellect has produced books on the interstitial relationship between space and feminism, place and psyche, city and citizen, architecture and art. Asking, where does biography end and theory begin?A" Rendell's architectonics of criticism performs a praxis that negotiates the personal and the universal. This discloses the critic in all of us, who, in facing the creative work, is confronted with the other (both distant and near), compelling us to reconstruct our own world and therefore the very space we occupy.' - Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, Massey University College of Creative Arts |
328 | 156 x 232 x 22mm | 780.17g | 15 Feb 2011 | I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. | London, United Kingdom | English | 80 integrated illustrations | 1845119991 | 291,679 | 3.9 | Professor Jane Rendell is Director of Architectural Research at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She is author of Art and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002), and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007); Spatial Imagination (2005); The Unknown City (2001); Intersections (2000); Gender, Space, Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995). | Paperback | I.B.Tauris | |||||||
14169 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14169 | 2018-01-11 22:56:52 | Brutalism | 9781847972309 | Alexander Clement | The term Brutalism is used to describe a form of architecture that appeared, mainly in Europe, from around 1945 - 1975. Uncompromisingly modern, this trend in architecture was both striking and arresting and, perhaps like no other style before or since, aroused extremes of emotion and debate. Some regarded Brutalist buildings as monstrous soulless structures of concrete, steel and glass, whereas others saw the genre as a logical progression, having its own grace and balance. |
160 | 194 x 250 x 18mm | 762.03g | 01 Apr 2011 | The Crowood Press Ltd | Ramsbury, United Kingdom | English | 150 colour photographs | 1847972306 | 239,975 | 3.95 | US$30.51 | US$49.95 | Alexander Clement is a design historian whose interest in architecture began at school and intensified while studying the history of art at Staffordshire University, where he developed a particular interest in twentieth century building. After graduating Alexander maintained his interest, photographing buildings in the UK and overseas. He has worked as a museum curator and fine art auctioneer specializing in ceramics and Asian art since 1994, and has written on various aspects of design history for the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography and Antiques Magazine amongst other publications. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. |
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14170 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14170 | 2018-01-11 22:56:54 | How to Read Bridges | 9781408171769 | Edward Denison | How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the structure and purpose of bridges. It is a guide to reading the structural clues embedded in every bridge that allows their variety and ingenuity to be better appreciated. Small enough to carry in your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, this comprehensive guide: - analyses and explores all types of bridges from around the world from the first millennium to the present day. - explores fundamental concepts of bridge design, key materials and engineering techniques. - provides an accessible visual guide with intelligent text, using detailed illustrations and cross-sections of technical features. |
Introduction Part One: Understanding Bridges Materials Bridge Types Bridge Uses Engineers Part Two: Case Studies Beam Bridges Arch Bridges Truss Bridges Opening & Moving Bridges Cantilever Bridges Suspension Bridges Cable-stayed Bridges Appendices Glossary Resources Index Acknowledgements | 256 | 134 x 166 x 20mm | 399.16g | 01 Feb 2012 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | London, United Kingdom | English | 1408171767 | 247,613 | 3.9 | US$14.40 | US$21.25 | Ian Stewart is a Chartered Engineer working at Davies Maguire + Whitby, a structural engineering design practice in London. His key project experience includes BBC Broadcasting House and Tate Modern II in London and St David's 2 shopping centre in Cardiff. He is also involved with the industry-related charity CODEP, founded with the objective of delivering libraries and literary centres in Sierra Leone. He has a PhD in Structural Dynamics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Edward Denison is an independent consultant, writer and architectural photographer. His work focuses on sustainability and the built environment, and ranges from consulting for international agencies on heritage and development to researching, writing and photographing books on design and architecture. He has a PhD in Architectural History from University College London. |
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14171 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14171 | 2018-01-11 22:56:56 | 100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings | 9783836547673 | Philip Jodidio | The charm of concrete architecture today. Who has not heard of concrete? It is that ugly stuff they make highway bridges and crumbling walls out of, right? Well, yes, and no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of substances used in construction, and, when it is properly handled, it is actually one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of "liquid stone" at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and, in the right hands, capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This two-volume book highlights the best work done in recent years with concrete. Included are "stars" like Zaha Hadid. Herzog & de Meuron, and Steven Holl, but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH, rising stars of the international scene like Rudy Ricciotti from France, and even artists such as James Turrell, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces. |
696 | 252 x 320 x 82mm | 5,519.91g | 25 Jun 2015 | Taschen GmbH | Cologne, Germany | English, French, German | Multilingual | m. zahlr. Farbfotos u. Zeichn. | 3836547678 | 365,147 | 4.8 | Hardback | |||||||||
14172 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14172 | 2018-01-11 22:57:06 | Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 | 9781118862858 | Eddy Krygiel | The Ultimate Guide to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Responding to reader and instructor feedback, the expert author team updated and refreshed the book's content to make it even more useful, complete, and approachable. Mastering Revit Architecture is organized by real-world workflows and features detailed explanations, interesting real-world examples, and practical tutorials to help readers understand Revit and BIM concepts so that they can quickly start accomplishing vital Revit tasks. Part I discusses key BIM and Revit concepts before giving readers a hands-on look at the Revit interface. Part II explores today's Revit workflows and introduces readers to templates, worksharing, and managing Revit projects. Part III dives into modeling and massing and offers detailed information on the crucial Family Editor as well as visualization techniques for various industries. Part IV covers documentation, including annotation and detailing, and explains how to work with complex walls, roofs and floors as well as curtain walls and advanced stair and railings. The companion website features before-and-after tutorial files (metric and Imperial sets), additional advanced content, and an hour of video on crucial techniques. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced Revit user, this book offers the detailed instruction you need to get the most out of this powerful software product. |
Introduction xxv
Part 1 Fundamentals 1
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Basics of BIM 3
Chapter 2 Applying the Principles of the User Interface and Project Organization 19
Chapter 3 The Basics of the Toolbox 65
Chapter 4 Configuring Templates and Standards 107
Part 2 Collaboration and Teamwork 159
Chapter 5 Working in a Team 161
Chapter 6 Working with Consultants 197
Chapter 7 Interoperability: Working Multiplatform 229
Part 3 Modeling and Massing for Design 269
Chapter 8 Advanced Modeling and Massing 271
Chapter 9 Conceptual Design and Design Analysis 325
Chapter 10 Working with Phasing, Groups, and Design Options 363
Chapter 11 V isualization 417
Part 4 Extended Modeling Techniques 473
Chapter 12 Creating Walls and Curtain Walls 475
Chapter 13 Modeling Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs 539
Chapter 14 Designing with the Family Editor 573
Chapter 15 Creating Stairs and Railings 623
Part 5 Documentation 683
Chapter 16 Detailing Your Design 685
Chapter 17 Documenting Your Design 717
Chapter 18 Annotating Your Design 749
Part 6 Construction and Beyond 795
Chapter 19 Working in the Construction Phase 797
Chapter 20 Presenting Your Design 823
Chapter 21 Working with Point Clouds 847
Appendix A The Bottom Line 869
Appendix B Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting 889
Appendix C Autodesk Revit Architecture Certification 911
Index 919 |
1008 | 187.96 x 231.14 x 48.26mm | 1,927.76g | 03 Jun 2014 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | New York, United States | English | 1. Auflage | 1118862856 | 303,205 | 3.75 | US$67.63 | US$69.99 | Eddy Krygiel is an Autodesk Authorized Author and registered architect at HNTB Architects, where he implements BIM and has used Revit to complete projects of all sizes. James Vandezande is a registered architect, an Autodesk Authorized Author, and Principal at HOK, where he is one of the company's BIM leaders. Vandezande is also involved in developing the US National BIM Standard and the LOD Specification. |
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14173 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14173 | 2018-01-11 22:57:07 | The Language of Things | 9780393070811 | Deyan Sudjic | In ?The Language of Things, ?the director of London's Design Museum charts our relationship with all things designed. With scintillating wit and an eye for the pleasures and dangers of rampant consumerism, Deyan Sudjic takes us from luxury car commercials to glossy advertisements for seasonal variations of the Prada purse to the hype surrounding the latest version of the iPhone, exploring how we are manipulated and seduced by our possessions. Who would've thought that it's the subtle visual similarity between the Volkswagen Golf GTI and the barrel of an automatic pistol that makes people want to get behind the wheel? And why is it that digital cameras in cell phones "click" even though they don't have a shutter? Sudjic's illuminating argument will resound with anyone who has ever been affected by how things look--lured, in other words, by the powerful siren call of design. |
A mind-broadening look at how designers of all kinds make our material world what it is.... Full of eye-opening examples of design at its most daring--and most successful.--Henry Petrosky, author of Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design The Language of Things reads like a good conversation with someone who has a deep understanding of his subject matter.... A provocative and effective way of looking at our world through the lens of objects.--John Dunningan, Dean of Architecture and Design, Rhode Island School of Design An evocative, sometimes disturbing, always intelligent book about the poetry of material things.--Richard Sennett, author of The Culture of the New Capitalism [Sudjic] writes beautifully, communicating an expert knowledge of design in words so well crafted that you look forward to every sentence.--Bill Moggridge, cofounder of IDEO and author of Designing Interactions [Sudjic] views the world of objects that surrounds us with both unabashed passion and supreme skepticism.... We could ask for no better guide.--Michael Bierut, author of Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design A deep, penetrating look at the ever-perilous battle among the competing forces of art, fashion, and practicality.... Difficult to read because I was laughing so much, I kept losing my place.--Donald Norman, author of Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things The Language of Things reads like a good conversation with someone who has a deep understanding of his subject matter.... A provocative and effective way of looking at our world through the lens of objects. --John Dunningan, Dean of Architecture and Design, Rhode Island School of Design An evocative, sometimes disturbing, always intelligent book about the poetry of material things. --Richard Sennett, author of The Culture of the New Capitalism [Sudjic] writes beautifully, communicating an expert knowledge of design in words so well crafted that you look forward to every sentence. --Bill Moggridge, cofounder of IDEO and author of Designing Interactions A mind-broadening look at how designers of all kinds make our material world what it is.... Full of eye-opening examples of design at its most daring--and most successful. --Henry Petrosky, author of Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design [Sudjic] views the world of objects that surrounds us with both unabashed passion and supreme skepticism.... We could ask for no better guide. --Michael Bierut, author of Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design A deep, penetrating look at the ever-perilous battle among the competing forces of art, fashion, and practicality.... Difficult to read because I was laughing so much, I kept losing my place. --Donald Norman, author of Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things |
208 | 142.24 x 213.36 x 22.86mm | 317.51g | 01 Jun 2009 | WW Norton & Co | New York, United States | English | Illustrations, black and white | 0393070816 | 269,817 | 3.63 | US$23.54 | US$24.95 | Hardback | |||||||
14174 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14174 | 2018-01-11 22:57:19 | Elements of Parametric Design | 9780415779876 | Robert Woodbury | Driven by new computer and digital fabrication tools, the architectural designs that are being built are pushing boundaries of form, customization and construction. Pushed by practices wanting and needing to produce novelty, computer-aided design systems are increasingly parametric - that is, they represent designs that change with their input data. Such systems give more control and capability to designers, but require much more comprehensive understanding if they are to be used effectively. Mastering these ideas requires skill as designer, mathematician and computer scientist. This book teaches what new knowledge and skills designers need to master the parametric and how they can learn and use it. It demonstrates clearly how using patterns to think about and work with parametric modelling helps designers master the new complexity of the design systems. |
1. Introduction 2. What is Parametric Modeling? 3. How Designers Work 4. Programming 5. The New Elephant House, Copenhagen 6. Geometry 7. Onur Gun 8. Patterns for Parametric Design 9. Hysterical Space | 312 | 186 x 242 x 18mm | 879.96g | 25 Aug 2010 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 85 colour illustrations, 250 colour line drawings | 0415779871 | 237,753 | 3.83 | US$56.15 | Robert Woodbury is a professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research is on how people develop and use interactive systems. Through work in computational design, people-centred systems for sustainability and visual analytics, he aims to discover general concepts and designs for systems that people find engaging and useful. He is a former Olympian and current dabbler in sailing. |
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14175 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14175 | 2018-01-11 22:57:20 | The New Autonomous House | 9780500282878 | Brenda Vale | "The New Autonomous House" has a simple but revolutionary message that it is possible to live in a home which is inexpensive, kind to the planet, and which liberates its owner from utility bills. | Definitions and introduction to the problems; the philosophical and technical background; the autonomous house as built; theoretical analysis of the technical options; the technical options implemented in the autonomous house; performance in use. | 256 | 162.56 x 233.68 x 22.86mm | 566.99g | 17 Sep 2002 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 0500282870 | 273,170 | 3.85 | US$23.52 | Brenda Vale is Professor of Architectural Technology and Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre at the University of Auckland, where Robert Vale is a Research Fellow. They are the authors of Green Architecture, also published by Thames & Hudson. | Paperback | ||||||||
14176 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14176 | 2018-01-11 22:57:31 | Letter by Letter | 9781568987378 | Laurent Pflughaupt | Letters are the building blocks of our language, and quite possibly of our consciousness. Written into young minds through constant repetition, letters soon function like water in a fishbowlessential for life, but too familiar to qualify as objects of serious inquiry. But considered separately from words and sentences, letters express their own mysteriousbeauty. In order to uncover their secrets, it is necessary to forego the conventional historical approach in favor of animpassioned appreciation of their formal and sensual characteristics.In Letter by Letter graphic designer and calligrapher Laurent Pflughaupt analyzes each letter of the Roman alphabet in detail, tracing its origin, evolution, and form, as well as discussing its important abbreviations, symbols, and associated meanings. Arranged in alphabetical order, twenty-six entries offer a wealth of facts about each letter, establishingcorrespondences between letters and elements borrowed from a variety of different fields of study, ranging from traditionalpaleography, phonetics, and graphic arts to the more arcane areas of musicology, esotericism, and even Eastern philosophy.In addition to a glossary, timelines and images allow us to visualize the letters during the different historical eras, givingthe reader an appreciation of their successive metamorphoses. Written as an homage, this lovingly illustrated book takes abroad approach to the modern alphabet, allowing the reader to see letters anew, in a fresh and lively manner guaranteed toinform and enchant anyone interested in typography and language. |
160 | 177.8 x 213.36 x 15.24mm | 385.55g | 20 Mar 2008 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | New York, United States | English | 139 colour | 1568987374 | 304,036 | 3.91 | US$13.67 | US$24.95 | Laurent Pflughaupt is a designer, calligrapher, and artist. He received his degree from l'Ecole municipale superieure des arts et techniques in Paris." | Paperback | |||||||
14177 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14177 | 2018-01-11 22:57:37 | Architectural Lighting | 9781568989389 | Herve Descottes | Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts and instructional diagrams. Six built projects provide readers with concrete examples of the ways in which these principles are applied. Short essays by architect Steven Holl, artist Sylvain Dubuisson, and landscape architect James Corner explore the role of lighting in defining spatial compositions. |
144 | 175.26 x 213.36 x 15.24mm | 385.55g | 04 May 2011 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | New York, United States | English | 177 colour | 1568989385 | 267,922 | 3.8 | US$24.45 | US$24.95 | Paperback | ||||||||
14178 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14178 | 2018-01-11 22:57:41 | Biophilic Cities | 9781597267151 | Timothy Beatley | Tim Beatley has long been a leading advocate for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasising such elements as public transport, renewable energy production, and energy efficient building systems. While these are important aspects of re-imagining urban living, they are not enough, says Beatley. We must remember that human beings have an innate need to connect with the natural world (the biophilia hypothesis). And any vision of a sustainable urban future must place its focus squarely on nature, on the presence, conservation, and celebration of the actual green features and natural life forms. A biophilic city is more than simply a biodiverse city, says Beatley. It is a place that learns from nature and emulates natural systems, incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes, and designs and plans in conjunction with nature. A biophilic city cherishes the natural features that already exist but also works to restore and repair what has been lost or degraded. In Biophilic Cities Beatley not only outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, but provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements - from the building to the regional level - around the world. From urban ecological networks and connected systems of urban green space, to green rooftops and green walls and sidewalk gardens, Beatley reviews the emerging practice of biophilic urban design and planning, and tells many compelling stories of individuals and groups working hard to transform cities from grey and lifeless to green and biodiverse. |
"This outstanding and important book provides inspiration and practical guidance for addressing the basic human need for nature in a rapidly urbanizing world, authored by one of the world's great authorities on harmonizing nature and humanity in cities today."--Stephen R. Kellert "Professor Emeritus, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies " "Because of his great vision, Tim Beatley is a hero to many of us. To paraphrase a famous quote, some people see cities as they are and ask why; Tim Beatley sees cities as they could be (filled with nature) and says why not?"--Richard Louv "author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder " "The future of our species depends on our ability to coexist with the natural world. But what does this actually mean for human settlements? Biophilic Cities makes the case for why nature is so vital to the human experience, and how urban planning and design can harness our affinities with nature to create more sustainable cities. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of cities."--Jennifer Wolch "Dean, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley " |
208 | 149.86 x 226.06 x 12.7mm | 294.83g | 22 Dec 2010 | Island Press | Washington, United States | English | black & white halftones | 1597267155 | 278,849 | 3.77 | US$33.97 | US$35.00 | Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for more than twenty years. He is the author of many books, including Resilient Cities, Green Urbanism, and Green Urbanism Down Under, all published by Island Press. | Paperback | ||||||
14179 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14179 | 2018-01-11 22:57:45 | Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being | 9780415843522 | Gayle Souter-Brown | In this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being. She examines the evidence behind the positive effects of designed landscapes, and explains effective methods and approaches which can be put into practice by those seeking to reduce costs and add value through outdoor spaces. Using principles from sensory, therapeutic and healing gardens, Souter-Brown focuses on landscape's ability to affect health, education and economic outcomes. Already valued within healthcare environments, these design guidelines for public and private spaces extend the benefits throughout our towns and cities. Covering design for school grounds to public parks, public housing to gardens for stressed executives, this richly illustrated text builds the case to justify inclusion of a designed outdoor area in project budgets. With case studies from the US, UK, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it is an international, inspirational and valuable tool for those interested in landscapes that provide real benefits to their users. |
Introduction Part 1: The Origins And Evolution Of Healing Gardens 1. The History: What Were Gardens For? 2. Why Do We Need Gardens For Health And Well-Being Today?' 3. Urban Space Degradation 4. Sustainable Communities Are Healthy Communities Part 2: Who Will Benefit From Healing Gardens? 5. Healing Gardens For Children 6. Healing Gardens For Adults 7. Healing Gardens And Cityscapes For Disabled Children And Adults 8. Healing Gardens For Stressed Executives 9. Cost Benefits Of Greening The Urban Environment Through Healing Gardens Part 3: Designing Healing Gardens Using An Inclusive, Salutogenic Approach 10. The Salutogenic Design Process 11. Salutogenic Design Guidelines - Simple Is Best 12. Inclusive Design - Key Design Elements Part 4: Additional Resources 13. Funding Sources For Public Sensory, Therapeutic And Healing Gardens 14. How And Where To Develop Community Green Space |
