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  • Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

    by Wolfgang Schueller ...
    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

    12,49 €

  • Il restauro della fontana del Fuga nell'Orto Botanico di Roma

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il puntuale resoconto del restauro della Scalinata delle Undici Fontane all'interno dell'Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza" che qui si presenta, sembra da un lato rispondere finalmente all'auspicio avanzato già nel 1984 con la mostra Roma e il suo Orto Botanico. Storia ed eventi di un'istituzione scientifica, allora organizzata in occasione del centenario dell'insediamento di ... Read more

    23,99 €

  • Sistemi agrourbani

    La città in estensione nella piana del Sarno

    by Carlo Alessandro Manzo, Marino Borrelli, Andrea Buondonno, Emanuele Carreri, Gianluca Cioffi, Carlo Coppola, Francesco Costanzo, M. Antonia Giannino, Rejana Lucci, Efisio Pitzalis0, Massimiliano Rendina1, Andrea Santacroce2, Pasquale Zeppetella3 ...
    Il paesaggio della piana del Sarno, tra il Vesuvio e i monti Lattari, è fatto di parti densamente edificate, come Pompei e Scafati, e di campagne produttive variamente urbanizzate. La sua rigenerazione si fonda su un’idea di città verde discontinua, inclusiva delle zone agricole, che rilegge la “città in estensione” di Giuseppe Samonà alla luce degli attuali problemi insediativi. La proposta è un ... Read more

    18,99 €

  • Design Brooklyn

    Renovation, Restoration, Innovation, Industry

    by Anne Hellman, Michel Arnaud ...
    Design Brooklyn is a visual exploration of the unique and diverse architecture, interiors, and design of public and private spaces in today’s Brooklyn, from mechanics’ shops renovated into restaurants, to newly built museums, to restored brownstones and modern townhouses. Chapters focusing on renovation, restoration, innovation, and industry come to life with more than 150 original photographs ... Read more

    20,45 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Umidità domestica. Cause, effetti, soluzioni

    by Marco Argiolas ...
    L'acqua è un bene prezioso, ma è anche responsabile dell'80% del degrado subito dalle costruzioni e, secondo un dato dell'Unione Europea, di oltre il 60% dei contenziosi nell'edilizia. Ecco quindi un libro completo ed esauriente sull'umidità domestica che, al di là di miti e preconcetti, spiega ogni fenomeno in termini di cause, effetti, e correttivi specifici, senza trascurare le modalità di ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Guia Completo: Como Fazer Velas Palito Bicolor Com Perfeição

    by Regis França ...
    O objetivo deste guia é fornecer um passo a passo detalhado para a produção de velas palito bicolor, ideal para quem deseja criar velas personalizadas com alta qualidade. Este guia é direcionado principalmente a fabricantes de velas, lojas de artigos religiosos, e terreiros de Umbanda e Candomblé que desejam produzir suas próprias velas, seja para uso próprio ou para venda. ... Read more

    6,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Autonomía artesanal

    Creaciones y resistencias del pueblo kamsá

    by Gloria Stella Barrera Jurado ...
    Series Book 1 - Colección Libros de Investigación Vicerrectoría de Investigación
    Con sus obras, los maestros artesanos kamsá brindan lecciones cotidianas de signidad y sabiduría. En ellas se pueden reconocer códigos anónimos y colectivos que se respetan y perpetúan; también espacios de creación propios que permiten el reconocimiento individual en acciones de resistencia ante los diferentes tipos de presiones externas. El universo artesanal kamsá es una expresión de la cultura ... Read more

    4,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 150 anni di storia del cemento in Italia

    Le opere, gli uomini, le imprese

    by AA. VV. ...
    150 anni di storia del cemento in Italia sono anche 150 anni di storia italiana. Il cemento accompagna la storia della costruzione ed è il materiale di elezione nel campo dell’edilizia e delle infrastrutture. La fama del Made in Italy è anche dovuta alle originalissime strutture in cemento così come ai momenti di crisi economica e politica corrispondono fasi critiche nello sviluppo delle ... Read more

    34,99 €

  • Raumklima & Lüftung der Wohnung

    Wege zum Wohlfühlen. Bauliche Voraussetzungen. Richtiges Verhalten.

