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Linee Guida per il superamento delle barriere architettoniche nei luoghi di interesse culturale

by AA. VV. ...

Le Linee Guida per il superamento delle barriere architettoniche nei luoghi di interesse culturale sono rivolte a tutti coloro, architetti e ingegneri in primo luogo, funzionari di amministrazioni pubbliche o liberi professionisti, che nel corso della propria attività si trovano ad affrontare, seppur con ruoli diversi (responsabili del procedimento, soggetti finanziatori, progettisti, direttori ... Read more

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Disclosing Horizons

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This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Read more

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This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged.
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Never Too Small

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by Joe Beath, Elizabeth Price ...

Joel Beath and Elizabeth Price explore this question drawing inspiration from a diverse collection of apartment designs, all smaller than 50m2/540ft2. Through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and drawing on architectural images and detailed floor plans, the authors examine how architects and designers are reimagining small space living. Full of inspiration we can each apply to ... Read more

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Joel Beath and Elizabeth Price explore this question drawing inspiration from a diverse collection of apartment designs, all smaller than 50m2/540ft2. Through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and drawing on architectural images and detailed floor plans, the authors examine how architects and designers are reimagining small space living. Full of inspiration we can each apply to
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Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

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This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach ... Read more

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This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach
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The Interior Design Handbook

by Frida Ramstedt ...

THE BESTSELLING SWEDISH PHENOMENONWhat looks good and why?Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia's leading interior design blog. In this book she distils the secrets of successful interior design and styling to help you create a home that works best for your space, taste and lifestyle. Filled with practical tips, rules-of-thumb and tricks of the trade, The Interior Design Handbook will ... Read more

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The Parthenon

by Professor Mary Beard ...

The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess ... Read more

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The Science Fiction anthology

by Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, Lester del Rey, Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Ben Bova ...

This collection brings together some of the most incredible sci-fi stories ever told in one convenient, high-quality, low-priced Kindle volume!This book now contains several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Sentimentalists, by Murray LeinsterThe Girls from Earth, by Frank RobinsonThe Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell WrightSong in a minor key, by C.L. MooreSentry of ... Read more

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Feng Shui Colors: Using Color To Change Your Life

by Ken Lauher ...

Throughout time, colors have carried powerful symbolism. Some of these meanings are universal. For instance, green typically represents hope and re-birth. Others are tied in to different cultures. In China, white represents mourning, while, in the U.S., it is a symbol of purity. Instead of white wedding dresses (which could imply early widowhood in China), Chinese brides wear red — a symbol of ... Read more

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Throughout time, colors have carried powerful symbolism. Some of these meanings are universal. For instance, green typically represents hope and re-birth. Others are tied in to different cultures. In China, white represents mourning, while, in the U.S., it is a symbol of purity. Instead of white wedding dresses (which could imply early widowhood in China), Chinese brides wear red — a symbol of
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by Ioannis Konaxis ...

Il volume descrive le declinazioni del paesaggio culturale e offre al lettore il sostrato teorico per la comprensione di alcune iniziative internazionali di valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale, come la World Heritage List dell’Unesco e gli itinerari culturali europei del Consiglio d’Europa. Il focus sul Parco Nazionale Marino di Alonissos nelle Sporadi settentrionali e sul percorso del cibo in ... Read more

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The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual

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Edited by Christina Hopfe, Robert McLeod ...

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust ‘fabric first’ approach ... Read more

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Human Dimension and Interior Space

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by Julius Panero, Martin Zelnik ...

The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space.Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the ... Read more

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GIS-Based Simulation and Analysis of Intra-Urban Commuting

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Métapolis

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Les grandes villes sont le lieu par excellence où les hommes créent, échangent, se rencontrent. Pourtant, on les rend souvent responsables de tous nos maux. François Ascher analyse ici la tendance actuelle à la concentration des hommes, des activités et des richesses dans les métropoles. Est-elle généralisée ? Quelles formes concrètes prend-elle ? Les nouveaux modes de communication vont-ils l ... Read more

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Les grandes villes sont le lieu par excellence où les hommes créent, échangent, se rencontrent. Pourtant, on les rend souvent responsables de tous nos maux. François Ascher analyse ici la tendance actuelle à la concentration des hommes, des activités et des richesses dans les métropoles. Est-elle généralisée ? Quelles formes concrètes prend-elle ? Les nouveaux modes de communication vont-ils l
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Dit volk heeft zijn god op aarde

by Michel Krielaars, Hans Driessen, Eva Peek ...

Op 24 februari 2022 viel Rusland Oekraïne binnen, met een bloedige oorlog in het hart van Europa als gevolg. Ineens drongen de parallellen tussen heden en verleden zich aan alle kanten op. Vooral waar het ging om een samengaan van wreedheid en knulligheid. Dat blijkt ook uit de meer dan honderdvijftig ooggetuigenverslagen in 'Dit volk heeft zijn god op aarde'. Peter de Grote toont het eelt op zijn ... Read more

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The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 1

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by Dominik Holzer ...

ePart 1 Best Practice BIM: Seeking to get BIM right? This ePart provides a touchstone for good practice by introducing a number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which represent benchmarks for successful BIM implementation. It explains what good BIM looks like and the pitfalls to avoid with ‘bad BIM’ and ‘pseudo BIM’. It highlights the part that the BIM Manager can play in achieving excellence ... Read more

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ePart 1 Best Practice BIM: Seeking to get BIM right? This ePart provides a touchstone for good practice by introducing a number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which represent benchmarks for successful BIM implementation. It explains what good BIM looks like and the pitfalls to avoid with ‘bad BIM’ and ‘pseudo BIM’. It highlights the part that the BIM Manager can play in achieving excellence
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Building and Dwelling

Ethics for the City

by Richard Sennett ...

**'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardian**In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and ... Read more

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**'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardian**In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and
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Clash of Legions

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by Anthony Riches ...

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Housing and Social Policy

Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

Edited by Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...

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This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

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This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or
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Cities After Crisis

Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up

by Carlos Vazquez ...

Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de ... Read more

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Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de
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Tiny House: Live Small, Dream Big

by Brent Heavener ...

Having less is the secret to living more. Whether you’ve been dreaming about a treehouse in the wilderness of Montana, or a remote eco-cabin in Patagonia or Australia; driving a campervan on the open roads of Quebec, or floating on a houseboat in Sweden – find escape, inspiration and a window into a freer, simpler, happier kind of life.In this visual manifesto for the tiny house lifestyle, ... Read more

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Having less is the secret to living more. Whether you’ve been dreaming about a treehouse in the wilderness of Montana, or a remote eco-cabin in Patagonia or Australia; driving a campervan on the open roads of Quebec, or floating on a houseboat in Sweden – find escape, inspiration and a window into a freer, simpler, happier kind of life.In this visual manifesto for the tiny house lifestyle,
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Μέσα Μάνη. Στην εσχατιά της Ευρώπης

by Denis Roubien ...

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Architecture's Historical Turn

Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern

by Jorge Otero-Pailos ...

Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed ... Read more

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Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed
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