"You will not find a more comprehensive, informative, and well-researched compendium of healing, sensory, and therapeutic gardens, with real-life examples and case studies, written with a tangible passion for the subject. This book, containing answers to all your questions, is a definite must have!" - Marta Ratajszczak, Landscape Architects Network, landarchs.com "Presenting greenspace as a human lifeline, this is an excellent and accessible read for the practitioner and students alike. Concepts of architecture, design, sustainability and well being are blended with whole of life costing approaches to make the case for a supportive urban environment in which individuals, families, communities and business can thrive." - Teena Hale Pennington, CEO New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) "A good, practical blueprint for creating urban spaces that offer health through nature." - Richard Louv, journalist, author and co-founder of the Children & Nature Network "Both comprehensive and informative, this publication adds immeasurably to the growing interest in the health-giving properties of green space to enhance liveable, sustainable cities. Covering design from school grounds to public parks, from public housing to private gardens, this richly illustrated text builds the case for including green spaces throughout our urban environments... ...It is refreshing to see coverage not just of the health benefits of urban green space but how interventions - large and small - provide social and economic benefits to communities. This is a rare, inclusive approach to thinking about how green nature can support us in our homes, neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces and healthcare facilities... ...This book is a rich and welcome addition to the debate." - World Health Design, Clare Cooper Marcus, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
340 | 172 x 244 x 22mm | 859.99g | 01 Oct 2014 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 4 black & white tables, 184 colour illustrations, 30 colour line drawings | 0415843529 | 310,948 | 4 | US$53.91 | US$55.95 | Gayle Souter-Brown is Founder and Director of Greenstone Design UK Ltd, salutogenic landscape and urban design consultants. Her research interests in design for health and well-being follow years working with disabled adults and children. With 25 years of international experience she lectures, writes and designs from UK and New Zealand. | Paperback | ROUTLEDGE | ||||
14180 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14180 | 2018-01-11 22:57:47 | Architectural Diagrams 1: Construction and Design Manual | 9783869224176 | Pyo miyoung | The trendsetting architect Rem Koolhaas has carried it out to perfection, whereas the next generation of international stars refined it even more, giving us the unconventional presentation of designs and ideas in the form of diagrams. This method of presentation is easy to understand when dealing with the client and can be communicated internationally, beyond language and cultural barriers - a product of our globalised world. However, diagrams are now much more than explanations and form their own discipline in creative professions connected to design and construction. What looks simple is in fact a complex matter. This title in the series Construction and Design Manual is in its second edition and assembles 384 pages of diagrams by avant-garde architects and designers who specialise in public space, landscape architecture and urban planning. |
384 | 232 x 290 x 40mm | 2,059.97g | 01 Sep 2015 | DOM Publishers | Berlin, Germany | English | 2nd edition | über 600 Abb. | 3869224177 | 358,478 | US$88.57 | US$99.95 | Hardback | ||||||||
14181 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14181 | 2018-01-11 22:57:55 | Outlaw Territories | 9781935408734 | Felicity D. Scott | Revisiting an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations.In Outlaw Territories, Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Scott revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. She describes architecture's response to the displacement of persons brought on by migration, urbanization, environmental catastrophe, and warfare, and she traces architecture's relationship to the material, environmental, psychological, and geopolitical transformations brought on by postindustrial technologies and neoliberal capitalism after World War II.At the height of the U.S.-led war in Vietnam and Cambodia, with ongoing decolonization struggles in many parts of the world, architecture not only emerged as a target of political agitation because of its inherent normativity but also became heavily enmeshed with military, legal, and humanitarian apparatuses, participating in scientific and technological research dedicated to questions of international management and security. Once architecture became aligned with a global matrix of forces concerned with the environment, economic development, migration, genocide, and war, its role shifted at times toward providing strategic expertise for institutions born of neoliberal capitalism. Scott investigates this nexus and questions how and to what ends architecture and the environment came to be intimately connected to the expanded exercise of power within the shifting geopolitical frameworks at this time. |
Scott's book offers hope that we, as designers, are not bound to reproducing the status quo, but have the potential to serve discordant voices and rebel aspirations. By lifting the veil of exceptionality under which outlaw territories remain confined, we can reinvest these spaces with the new norms of civility and justice that they deserve. * Harvard Design Magazine * [Scott's] new book on architecture and the exercise of biopolitical power in the era of decolonization is excellent, extensive, and indeed urgent -- given the vast human unsettlement of our own moment, coming to terms with its longer history is essential for thinking about how architecture might respond to social questions on a territorial scale. -- James Graham * Metropolis Magazine * |
560 | 165 x 237 x 39mm | 904g | 31 May 2016 | ZONE BOOKS | New York, United States | English | 104 b&w illus. | 1935408739 | 371,958 | 4.6 | US$34.47 | US$39.96 | Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism (MIT Press). | Hardback | ||||||
14182 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14182 | 2018-01-11 22:58:06 | Recombinant Urbanism | 9780470093313 | David Grahame Shane | This book provides a simple but comprehensive framework for the emerging academic discipline of urban design, from its origins in Europe and America, to contemporary issues of imagery, finance and marketing in an age of globalisation. There is currently no contemporary textbook for urban design that includes a general history and theory of the subject. Internationally, urban design is more and more becoming a core subject taught in architecture schools. The AIA (US) and the RIBA (UK) both require undergraduates and graduates to study the urban dimension of architectural design. On a wider scale, in Europe, the EU is developing a common architectural curriculum, which includes an urban component for under-graduates. The situation is similar in schools across Asia and Australia. Aimed at both students and teachers, this book provides a simple and accessible framework, from the origins of urban design and the main techniques developed to deal with the design of fragments of cities, to participatory planning processes, codes, imagery, finance and marketing. Finally, it proposes an innovative vision of contemporary practice based on the work of leading actors and projects in the field. This book is set to become the key textbook at undergraduate and graduate levels. It is written in an accessible and direct tone, and highly illustrated with many color and black and white diagrams. It includes a general history and theory of urban design and provides an up-to-date account of contemporary urban conditions.Praise for "Recombinant Urbanism": 'Documents a major intellectual advance...eagerly awaited by academics and practitioners all around the world...should become a standard text for schools of architecture and urbanism' - Leon Van Schaik, Innovation Professor of Architecture, RMIT, Australia. ' ...both unique and instrumentally positive. The book is the result of many years of research and writing, and is a small masterpiece in urban studies. It has already proved its worth in the teaching of urban studies, at Columbia, the AA, the Bartlett School, and Cooper Union, to mention only a few of the universities where Dr Shane has had a powerful influence...It is, indeed, one of the very best manuscripts I have read in the field in the last few years' - Anthony Vidler, Professor and Dean, Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York, USA." I can say without hesitation that I fully endorse Grahame's work...the issues it covers are highly topical and such a book would indeed be widely read by architecture students, urban designers and planners." Colin Fournier, Professor of Architecture &Urbanism, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK "Of great necessity for undergraduate and postgraduate students, scientists and professionals in urban planning and design [This] publication will certainly inspire work with city models in a wide range of practice." Henrik W Jensen, Associate Professor in Town Planning, Aarhus School of Architecture, The Netherlands.'A very important book. Shane ...has made legible and sensible the reams of recent urban discourse for a general college reader. Because of this labor-intensive effort, this book will be accessible by undergrad architecture programs as well as graduate seminars in urban design and planning. Additionally there is a big interest in UD and UP theory in ecology and social science now, and because of Grahame's generous writing style the book will cross over to these other disciplines...I can also speak to the international interest in this book; ...again Shane has made important urban theories and thinking more widely available to an international student audience. ..The legacy the book will have (will be in) convincing people that the design of cities matters, not in the overbearing and over-controlling sense of new urbanism, but in reinforcing the multiple possibilities of contemporary life' - Brian McGrath, Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, USA. |
Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1. What is City Theory? Chapter 2. What is Urban Design? Chapter 3. Three Urban Elelments. Chapter 4. Heterotopias in City Medleing and Urban Design. Conclusion. Heterotopias, the Net City, and Recombinant Urbanism. Notes. Photocredits. Acknowledgements. Index. | "...will become the first 'cult' book in the field...a dazzling and positive interpretation..." (RUDI.net, Jan 06) "...an excellent book..." (Architects Journal, April 2006) "This book offers a very useful history of ideas of urban design" (Urban Design, May 2006) "...the first serious attempt to understand contemporary cities..." (Architectural Review, August 2006) | 344 | 172.72 x 223.52 x 22.86mm | 476.27g | 24 Jun 2005 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 1. Auflage | Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.) | 0470093315 | 373,328 | 3.84 | US$52.42 | US$65.00 | David Grahame Shane trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in the 1960s during the Archigram years. He completed an M.Arch in Urban Design and a Ph.D in Architectural and Urban History at Cornell University with Colin Rowe. He taught at the A.A. School under Alvin Boyarsky, before joining Columbia University in 1985 (and the urban Design Program in 1991). Shane now also lectures at Cooper Union and City College in New York. Over the last 20 years, he has taught urban-design master classes and lectured internationally, as well as being published widely. |
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14183 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14183 | 2018-01-11 22:58:17 | Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: Early Period: 1893-1909 | 9780486244570 | Frank Lloyd Wright | "I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building -- or the significance of those buildings I have already built." -- Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections of designs with commentary that temperamentally parallel that work: irascible, radical, powerful and dense, astonishing and simple in its clarity. One of his earliest published works illustrates the parallel, preserving thought and design at a prophetic moment, shortly before Wright's genius and fame captured two continents and many converts. The Wasmuth portfolio of drawings (named after the original German publisher) is reproduced here from an extremely rare first edition (1910). Wright's polemical preface indicates the importance he attached to the drawings and their publication: ." . . the work illustrated in this volume, with the exception of the work of Louis Sullivan, is the first consistent protest in bricks and mortar against this pitiful waste [academic, inorganic styles]. It is a serious attempt to formulate some industrial and aesthetic ideals that in a quiet, rational way will help to make a lovely thing of an American's home environment. . . ." "Home environment" for Wright was the Midwestern plain; these these drawings, perhaps his earliest experiments in organic design, partake of the Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin prairie with their emphasis on the horizontal ("the line of domesticity") and the environmental motif: "A beautiful elm standing near gave the suggestion for the mass of the building," Wright says of the Winslow house in River Forest, Illinois, a dwelling he cites as the first embodiment of many of his ideas. Elegant full-page architectural drawings and plans show Wright's atelier in Oak Park, Illinois, many homes, cottages, banks, a burial chapel, Unity Church temple, a concrete house designed for Ladies' Home Journal and numerous studies for buildings, treated as problems in design, that were never built. The republication of this rare work gives access again to what has been called "the single most important collection of work published by Frank Lloyd Wright." Students of American architectural genius will find here the seeds of Wright's greatness. |
100 | 279.4 x 347.98 x 10.16mm | 498.95g | 01 Jan 1984 | Dover Publications Inc. | New York, United States | English | 0486244571 | 215,474 | 4.39 | American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) designed more than 1,000 structures in a career that spanned eight decades. A leader of the Prairie School of architecture, he also designed interiors, wrote 20 books, and was a popular lecturer. | Paperback | ||||||||||
14184 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14184 | 2018-01-11 22:58:26 | Rural Studio | 9781568982922 | Andrea Oppenheimer | For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, which he describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."In a time of unexampled prosperity, when architectural attention focuses on big, glossy urban projects, the Rural Studio provides an alternative of substance. In addition to being a social welfare venture, the Rural Studio--"Taliesin South" as Mockbee calls it--is also an educational experiment and a prod to the architectural profession to act on its best instincts. In giving students hands-on experience in designing and building something real, it extends their education beyond paper architecture. And in scavenging and reusing a variety of unusual materials, it is a model of sustainable architecture. The work of Rural Studio has struck such a chord-both architecturally and socially--that it has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, and CBS News, as well as in Time and People magazines.The Studio has completed more than a dozen projects, including the Bryant "Hay Bale" House, Harris "Butterfly" House, Yancey Chapel, Akron Chapel, Children's Center, H.E.R.O. Playground, Lewis House, Super Sheds and Pods, Spencer House addition, Farmer's Market, Mason's Bend Community Center, Goat House, and Shannon-Dutley House. These buildings, along with the incredible story of the Rural Studio, the people who live there, and Mockbee and his student architects, are detailed in this colorful book, the first on the subject."I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble"--Samuel Mockbee |
Hale County, Alabama, is one of the least likely places on earth to find great architecture. Poor, black, and mostly ignored since Walker Evans and James Agee brought it to world attention in 1939 in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hale is "a left-behind place," explain Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley in the introduction to their remarkable book. But the hardscrabble land and its proud residents "seduced" Samuel Mockbee and has inspired the Auburn University students who operate out of the Rural Studio that Mockbee established there. The result is a legacy of extraordinary buildings - small in scale, miniscule in budget, but great in spirit and design. Mockbee, who died at the end of last year, had strong convictions about the role of architects in our society and the need to teach students how to serve their communities. A big man who knew how to have a good time, Mockbee anchored his work and his teaching in a fierce sense of place. You can't understand his architecture without knowing about the land and the people for whom it was created. This book reflects those ideas. A graceful introduction explains Mockbee, his motivations and his methods, then gives way to a series of chapters rooted in the places - Mason's Bend, Newbern, Sawyerville, Greensboro, Thomaston, and Akron - where the Rural Studio has built. Dean who is a contributing editor of Record, typically begins her descriptions of projects with the people who live in or use them, just the way Mockbee and his students began each project. Photographs show the untidy belongings and loving touches residents have added to their houses. Beat-up bicycles, embroidered tablecloths, and plastic furniture feel perfect in here. The book also includes a short section of "Interviews with Students, a Teacher, and a Client," an essay by Lawrence Chua on "The Rural Mythology of Samuel Mockbee," and an essay by the photographer Cervin Robinson on the different approaches photographers from Evans to Hursley have taken in capturing the character of Hale County. Like Mockbee himself, this book impresses with its clear-eyed view of real life and its sense of conviction. -Architectural Record |
185 | 204 x 256 x 16mm | 739.35g | 05 Feb 2002 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | New York, United States | English | New | 1568982925 | 261,090 | 4.31 | US$29.45 | US$34.95 | Andrea Oppenheimer Dean is former Executive Editor of Architecture Magazine and a published author. She lives in Washington, D.C. Timothy Hursley is an architectural photographer who regularly contributes to the international press. He lives in Little Rock, AR. | Paperback | ||||||
14185 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14185 | 2018-01-11 22:58:35 | The Green Roof Manual | 9781604690491 | Edmund C. Snodgrass | At last, those seeking basic information on how to design and build green roofs have a concise, authoritative guide to this exciting new technology. | "Anyone involved with and interested in green roofs would be well advised to acquire this indispensable reference." --American Gardener "Well written and clearly organized, with a wealth of descriptive photos throughout." --SciTech Book News "The authors offer options regarding structure, function, horticulture and logistics, as well as surveys of actual projects and analyses of why they have or haven't succeeded." --Green Homebuilder "At last those seeking basic information about how to design and build green roofs have a concise authoritative guide to this exciting new technology." --Western Roofing Magazine Anyone involved with and interested in green roofs would be well advised to acquire this indispensable reference. American Gardener Well written and clearly organized, with a wealth of descriptive photos throughout. SciTech Book News The authors offer options regarding structure, function, horticulture and logistics, as well as surveys of actual projects and analyses of why they have or haven t succeeded. Green Homebuilder At last those seeking basic information about how to design and build green roofs have a concise authoritative guide to this exciting new technology. Western Roofing Magazine " "Anyone involved with and interested in green roofs would be well advised to acquire this indispensable reference." |
296 | 196 x 238 x 26mm | 997.9g | 16 Aug 2010 | Timber Press | Portland, OR, United States | English | 1604690496 | 236,859 | 4.2 | US$32.97 | US$39.96 | Edmund Snodgrass is the owner and president of Emory Knoll Farms Inc. and Green Roof Plants, specialising in plants and horticultural consulting for green roofs. He is co-author with his wife Lucie of Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide. Writer and editor Linda McIntyre specializes in ecology, urbanism, and design. She has served as a staff writer and contributing editor for Landscape Architecture magazine and her work focuses on environmental issues, transportation, and international trade. |
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14186 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14186 | 2018-01-11 22:58:42 | The Sustainable Building Bible | 9781905959143 | Tim Pullen | This is an accessible and authoritative guide to sustainable building. It explains the technologies involved, from air pumps to wind generators and solar panels, helping you to achieve a zero carbon home. | 271 | 170 x 236 x 22mm | 498.95g | 11 Sep 2012 | RED PLANET PUBLISHING LTD | United Kingdom | English | New REV & Exp ed. | tables, diagrams and photographs | 1905959141 | 296,367 | 3.5 | US$23.95 | Paperback | Ovolo Books | |||||||
14187 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14187 | 2018-01-11 22:58:44 | From Control to Design | 9788496540798 | Michael Meredith | Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging, most radical technologies reshaping architecture today. This book presents six independent practices that explore current applications of parametric and algorithmic design techniques in architectural production. If the first generation of digital modeling programs allowed designers to conceive new forms and processes, a new breed of digital techniques is being discussed to control and realize these forms. How are these techniques affecting architectural practice and what potentials do they offer ? This is a compilation of projects from leading practitioners across the fields of parametric and algorithmic design. A compelling, multi-perspective debate on the future of design. Featuring: Mutsuro Sasaki, AGU (Arup), Aranda-Lasch, Michael Meredith (mos), P.art (AKT), Designtoproduction, with a conversation between Sanford Kwinter and Jason Payne. |
239 | 176 x 244 x 24mm | 798.32g | 04 Nov 2008 | ActarD Inc | Barcelona, Spain | English | New ed. | Illustrations (chiefly col.) | 8496540790 | 305,461 | 4.03 | US$31.33 | US$39.96 | Paperback | |||||||
14188 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14188 | 2018-01-11 22:58:46 | Understanding Perspective | 9781844487837 | Giovanni Civardi | Giovanni Civardi has built a formidable reputation worldwide for his skills as both an artist and a teacher, and here he provides a unique introduction to the art of drawing perspective and structure. There are sections on aerial, linear, central linear, two-point and three-point perspective as well as chapters on using construction lines, projected shadows and reflections. We also learn a little bit about how perspective and structure have been used throughout the history of art. Finally the artist shows through his own superb drawings how the techniques and principles learned can be put into practice. The focus of the book is very much on Giovanni's exquisite work and the accompanying text provides concise, clearly written explanations of the subject, including materials, equipment and practical considerations, and the author's in-depth knowledge of the subject is apparent throughout. This is therefore an ideal introduction to drawing perspective, for the absolute beginner, as well as a source of information and inspiration for artists of all abilities. |
Provides a highly visual, expert guide to drawing perspective and structure. Includes numerous examples of the author's own work. Suitable for beginners as well as more advanced artists seeking guidance and inspiration from one of the world's most respected artists and authors. | Mar 13 Civardi presents here a simple, thorough explanation of the basic principles of perspective drawing, the representation of three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional medium. After a brief introduction touching on tools, geometry, and optics, this slim guide covers aerial, linear, and central-linear perspective, two-point and three-point perspective, and the use of construction lines, projected shadows, and reflections. Many finished drawings, step-by-step process drawings, and photographs are provided throughout. VERDICT Beginning and intermediate hobbyists and art students can use this book to learn or improve their realistic-drawing skills. * Library Journal, USA * Aug 12 Perspective is that thing that tends to make your brain freeze over. It's either something you can just do, like colour mixing, or a subject so technical it brings you out in a cold sweat, a bit like dreaming you're doing an A level maths exam with only a set of times-tables for help. And that's the trouble, there's no way round the fact that perspective can only be explained with the use of lines and diagrams and a fundamental understanding of the vanishing point. Yes, it is a form of geometry. Giovanni doesn't shirk the task of getting to grips with the technicalities, but at least you know you're in good hands and I hope that this will be enough to encourage you to persevere. The technical stuff is kept to a minimum and is concisely, but clearly, explained and there are plenty of his sensitive pencil drawings to show you how things work out in practice. If this is something you've been putting off for longer than you care to admit, this might finally be your chance to nail it. * Artbookreview.net * Sept 12 Popular author and teacher Giovanni Civardi's books provide good introductions to each subject with clear illustrations and concise text. Understanding Perspective looks at aerial, linear, central linear, two-point and three-point perspective as well as chapters on projected shadows and reflections. These books are more sketchbooks than how-to-do-it books, but there's much to be learnt from studying the work of this popular artist. * Leisure Painter, The * |