    by Horst Fischer-Uhlig ...
    Etwa 80% des Lebens verbringt der Mensch in Innenräumen. Eine falsche Lüftungspraxis, schlechte Raumluft, Feuchteschäden und Schimmelpilze in Wänden und Decken können das Wohlbefinden negativ beeinflussen. Das Buch "Raumklima und Lüftung der Wohnung" zeigt, wie ein gesundes Raumklima erzielt werden kann. Welche Voraussetzungen sind zu beachten, beziehungsweise wie schafft und bewahrt man sie? Wie ... Read more

    18,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leadwork

    by William Richard Lethaby ...
    This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to leadwork, and covers a variety of different methods, applications, and items ranging from decoration, to the construction of lead coffins. Clear, concise, and profusely illustrated, this text will be of much value to those with an interest in leadwork and the historical development of the practice. The chapters of this book include: 'Of Material ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Centro Studi FLA

    by Giuseppe Marinoni ...
    Series Book 5 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    Realizzato nel 2012 in seguito alla vincita da parte di Giuseppe Marinoni di un concorso internazionale, il Centro studi FLA (Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente) a Seveso appare all’esterno come un volume primario, articolato da fenditure verticali e sezionato dalla facciata vetrata: quinta della piazza e boccascena sulla città. La rigorosa figura ellittica dell’impianto planimetrico si rivela ... Read more

    4,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La casa e il tetto in legno

    Prefabbricazione - Ristrutturazione - Isolamento

    by Riccardo Salvato, Stefano Fogliani, Alessandro Cetrone, Andrea Piero Merlo ...
    Il settore residenziale sta manifestando un interesse tale da poter rappresentare in un futuro molto prossimo la diffusione di questo materiale nell’edilizia italiana. Fino ad oggi la principale problematica che ha avvicinato i tecnici al legno è stata la ristrutturazione dei tetti. Espressioni come costruzione in legno e casa in legno fanno rispettivamente riferimento a un edificio in senso ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Domesticidad a la Intemperie

    Sobre las Relaciones entre Arboles, Arquitectura y Habitantes

    by Ricardo Devesa ...
    Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural programs, and as the result of an ... Read more

    15,04 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doors

    History, Repair and Conservation

    Edited by Michael Tutton, James Campbell ...
    In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This book offers depth and range of detail from dating and archaeology right through to the surveying, recording, engineering and curation of the door, its furniture and the part of the building into ... Read more

    90,37 €

  • Architect's Pocket Book

    by Jonathan Hetreed, Ann Ross, Charlotte Baden-Powell ...
    Series series Routledge Pocket Books
    This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis – on-site or in the studio. It provides clear guidance and invaluable detail on a wide range of issues, from planning policy through environmental design to complying with Building Regulations, from structural and services matters to materials characteristics and detailing. This sixth ... Read more

    41,51 €

  • Design in Modular Construction

    by Mark Lawson, Ray Ogden, Chris Goodier ...
    Modular construction can dramatically improve efficiency in construction, through factory production of pre-engineered building units and their delivery to the site either as entire buildings or as substantial elements. The required technology and application are developing rapidly, but design is still in its infancy. Good design requires a knowledge of modular production, installation and ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Old Materials, New Climate

    Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World

    by Susan Pranger ...
    Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials – how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials in new ways.Protecting historic buildings from a rapidly changing and unpredictable climate requires an understanding of how ... Read more

    50,06 €

  • Metric Handbook

    Planning and Design Data

    Edited by Pamela Buxton ...
    The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects and architecture students, with over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects and designers. It remains the ideal starting point for any project and belongs in every design office.The seventh edition references the latest regulations and construction standards and includes new chapters on data ... Read more

    65,94 €

  • Collage and Architecture

    by Jennifer Shields ...
    Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture.Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago, collage has profoundly influenced artists and architects throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In Collage and Architecture, Jennifer A. E. ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Merleau-Ponty for Architects

    by Jonathan Hale ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge, Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow and Alberto Pérez-Gómez in North America and Juhani Pallasmaa in Finland. Merleau-Ponty suggested that the ... Read more

    40,29 €

  • On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

    Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest

    by Donald Leslie Johnson ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ’uniquely molded’, ’woven like a textile fabric’ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these ... Read more

    75,71 €

  • The Architecture of the Facade

    by Randall Korman ...
    The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization, ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • Architectural Exaptation

    When Function Follows Form

    by Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and ... Read more

    58,61 €

  • Understanding Architecture

    An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History

    by Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch ...
    A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a ... Read more

    65,94 €