64 | 210 x 295 x 6mm | 299.37g | 16 Jul 2012 | Search Press Ltd | Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom | English | 100 Illustrations, black and white | 1844487830 | 364,158 | 3.57 | GIOVANNI CIVARDI was born in Milan in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus. |
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14189 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14189 | 2018-01-11 22:58:50 | Architectural Acoustics | 9780123982582 | Marshall Long | Architectural Acoustics, Second Edition presents a thorough technical overview of the discipline, from basic concepts to specific design advice. Beginning with a brief history, it reviews the fundamentals of acoustics, human perception and reaction to sound, acoustic noise measurements, noise metrics, and environmental noise characterization. In-depth treatment is given to the theoretical principles and practical applications of wave acoustics, sound transmission, vibration and vibration isolation, and noise transmission in floors and mechanical systems. Chapters on specific design problems demonstrate how to apply the theory, including treatment of multifamily dwellings, office buildings, rooms for speech, rooms for music, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums, sanctuaries, studios, listening rooms, and the design of sound reinforcement systems. Detailed figures illustrate the practical applications of acoustic principles, showing how to implement design ideas in actual structures. This compendium of theoretical and practical design information brings the relevant concepts, equations, techniques, and specific design problems together in one place, including both fundamentals and more advanced material. Practicing engineers will find it an invaluable reference for their daily work, while advanced students will appreciate its rigorous treatment of the basic building blocks of acoustical theory. |
1. Historical Introduction 2. Fundamentals of Acoustics 3. Human Perception and Reaction to Sound 4. Acoustic Measurements and Noise Metrics 5. Environmental Noise 6. Wave Acoustics 7. Sound and Solid Surfaces 8. Sound in Enclosed Spaces 9. Sound Transmission Loss 10. Sound Transmission in Buildings 11. Vibration and Vibration Isolation 12. Noise Transmission in Floor Systems 13. Noise in Mechanical Systems 14. Sound Attenuation in Ducts 15. Design and Construction of Multifamily Dwellings 16. Design and Construction of Office Buildings 17. Design of Rooms for Speech 18. Sound Reinforcement Systems 19. Design of Rooms for Music 20. Design of Multipurpose Auditoria and Sanctuaries 21. Design of Studios and Listening Rooms 22. Acoustic Modeling, Ray Tracing, and Auralization |
"The strength of the book lies in the breadth of material that it covers, and it will work as a starting point for anyone interested in any of the many topics that the author presents."--Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Architectural Acoustics, 2nd Edition "...provides a comprehensive overview to the many aspects of architectural acoustics, sound isolation, equipment noise control and sound reinforcement systems, balancing both theoretical and practical considerations."--Noice Control Engineering Journal, July-August 2014 "...a first-rate reference for consultants who practice architectural acoustics or for architects and engineers who are looking for a complete compilation on acoustical techniques."--International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration |
984 | 198.12 x 238.76 x 43.18mm | 1,837.04g | 10 Apr 2014 | Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc | San Diego, United States | English | 2nd edition | Approx. 600 illustrations; Illustrations, unspecified | 0123982588 | 447,669 | 4.12 | US$94.96 | US$119.95 | Since 1971, Marshall Long has been engaged in acoustical engineering consulting as principal of the firm he founded. Based in California, USA, Marshall Long Acoustics, has established a national and international reputation, completing over 3,000 projects in architectural acoustics, noise and vibration control, environmental impact assessment, and audio visual design. With engineering degrees from Princeton and UCLA, Dr. Long has taught acoustical engineering courses at UCLA and Southern California Institute of Architecture, and has guest lectured at Cal State Long Beach and USC. He has published numerous papers and articles in the field of acoustics. The author has recently been awarded a US patent on the recording and reproduction of three-dimensional sound. For further information visit the firm's website at mlacoustics.com. |
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14190 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14190 | 2018-01-11 22:58:52 | The Great Builders | 9780500251799 | Kenneth Powell | "The Great Builders" surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history. This book, in the same series as "The Great Naturalists" and "The Great Explorers", will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture, buildings, engineering, urban planning or the history of the built environment. |
The writing...is uniformly accessible and intelligently distills major achievements. The writing . . . is uniformly accessible and intelligently distills major achievements. This book contains much well-known information, but its historical architectural continuum could inspire architecture, engineering, and construction students. The study fascinates most when detailing dreams deferred--for example, Schinkel's unbuilt Crimean palace for Tsarina Alexandra and the 'Plan for Tokyo' by Kenzo Tange that's hard to fathom. |
304 | 192 x 248 x 40mm | 1,202.01g | 30 Dec 2011 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 229 illustrations, 157 in colour | 0500251797 | 320,659 | 3.66 | US$29.69 | US$40.00 | Hardback | |||||||
14191 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14191 | 2018-01-11 22:58:59 | Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid | 9781419703256 | Sheri Koones | An Almost off the Grid house functions on a fraction of the energy required by most homes. It's more comfortable; its air is healthier; it's quieter inside, requires less maintenance and is far cheaper to operate. As oil continues to diminish in availability and rise in price, the Almost off the Grid house proves its worth. This book builds on Sheri Koones' first two books. First was Prefabulous, which described the seven types of prefab construction, proving that prefab and fabulous can co exist. Prefabulous + Sustainable focused on the sustainability, health, and efficiency of prefab houses. Prefabulous + Almost off the Grid takes the focus on energy conservation up a notch, highlighting the many ways that architects, manufacturers and builders are creating homes that are not only efficient but, often, operate at nearly zero annual energy cost. Some even sell their home's overproduction of electricity back to the utility company. The houses in Prefabulous + Almost off the Grid are sustainable, healthy and beautiful. The selection of more than 30 homes feature different degrees of energy efficiency and how each is accomplished. With floor plans and multiple images of the exterior and interior of each home, the book also specifically highlights the healthy and sustainable green qualities of each as well as a list of energy saving elements, covering a wide range of new technologies. |
240 | 248.92 x 256.54 x 22.86mm | 1,224.69g | 01 Oct 2012 | Abrams | New York, United States | English | col. Illustrations | 1419703250 | 327,653 | 3.71 | US$31.50 | Sheri Koones is a widely respected author who helps readers understand that getting the house of their dreams can be done in an ecologically responsible way. Sheri is a member of the American National Association of Real Estate Editors, the Sustainable Building Industry Council and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her other previous books include From Sand Castles to Dream Houses, House About It, Modular Mansions, Prefabulous, and Abrams' Prefabulous + Sustainable. She has won a number of awards for Prefabulous and Prefabulous + Sustainable respectively. |
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14192 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14192 | 2018-01-11 22:59:04 | Materiology | 9783038212546 | Daniel Kula | Materiology is directed at all those who are interested in materials and in working with materials: from architects, production designers, and stylists to artists: a handbook for students and new professionals as well as for experienced professionals, written in a clear, understandable style.In four chapters, Materiology offers an overview of the different kinds, processing, and use of materials: 1. Material families: from wood, metal, and plastics to light. 2. Material catalog: over 120 material cards, from basic materials to the latest innovations. 3. Processes: The basics of material processing (spray molds, extrusion, and so on) are presented in a clear manner using numerous diagrams. 4. Thinking ahead: from new processing and use possibilities to questions concerning environmental protection and virtual reality. A prospectus addresses the issues that will be relevant in the future for material development and material use. The second edition has a further 18 material cards and focuses on the challenges of sustainability in design and architecture. |
380 | 198 x 294 x 28mm | 1,579.98g | 07 Nov 2013 | Birkhauser | Basel, Switzerland | English | 2nd Revised edition | 300 Illustrations, color | 3038212547 | 245,749 | 4.25 | US$38.65 | Elodie Ternaux und Quentin Hirsinger, Vorsitzende von materiO Paris; Designdozent Daniel Kula, Experte im Bereich Material und Technologie | Paperback | Birkhauser Verlag AG | ||||||
14193 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14193 | 2018-01-11 22:59:07 | BIM Demystified | 9781859465202 | Steve Race | BIM Demystified is a short, practical introduction to Building Information Modelling (BIM). Addressing BIM from the point of view of mainstream practice as opposed to a cutting-edge technological perspective, it offers a user-friendly yet thorough explanation of a subject which is often swamped by jargon and deluged with spin. Taking a wide view of BIM - encompassing business opportunity, Code of Conduct, cultural issues and the necessity for better legal arrangements too - the book's chapters range from the BIM ingredients (including objects, parametrics, and standards), to the business case for BIM and how to implement it. BIM requires a shift in attitudes if its benefits are to be obtained - and this book will allow individuals at all levels in any practice to build a firmer understanding of the merits and wider application of the subject. It aims to bring together both managers and technologists within businesses throughout the AECC chain to form better and more valuable propositions for built environment interventions. New to the second edition: * The evolution of BIM the movement and the acronym * The impact of the Government initiative * PAS1192, COBie and BIM Protocol demystified * BIM and the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 * BIM and the supply chain * Training and education. |
144 | 188 x 244 x 14mm | 519.99g | 26 Mar 2014 | RIBA Publishing | London, United Kingdom | English | 2nd Revised edition | illustrations (black and white) | 185946520X | 329,623 | 3.66 | US$38.59 | Paperback | RIBA Enterprises | |||||||
14194 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14194 | 2018-01-11 22:59:13 | Landscape Architecture | 9780199681204 | Ian Thompson | Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood defences, as well as the planning of parks and gardens. Taking a historical perspective, Ian Thompson looks at both the roots of landscape architecture and the people that established it. This Very Short Introduction explores some of the misconceptions about landscape architecture and considers the discipline's origins in landscape gardening. Thompson takes a look at a number of areas, including the influence of Modernism, the difference between landscape design and landscape planning, and the way that planning legislation has driven the growth of the discipline. He also explores contemporary environmentalism, the debate as to whether landscape architecture is an art or a science, landscape architecture in the community, post-industrial projects, and its relationship with ecological urbanism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. |
1. Misconceptions and Origins ; 2. Place-making and Improvement ; 3. America and the Turn to Modernism ; 4. The Invisible Hand versus the Grand Gesture ; 5. Use and Beauty ; 6. Professional Environmentalists ; 7. Landscape Architecture as Art ; 8. Social Workers in Green Wellingtons ; 9. Under the Carpet ; 10. Landscape and Urbanism ; Further reading | A great gift for the landscape architect to give to their in-laws who still call them a 'landscape designer' * Historic Garden Review, Aaron Suiter * | 152 | 46 x 176 x 10mm | 120g | 01 Jul 2014 | Oxford University Press | Oxford, United Kingdom | English | 10 black and white illustrations | 0199681201 | 315,049 | 3.46 | US$8.01 | US$11.95 | Ian Thompson is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Reader in Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. He worked as a landscape architect from 1979 to 1992, mostly on work related to environmental improvement, derelict land reclamation and urban renewal, before taking up a lecturing post at Newcastle University. He was the editor of Landscape Research for four years and is currently on the editorial board. He has written many papers, articles and books, including The Sun King's Garden (Bloomsbury, 2006) and The English Lakes: A History (Bloomsbury, 2010). He is also one of the editors of the Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. |
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14195 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14195 | 2018-01-11 22:59:22 | Model Making | 9789491727276 | Bernard Otte | This book is a step-by-step guide about how to create convincing architectural models. Borne out of the authors' experience and enjoyment in the use of models in education and in professional practice, it is an essential manual for students of spatial disciplines, such as urban planning, garden and landscape architecture, public space or interior design, and anyone with an interest in model making. Many people see a model as a finished product, but it can be much more than that. Models can be used in the study and research phases of a project and are essential as design and communication tools until the final presentation model is ready to be finalized. In this manual, each of these applications is explained in detail. Readers discover the most appropriate type of model to match the look and mode of work. Furthermore, the practical side of model construction is explained and illustrated. The three types of models that run parallel to each other include the research, communication, and presentation models, and these are illustrated with real-life scenarios from architecture and design offices around the world, which is a unique and vital aspect to this book. The manual can be seen as a roadmap for the manufacture of models and a detailed reference book for outlining the latest materials and techniques. |
208 | 210 x 246 x 18mm | 759.99g | 11 Nov 2014 | Frame Publishers BV | Amsterdam, Netherlands | English | 400 colour illustrations | 9491727273 | 352,777 | 4 | US$32.24 | US$35.00 | Bernard Otte is a traffic engineer, currently following the interior architecture course at the HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) in the Netherlands. Arjan Karssen studied interior design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. After gaining work experience at several design and architecture firms, he started his own studio in 2003. Currently he is also a study coordinator at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and teaches at the HKU in Utrecht. |
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14196 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14196 | 2018-01-11 22:59:23 | BIM Design | 9781118719800 | Richard Garber | Building information modelling (BIM) is revolutionising building design and construction. For architects, BIM has the potential to optimise their creativity while reducing risk in the design and construction process, thus giving them a more significant role in the building process. This book demonstrates how innovative firms are using BIM technologies to move design away from the utilitarian problems of construction, engaging them in a stunning new future in the built environment. Whereas recent books about BIM have tended to favour case-study analyses or instruction on the use of specific software, BIM Design highlights how day-to-day design operations are shaped by the increasingly generative and collaborative aspects of these new tools. BIM strategies are described as operations that can enhance design rather than simply make it more efficient. Thus this book focuses on the specific creative uses of information modelling at the operational level, including the creative development of parametric geometries and generative design, the evaluation of environmental performance and the simulation and scheduling of construction/fabrication operations. This book also engages BIM s pragmatic efficiencies such as the conflict checking of building systems and the creation of bills of quantities for costing; and in so doing it demonstrates how BIM can make such activities collaborative. Throughout, projects are used to illustrate the creative application of BIM at a variety of scales. These buildings showcase work by fi rms executing projects all over the world: SHoP Architects and Construction (New York), Morphosis (Los Angeles), Populous (London), GRO Architects (New York), Reiser + Umemoto (New York), Gensler (Shanghai) and UNStudio (Amsterdam). |
FOREWORD Mario Carpo 8 CHAPTER 1 Information Modelling Today 14 CHAPTER 2 The Master Builder and Information Modelling 28 SHoP Architects, Control and Construction 44 CHAPTER 3 The C(reative)onstruction Process, Then and Now 58 MORPHOSIS Design Intent and Digital Iteration 70 CHAPTER 4 New Methods: New Tools 88 POPULOUS Curvilinear Workflows 102 CHAPTER 5 The Digital States and Information Modelling 122 GRO ARCHITECTS Dense Agendas 132 CHAPTER 6 Strategies for Component Generation 146 REISER + UMEMOTO Architecture by (Semi) Remote Control 160 CHAPTER 7 Assemblies and their Simulation 178 GENSLER Simulation Takes Control 196 CHAPTER 8 Conclusions: Authorship and Lines of Development 214 UNStudio Knowledge Architecture for a Life (Cycle) 224 Select Bibliography 242 Index 244 |
248 | 197 x 254 x 23mm | 1,009.98g | 11 Aug 2014 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | New York, United States | English | 1. Auflage | 1118719808 | 375,309 | US$33.12 | US$50.01 | Richard Garber, AIA, is an Associate Professor at the College of Architecture and Design of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and partner in the New York City-based fi rm GRO Architects. His teaching and professional work uses computer simulation and computer numerically controlled (CNC) hardware to generate innovative design, construction and assembly solutions. Current work includes a series of modular housing projects in Jersey City, New Jersey and Baltimore, Maryland; and a community plan for the Zhangdu Lake region of Wuhan, China. He was previously a project manager at SHoP Architects and at Greg Lynn FORM. He holds architecture degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Columbia University. |
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14197 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14197 | 2018-01-11 22:59:26 | The Function of Style | 9781940291307 | Farshid Moussavi | What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and the 1980s by Deconstruction, how do we characterize the architecture of the 1990s to the present? Some built forms transmit affects of curvilinearity, others of crystallinity; some transmit multiplicity, others unity; some transmit cellularity, others openness; some transmit dematerialization, others weight. Does this immense diversity reflect a lack of common purpose? In this book, acclaimed architect and theorist Farshid Moussavi argues that this diversity should not be mistaken for an eclecticism that is driven by external forces. The Function of Style presents the architectural landscape as an intricate web in which individual buildings are the product of ideas which have been appropriated from other buildings designed for the different activities of everyday life, ideas which are varied to produce singular buildings that are related to one another but also different. This network of connections is illustrated on the cover of this book (and in more detail inside). Moussavi argues that, by embracing everyday life as a raw material, architects can change the conventions of how buildings are assembled, to ground style, and the aesthetic experience of buildings, in the micro-politics of the everyday. The third volume in Moussavi's 'Function' series, The Function of Style provides an updated approach to style which can be used as an invaluable and highly productive tool by architects today. Assistant Editors: Marco Ciancarella, Jonathan A. Scelsa, Mary Crettier, Kate Kilalea |
..".the book is a solid collection of notable buildings and projects. It includes just about every modern building that students of architecture should learn about." --John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture | 591 | 177.8 x 220.98 x 48.26mm | 2,018.48g | 29 Jul 2015 | ActarD Inc. | New York, United States | English | 1940291305 | 234,566 | 4.64 | US$89.90 | Paperback | |||||||||
14198 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14198 | 2018-01-11 22:59:30 | Drawing for Landscape Architecture | 9780500289549 | Edward Hutchison | This essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to 'see by hand', to visualize large-scale design schemes and explain them through drawing, before using the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost-effective building solutions. Combining traditional drawing techniques with those from CAD rendering, Drawing for Landscape Architecture guides practitioners from their very first impression of a site, through concept and schematic design and client presentation to construction and site drawings, concluding with two case studies that show the final result. Just as hand-drawing returns to design courses around the world, this welcome publication celebrates the best aspects of traditional techniques while incorporating them into today's digital design methods. |
240 | 251 x 268 x 19mm | 1,330g | 15 Feb 2016 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | Reprint | 513 colour illustrations | 0500289549 | 91,776 | 3.96 | US$30.41 | US$34.95 | Paperback | |||||||
14199 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14199 | 2018-01-11 22:59:33 | The Sourcebook of Contemporary Houses | 9780062067302 | Alex Sanchez Vidiella | Contemporary architecture authority AlexSanchez Vidiella offers a stunning collection of more than 300 outstandingworks of contemporary residential architecture from around the world-allcompleted within the last ten years. An expansive and shrewdly curatedcollection of the most cutting-edge, effective, and appealing breakthroughs inhome architecture, The Sourcebook ofContemporary Home Architecture is an essential companion to The Sourcebookof Contemporary Architecture and TheSourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design, perfect for aspiring professionals, ambitious design firms, andanyone interested in exploring the frontiers of residential living spaces. |
600 | 240 x 294 x 46mm | 3,279.46g | 22 Feb 2012 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | New York, United States | English | 500 Colour | 0062067303 | 341,118 | 3.66 | US$72.69 | Alex Sanchez Vidiella works for Loft Publications, where he is the author of numerous architecture and interior design books, including The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Houses, Atlas of Minimalism, and Small Eco Houses. He has a background in art history, and lives in Barcelona, Spain. | Hardback | Harper Design International | |||||||
14200 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14200 | 2018-01-11 22:59:38 | Coastal Modern | 9780307718785 | Tim Clarke | The beach house is more than just a place to live--it is a symbol of a life well lived. --from the Introduction Coastal homes capture our imagination because they hold the promise of freedom, escape, and pure relaxation. Celebrity decorator Tim Clarke is acclaimed for creating residences that are deep reflections of the people who live in them, as well as of the gorgeous natural environments that surround them. In these luscious pages, you will be transported to fifteen of the most extraordinary homes inspired by the essence of the coast--every one a unique blend of beauty and comfort. In a style Tim identifies as Scandia surf, white paneling, blue-gray hand-blocked curtains, and timeworn driftwood side tables offer a quiet retreat from the owners' busy lives. Tim's native woods aesthetic plays out in a sprawling outdoor living room with a reed ceiling and a Balinese light fixture; lush foliage planted around the perimeter lends an exotic ambience. And in a refined beach classic home, where nothing is too precious for the everyday and where flip-flops are welcome, furniture made from weatherproof fabrics and vintage nautical objects make the rooms feel as timeless as khakis and a white shirt. Noted photographer Noah Webb captures the warmth and elegance of these seamlessly connected interiors and exteriors. Paired with Tim's unique insights into sophisticated yet undeniably fresh design, this beautiful volume will inspire you to channel all that you love about the shore into a truly livable modern home. |
224 | 238 x 306 x 22mm | 1,383.45g | 03 Apr 2012 | Random House USA Inc | New York, United States | English | New | 200-250 4-Colour Photographs | 0307718786 | 301,230 | 3.85 | US$46.64 | US$50.01 | TIM CLARKE is an interior designer in Santa Monica, who has created interiors for many Hollywood celebrities and whose work has been featured in leading publications including Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Veranda, Town & Country, and the Los Angeles Times. His design firm, TCI, has a clientele base that includes leaders in entertainment, business, and sports, and his Santa Monica retail location, Tower 20, sells one-of-a-kind beach-inspired furniture and curios. Writer JAKE TOWNSEND has contributed to the Los Angeles Times and Conde Nast Traveler, among many other publications, and is the former West Coast editor of Wallpaper magazine. He is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including many of the acclaimed Cool Hotels series. Award-winning photographer NOAH WEBB's work has appeared in such publications as Dwell, Travel+Leisure, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Bon Appetit, London Sunday Telegraph, among many others. |
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14201 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14201 | 2018-01-11 22:59:41 | Scripting Cultures | 9780470746417 | Mark Burry | While many designers are now aware of scripting's potential, it is still seen as a difficult arena to enter. Scripting Cultures treats scripting not only as a technical challenge that requires clear description, guidance, and training, but also, and more crucially, it answers why the designer would script in the first place and what the cultural and theoretical implications are. The book also refers readers to a website where they are able to download all the code, explanations, and tutorials to assist with the worked examples. |
Chapter 1 Scripting cultures 008 Chapter 2 Contextual summary of computing, scripting and speculative design 013 Chapter 3 Cultural defence 027 Chapter 4 Resources 072 Chapter 5 Dimensions 089 Chapter 6 Scripted productivity: Gaudi's rose windows 126 Chapter 7 Composition and form 152 Chapter 8 Simplifying complexity for fabrication 171 Chapter 9 Scripting narrative space: Our World and The Third Policeman 190 Chapter 10 Performative scripting 224 Chapter 11 Cultural account: scripting and shifts in authorship 246 Glossary 256 Scripting tools 260 Recommended reading 265 Index 267 Picture credits 271 |
272 | 170 x 220 x 18mm | 698.53g | 23 Aug 2011 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 1. Auflage | 0470746416 | 325,776 | 4.5 | US$49.71 | US$50.01 | Mark Burry is Professor of Innovation (Spatial Information Architecture) at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, where he is also Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and Director of the Design Research Institute. He is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of Gehry Technologies in Los Angeles and has collaborated with leading international architectural and engineering practices. Burry is probably best known for his work on Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, where he is Executive Architect and Researcher, and has been working for thirty years on the realisation of the completion of Gaudi's vision through computer-aided techniques. www.wiley.com/extras/scripting |
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14202 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14202 | 2018-01-11 22:59:53 | The Elements of Design | 9780500283394 | Loan Oei | The bark of a plane tree in Paris; a detail of a cotton towel in Japan; sunset in the Egyptian desert; soil in the Yosemite National Park, California; a tiled floor in Bangkok; a wall in Ferrara; an iron cart wheel in Antwerp...colours, textures, forms and shapes are the basis of this unique sourcebook that reveals the elements common to all design and literally teaches us how to see. Hauntingly beautiful and deeply instructive, it surveys our whole environment, natural and manmade, and shows us how it can be defined in terms of basic elements: variable arrangements of dots; lines that are straight, curving, bending or crossing; planes such as rectangles, squares, lozenges, triangles and circles. All these are represented in this book, with telling juxtapositions, in a wide range of materials and techniques, in one sense timeless and universal, in another datable and culturally conditioned. Ever-recurring design elements, they take us to the heart of the creative process: a creative transformation that may involve inspiration or imitation, representation or limitation. Destined to become a cult book for artists, designers and craftspeople of all kinds, as well as being an important educational tool, this amazing volume is a startling reminder of how the search for something new is a voyage of rediscovery into past and present forms. |
Introduction; Colours; Textures; Dots; Dot and Line; Lines; Crossing; Planes; Circles; List of plates | 208 | 196 x 250 x 20mm | 861.82g | 01 May 2002 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 177 colour illustrations | 0500283397 | 301,975 | 3.8 | US$29.61 | Loan Oei, based in Amsterdam, is an exhibitions curator. She also writes and lectures on textiles. Cecile De Kegel, based in Antwerp, is a graduate in textile design. She teaches weaving and is a passionate photographer. | Paperback | |||||||
14203 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14203 | 2018-01-11 22:59:57 | The Urban Housing Handbook | 9781119989981 | Eric Firley | The handbook provides graphic representations and analysis of 30 urban case studies from around the world. These range from the London town house to apartments in Chicago and New York, taking in other European, South American, North African, and Asian examples. In each chapter, a housing type is fully explored through a traditional case study and then a more modern example that demonstrates how it has been reinterpreted in a contemporary context. |
9. Introduction. 14. Siheyuan. 22 Non-private living - a counter model for siheyuan in Beijing Moriyama house, Tokyo. 24. Casa Chorizo. 32. The private home as the basic element of the city block: Casa. 34. Patio House. 42. The facade acting as interface: Patio Island, Ypenburg. 44. Dar and Riad. 52. Courtyard houses in an artificial landscape: the Copenhagen mountain dwellings. 54. Kyo-machiya. 62. Furniture in the yard: Rue de Suisse, Paris. 64. Mini House. 70. The house in the middle of its neighborhood or the world in the house - Japanese single-family houses. 74. Tower House. 82. The vertical floor plan: Tokyo Tower House. 84. Quadruple Villa. 92. Example of living style: Quadruple Villa, Mulhouse. 94. Chinese Shophouse. 102. Draftless design: Hanoi Space Block. 104. Terrace House with Mews. 112. Two faces of a house: Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. 114. Front Garden House. 122. A break in style revealed: compound in Rue de la Colonie, Paris. 124. Terrace House. 132. Terraced open space - houses in Graz and Les Herbiers. 134. Longtang House. 142. Spotlight on collective living: Seijo Garden Courts. 144. Cite. 152. The parasite in the block: Viviendas entre Medianeras, Seville. 154. Courtyards and Passages. 162. The interrupted spatial sequence of faubourg architecture: apartments and studios in Rue de Charonne in Paris. 164. Hamburger Terrassen (Falkenried). 172. An urban settlement: Donnybrook in London. 174. Pol House. 182. The block as a miniature city: Carabanchel 11. 184. Wurfelhaus. 192. Variability within a constant building form: The city villas of Spandau. 194. Chicago Courtyards. 202. The house in the block: Lisbon Oriente Complex. 204. Megablock. 212. The megablock - a continuation of architectural tradition: Charlottehaven. 214. Town Place (Cas de Blocco). 222. The city as a work of art: the Paris quarter of Massena. 224. Zinshaus. 232. Improvement after the fact: multiple dwelling units in Mexico. 234. Hamburger Burg. 242. Structured living: 'VM Houses' in Copenhagen. 244. Berlage Superblock. 252 Design rules for the city block: Front de Parc, Bercy, Paris. 254. Plex House. 262. The 'planted' single-family house - Yerba Buena lofts, San Francisco. 264. Mietskaserne. 272. Space defined by passage and courtyard: Passage Goix in Paris. 274. Post-Haussmannian Apartment Building. 282. Haussmann Light - Buildings in Rue Louis Blanc in Paris. 284. Casa de Mig and Casa de Quart. 292. Selective transparency of the block: Viviendas in El Gramal. 294. Casa de Renta. 302. New approach to architectural tradition: Buenos Aires. 304. Early Residential Towers. 312. A city reinvents itself: high-rise apartments in Vancouver. 314. Figure Ground Comparisons. 320. Process Comparison Table. 321. Density Comparison. 322. Bibliography. 326. Index. |
'The Handbook beautifully puts architecture into its Urban context, and provides a useful tool for designers, architecture and urban thinkers'. (JSS, December 2011) | 328 | 212 x 278 x 24mm | 1,338.09g | 07 Mar 2011 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | New York, United States | English | 1119989981 | 294,199 | 4 | US$41.43 | US$50.01 | Eric Firley is an architect and urban designer, who is currently based in Paris. After studying in Lausanne, Weimar and London, he worked in several practices and design consultancies in France and the UK. Having initiated this project in 2005, he has spent over two years writing and researching it, travelling extensively in the process. Caroline Stahl has run a Paris-based architecture practice since 2001. Born in Berlin, she studied in Weimar and Milan. She has worked on a wide range of projects in Germany and France. She undertook extensive research on housing for this book and developed the comparative contemporary studies. Katharina Gron is a German urban designer who graduated in early 2008. She has helped produce the graphic material for the book, redrawing the urban and architectural plans. |
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14204 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14204 | 2018-01-11 23:00:09 | Making Healthy Places | 9781597267274 | Andrew L. Danneberg | The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed - or the positive benefits of well-designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the path-breaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. "Making Healthy Places" offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. "Making Healthy Places" presents a diagnosis of - and offers treatment for - problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems. |
"Making Healthy Places, although it is not a theological work, is deeply theological in the vision of health that is seeking and is a book that not only must be read and discussed in churches, we must also allow it to shape our vision of what the mission of the church is in our particular places, and as such it is one of the most significant books that I've read this year!"--Chris Smith"The Englewood Review of Books" (10/08/2011) "The book's introduction states it is primarily aimed at students but it would disappointing if this timely research fails to reach other audiences - in particular politicians at all levels of government."--Chris Quigley""Spacing Vancouver"" (01/17/2012) "It is just about the most authoritative and thorough examination of how our urban design (and house design) affects our health and wellbeing, and should be on the desk of every urban designer and planner as an important reference... I cannot imagine writing about urban issues involving food, health, safety or transportation without picking this up for a quote or a reference; it is going to be an essential tool." --Lloyd Alter ""Treehugger" " "This comprehensive, beautifully edited volume explains why and how our physical environment profoundly affects each of us, our family, our community, and our nation. A treasure of excellent chapters by well-respected experts, it is replete with practical wisdom on how to diagnose and ameliorate the wide range of environmental problems, with inspiring examples of success. Reading it is the equivalent of a top tier graduate level course in practical environmental health."--Jonathan Fielding "M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA and Director of Public Health " "The authors have crafted an exemplary look at the various components of community design that promote and support health. Through their perspective we see clearly how much community design matters to our health and well-being; and it matters a lot."--Georges C. Benjamin "M.D., Executive Director, American Public Health Association " "Here's a book that mayors, health officials, developers, architects, planners and environmentalists will want to read and keep handy. Dannenberg, Frumkin, and Jackson call for big gains in public health, environmental and economic performance and provide the necessary advice to achieve such a transformation."--John Norquist "President of the Congress for the New Urbanism and former Mayor of Milwaukee, WI " "The editors of this powerful volume put design squarely in the public health armamentarium. Both a guide and call to action, its well-researched chapters provide a foundation for profound change in design practice and education. The truly beautiful stairway is one that beckons us to use it--the same applies to sidewalks, parks, bike lanes, playgrounds, and public transportation."--Daniel S. Friedman "PhD, FAIA, Dean, College of Built Environments, University of Washington " "The book is an extensive, sometimes exhausting, overview of many related topics. The challenges it presents are sobering. The solutions it envisions are exciting. Landscape architecture is present throughout. Some may find it a "heavy lift" given its length and, in some instances, highly technical nature. But it is all there, providing landscape architects, architects, and planners with tools and strategies to think about how the built environment impacts our physical, mental, social, environmental, and economic well-being."--Mark A. Focht""ASLA Dirt blog"" (12/01/2011) "Here''s a book that mayors, health officials, developers, architects, planners and environmentalists will want to read and keep handy. Dannenberg, Frumkin, and Jackson call for big gains in public health, environmental and economic performance and provide the necessary advice to achieve such a transformation."--John Norquist"President of the Congress for the New Urbanism and former Mayor of Milwaukee, Wi" (05/12/2011) |
440 | 203.2 x 251.46 x 25.4mm | 929.86g | 29 Aug 2011 | Island Press | Washington, United States | English | 2nd ed. | black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, colour plates | 1597267279 | 392,028 | 3.75 | US$49.41 | Andrew L. Dannenberg, M.D., M.P.H., serves as a consultant to and formerly was Team Leader of the Healthy Community Design Initiative in the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., is Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA. Frumkin and Jackson are coauthors of Urban Sprawl and Public Health. |
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14205 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14205 | 2018-01-11 23:00:20 | British Architectural Styles | 9781846740824 | MR Trevor Yorke | Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed drawings, to help put a date to the variety of buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary of architectural terms and a historical time chart. The book will prove an invaluable companion whether visiting grand houses open to the public or just simply strolling around the streets of villages, towns and cities. |
64 | 146 x 208 x 4mm | 120g | 15 Jul 2008 | COUNTRYSIDE BOOKS | Berks, United Kingdom | English | Line Drawings | 1846740827 | 219,132 | 4 | Paperback | ||||||||||
14206 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14206 | 2018-01-11 23:00:25 | Art Nouveau Tile Designs | 9789057681264 | D Hortado De Mendoza | Art Nouveau Tile Designs is a striking collection of tile designs that exemplifies the bold use of colour and treatment of natural and floral themes typical of the Art Nouveau movement. More than 200 stunning tile designs have been meticulously recreated (digitised) and are included on the accompanying CD. | 208 | 158 x 158 x 24mm | 521.63g | 01 Nov 2012 | Pepin Press | Amsterdam, Netherlands | English, Multiple languages | Multilingual | Illustrations, color | 9057681269 | 280,110 | 3.42 | US$22.14 | US$24.99 | Hardback | Agile Rabbit | ||||||
14207 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14207 | 2018-01-11 23:00:26 | Modular Structures | 9789063692063 | Bis Publishers | This book examines morphogenetic processes based on a combination of digital and analogue modeling and manufacturing techniques. These modules can in many cases be translated into architectural designs. They show an exciting new avenues in educational motivation, using a systematic architectural approach as well as an understanding of complex geometries. | 136 | 104 x 142 x 10mm | 140.61g | 01 Oct 2009 | BIS Publishers B.V. | Amsterdam, Netherlands | English | 2nd ed. | colour images | 9063692064 | 255,561 | 4.12 | US$11.27 | US$17.01 | Asterios Agkathidis studied architecture in Thessaloniki and completed postgraduate studies in Advanced Architectural Design in Frankfurt. He became a partner in the architectural practice b&k+ in Cologne until 2004, then at VMX architects, Amsterdam, until 2005. He founded the research laboratory a3lab and teaches at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he is currently working on his PhD. |
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14208 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14208 | 2018-01-11 23:00:31 | V&A Pattern: Designers Box-set | 9781851777341 | Karen Livingstone | This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Stunningly repackaged in a limited edition box-set, some of the most popular titles - William Morris, Walter Crane and Owen Jones - are accompanied here by a new title celebrating the innovative and inspirational work of C.F.A. Voysey (1857 - 1941). |
'Beautiful and practical, the books are visual summaries of the most sumptuous parts of the V&A collections' Royal Academy Magazine | 320 | 142 x 192 x 54mm | 1,039.98g | 09 Apr 2013 | V & A Publishing | London, United Kingdom | English | 65 colour in each book | 1851777342 | 334,971 | 4 | US$52.75 | Karen Livingstone is Director of Masterplan and Estate at the Science Museum. Linda Parry is former Deputy Keeper of the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A. Abraham Thomas is a Curator in the Word & Image Department at the V&A | Mixed media product | |||||||
14209 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14209 | 2018-01-11 23:00:40 | Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design | 9781780673493 | Paul Barton | Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design provides a revealing insight into this most sculptural of architectural elements. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed architects, as well as emerging practitioners, the book presents 40 recently completed staircase designs, found in homes, galleries, shops, hotels, public buildings and offices across the world. These ingenious projects, ranging from the austerely minimal to the ornate and eclectic, are presented with a concise descriptive text, colour photographs and specially drawn scale plans, sections and construction details. |
"Presents 40 recently completed staircase designs; features many of the world's most acclaimed architects." - The Bookseller Buyer's Guide | 184 | 256 x 296 x 22mm | 1,419.98g | 21 Oct 2014 | Laurence King Publishing | London, United Kingdom | English | 450 illustrations, 150 colour | 1780673493 | 454,984 | US$48.51 | US$60.00 | Paul Barton is Senior Designer/Draughtsman at the UK staircase manufacturer Spiral Staircase Systems. A graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, his recent work includes staircases for Hermes, JP Morgan, EMI/Virgin, the British Council in Kuala Lumpur, and Glyndebourne Opera house. | Paperback | |||||||
14210 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14210 | 2018-01-11 23:00:45 | Elements of Venice | 9783037784297 | Giulia Foscari | The metamorphic nature of Venice, a city in which most buildings underwent throughout the centuries substantial volumetric and formal transformations informed by political and cultural shifts, is revealed in Elements of Venice through the analysis of single architectural elements. Developed as a parallel research project of Fundamentals--the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas--the book offers insights on Venetian facades, stairs, corridors, floors, ramps, ceilings, doors, hearths, windows, balconies and walls. "Product not [only] of the mind but of societal organization" the elements are isolated from their picture-perfect context and from the postcard view of Venice that is impressed in our retinas, introducing the reader--through a combination of collages, drawings, photographs, paintings, film stills and quotes--to a radically new way of seeing Venice. Like a camera obscura photograph cuts through the often irrelevant embellishments of architecture to reveal the underlying skeleton of a building (i.e. its elements), this guide will allow the reader to better understand the fundamental transformations that have shaped Venice during the past ten centuries. This city, which for many is--architecturally speaking--permanently frozen in time, has in fact often been at the forefront of challenging the architectural conventions, both during the days of the Republic (until 1797), in which gothic and renaissance styles were seen as carriers of political and ideological meanings, and in the past two centuries when, despite the introduction of the dooming motto "Com'era, dov'era" ("As it was, where it was"), Venice underwent an unprecedented urban transformation. |
560 | 122 x 166 x 36mm | 659.99g | 15 Oct 2014 | Lars Müller Publishers | Baden, Switzerland | English | 1500 | 3037784296 | 209,965 | 4.73 | US$28.95 | US$39.00 | Paperback | ||||||||
14211 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14211 | 2018-01-11 23:00:55 | The World of Ornament | 9783836556255 | David Batterham | Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history's most elegant patterns and ornamental designs. The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875-1888) and Auguste Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus (1877) to provide one lavish source book spanning jewelry, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, textile and ceramic ornament. Encompassing classical, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Asian and Middle-Eastern, as well as European designs from medieval times through the 19th century, this compilation of cultures and esthetics offers a primary reference for artists, historians, designers and patternmakers, and anyone engaged in decorative design and impact. |
824 | 152 x 202 x 48mm | 1,399.98g | 13 May 2015 | Taschen GmbH | Cologne, Germany | English, French, German | Multilingual | 3836556251 | 193,963 | 4.67 | US$25.03 | David Batterham has been an antiquarian bookseller in London since 1965. He specializes in books and journals on the graphic arts, ornament, fashion, and caricature with an emphasis on work from France and Spain. | Hardback | ||||||||
14213 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14213 | 2018-01-11 23:01:01 | Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture | 9780415731942 | Mark R. Cruvellier | This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context. The chapters address fundamental structural elements and systems: columns, walls, beams, trusses, frames, tensile structures, arches, domes and shells. Each chapter is subdivided into two parts: * The essays - introduce the chapters with the reprinting of a curated set of essays and excerpts by various authors that uniquely address how particular structural elements or systems relate in essential fashion to architectural design concepts. * The model studies - physical models of the overall structural systems of several notable contemporary buildings from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are illustrated with large photographs, detail close-ups, and views of their external forms and internal spaces that establish the exceptional qualities of these projects in connecting structural form to architectural design objectives. Mosaic layouts complete the chapters with a collection of photographs of yet more models whose particular details and unique features serve to extend the visual repertoire of the structural type being considered. The combination, juxtaposition and mutual positive reinforcement of these two collections, one largely textual and the other image based, provides the reader with unique and multifaceted insights into how structural forms and systems can be related to architectural design intentions. Conveyed by a strong and deliberate graphical design format, this assembly of materials gets to the very essence of structures within the context of architecture, and will inspire students and practitioners alike to make strategic design decisions for their own projects. |
1. Columns. Auguste Perret and the Concrete Column. Mies' Columns: Barcelona and Beyond. Villa Mairea's Columnar Variations. A Forest of Minimal Columns. The Sendai Mediatheque and its Tube-Columns. Model Studies. 2. Walls. Barragan's Walls and Color. Inca Walls at Ollantaytambo. Schindler's Metaphysical Walls. Ando's Ephemeral Concrete Walls. The Sculpted Walls of Richard Serra. Model Studies. 3. Beams and Slabs. Arresting Cantilever Deflections. Nordic Pavilion - An Illuminating Beam Matrix. The Kimbell's Beam Variations. The Iron and Steel Beam Evolves; Mies Follows Suit. Chinese Building Traditions Meet Modernism. Nervi's Isostatically Inspired Ribbed Floors. Maillart Minimalism: The Flat Slab Emerges. Concrete Takes Flight. Floor Plate-Defined Facades. Model Studies. 4. Trusses. La Tour Eiffel : A Truss, and More... Truss Forms and Style Battles. Truss Forms and Design Collaborations. Neimeyer's Subtly Deceptive Trusses. Metabolism and the Space Frame. Tensegrity and the Architecture of Life. Model Studies. 5. Frames. To Frame - or not to Frame... Framing Views, Framing Victory. Breuer and Nervi's Folded Frames. Braced Frames and High-Tech Dreams. Informal Frames. Model Studies. 6. Cables, Nets and Membranes. Seemingly Free Form Structures in Montreal and Munich. Cybernetic and Lightweight Dreams. Stayed Roof Systems and High-Tech Identity. Jugaad : Suspending a Communal Canopy. Marsyas : Structure and Metaphor. Model Studies. 7. Arches, Domes and Shells. Informing Arch Form. Veiled and Vaulted Space. Domes as Optical Instruments. The Politics of Candela's Shells. SANAA's Ceilings and Skies. Model Studies. Afterword. Models are Real. A Model Curriculum. Index. |
"Some books are treasure troves - ensembles of deep human experiential research - which need to be kept close to hand. This book is one such treasure. The combination of selected texts with the constructed models becomes the thoughtfully constructed intellectual structure within which to navigate these essential topics." - Yvonne Farrell + Shelley McNamara, Grafton Architects "During the past decades, architecture has been dominated by an interest in expressive singular forms, often facilitated by computerized design and methods of calculation, novel material technologies, and robotic methods of production. The book Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture returns architectural thinking back to its tectonic principles and elementary syntax. It also emphasizes the essential cultural connectedness of the art of building; architectural meaning cannot be invented, as it is bound to reflect the human existential and mental reality. All true architectural meaning echoes tradition, and the most radical artistic innovations become part of this esteemed continuum of tradition." - Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, writer, professor emeritus, Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture), Finland |
440 | 189 x 246 x 25.4mm | 1,700g | 01 Sep 2016 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 394 colour illustrations, 66 colour line drawings | 0415731941 | 718,745 | US$65.60 | Mark R. Cruvellier is the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University, USA. He teaches and conducts research in the area of structural form and behavior considered within the context of architecture; he is co-author of The Structural Basis of Architecture, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2011) with Bjorn N. Sandaker and Arne P. Eggen. Cruvellier is a professional structural engineer and has been involved in built projects from skyscrapers in New York City to wilderness footbridges in British Columbia. Bjorn N. Sandaker is Professor of Architectural Technology at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. His particular academic interest focuses on the borderline between architecture and structural engineering; he is author of On Span and Space: Exploring Structures in Architecture (Routledge 2008) and co-author of The Structural Basis of Architecture, 2nd ed. (Routledge 2011). Luben Dimcheff is the Richard Meier Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University, USA, where he teaches studio as well as courses that are focused on the visualization and analysis of space. He leads a design and architectural practice based in New York City with projects built internationally. |
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14214 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14214 | 2018-01-11 23:01:08 | Architecture in Detail II | 9780080965352 | Graham Bizley | Following on from Graham Bizley's successful Architecture in Detail, Architecture in Detail II presents forty case studies of detailing on recent construction projects. Over 150 full colour drawings and photos provide a reference compendium for the professional architect seeking detailing inspiration. Originally featured in Building Design's In Detail magazine, the included projects represent some of the most interesting and innovative techniques in recent architecture. Graham Bizley's beautifully presented detail drawings allow the architect to easily see how ideas and techniques can be applied to other projects. The book is organized by building type for quick and easy reference. |
Introduction. Arts & Culture: Royal Festival Hall, London (Allies & Morrison); Neues museum, Berlin (David Chipperfield Architects); Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (MUMA); North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford (Haworth Tompkins); Regents Park Open Air Theatre, London (Prewett Bizley Architects); Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool (Biq Architecten); Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire (Sergison Bates Architects); Siobahn Davis Dance Centre, London (Sarah Wigglesworth Architects); Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London (Penoyre & Prasad); MIMA, Middlesbrough (Designed by Erick van Egeraat); Multi purpose hall, Aurillac, France (Brisac Gonzales) Civic & Leisure. Arc, Hull (Niall McLaughlin Architects); Resource Centre, Grizedale Forrest Park, Cumbria (Sutherland Hussey); Thermae Bath Spa, Bath (Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners); Civil Justice Centre, Manchester (Denton Corker Marshall); Sean O'Casey Community Centre, Dublin (O'Donnell + Tuomey) Schools. Bellingham Gateway Building, Lewisham, London (Cottrell & Vermeulen); Maryland Early Years Centre, Stratford, London (Fluid); Emmaus School, Wybourn, Sheffield (DSDHA); Bedford School Music School, Bedford (Eric Parry Architects); Sanger Building, Bryanston School, Dorset (Hopkins Architects); Scitec, Oundle School, Northamptonshire (Feilden Clegg Bradley) Education. Ann's Court, Selwyn College, Cambridge (Porphyrios Associates); Wolfson Building, Trinity College, Cambridge (5th Studio); Information Commons, University of Sheffield (RMJM) Health. St Johns Therapy Centre, Wandsworth, London (Buschow Henley Architects) Residential. Christchurch Tower, City of London (Boyarski Murphy); Halligan House, St Albans (Simon Conder Architects); Herringbone Houses, Wandsworth, London (Alison Brooks Architects); GreenHouse, BRE, Watford (Gaunt Francis Architects); Focus House, Finsbury Park, London (Bere Architects); 80% House, De beauvoir Town, London (Prewett Bizley Architects) Housing. Clay Field Housing, Elmswell, Suffolk (Riches Hawley Mikhail); Chance Street Housing, Bethnal Green, London (Stephen Taylor Architects); Islington Square Housing, Manchester (FAT); EMV Social Housing, Vallecas, Madrid (Feilden Clegg Bradley) Offices. Johnson Building, Clerkenwell, London (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris); One Coleman Street, City of London (David Walker Architects in association with Swanke Hayden Connell); Vernon Street Offices, Kensington, London (Terry Pawson Architects) Transport. Southern Cross Station, Melbourne (Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) Project Credits |
"Tonnes of inspiration, and enough technical detail make this book a very useful resource." Get Sust! | 222 | 214 x 274 x 14mm | 662.24g | 25 May 2010 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | Oxford, United Kingdom | English | colour illustrations | 0080965350 | 305,283 | 3.85 | US$52.90 | US$57.95 | Paperback | Architectural Press | |||||
14215 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14215 | 2018-01-11 23:01:14 | The Projective Cast | 9780262550383 | Robin Evans | Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form.Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory.Evans describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors. |
Part 1: Perturbed circles; persistent breakage. Part 2: Seeing through paper; Piero's heads; drawn stone. Part 3: The trouble with numbers; comic lines; forms lost and found again; rumours at the extremities; conclusion - the projective cast. | "Robin Evans, in his brilliant (sadly posthumous) bookThe Projective Cast, explores some of the properties ofintersecting arcs, flying lines and similar triangles in a series ofessays which work both as an introduction to a range of geometries, andas impressively well-informed accounts of episodes in cultural history.The explanations of the geometries are captivating. We are carefullytaken through them, stage by stage, so that the mysteries of a complexform are uncovered, or an apparently simple form is shown to be morecomplex than it seemed." Andrew Ballantyne, Times Literary Supplement |
452 | 213.36 x 271.78 x 25.4mm | 1,315.41g | 28 Aug 2000 | MIT Press Ltd | Cambridge, Mass., United States | English | Revised ed. | 0262550385 | 265,974 | 4.4 | US$52.79 | Paperback | MIT Press | ||||||
14216 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14216 | 2018-01-11 23:01:20 | Drawing Shortcuts | 9780470435489 | Jim Leggitt | The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Jim Leggitt's Drawing Shortcuts shows how communicating with hand drawings combined with digital technology can be ingeniously simple, and this new edition makes an already popular technique even better. Completely expanded with new chapters and a wealth of supporting images, this Second Edition presents practical techniques for improving drawing efficiency and effectiveness by combining traditional hand drawing methods with the latest digital technology, including 3-D modeling with SketchUp. This book's step-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniques whether you draw for pleasure, school or your design profession. Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basics of drawing such as composition, color, shading, hatching, and perspective up to the most current technologies Incorporates Google SketchUp, Google Earth, computer generated renderings, digital scanners and printers Features new visuals from accomplished drawing experts Special new Gallery section highlights the creative process with step-by-step examples of drawings Complete coverage of the Overlay and Trace Method, Simple Composite Method, Advanced Composite Method, and Digital Hybrid Drawings New matrices show alternative drawing techniques for specific visual effects such as Linework and Shading, Selecting the Right Views, Perspectives and Paraline Drawings, Drawing Detail, Camera Lenses, and Drawing Tools Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, and more than 500 full-color images, Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition will have you creating top-quality drawings faster and more effectively. |
Preface. Acknowledgments. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER 1 TRADITIONAL DRAWING TYPES. Observation Drawings. Imagination Drawings. Thumbnail Drawings. Concept Drawings. Presentation Drawings. CHAPTER 2 DRAWING COMPOSITION. Drawing Composition. Perspective Drawings. Paraline Drawings. CHAPTER 3 TRADITIONAL DRAWING TOOLS. Drawing Media. Drawing with Pencils. Drawing with Pens. Hatching Techniques. Showing Detail. Creating Shadows. Correcting Mistakes. Drawing Safety. CHAPTER 4 TRADITIONAL COLORING TOOLS. How to Color with Pencils. How to Color with Markers. Mixed-Media Drawings. CHAPTER 5 TRADITIONAL ENTOURAGE DRAWING. Drawing Sources. How to Draw People. How to Draw Cars. How to Draw Vegetation. Drawing Furniture. Drawing Building Materials. CHAPTER 6 DIGITAL DRAWING TOOLS. 3-D Modeling. Digital Editing. Digital Photography. CHAPTER 7 TRADIGITAL DRAWING. Traditional + Digital. Tradigital Variations. Overlay and Trace. Simple Composite Method. Advanced Composite Method. Digital Hybrids. CHAPTER 8 DRAWING GALLERY. Kirk Fromm. Jennifer Mahoney. Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA. Terry J. Leonard, AIA. Michael P. O'Beirne. Seth Harry, AIA. Stanley Doctor. Conclusion. Contributors. Project Credits. Index. Jim Leggitt. |
"Given the impact that technology has had to face with design, the second edition of this fascinating book focuses on the implementation of the illustrations of the urban landscape all the while blending the traditional hand drawing with the more contemporary digital techniques." ( Tango Reporter , August 2010) "Architect, Urban Planner, and professional illustrator Jim Leggitt brings the information he teaches in his drawing workshops to the pages of this colorful text. A second edition of a 2002 book, this version has been revised to integrate "today's technology," specifically in the form of Google Sketchup, presenting a drawing approach that merges hand-drawing techniques with digital technology." ( Landscape Architecture , July 2010) " Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition , is a timely reference tool at a time when technology - for all its advantages - has contributed to an increased atrophy of freehand drawing skills among design students and professionals." ( ChicagoArchitectureToday.com , June 2010) "Written for students and professionals in the building and landscaping arts, Drawing Shortcuts has numerous tips that will help today's busy professional speed up the drawing process without sacrificing creativity. Author Jim Leggit's processes combine computer technology with the more emotion-based, traditional, hand techniques to produce work worthy for presentations. Rather than take years to learn the shortcuts, this book allows readers to quickly stimulate spaces that tell a story." ( San Francisco Book Review , March 28, 2010) |
264 | 218.44 x 274.32 x 20.32mm | 1,043.26g | 02 Feb 2010 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 2nd Revised edition | col. ill | 0470435488 | 336,502 | 3.96 | US$49.12 | US$65.00 | Jim Leggitt, FAIA, is an architect, urban planner, and professional illustrator who has been practicing for over thirty years. Jim offers drawing workshops and is a frequent speaker at universities and national, regional, and local events where he has taught over 5,000 architects, designers, and students. | Hardback | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | |||
14217 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14217 | 2018-01-11 23:01:24 | The Architect's Studio Companion | 9780470641910 | Edward Allen | Packed with useful information, this book is more than simply a reference. The authors of the best-selling Fundamentals of Building Construction, use their trademark talent for explaining highly technical concepts in an easy to understand manner, with data that informs the initial and subsequent designs. Designers will find themselves constantly going back to their Studio Companion for its straightforward and direct illustrations, rules of thumb and code issues. This is the only reference that so effectively incorporates building design with human factors. No architect should be without it. |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii HOW TO USE THIS BOOK ix SECTION 1 DESIGNING WITH BUILDING CODES 1 1. DESIGNING WITH BUILDING CODES 1 SECTION 2 DESIGNING THE STRUCTURE 19 1. SELECTING THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM 21 2. CONFIGURING THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM 37 3. SIZING THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM 55 SECTION 3 DESIGNING WITH DAYLIGHT 137 1. DESIGN CRITERIA FOR DAYLIGHTING SYSTEMS 139 2. CONFIGURING AND SIZING DAYLIGHTING SYSTEMS 149 SECTION 4 DESIGNING SPACES FOR MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES 157 1. SELECTING HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS FOR LARGE BUILDINGS 159 2. CONFIGURING AND SIZING MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES FOR LARGE BUILDINGS 179 3. PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS 215 4. MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS FOR SMALL BUILDINGS 233 SECTION 5 DESIGNING FOR EGRESS AND ACCESSIBILITY 261 1. CONFIGURING THE EGRESS SYSTEM AND PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE ROUTES 263 2. SIZING THE EGRESS SYSTEM 295 3. STAIRWAY AND RAMP DESIGN 311 SECTION 6 DESIGNING FOR PARKING 327 1. DESIGN CRITERIA FOR PARKING FACILITIES 329 2. CONFIGURING PARKING FACILITIES 337 3. SIZING PARKING FACILITIES 349 SECTION 7DESIGNING WITH HEIGHT AND AREA LIMITATIONS 363 1. HEIGHT AND AREA LIMITATIONS 365 2. HEIGHT AND AREA TABLES 385 APPENDIX A EXAMPLE USE OF THIS BOOK 473 APPENDIX B UNITS OF CONVERSION 477 BIBLIOGRAPHY 479 INDEX 481 |
496 | 215.9 x 279.4 x 25.4mm | 1,338.09g | 27 Jan 2012 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 5th Revised edition | 0470641916 | 331,143 | 4.2 | Edward Allen, FAIA, has been a member of the faculties of Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has frequently taught as a guest at other institutions throughout the United States. He is the bestselling author of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Architectural Detailing, and Form and Forces (all from Wiley). Joseph Iano is an author, illustrator, and practicing architect who has taught design and technology in schools of architecture throughout the United States. Currently, he heads a Seattle design firm that provides technical and quality management consulting. He is the coauthor with Edward Allen of Fundamentals of Building Construction. |
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14218 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14218 | 2018-01-11 23:01:29 | Sustainable Urbanism | 9780471777519 | Douglas Farr | Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility. The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years. At once solidly researched and passionately argued, Sustainable Urbanism is the ideal guidebook for urban designers, planners, and architects who are eager to make a positive impact on our--and our descendants'--buildings, cities, and lives. |
Foreword ( Andres Duany ). Preface. How to use this book. Acknowledgments. Part One The Case for Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 1: The Built Environment: Where We Are Today. The American Lifestyle on the Wrong Course. Pioneering Reforms: Setting the Stage for Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 2: Sustainable Urbanism: Where We Need to Go. Sustainable Urbanism: The Grand Unification. The Three Steps of Sustainable Urbanism. Part Two Implementing Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 3: Leadership and Communications. Leadership Talking Points for Sustainable Urbanism ( Jim Hackler and Irina Woelfle ) The Power of Paired Choices. Implementation Agendas for Leaders. Chapter 4: The Process and Tools for Implementing Sustainable Urbanism. RFQ for Sustainable Urbanist Professionals. Benchmarking Municipal Sustainability: The Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan ( City of Santa Monica ). Documenting Community Preference in Form and Sustainability: Image Preference Survey (IPS) ( Christina Anderson ) Conducting a Charrette ( Bill Lennertz ) Shaping Sustainable Neighborhoods with the Toledo Smart Neighborhood Analysis Protocol (SNAP) ( Carolee Kokola ). A Sustainable Urbanist Neighborhood Plan: Toledo SNAP ( Carolee Kokola ). Regulating Plan and Form-Based Code ( Christina Anderson ). Incorporating Sustainability through Codes, Covenants, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) ( Dan Slone ). RFP for a Sustainable Urbanist Developer ( City of Victoria, British Columbia ). Part Three Emerging Thresholds of Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 5: Increasing Sustainability Through Density. Explaining Density. Illustrating Density. The Transect of the Everyday. Water and the Density Debate ( Lynn Richards ). Transit Supportive Densities. Chapter 6: Sustainable Corridors. The Sustainable Corridor ( Doug Farr, Leslie Oberholtzer, and Christian Schaller ). The Integration of Transportation, Land Use, and Technology ( Shelley Poticha ). Biodiversity Corridors ( Rebecca L. Kihslinger, Jessica Wilkinson, and James McElfish ). Chapter 7: Sustainable Neighborhoods. Neighborhood Diagrams. Neighborhood Definition ( Victor Dover and Jason King ). Neighborhood Completeness ( Eliot Allen and Doug Farr ). Neighborhood Housing ( Laurie Volk and Todd Zimmerman ). Car-Free Housing. Neighborhood Retail ( Robert J. Gibbs ). Economic Benefits of Locally Owned Stores ( Matt Cunningham ). Third Places. Healthy Neighborhoods ( Melanie Simmons, Kathy Baughman McLeod,and Jason Hight ). Walkable Streets and Networks ( Dan Burden ). Complete Streets ( Fred Dock ). Universal Basic Home Access ( Eleanor Smith ). Managing Travel Demand ( Jeffery Tumlin ). Car Sharing ( Jeffery Tumlin 0. Chapter 8: Biophilia. Open Space ( Carolee Kokola ). Public Darkness ( Nancy Clanton and Todd Givler ). Stormwater Systems ( Jim Patchett and Tom Price ). Food Production ( Lynn Peemoeller and Jim Slama, with Cathy Morgan ). Outdoor Wastewater Treatment ( Thomas E. Ennis ). Indoor Wastewater Treatment ( John Todd Ecological Design ). Chapter 9: High-Performance Buildings and Infrastructure. The Impact of Planning on Building Energy Usage ( Alan Chalifoux ). 2030 Challenge ( Ed Mazria ). High-Performance Infrastructure ( Hillary Brown ). Large District Energy Systems ( Doug Newman and Robert Thornton, John Kelly, and Adam Lund ). The 2030 Community Challenge: Economic Growth with Sustainable Urbanism. Part Four Case Studies in Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 10: Lessons Learned from Sustainable Urbanism. Built Infill. BedZED: London, England. Glenwood Park: Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Holiday Neighborhood: Boulder, Colorado, United States. Christie Walk: Adelaide, Australia. Newington: Sydney, Australia. High Point: Seattle, Washington, United States. Built Greenfield. Upton: Northampton, England. Kronsberg: Hannover, Germany. Loreto Bay: Baja California Sur, Mexico. Civano: Tucson, Arizona, United States. Poundbury: Dorchester, England. Chapter 11: State of the Art in Unbuilt Sustainable Urbanism. Unbuilt Infill. Dockside Green: Victoria, Canada. Lloyd Crossing: Portland, Oregon, United States. Z-Squared: London, England. New Railroad Square: Santa Rosa, California, United States. Uptown Normal: Normal, Illinois, United States. Unbuilt Greenfield. Dongtan: Shanghai, China. Galisteo Basin Preserve: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. Pulelehua: Maui, Hawaii, United States. Coyote Valley: San Jose, California, United States. Scales of Intervention. Epilogue. Glossary. Index. |
"makes excellent use of physical case studies, it is also concerned with the intangible forces that shape our cities..." ( Building Design , Friday 15th February 2008) "...a good book, which provides a thorough overview of sustainable urbanism that could be applied by students and professionals alike." Architecture Today May 2008 | 304 | 202 x 230 x 24mm | 861.82g | 15 Jan 2008 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | New York, United States | English | 1. Auflage | 047177751X | 315,646 | 3.95 | US$72.51 | US$85.01 | Douglas Farr, an architect and urban designer, is the founding principal and president of Farr Associates. He has served as cochair of the Environmental Task Force of the Congress for the New Urbanism, chair of the AIA Chicago Committee on the Environment, and chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) Core Committee. Farr Associates is a Chicago-based firm focused on sustainable design in architecture and urban design. Founded in 1990, Farr Associates was the first architecture firm in the world to have designed at least two buildings to be certified with a LEED Platinum rating: the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology, also in Chicago. The firm designed its own office in the historic Monadnock Building as a LEED for Commercial Interiors pilot project. |
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14219 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14219 | 2018-01-11 23:01:38 | Vitruvius Britannicus | 9780486447995 | Colen Campbell | A consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio for inspiration. These Neo-Palladians guided the course of British architecture toward classical principles, and the "Vitruvius Britannicus" (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision. A sumptuous collection of magnificent copperplate engravings, it depicts great English country houses and public buildings. Published between 1715 and 1725 in a three-folio set, the "Vitruvius Britannicus"documents in meticulous detail many of the buildings from the previous two centuries. Its 300 illustrations include facades, ground plans, exterior elevations, and perspective views. Featured buildings include those designed by Inigo Jones, the seventeenth-century architect who introduced Palladianism to England; the work of Sir John Vanbrugh, whose innovative Classical-Revival architecture retained a Baroque flair; and contemporary designs, including those of the author, Scottish architect Colen Campbell. The popularity of this volume fostered the development of the Neo-Palladian movement, and "Vitruvius Britannicus" continues to influence architects and designers. Handsome and modestly priced, this new edition is an essential complement to any design library." |
288 | 226.1 x 299.7 x 17.8mm | 907.2g | 29 Dec 2006 | Dover Publications Inc. | New York, United States | English | Illustrations, unspecified | 0486447995 | 325,662 | 4.5 | US$31.60 | Paperback | |||||||||
14220 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14220 | 2018-01-11 23:01:42 | Decorative Art 50s | 9783836544580 | Charlotte Fiell | This is the authentic experience of a decade's design trends and styles. Published annually from 1906 until 1980, "Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook" was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers. TASCHEN's "Decorative Art 50s" explores the spirit of optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and construction had been enervated by research during the war and these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped the decade. Rising incomes and postwar rebuilding on bother sides of the Atlantic led to a massive housing boom in both the suburbs and inner cities, and these new homes reflected the new style. While European design was extraordinarily inventive, American design was looking to an idealized vision of the future - between them a modern idiom was developed that can be seen vividly on these pages. This overview of the decade includes the work of such famous innovators as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Hans Wegner, and Gio Ponti. |
576 | 160 x 204 x 40mm | 1,219.98g | 15 May 2013 | Taschen GmbH | Cologne, Germany | English, French, German | m. zahlr. teils farb. Abb. | 383654458X | 265,156 | 4.08 | US$26.52 | The editor: Charlotte & Peter Fiell have written numerous TASCHEN books, including "1000 Chairs," "Design of the 20th Century," "Industrial Design A-Z," "Scandinavian Design," "Designing the 21st Century," "Graphic Design for the 21st Century," "1000 Lights" and "Contemporary Graphic Design." They also edited TASCHEN's "Decorative Art "series and the 12-volume "domus 1928-1999." | Hardback | ||||||||
14221 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14221 | 2018-01-11 23:01:54 | Prefabulous + Sustainable | 9780810984837 | Sheri Koones | "Prefabulous and Sustainable" dispels the negative myths associated with prefab homes and shows the reader how beautiful and remarkably green these homes can be. In "Prefabulous and Sustainable" author, Sheri Koones, demystifies the prefabricated house by using 25 unique homes to showcase how factory-built homes are greener, more efficient, sturdier and more cost-effective than site-built homes. The book is divided into three categories - green, greener, greenest - and the homes featured vary in style, design, type of construction and size. All of the homes included in "Prefabulous and Sustainable" have been customized to create a level of sustainability beyond the inherent qualities of prefab. Written in an easy to understand and approachable style, author Sheri Koones walks the readers through each of the homes explaining the materials, strategies and systems used to create a sustainable living environment. Photographs, captions, floor plans, and sidebars illustrate to readers that green living is not as complicated as one might think and that it really is attainable for everyone. Also included is a resource guide, making this book a hand-on guide for homebuilders. |
240 | 246.38 x 254 x 22.86mm | 1,270.05g | 01 Apr 2010 | Abrams | New York, United States | English | 200 full-colour illustrations | 0810984830 | 289,646 | 3.52 | US$31.93 | Sheri Koones is a widely respected author who helps readers understand that getting the house of their dreams can be done in an ecologically responsible way. Her book, Prefabulous, explored the variety, beauty and eco-friendly benefits of prefab homes and recently won the prestigious Gold Award in the 2008 Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Awards from NAREE. Sheri is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, the Sustainable Building Industry Council and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her previous books include From Sand Castles to Dream Houses, House About It, and Modular Mansions. Sheri is also a columnist for Home Resource Guide and a freelance writer and speaker. |
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14222 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14222 | 2018-01-11 23:01:57 | More Straw Bale Building | 9780865715189 | Chris Magwood | Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive, and can be designed to match the builder's personal space needs, esthetics and budget. Despite mushrooming interest in the technique, however, most straw bale books focus on "selling" the dream of straw bale building, but don't adequately address the most critical issues faced by bale house builders. Moreover, since many developments in this field are recent, few books are completely up to date with the latest techniques. More Straw Bale Building is designed to fill this gap. A completely rewritten edition of the 20,000-copy best--selling original, it leads the potential builder through the entire process of building a bale structure, tackling all the practical issues: finding and choosing bales; developing sound building plans; roofing; electrical, plumbing, and heating systems; building code compliance; and special concerns for builders in northern climates. New material includes: more extensive sections on electric wiring and plumbing updated sections on bale finishes and finishing a section on prefabricated straw bale walls a wider selection of case studies, photographs and illustrations a section on common mistakes budgeting for low-, medium- and high-cost projects, and new testing data that is in no other straw bale book. Down-to earth and complete, More Straw Bale Building makes the remarkable benefits of straw bale building available in the most comprehensive and practical book on the subject to date. Chris Magwood and Peter Mack are professional straw bale house builders and consultants who have constructed over 40 straw bale structures and have taught workshops and seminars in several countries. Chris is editor of The Last Straw Journal, an international quarterly devoted to straw-bale building, and the coauthor of Straw Bale Details: A Manual for Designers and Builders (New Society Publishers, 2003). |
Introduction; Why Build with Straw?; Other Natural Building Materials; What Are Straw Bales?; The Red Flag Questions; The Hotly Debated Often-Distorted Question of Cost; Getting Focused; Design Considerations; The Many Styles of Bale Building; Structural Design Options: Foundations, Roofs and Partition Walls; More Design Options: Mechanical Systems; From Designer to Draftsperson; Straw Bale Construction Plans; Building Permits; Do-It-yourself (DIY) and Building Professionals; Budgeting; Going Shopping: Materials; Construction: Before the Bales; Raising Bale Walls; Plastering Your Bale Walls; Bale Wall Finishes; Common Mistakes; Constructing with Work Parties; Other Straw Bale Projects; The Challenge; Index. |
288 | 205.7 x 251.5 x 20.3mm | 725.76g | 30 Jul 2005 | New Society Publishers | Gabriola Island, United States | English | New | 0865715181 | 413,229 | 4.07 | US$31.99 | US$34.95 | Chris Magwood and Peter Mack are professional straw bale builders and consultants who have constructed over 40 straw bale buildings, consulting on many more. They have taught workshops and seminars across the continent and overseas, and are authors of one of the first straw bale how-to books, Straw Bale Building (New Society, Publishers, 2000) which has sold 20,000 copies. Chris Magwood has been editor of The Last Straw Journal, an international quarterly devoted to straw-bale building, since 2001. He is also the coauthor of Straw Bale Details. Chris Magwood and Peter Mack are professional straw bale builders and consultants who have constructed over 40 straw bale buildings, consulting on many more. They have taught workshops and seminars across the continent and overseas, and are authors of one of the first straw bale how-to books, Straw Bale Building (New Society, Publishers, 2000) which has sold 20,000 copies. Chris Magwood has been editor of The Last Straw Journal, an international quarterly devoted to straw-bale building, since 2001. He is also the coauthor of Straw Bale Details. |
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14223 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14223 | 2018-01-11 23:02:08 | Timber Framing for the Rest of Us | 9780865715080 | Rob Roy | Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conventional wall materials. But traditional timber framing employs the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, as well as much time and expense. However, there is another way ...Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders-methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening methods. The book includes everything an owner-builder needs to know about building strong and beautiful structural frames from heavy timbers, including: the historical background of timber framing crucial design and structural considerations procuring timbers-including different woods and recycled materials foundations, roofs and in-filling considerations the common fasteners A detailed case study of a timber frame project from start to finish completes this practical and comprehensive guide, along with a useful appendix of span tables and a bibliography. Highly illustrated, this book enables "the rest of us" to build like the professionals and will appeal to owner-builders, contractors and architects alike. Rob Roy is a former contractor with 11 previous books to his credit. He has been utilizing timber framing techniques for the past 25 years in the construction of homes, as well as in the numerous outbuildings at Earthwood Building School which he founded in 1981 with his wife, Jaki. He is most recently the author of Cordwood Building: The State of the Art (New Society, 2003). |
Introduction; About Timber Framing; Basic Timber Frame Structure; Timbers; Building Techniques: Timber Framing for the Rest of Us; Case Study: The Sunroom at Earthwood; Index. | 176 | 187.96 x 226.06 x 15.24mm | 385.55g | 30 Jun 2004 | New Society Publishers | Gabriola Island, United States | English | 120 B&W photographs and illustrations | 0865715084 | 238,843 | 3.86 | US$23.87 | US$24.95 | Rob Roy is a former contractor with twelve previous books to his credit, including Cordwood Building and Timber Framing for the Rest of Us. An expert on underground building, he founded the Earthwood Building School in 1981 with his wife, Jaki, and is frequently a speaker at events throughout North America. | Paperback | ||||||
14224 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14224 | 2018-01-11 23:02:14 | An Introduction to Architectural Theory | 9781405180627 | Harry Francis Mallgrave | A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval. The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last fifty yearssurveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonicsOffers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen yearsIncludes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years |
List of Illustrations viii
Prelude: The 1960s 1
Technology and Ecology 3
Social Underpinnings of Modernism 6
1968 11
Part One: 1970s 15
1 Pars Destruens: 1968 1973 17
Venturi and Scott Brown 18
Rossi and Tafuri 23
The Milan Triennale 27
The IAUS and the New York Five 30
2 The Crisis of Meaning 37
Semiotics and Architecture 39
Five on Five 43
Gray and White 45
Variations on a Theme 48
3 Early Postmodernism 53
The Language of Postmodernism 54
Consummation in Venice 57
European Counterpoints 59
4 Modernism Abides 65
The Chicago High-Rise 65
German Engineering 70
British Renaissance 74
Post-Metabolism in Japan 79
The Special Case of Alexander 85
Part Two: 1980s 89
5 Postmodernism and Critical Regionalism 91
Postmodernism Further Defined 91
Postmodernism Opposed 94
Critical Regionalism and Phenomenology 97
Merida and Venice 102
6 Traditionalism and New Urbanism 108
The Prince of Architecture 108
The Paternoster Controversy 111
Toward a New Urbanism 115
7 Gilded Age of Theory 123
Poststructural Theory 123
Poststructural Architecture 129
Eisenman and Tschumi 131
8 Deconstruction 141
Postmodernism Undefined 142
Gehry 146
The 68ers Come of Age 149
a devious architecture 154
Part Three: 1990s and Present 159
9 Wake of the Storm 161
Fragments of Fragments 161
From Derrida to Deleuze 164
Geometry and Autonomy 167
The End of the Figure: Manipulated Grounds 171
Form without Rhetoric 174
10 Pragmatism and Post-Criticality 177
OMA 177
The Orange Revolution 185
Post-Criticality 192
11 Minimalisms 194
Materiality and Effects 195
Neo-modernism 205
Phenomenological Architecture 210
12 Sustainability and Beyond 215
The Green Movement 217
McDonough and Yeang 218
Green Urbanism 223
Biophilic Design 226
Neuroaesthetics 229
Notes 231
Acknowledgments 265
Index 266 |
"This book will provide a unique complement to several annotated anthologies covering this material... Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers." (Choice, 1 October 2011) | 286 | 152 x 226 x 16mm | 421.84g | 26 Apr 2011 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chicester, United Kingdom | English | New | 1405180625 | 277,955 | 3.93 | US$36.76 | US$41.96 | Harry Francis Mallgrave is Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. His most recent publications include The Architect's Brain (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, Architectural Theory Volume I: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (Wiley-Blackwell 2005) and, with co-editor Christina Contandriopoulos, Architectural Theory Volume II: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). David Goodman is Studio Assistant Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and Boston Architectural College. His work has appeared in the journal Log, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern University Press publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook. |
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14225 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14225 | 2018-01-11 23:02:25 | Interior Design | 9781856696043 | Jenny Gibbs | Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of interior design as well as invaluable information about education and careers. For the new edition, many of the examples of interiors have been updated and there is additional information on sustainability in interior design. The sections covering drawings and CAD have also been thoroughly revised and expanded to take account of changes in current practice in this area and also to provide more practical guidance on drawing, either by hand or using CAD software. |
224 | 216 x 254 x 20mm | 1,038.72g | 10 Feb 2010 | Laurence King Publishing | London, United Kingdom | English | 2nd ed. | 240 illustrations, 200 in colour | 1856696049 | 287,479 | 3.72 | US$36.46 | US$40.00 | Jenny Gibbs is Principal of the KLC School of Design in London. A regular lecturer and broadcaster, she is also the author of A Handbook for Interior Designers (1995) and The Country House: Classic Style for an Elegant House (1997). | Paperback | ||||||
14226 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14226 | 2018-01-11 23:02:30 | Basics Architecture 02: Construction & Materiality | 9782940373833 | Lorraine Farrelly | "Basics Architecture: Construction & Materiality" is an in-depth exploration of the key materials used in modern architecture. The book covers materials including stone and brick, concrete, timber, glass, steel and composites. It examines their history, development and practical application in contemporary architecture. Discussion is supported by a variety of case studies and examples of work taken from best of contemporary architecture, as well as practical student exercises and resources. |
Introduction. How to get the most out of this book. Brick and stone: Timeline: Brick and stone; Origins and chronology; Cultural and material context; Application; Grand master: Antonio Gaudi; Woolf Architects: Brick Leaf House; Eric Parry Architects: 30 Finsbury Square. Concrete: Timeline: Concrete; Origins and chronology; Cultural and material context; Application; Grand master: Tadao Ando; Zaha Hadid: The Central Building; Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank: Baumschulenweg Crematorium. Timber: Timeline: Timber; Origins and chronology; Cultural and material context; Application; Grand master: Edward Cullinan; Sean Godsell: The Carter/Tucker House; Glenn Howells Architects: The Savill Building. Glass and steel: Timeline: Glass and steel; Origins and chronology; Cultural and material context; Application; Grand master: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Foster + Partners: The McLaren Technology Centre; Grimshaw Architects: Fundacion Caixa Galicia. Composite materials: Timeline: Composite materials; Origins and chronology; Cultural and material context; Application; Grand master: Charles Eames; Stanton Williams Architects: House of Fraser, Bristol; dRMM: The Kingsdale School. Innovation, sustainability and the future: Directions; Innovation; Sustainability; The future. Conclusion. Samples panel. Glossary and picture credits. Acknowledgements. |
'Inspiring, well illustrated and relevant to the academic curricula.' Boris Ceranic, University of Derby, UK. 'Visually exciting, easy to navigate and includes architects and architecture of great significance.' Anna Downs, Peterborough Regional College, UK. 'It makes an admirable 'primer' to architecture generally. The text is well conceived, relevant and timely. It is very accessible and clear.' Christopher Platt, University of Strathclyde, UK. 'Good professional knowledge in an accessible format. I like the ethical questions added at the end.' Stephanie Wooster, University of the West of England, UK. 'An excellent collection of case studies.' Paola Michialino, Newcastle University, UK. |
176 | 158 x 228 x 16mm | 521.63g | 17 Feb 2009 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Lausanne, Switzerland | English | 200 colour illustrations | 2940373833 | 319,357 | 3.93 | US$27.91 | Lorraine Farrelly is an architect who co-ordinates degree courses in architecture and interior design at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She also lectures at universities around the world on representation in architecture. Lorraine examines in universities in the UK, has taught at various European universities and has presented her research on architecture and the European city at conferences internationally. She has written several books about contemporary architecture and interior design, as well as articles on architectural drawing, architectural education and contemporary architecture. |
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14227 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14227 | 2018-01-11 23:02:40 | Basics Interior Architecture 03: Drawing Out the Interior | 9782940373888 | Ro Spankie | Starting with what is meant by interior architecture and why designers draw in the first place, it goes on to explore what one might draw and when. This book is not a manual of graphic techniques but a reference and inspiration to the types of drawing and ways of making images available. It considers the idea that the method we choose to draw with influences the way we think and therefore what we design. With sketches and drawings from Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis, Mies van der Rohe, Project Orange and Carlo Scarpa. |
Introduction. How to get the most out of this book. The design process: What is interior architecture?; Why draw?; What is drawing?; Drawing conventions. Thinking drawings: Programme brief; Concept board; Use; Space-time; Inspiration; Sketch; Diagram. Drawing to measure: Scale and proportion; Orthographic projection; Developed surface or unfolded wall plan; Axonometric and isometric; Detail; Survey drawing. Drawing space: Perspective; Physical model: Digital model; CADCAM; Animation. Drawing effect: Light; Colour; Pattern; Texture; Illusion; Furniture. Hybrid techniques: Borrowed mediums; Collage and montage; Storyboard; Layout. Glossary. Acknowledgements. |
"This is a lively little book which redresses the importance of drawn imagery - in its myriad forms, to the process of designing. The format and imagery is well suited to the design student seeking to find new devices to support their design communication." Werner Richter, University Campus Suffolk, UK. | 176 | 158 x 228 x 18mm | 521.63g | 01 May 2009 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Lausanne, Switzerland | English | 200 colour illustrations | 2940373884 | 309,552 | 4.66 | US$31.57 | Ro Spankie trained as an architect and has a Masters in Computing and Design. She has worked as an architect and a furniture designer as well as a lecturer. She is currently programme leader for Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. Fascinated by the role of the drawing in the design process, she has exhibited and published work related to the architectural interior both in the UK and abroad. |
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14228 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14228 | 2018-01-11 23:02:41 | Herzog and de Meuron: 1978-1988 v. 1 | 9783764356163 | Gerhard Mack | This volume traces the development of the work of the Basle architects Herzog and de Meuron in the first 11 years. Much emphasis is placed on the initial design processes, made tangible through plans and sketches. Finished buildings are presented in great detail. Spanning the years 1978-1988, it covers a number of projects, and explores how the men developed a methodological basis upon which the large projects of the following years could be based. Herzog and de Meuron's early designs were so condensed with the expression, function and structure, that they formed a whole. A central theme of the first decade of their work called for taking a fresh look at building materials. A house in a garden near Basle was joined together with completely different types of plywood on the outside and inside; the outside walls of an apartment building in Tavole were layered with rough stone; and a glass shell was planned for a laboratory in Basel. The early works already demonstrated an intense interest in the design of the facade. The Pilotengasse development in Vienna's city limits was the first project to grapple with far-reaching urban planning considerations. |
208 | 244 x 334 x 24mm | 1,560.35g | 01 Oct 1997 | Birkhauser | Basel, Switzerland | German | überarb. Nachdr. | 230 colour illustrations, 331 b&w illustrations, chronology | 3764356162 | 272,543 | 4.5 | US$109.23 | US$175.00 | Hardback | Birkhauser Verlag AG | ||||||
14229 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14229 | 2018-01-11 23:02:49 | The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture | 9781118290149 | Michael Brightman | Incorporate SketchUp into every phase of your design If you want to go beyond the basics and start using SketchUp 3D modeling software in all phases of your design, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is the perfect place to start. From preliminary schematics to construction documentation and everything in between, the book sketches out a workflow that is flexible enough to use from start to finish. You'll discover helpful techniques, smart tips, and best practices that will make your design process easier, as well as helping you easily export your models into BIM programs. The book includes in-depth coverage of the lightly-documented LayOut toolset and video tutorials on more advanced methods. Goes beyond the basics into intermediate and advanced techniques for architects, designers, and engineers who want to use SketchUp in all stages of designGuides you from basic schematics through design development to construction documentationIncludes best practices for organizing projects and workflows and helpful tipsProvides special coverage of the LayOut toolset, an often-underused component of SketchUp Pro The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is a valuable addition to your design toolkit. |
PART I: Starting the Flow 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
The Workflow 4
Who Should Read This Book? 5
What s in This Book? 6
What Are the Prerequisites? 7
Free SketchUp or SketchUp Pro? 8
Online Content 9
Mental Preparation 10
SketchUp Portfolio 10
Chapter Points 19
Chapter 2: Building Information Modeling 20
What Is BIM? 20
SketchUp and LayOut as BIM 22
Filling in the BIM Blanks 28
The SketchUp Outlook 31
Chapter Points 32
Chapter 3: Project Management 33
Folders and Files 33
Cloud Storage 45
Archiving 45
Chapter Points 48
PART II: SketchUp 49
Chapter 4: SketchUp Basics 51
Five Core Concepts 51
Leveraging SketchUp 53
Creating Geometry 56
Advanced Inferencing 78
Organizing Geometry with Containers 82
Section Planes 93
Layers, Styles, and Scenes 95
Chapter Points 102
Chapter 5: The Professional s SketchUp Template 104
Base Template 105
Model Info 105
Standard Layers 109
Styles 110
Utility Scenes 114
Chapter Points 122
Chapter 6: The Professional s SketchUp Environment 123
Toolbars 123
Dialogs 125
System Preferences 127
Chapter Points 131
Chapter 7: SketchUp
Collections 132
Material Collection 132
Component Collections 137
Styles Collection 140
Chapter Points 142
Chapter 8: Ruby Scripts 143
Find Ruby Scripts 143
Installing Ruby Scripts 143
Using Ruby Scripts 144
Recommended Ruby Scripts 144
Chapter Points 146
PART III: LayOut 147
Chapter 9: Introduction to LayOut 149
What Is LayOut? 149
Why LayOut? 155
Chapter Points 158
Chapter 10: The LayOut Interface 159
Getting Started 160
Main Toolbar 161
Document Setup 162
Preferences Window 169
Inspectors 177
Chapter Points 191
Chapter 11: The Professional s LayOut Environment 192
New Presentation 193
System Preferences 193
Custom Toolbars 197
Trays 199
Basic LayOut Template 201
Chapter Points 203
Chapter 12: LayOut Tools 204
Navigating LayOut 204
Drawing Tools 205
Annotation Tools 214
Modification Tools 220
Chapter Points 228
Chapter 13: LayOut Collections 229
Templates 229
Scrapbooks 235
Using Collections 248
Chapter Points 249
Chapter 14: Inserting Content 250
Working with SketchUp Models 250
Working with Images 254
Working with Text 256
Chapter Points 257
Part IV: The Architectural Design Process 259
Chapter 15: Site Analysis: Digital Site Survey 261
Geo-Location 263
Site Plan 267
Site Section 276
Final Drawings 278
Chapter Points 285
Chapter 16: Site Analysis: Building Context 286
The Project Site 286
Finding Nearby Buildings 289
Geo-Modeling 290
LayOut Diagrams 302
Chapter Points 303
Chapter 17: Site Analysis: Documenting an Existing Building 305
The Project 305
Recording Field Notes 312
The As-Built 3D Model 315
Working with Existing CAD Drawings 327
Chapter Points 327
Chapter 18: Schematic Design 328
Remodel Design 328
Project Types 330
Modeling Strategy 331
Objects 333
Exporting to CAD 335
Chapter Points 342
Chapter 19: Design Development Rendering 343
Populating a Scene 343
Rendering in SketchUp 346
Photorealistic Rendering 353
Chapter Points 356
Chapter 20: Construction Documents 357
Crucial Concepts for Documentation 357
Drawings 365
Annotations 379
Chapter Points 379
Index 381
Visit www.suexch.com for access to companion tutorial videos and other resources related to the book. |
400 | 193.04 x 228.6 x 12.7mm | 725.74g | 22 Apr 2013 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | New York, United States | English | 1. Auflage | 1118290143 | 220,426 | 3.47 | US$50.59 | US$59.99 | MICHAEL BRIGHTMAN is President and Lead Instructor of Bright Ideas Consultants, a SketchUp authorized training center, where he teaches architecture, construction, engineering, and design firms how to leverage SketchUp 3D models in their workflows. A frequent teacher and presenter on the topic, Mike also designs and creates dynamic 3D presentations and architectural drawings for a variety of clients and projects. |
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14230 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14230 | 2018-01-11 23:02:55 | Fire Island Modernist | 9781938922091 | Horace Gifford | As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New Yorks Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift once spurned Hollywood limos for the rustic charm of Fire Islands boardwalks. Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffanys here. Diane von Furstenburg showed off her latest wrap dresses to an audience that included Halston, Giorgio Sant Angelo, Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene. Today, such a roster evokes the aloof, gated compounds of the Hamptons or Malibu. But these celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Islands natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, Fire Island Modernist ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import. |
In those days, the Pines was seen as an "untainted address," observes Christopher Rawlins in Fire Island Modernist, his new book about Horace Gifford, who designed just about one in ten houses there. Gifford was a strapping idealist, and his houses were communal, economical, and exhibitionistic: the bedrooms small, the central areas open, with everything wooden or glass (he "essentially treated all surfaces like floors," Rawlins writes).--Carl Swanson "New York Magazine " In "Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction," Christopher Rawlins presents an insightful and gorgeously illustrated account of the luminous midcentury modern vacation homes that architect Horace Gifford built during the 1960s and '70s in Fire Island's gay enclaves. But this beautiful book, published in May by Metropolis Books and Gordon de Vries Studio, contains more than blueprints: Rawlins fluidly merges a cultural history of New York's gay community with Gifford's personal biography and work, showing how his seductive designs were deeply connected to the newfound freedoms he and his clients enjoyed out on the beach.--Bryan Lowder "Slate " In those days, the Pines was seen as an -untainted address,- observes Christopher Rawlins in Fire Island Modernist, his new book about Horace Gifford, who designed just about one in ten houses there. Gifford was a strapping idealist, and his houses were communal, economical, and exhibitionistic: the bedrooms small, the central areas open, with everything wooden or glass (he -essentially treated all surfaces like floors,- Rawlins writes).--Carl Swanson -New York Magazine - In -Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction,- Christopher Rawlins presents an insightful and gorgeously illustrated account of the luminous midcentury modern vacation homes that architect Horace Gifford built during the 1960s and '70s in Fire Island's gay enclaves. But this beautiful book, published in May by Metropolis Books and Gordon de Vries Studio, contains more than blueprints: Rawlins fluidly merges a cultural history of New York's gay community with Gifford's personal biography and work, showing how his seductive designs were deeply connected to the newfound freedoms he and his clients enjoyed out on the beach.--Bryan Lowder -Slate - Fire Island Modernist traces 1960s gay culture throught art and architecture.--Leigh Paterson "BBC NEWS " Horace Gifford, the designer of a series of modest but highly influential beach houses in Fire Island Pines, a small town on a spit of land some 50 miles east of New York City, was known for his irreverence... Gifford's houses... were emblematic of a time when even clients as rich as Calvin Klein were weekend minimalists--Fred Bernstein "Wallpaper* " Though the thin spit of land off Long Island's coast has long been known as a summer getaway, Fire Island became a truly notable retreat when Horace Gifford brought his serene sensibility to its sandy shores in the '60s. Pictures of the Florida-born architect's modern cedar-and-glass bungalows support an engaging narrative worthy of the site's distinctively colorful heritage.--Jordan Kushins "Surface Magazine " The first-ever account of the late Horace Gifford's architectural legacy on the infamous New York pleasure retreat reminds us that history is only ever what we make of it, as personal as it may be, or in this case, queer. Remembered by some for his impulsive ways, irresistible surfer looks, and porn-star appendage, Gifford's largely forgotten work reemerges as a serious voice in tune with post-war grandees like Louis Kahn and Paul Rudolph. Lovers of queer history will thank author Christopher Rawlins for detailing Gifford's beach homes on the barrier island alongside a social narrativie gilded by names like Calvin Klein, Oscar Wilde, and the Mattachine Society. As the sleepy enclave does sex, drugs, and disco, Rawlins covers all ground, from political punches to Gifford's liberated maxi-couches and make-out lofts. It's a sincere retelling which makes a courageous monument of an archive rescued from the rear of a suburban garage.--Pierre Alexandre De Looz "Pin-Up " Fire Island wouldn't be the idyllic haven we know today if it weren't for Horace Gifford, a young, often overlooked architect from Florida who designed 78 stunning beach houses off its boardwalks between 1961 and 1980. In Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction (Metropolis Books), a new monograph bursting with inspiring drawings and vintage photographs, author and architect Christopher Rawlins remembers this precocious (and handsome) talent who turned the south shores of Long Island into a modernist's dream.--Andrew Belonsky "OUT Magazine " Throughout the late '60s and into the '70s, men like Mr. Gifford, Harry Bates, Earl Combs, Arthur Erickson, Andrew Geller and James McCloud -- not all of them gay -- were kept busy erecting elegant, stark structures on this austerely beautiful and fragile barrier island, houses of naturally weathering cedar, redwood pavilions set back from the boardwalk, their broad windows serving as prosceniums across which backlighted players in Speedos, or else nothing, played out a specific variant of the theater of late 20th century gay life.--Guy Trebay "The New York Times, Styles Section " Both a cultural history and an architectural mediation, Fire Island Modernist captures the look, feel and sensation of gay society in the 1960s and '70s that flourished on the sandy shores and shifting dunes of the 31-mile barrier island of its title... Rawlins's clear graceful prose has just the right tone and style for his subject, and his selection of photographs, drawings, and illustrations brings Gifford's times back to life... Photographs of handsome young men cavorting on the beach ad striking fashionable poses by the pool add to the book's glamourous ambience. As Alistair Gordon states in his foreword, Gifford's houses 'expressed the longings of a culture that had transformed Fire Island into a free-fire zone of social and sexual discovery.--Clifford Pearson "Architectural Record " Every once in a great while, there is a book that is immediately hailed as so essential one wonders not so much why it has never done before but how we managed to get by without it. If that sounds overly effusive, buy, borrow or steal Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction and, after reading - no devouring it - get back to me.--Steve Weinstein "Edge on the Net " Rawlins book, full of gorgeous photographs drawings, illustrates Kahn's influence on Gifford. His understanding of servant and served spaces, and monumental form is beautifully documented.Salinger asked if we could grow-up, retain our optimism and not be considered naive. Given that Rawlin's book is as much social commentary as it is biogrpahy and architctural history, it asks questions regarding culture while explaining the cultural influences on the architect: can you understand and accept gay culture? Can you see the unique beauty of this culture? Can you see aspirations in the architecture? Can you do it while it evolves, on its own terms? Give this beautiful and thoughtful book, I remain optimistic.--Alastair Gordon "Mod " |
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14231 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14231 | 2018-01-11 23:02:58 | Buildings Must Die | 9780262026932 | Stephen Cairns | Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the "death" of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture's sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture's preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently. Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building "deaths" include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Carlo Scarpa, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas and Francois Roche. Buildings Must Die is both a memento mori for architecture and a call to to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose. |
Imagine a book on world leaders that looks at how they died, rather than their accomplishments, for an explanation of why the book's subtitle acknowledges that this perspective is 'perverse'. Despite and perhaps even because of these quirks, Buildings Must Die has the freshness of a project that takes a field and turns it on its head -- or, perhaps, blows it up. * Times Higher Education * |
312 | 157.48 x 233.68 x 30.48mm | 771.1g | 28 May 2014 | MIT Press Ltd | Cambridge, Mass., United States | English | 50 b&w illus., 1 chart | 0262026937 | 259,222 | 3.9 | US$42.15 | Stephen Cairns is Scientific Director of the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre. Jane M. Jacobs is Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. | Hardback | MIT Press | ||||||
14232 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14232 | 2018-01-11 23:03:09 | Cognitive Architecture | 9780415724692 | Ann Sussman | *Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association 2016 Place Research Award!* In Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment that have evolved over millennia. The book outlines four main principles---Edges Matter, the fact people are a thigmotactic or a 'wall-hugging' species; Patterns Matter, how we are visually-oriented; Shapes Carry Weight, how our preference for bilateral symmetrical forms is biological; and finally, Storytelling is Key, how our narrative proclivities, unique to our species, play a role in successful place-making. The book takes an inside-out approach to design, arguing that the more we understand human behavior, the better we can design for it. The text suggests new ways to analyze current designs before they are built, allowing the designer to anticipate a user's future experience. More than one hundred photographs and drawings illustrate its key concepts. Six exercises and additional case studies suggest particular topics - from the significance of face-processing in the human brain to our fascination with fractals - for further study. |
1. A New Foundation: Darwin, Biology and Cognitive Science 2. Edges Matter: Thigmotaxis ('wall-hugging') 3. Patterns Matter: Faces and Spaces 4. Shapes carry Weight: Bilateral Symmetry, (Hierarchy), Curves and Complexity 5. Storytelling is Key: We're Wired for Narrative 6. Nature is our Context: Biophilia and Biophilic Design Appendix: More on the Morphology and Function of the Human Brain. Acknowledgments. Index |
'The authors' intent to "encourage many more creative approaches to the [design] task, and not proscribe one specific architectural or planning style" has bee achieved, and within an admirably compact compass.' - Harold Henderson, Planning Magazine 'At a time where architecture is all about spectacle, Hollander and Sussman remind us in Cognitive Architecture that buildings and cities profoundly affect our lives. Design impacts our senses, our psyche and our disposition, drawing on our history and our evolution as a species. The book brings us back to fundamentals, insisting that architectural design must consider and respond to our basic sensibilities. It returns architectural discourse to a place where the public at large can partake in the assessment of the built environment.' - Moshe Safdie, international architect and founder of Safdie Architects 'Cognitive Architecture is an important and insightful book that significantly links our responses to seemingly lifeless buildings to the very foundations of our inborn affinity for life. It takes our ancient intuitions about bringing buildings to life into the modern realm of rapidly unfolding discoveries in evolutionary biology and neuroscience. It critically goes beyond theory and science to the application of this knowledge to a better and more beneficial architecture and urban design.' - Stephen R. Kellert, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, and author of "Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World. 'Cognitive Architecture is an inspiring book which introduces the reader to our sense of aesthetics that is at the core of human cognition in which we shape our built environment. This book will be of great value to architects, environmentalists, designers, geographers and planners, as well as students of those fields.'- Andreas Luescher, a Swiss architect and professor of architecture and environmental design, Bowling Green State University, Ohio 'Buildings are intended to be viewed, traversed, and lived in by people, but theoreticians and practitioners of architecture have rarely thought deeply about human nature and why and how it needs to be taken seriously when designing buildings and urban areas. In this short book, one of a small but growing number of contributions that are rectifying this deficiency, Sussman and Hollander clearly describe why our attraction to edges, faces, symmetry, curves, and stories, all of which have deep evolutionary roots, should influence architecture and urban design. Every person who wishes to design buildings should read and internalize the message of this book before putting pen to paper.' - Gordon H.Orians, Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle (Author of "Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare. How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears") 'As most apparent in the student exercises at the end of each chapter, this slender volume is didactic; those desiring a greater awareness of their built environments may find it useful. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels.' - CHOICE, A. J. Wharton, Duke University 'Sussman and Hollander have delivered a major advance in the creative union of human biology and architecture in the service of happiness.' - Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, USA 'Cognitive Architecture expands the dialogue relating to communities and the urban environment by integrating research from seemingly unrelated fields into the design discourse. As a result of this approach, the book is one that is relevant across a wide array of disciplines, either situated in design or within other fields. In this regard, the book can also add an additional layer of depth and context to other social disciplines that evaluate the cognitively based relationships between people and their environments, including environmental psychology, place attachment, and even tourism.' - Courtney Grunninger Bonney, Clemson University |
212 | 139 x 216 x 16mm | 306g | 02 Dec 2014 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 9 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 65 black & white halftones, 29 black & white line drawings | 0415724694 | 395,156 | 3.63 | US$53.13 | US$59.95 | Ann Sussman, AIA, an architect, works as an artist, writer and community organizer. With Justin Hollander, she created the Open Neighborhood Project, using art, craft and technological tools to increase public participation in planning, and earning the Commonwealth's "Gold Star Award" in 2010. Her studio is at ArtScape in the Bradford Mill, an art and business enclave in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. Justin Hollander, PhD, AICP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA, and the author of three previous books on city planning and design: Polluted and Dangerous (2009), Principles of Brownfield Regeneration (2010), and Sunburnt Cities (2011). |
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14233 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14233 | 2018-01-11 23:03:11 | Building Openings Construction Manual: Volume 1 | 9783955532987 | Jan Cremers | Building openings provide light, ventilation and climate control for rooms. At the same time, they are essential functional and design elements of facades, enabling communication between indoor and outdoor spaces as transparent or translucent structural components. Similar to the entire building envelope, windows and exterior doors must meet exacting standards for materials, construction types and installation conditions, as well as for fire, noise and thermal insulation, energy efficiency, airtightness and building security. The Building Openings Construction Manual opens with historic developments, provides solid facts on standards and safety features. It covers materials, components, construction types and specifics of structural connections, including solutions on how to deal with existing older windows and issues of ventilation, the use of solar energy and ecological sustainability. Detailed case studies offer a wealth of constructive ideas for the reader's own work. |
288 | 230 x 297 x 19.05mm | 1,366g | 26 Sep 2016 | Edition Detail | Munich, Germany | English | Numerous photos and drawings | 3955532984 | 358,756 | US$117.30 | US$140.00 | Jan Cremers, Faculty of Architecture and Design, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart | Paperback | ||||||||
14234 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14234 | 2018-01-11 23:03:18 | People Cities | 9781610917148 | Annie Matan | "A good city is like a good-party," you stay for longer than you plan," says Danish architect Jan Gehl. He believes that good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between-form and life. Over-the last 50 years, Gehl has changed the way that we think about architecture and city planning, moving from the Modernist separation of uses to a human-scale approach inviting people to use their cities. At a time when growing numbers are populating cities, planning urban spaces to be humane, safe, and open to 'all' is ever-more critical. With the help of Jan Gehl, we can all become advocates for human scale design. Jan's research, theories, and strategies have been helping cities to reclaim their public space and recover from the great post-WWII car invasion. His work has influenced public space improvements in over 50 global cities, including New York, London, Moscow, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, and the authors' hometown of Perth. While much has been written by Jan Gehl about his approach and by others about his influence, this book tells the inside story of how he learned to Study urban spaces and implement his people-centred approach.People Cities discusses the work, theory, life, and influence of Jan Gehl from the perspective of those who have worked with him across the globe. Authors Matan and Newman celebrate Jan's role in changing the urban planning paradigm from an abstract, ideological modernism to a people-focused movement. It is organised around the creation of that movement, using key periods in Jan's working life as a structure. People Cities will inspire anyone who wants to create vibrant, human-scale cities and understand the ideas and work of an architect who has most influenced how we should and can design cities for people. |
280 | 210 x 273 x 15mm | 726g | 15 Nov 2016 | Island Press | Washington, United States | English | 150 photographs, 20 illustrations | 1610917146 | 56,116 | 3.83 | US$40.28 | Annie Matan is a researcher and lecturer at Curtin university Sustainability Policy (CUSP) institute in Australia, interested in creating sustainable, vibrant and people-focused urban places. She has worked in state and local government, and joined CUSP in 2011 after finishing her PhD at Curtin University. Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and works at CUSP. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councillor, an adviser to three Western Australia State Premiers and was on the Board of infrastructure Australia from 2010 to 2014. He was a Lead Author for Transport on the IPCC. He has written 17 books including The End of Automobile Dependence. |
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14235 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14235 | 2018-01-11 23:03:21 | Refabricating Architecture | 9780071433211 | Stephen Kieran | Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear process, in both design and construction, where segregation of intelligence and information is the norm. They convince the reader to look at the automobile, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries to learn how to incorporate collective intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures.Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product while the production of buildings stagnates in the methods and practices of the nineteenth century. The transfer they envision is the complete integration of design with the craft of assembly supported by the materials scientist, the product engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present information science as the central enabler. The new architecture will not be about style, but rather about substance - about the very methods and processes that underlie making. |
Chapter 1: The Process Engineer and the Aesthetics of Architecture
Architecture: Art or Commodity?
The Hand and the Machine
Great Architecture
Equation
Integration - not Segregation
Tools of the Process Engineer
An Example: The Car
Result: Higher Quality
Master Building
Chapter 2: Role Reminders in the New World
Architect
Contractor
Materials Scientist
Product Engineer
Chapter 3: Enabling Systems as Regulatory Structure
Enabling Communications
Information Management/Representation/Organization
Communications Examples
Chapter 4: Processes We Do Not See
Integrated Component Assembly
Modular Assembly
Grand Blocks
Sectioned Assembly
Architecture of the Joint
Chapter 5: Architecture
Lessons of Modernism
Mass Production
Mass Customization
Present Realities
Transfer Processes
Transfer Materials
Chapter 6: Mass Customization of Architecture
Evolution
Building Blocks
Panel Methods
Architecture, Not Building
Case Study 1: Grand Block Method
Case Study 2: Panel Method
Chapter 7: Evolution Not Revolution
Evolutionary Architecture
How
When |
Few architects have considered building construction...as carefully and insightfully...opportunity to improve...quality and speed of construction and design. Architectural Record 20040801 By using thoughtfully designed elements...buildings can be "produced" in less time and at less cost while remaining true to good design and the needs of the space. Civil Engineering 20040401 Excerpts from Get Smart section of magazine by Barbara Flanagan Implacable sculpture made by ancient methods is no way to build now, say architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake...the partners claim that a new industrial revolution ought to transform the way buildings are planned, designed, constructed, and operated. In short, they want to redesign design. Why do ships, cars, planes, and spaceships keep getting better, while buildings don't budge? Part of the problem is that architects don't fully exploit "transfer technologies" -- that is they don't mine fields outside their niche. To speed the progress, Kieran Timberlake tries to turn down projects with "obvious" solutions and has, for the past two years, run a tiny inhouse think tank for nonapplied research... SmartWrap, exhibited last fall at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, is one fruit of the 55-person firm's collaboration with students and with manufacturers such as DuPont. The project, resembling gift-wrapped scaffolding, showcased a "first-generation prototype" of a potential building material that absorbs energy and then uses it to heat, cool, light, decorate, and communicate. ... ...the firm's proudest achievement is the new addition to Penn's engineering school. Their plot to undermine architecture emerges in their new book refabricating Architecture. I.D. Magazine 20040115 |
192 | 147.32 x 226.06 x 15.24mm | 294.83g | 02 Dec 2003 | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe | New York, NY, United States | English | 007143321X | 352,754 | 3.87 | US$23.99 | US$27.00 | In 1984 Stephen Kieran, FAIA, FAAR, and James Timberlake, FAIA, FAAR founded the firm KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, located in Philadelphia. KieranTimberlake Associates LLP has been awarded 40 design awards during the past 20 years, including two Gold Medals and two Distinguished Building Awards from the American Institute of Architects. Stephen Kieran received his Bachelor's degree from Yale University, magna cum laude, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. James Timberlake received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Detroit, with honors, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, with honors. Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake were recipients of the Rome Prize (in 1981 and 1983 respectively) from the American Academy in Rome, and have served as Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design at Yale University. They were awarded the inaugural 2001 Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research by the AIA College of Fellows. They are also the Max Fisher Chair recipients at the University of Michigan for Spring 2004. They currently serve as Adjunct Professors at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design where they lead a graduate research studio that explores the emerging interface between architecture as high art and the integration of developing technologies in materials science and product engineering. They lecture internationally about the processes and methods that underlie transfer technologies and what has been their involvement in this new architecture. Their firm's work has been published and featured in Manual, the Architecture of KieranTimberlake (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002); and numerous publications including Architectural Record, Cambridge University's Architectural Research Quarterly, Interiors, Interior Design, WIRED Magazine, and The New York Times. |
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14236 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14236 | 2018-01-11 23:03:24 | Surface Architecture | 9780262621946 | David Leatherbarrow | A study of the building surface, architecture's primary instrument of identity and engagement with its surroundings.Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology. Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron. The properties of a building's surface -- whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials -- are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings. |
This should be required reading for any architect. -- Jeremy Melvin, The Architect's Journal Surface Architecture shows that attention to surfaces does not necessarily equate with a lack of depth. -- Daniel Willis, Harvard Design Magazine Meticulously and beautifully conceived and presented, Surface Architecture rewards reading and re-reading, inspiring the pursuit of new possibilities in the creation of architecture. -- Bobby Open * The Architectural Review * |
276 | 194 x 222 x 16mm | 580.61g | 01 Apr 2005 | MIT Press Ltd | Cambridge, Mass., United States | English | 150 illus. | 0262621940 | 353,513 | 3.77 | US$30.47 | US$30.95 | Michael Wheeler is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (MIT Press, 2005). | Paperback | MIT Press | |||||
14237 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14237 | 2018-01-11 23:03:35 | Biophilic Design | 9780470163344 | Stephen R. Kellert | "When nature inspires our architecture-not just how it looks but how buildings and communities actually function-we will have made great strides as a society. Biophilic Design provides us with tremendous insight into the 'why,' then builds us a road map for what is sure to be the next great design journey of our times." -Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chairman, U.S. Green Building Council "Having seen firsthand in my company the power of biomimicry to stimulate a wellspring of profitable innovation, I can say unequivocably that biophilic design is the real deal. Kellert, Heerwagen, and Mador have compiled the wisdom of world-renowned experts to produce this exquisite book; it is must reading for scientists, philosophers, engineers, architects and designers, and-most especially-businesspeople. Anyone looking for the key to a new type of prosperity that respects the earth should start here." -Ray C. Anderson, founder and Chair, Interface, Inc. The groundbreaking guide to the emerging practice of biophilic design This book offers a paradigm shift in how we design and build our buildings and our communities, one that recognizes that the positive experience of natural systems and processes in our buildings and constructed landscapes is critical to human health, performance, and well-being. Biophilic design is about humanity's place in nature and the natural world's place in human society, where mutuality, respect, and enriching relationships can and should exist at all levels and should emerge as the norm rather than the exception. Written for architects, landscape architects, planners,developers, environmental designers, as well as building owners, Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life is a guide to the theory, science, and practice of biophilic design. Twenty-three original and timely essays by world-renowned scientists, designers, and practitioners, including Edward O. Wilson, Howard Frumkin, David Orr, Grant Hildebrand, Stephen Kieran, Tim Beatley, Jonathan Rose, Janine Benyus, Roger Ulrich, Bert Gregory, Robert Berkebile, William Browning, and Vivian Loftness, among others, address: The basic concepts of biophilia, its expression in the built environment, and how biophilic design connects to human biology, evolution, and development. The science and benefits of biophilic design on human health, childhood development, healthcare, and more. The practice of biophilic design-how to implement biophilic design strategies to create buildings that connect people with nature and provide comfortable and productive places for people, in which they can live, work, and study. Biophilic design at any scale-from buildings to cities-begins with a few simple questions: How does the built environment affect the natural environment? How will nature affect human experience and aspiration? Most of all, how can we achieve sustained and reciprocal benefits between the two? This prescient, groundbreaking book provides the answers. |
Acknowledgements. Contributors Biographies. Preface (Stephen R. Kellert and Judith Heerwagen). Prologue: Afterword, years after (Hillary Brown). I. THE THEORY OF BIOPHILIC DESIGN. Chapter 1: Dimensions, Elements, and Attributes of Biophilic Design (Stephen Kellert). Chapter 2: The Nature of Human Nature (Edward O. Wilson). Chapter 3: A Good Place to Settle: Biomimicry, Biophilia, and the Return of Nature's Inspiration to Architecture (Janine Benyus). Chapter 4: Water, Biophilic Design, and the Built Environment (Martin Mador). Chapter 5: Neuroscience, the Natural Environment, and Building Design (Nikos Salingaros and Kenneth Masden). II. THE SCIENCE AND BENEFITS OF BIOPHILIC DESIGN. Chapter 6: Biophilic Theory and Research for Healthcare Design (Roger Ulrich). Chapter 7: Nature Contact and Human Health: Building the Evidence Base (Howard Frumkin). Chapter 8: Where Windows Become Doors (Vivian Loftness). Chapter 9: Restorative Environmental Design: What, When, Where, and for Whom (Terry Hartig, Tina Bringslimark ,and Grete Grindal Patil)? Chapter 10: Healthy Planet, Healthy Children: Designing Nature into the Daily Spaces of Childhood (Robin Moore and Clare Cooper Marcus). Chapter 11: Children and the Success of Biophilic Design (Richard Louv). Chapter 12: The Extinction of Natural Experience in the Built Environment (Robert Pyle and David Orr). III. THE PRACTICE OF BIOPHILIC DESIGN. Chapter 13: Biophilia and Sensory Aesthetics (Judith Heerwagen and Bert Gregory). Chapter 14: Evolving an Environmental Aesthetic (Stephen Kieran). Chapter 15: The Picture Window: the Problem of Viewing Nature through Glass (Kent Bloomer). Chapter 16: Biophilic Architectural Space (Grant Hildebrand). Chapter 17: Towards Biophilic Cities: Strategies for Integrating Nature into Urban Design (Tim Beatley). Chapter 18: Green Urbanism: Developing Restorative Urban Biophilia (Jonathan Rose). Chapter 19: The Greening of the Brain (Pliny Fisk). Chapter 20: Bringing Buildings to Life (Tom Bender). Chapter 21: Biophilia in Practice: Buildings that Connect People with Nature (Alex Wilson). Chapter 22: Transforming Building Practices through Biophilic Design (Jenifer Seal Cramer and William Browning). Chapter 23 Reflections on Implementing Biophilic Design (Robert Fox and Robert Berkebile). |
"Stephen Kellert, a social ecologist, has spent much of his career thinking and writing about biophilia, the innate human affinity for nature. Biophilic Design is an exploration of how we cut ourselves off from nature in the way we design the buildings and neighborhoods where we live and work. And it's an argument for re-connecting these spaces to the natural world, with plenty of windows, daylight, fresh air, plants and green spaces, natural materials, and decorative motifs from the natural world." ( Yale Environment 360 , December 2009) "...Kellert asserts that people "learn better, work more comfortably, and recuperate more successfully in buildings that echo the environment in which the human species evolved." He says there are a number of ways to improve worker productivity and retention and reduce absenteeism. The most basic step is to improve the availability of natural light. Kellert is analyzing the effect of biophilic design on office work productivity, absenteeism, number of sick days. Kellert believes there is a definite connection between biophilic spaces and improved productivity, and some studies point to a positive relationship." ( dirt.asla.org , September 2009) "By applying biophilia to design, the editors and contributors hope to go beyond the standard green architecture goal of simply lowering the environmental impact of buildings. They hope to enhance the human relationship with nature through buildings believing, that one's affinity for light or water should be incorporated into the placement of windows. The book is divided into three parts. The first provides a theory of biophilic design and offers general guidelines. The second offers a more focused look at health issues and the role of nature. The third examines applied instances of biophilic design. Summing Up: Recommended" ( Choice , September 2009) "These authors urge architects to do what they can to incorporate nature in the design of buildings." ( GreenSource , April 2009) "Biophilic Design collects descriptions of current destructive practices, analyzes their roots in human nature, and offers low-cost, low-impact strategies for change." ( Architecture Boston; Nov/Dec 2008) "Stephen Kellert's Biophilic Design...brings together biologists, ecologists, psychologists, architects, designers and city planners to probe the confluence of people, nature and design." ( Miller-McCune.com , 7/14/08) "Make no mistake: Biophilic Design, all 400 pages of it, is one of the best design books of this decade." ( New Urban News , April-May 2008) |
400 | 205.74 x 231.14 x 30.48mm | 1,133.98g | 25 Feb 2008 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 1. Auflage | Illustrations (some col.) | 0470163348 | 95,152 | 4.05 | US$81.35 | US$90.00 | Stephen R. Kellert is the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology and Co-Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology at Yale University, and a Partner in the private equity firm Environmental Capital Partners. The recipient of numerous awards for teaching and writing, he is the author of more than 150 publications, including seven books. Judith H. Heerwagen is President of J.H. Heerwagen & Associates. She is a psychologist whose research focuses on sustainability, biophilia, and the evolutionary basis of environmental aesthetics. She has authored and delivered numerous articles and lectures on the topics of workplace, biophilia, and the psychological value of space. Martin L. Mador, a researcher on biophilic design at Yale University, has worked on green building and healthy schools issues, including the passage of LEED legislation in Connecticut. He is a board member of the Connecticut Sierra Club, as well as several other environmental organizations. |
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14238 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14238 | 2018-01-11 23:03:44 | Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies | 9780470945780 | G. Z. Brown | An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky. This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. * Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. * Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light. |
WHAT'S IN THE SWL PRINTED I NAVIGATION 20 SWL Printed Contents SWL Electronic Contents Additional Navigation Methods II USING SUN, WIND & LIGHT 50 Buildings and Energy Use Design Decision Chart for Net-Zero III SYNERGIES 78 7 essential themes for net-zero design IV BUNDLES 94 Bundles Explained Selecting Bundles and Making Your Own Some Fundamental Bundles: 9 sets strategy sets for high-performance design V FAVORITE DESIGN TOOLS, condensed 194 VI FAVORITE DESIGN STRATEGIES, condensed 216 VII HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS 250 6 techniques for net-zero energy and carbon-neutral design APPENDICES A-E 293 INDICES 339 |
432 | 213.36 x 246.38 x 35.56mm | 929.86g | 11 Mar 2014 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | Chichester, United Kingdom | English | 3rd Revised ed. | 0470945788 | 284,850 | 4.29 | US$72.07 | US$95.00 | MARK DeKAY is a registered architect and Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a Climate Reality Leadership Corps member, author of Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives and editor of the UT/RedVector.com online Sustainable Design and Green Building continuing education program. G. Z. BROWN is a registered architect and Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. He is director of the UO Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) in Portland and Eugene and coauthor of InsideOut: Design Procedures for Passive Environmental Technologies and Natural Ventilation in Northwest Buildings. |
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14239 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14239 | 2018-01-11 23:03:48 | Color Drawing | 9780471741909 | Michael E. Doyle | The Third Edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing remains the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings. Update with over 100 pages, this Third Edition contains an entirely new section focused on state-of-the-art digital techniques to greatly enhance the sophistication of presentation drawings, and offers new and innovative ideas for the reproduction and distribution of finished drawings. Color Drawing, Third Edition Features: A complete body of illustrated instructions demonstrating drawing development from initial concept through final presentation Finely honed explanations of each technique and process Faster and easier ways to create design drawings Over 100 new pages demonstrating methods for combining hand-drawn and computer-generated drawing techniques Step-by-step, easy-to-follow images will lead you through digital techniques to quickly and easily enhance your presentation drawings. |
Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I. COLOR DRAWING FOR COMMUNICATION. 1. Initial Considerations. 2. Media and Paper. 3. Technique. 4. Elements, Materials, and Finishes. 5. Scale Elements: Figures and Automobiles. PART II. COLOR DRAWING FOR PRESENTATION. 6. Color and Composition in Illustration. 7. Approaches to Creating Color Design Drawings. 8. Digital Color Drawing. Glossary. Bibliography. Design Credits. Index. |
"Doyle presents an updated resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings." (Book News, February 2008) | 432 | 223.52 x 281.94 x 27.94mm | 1,360.77g | 17 Nov 2006 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | New York, United States | English | 3rd Revised edition | 0471741906 | 311,039 | 4.21 | US$86.60 | US$99.00 | Michael E. Doyle (Boulder, CO), Vice President and Senior Designer at CommArts in Boulder, CO, Architect and former instructor at University of Colorado. | Hardback | John Wiley & Sons Inc | ||||
14240 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14240 | 2018-01-11 23:03:59 | Pugin's Gothic Ornament | 9780486255002 | Augustus C. Pugin | One hundred plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements. | 112 | 218.44 x 271.78 x 7.62mm | 272.15g | 01 Dec 1987 | Dover Publications Inc. | New York, United States | English | 048625500X | 297,677 | 3.42 | US$15.28 | Paperback | ||||||||||
14241 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14241 | 2018-01-11 23:04:09 | Victorian Architectural Details | 9780486440156 | A J Bicknell & Co | Originally published over 130 years ago by one of America's leading architectural firms, this volume provided prospective homeowners and other customers with a wide range of design alternatives. While the collection includes elevations and floor plans for a variety of handsome, private residences and commercial structures, the emphasis is on architectural details -- from cornices, dormer windows and piazzas, to balconies, fireplace mantels, and gable ornaments. A delight for anyone who appreciates the charm of Victorian architecture. |
80 | 238 x 308 x 6mm | 299.38g | 11 Jan 2005 | Dover Publications Inc. | New York, United States | English | Illustrations, unspecified | 048644015X | 269,984 | 3 | US$14.89 | Paperback | |||||||||
14242 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14242 | 2018-01-11 23:04:13 | The Language of Ornament | 9780500203439 | James Trilling | An introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value to craftworkers, collectors and students of art history. Trilling analyzes the historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain, or the carved and woven ornament of Native Americans. An impressive variety of ornament from the paleolithic age to the present day enables the reader to appreciate both its inherent form and beauty. Individual styles and patterns are traced through their evolution and interaction between cultures through trade, conquest and religious influences. |
224 | 160.02 x 208.28 x 15.24mm | 408.23g | 01 Jun 2001 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 246 illustrations, 68 in colour | 0500203431 | 306,247 | 3.96 | US$11.77 | US$14.95 | James Trilling taught at the Rhode Island School of Design before he became a fulltime independent scholar. He is the author Ornament: A Modern Perspective has written extensively on Byzantine art. | Paperback | |||||||
14243 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14243 | 2018-01-11 23:04:14 | Perspective | 9780500286074 | Robert W. Gill | Originally published as two separate books - "Basic Perspective" and "Creative Perspective" - this new, enlarged and combined volume provides a clear and simple explanation of the principles of perspective and how an understanding of them - even in our technology-led world - is the key for architects and designers to be able to produce great work. Packed with timeless illustrations and an authoritative text, it is an invaluable tool for architectural and 3-D design students, technical illustrators and product designers. |
Part I: One point, two point and three-point perspective with objects inclined to the ground plane (from the worm's-eye to the bird's-eye point of view); Part II: Developing the basic principles into a set of valuable creative tools, using step-by-step processes. | 272 | 160 x 241.3 x 22.9mm | 612.36g | 21 Jun 2006 | Thames & Hudson Ltd | London, United Kingdom | English | 259 line drawings | 0500286078 | 297,384 | 3.93 | US$19.02 | US$19.95 | Robert W. Gill was a practising designer and architectural renderer for his entire working life. He also headed his own architectural design office and lectured in art and design at the Melbourne School of Art and Photography. He is the author of Rendering with Pen and Ink, also published by Thames & Hudson. | Paperback | ||||||
14244 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14244 | 2018-01-11 23:04:26 | Design Expertise | 9781856176705 | Bryan Lawson | Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. Bryan Lawson and Kees Dorst develop a new model of design expertise and show how design expertise can be developed. This book is designed for all students, teachers, practitioners and researchers in architecture and design. To enable all readers to explore the book in a flexible way, the authors' words are always found on the left hand page. On the right are diagrams, illustrations and the voices of designers, teachers and students and occasionally others too. 'Design Expertise' provides a provocative new reading on the nature of design and creative thought. |
1. Journeys Through Design; 2. Understanding Design; 3. Expertise in Design; 4. Starting Out as a Designer; 5. Being Professional; 6. Educating Designers; 7. The Continuing Journey | 322 | 188 x 244 x 20mm | 798.32g | 06 May 2009 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | Oxford, United Kingdom | English | 1856176703 | 371,565 | 3.68 | US$57.52 | Bryan Lawson is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He is however both an architect and a psychologist, which has enabled him to study the nature of the design process. | Paperback | Architectural Press | |||||||
14245 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14245 | 2018-01-11 23:04:30 | 21st Century Sustainable Homes | 9781864704280 | Mark Cleary | Another addition to the highly successful 21st Century series The latest in sustainable housing design trends from around the world, providing inspiration and practical ideas Features lush color photographs of visually spectacular and environmentally-friendly architecture Showcases detailed plans and descriptions of each house and its sustainable elements. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the global necessity of facing the challenges of Climate Change has unleashed the inventive powers of architects around the world, many of whom are tackling the problem in original and highly creative ways. And yet, as the projects contained in this volume attest, sustainable design doesn't necessarily preclude style and comfort, or even a little bit of luxury. Locations include Australia, New Zealand, US, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Malaysia, Russia, France and India. With lush full-colour photography, detailed floor and site plans, and informative descriptions of each house's sustainable design elements, Sustainable Homes takes the reader on a round-the-world journey, traversing a range of climates, to see how today's architects are making the most of traditional and modern design principles and technologies to create more energy efficient houses. |
204 | 260 x 262 x 22mm | 1,238.3g | 16 Jul 2011 | Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd | Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia | English | 400 col | 1864704284 | 291,667 | 4 | US$36.55 | Hardback | |||||||||
14246 | 1 | 2022-09-22 00:21:09 | Architectural Structure & Design | Architecture | Art & Photography | 14246 | 2018-01-11 23:04:34 | Small is Beautiful in the 21st Century | 9781900322751 | Diana Schumacher | Small is Beautiful in the 21st Century traces Fritz Schumacher's legacy through the activities and outreach of those pioneers who, over the years, have been working on practical solutions to our interrelated global crises. In particular, it describes how several flourishing organisations, some large and some small, have remained closely linked with his ideas and work, and have since become associated as the Schumacher Circle. The particular contribution of E. F. Schumacher was to bring a profound wisdom and humanity to bear on the practical challenges of our time, and the Briefing both illuminates Schumacher's thinking and shows the ways in which each of us can help to turn our present crisis into the opportunity to build a more kind, just and ecologically sustainable society. |
Who was Fritz Schumacher? The Schumacher Society Third World development models Food, agriculture and land use Small-scale technologies for local sustainability The call for a new economics Transforming industrial work in the First World The relevance of E. F. Schumacher today | 128 | 146 x 208 x 12mm | 222.26g | 09 Feb 2012 | GREEN BOOKS | Totnes, United Kingdom | English | 1900322757 | 345,970 | 3.45 | US$13.24 | Diana Schumacher OBE worked for the British Council and the University of Chicago School of Business Studies, and is now co-director of Work Structuring Ltd. She has been co-founder of the Schumacher Society, the Gandhi Foundation UK, the New Economics Foundation (nef) and the Environmental Law Foundation, and has served as a trustee of many other environmental organisations. She is the author of Energy: Crisis or Opportunity?, and has contributed chapters to numerous international publications on ethics, ecology and the environment. She is married to Christian Schumacher, the eldest son of E. F. Schumacher. |
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