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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 €

  • Architecture and Adaptation

    From Cybernetics to Tangible Computing

    by Socrates Yiannoudes ...
    Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and ... Read more

    71,83 €

  • The Science of People and Office Design

    Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving

    Edited by Sally Augustin, Nigel Oseland ...
    The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design. Practitioner-researcher disconnects often arise due to a lack of meaningful connection between their professional worlds. This book seeks to rectify this disconnect and ... Read more

    36,52 €

  • The Rise of the Spanish Empire

    by Roger Bigelow Merriman ...
    The Spanish Empire, historically known as the Hispanic Monarchy and as the Catholic Monarchy, was one of the largest empires in history. From the late 15th century to the early 19th, Spain controlled a huge overseas territory in the New World and the Asianarchipelago of the Philippines, what they called "The Indies". It also included territories in Europe, Africa and Oceania.The Spanish Empire has ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry VI, Part 2

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, or Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed written in approximately 1590-91. It is the second part of the trilogy on Henry VI, and often grouped together with Richard III as a tetralogy on The Wars of the Roses—the success of which established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright. ... Read more

    0,49 €

  • FABRIC[ated]

    Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

    Edited by Tolya Stonorov ...
    FABRIC[ated] examines fabric as a catalyst for innovation, reflection, change and transformation in architecture.This book explores the ways in which research and development of fabric can, and historically has, influenced and revolutionized architecture, teaching and design. Responsive, flexible, impermanent, fluid and adaptive—fabric interacts with, and influences architecture, offering ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Out of the Ordinary

    The Work of John Ronan Architects

    by John Ronan, Sean Keller, Carlos Jiminez ...
    This publication on the work of John Ronan Architects explores the firm’s spatial-material approach to architecture and the underlying themes of its typologically diverse output.Out of the Ordinary introduces a different approach to architecture which is based on spatial narrative rather than form and influenced by literature rather than appropriations from the world of art world. It advocates for ... Read more

    21,19 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation

    Evolving Perspectives

    by Johnathan Djabarouti ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation
    Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.The meaning of heritage is changing. From pastness ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • 史学视角下的红旗渠研究

    by 李海红 ...
    本书从史学研究的角度，对修建了四十余年的红旗渠工程建设背景进程及结果作了全面客观评析，通过政治学、社会学、人类学的最新研究成果及方法为我们重新审视红旗渠的历史提供了新的研究视角。 ... Read more

    7,19 €

  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Building Services Design

    by Keith Moss ...
    Building design is increasingly geared towards low energy consumption. Understanding the fundamentals of heat transfer and the behaviour of air and water movements is more important than ever before.Heat and Mass Transfer in Building Services Design provides an essential underpinning knowledge for the technology subjects of space heating, water services, ventilation and air conditioning.This new ... Read more

    53,77 €

  • The Complete Guide to wood Polishing : Mastering Tools and Techniques

    by Baljeet Singh ...
    The Complete Guide to Wood Polish: Techniques, Tools, and Finishes for Beautiful Wood Surfaces" is an essential manual for anyone passionate about restoring, maintaining, or enhancing wooden furniture and surfaces. This book explores the art and science of wood polishing—covering traditional methods, modern products, and expert tips for achieving professional-quality finishes at home. Whether you ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • The Politics of Parametricism

    Digital Technologies in Architecture

    Edited by Matthew Poole, Manuel Shvartzberg ...
    Over the last decade, 'parametricism' has been heralded as a new avant-garde in the industries of architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture, heir to postmodernism and deconstruction. From buildings to cities, the built environment is increasingly addressed, designed and constructed using digital software based on ... Read more

    30,41 €

  • La città resiliente

    Strategie e azioni di resilienza urbana in Italia e nel mondo

    by Pietro Mezzi, Piero Pelizzaro ...
    Series series Saggio
    Il clima è cambiato, il pianeta è in pericolo.La sfida è città per città: ora e sempre resilienza.La resilienza è, in breve, l’arte di adattarsi ai cambiamenti, trasformando così le incertezze in occasioni e i rischi in innovazione. I cambiamenti climatici mettono oggi alla prova le città con “eventi estremi”: uragani, inondazioni, isole di calore. La “crisi” non dà tregua e ne fanno le spese l ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Philosophy of Landscape Construction

    The Vision of Built Landscapes

    by Bruce Ferguson ...
    A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction, demonstrating how integral structures, such as pavements and walls, constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design.The book discusses how these structures enable, assist and care for people, negotiating between the dynamic processes of site ecosystems and the soil on ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment

    by Tom Collier ...
    This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments. It draws on international examples to show how societies and cultures in different parts of the world react to similar problems. It contrasts dramatically different types of buildings and enclosures from primitive shelters to ... Read more

    66,96 €

  • Detailing for Acoustics

    by Peter Lord, Duncan Templeton ...
    A manual of constructional details which shows how successful results in acoustic design can be achieved by correct use of building materials, products and components. Details are drawn to scale and carry informative labelling and supplementary text. This updated and revised edition of an established reference book, in an improved format and layout, will be a welcome addition to current reference ... Read more

    194,83 €

  • Cinematic Aided Design

    An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture

    by François Penz ...
    Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians and decision makers with a new awareness of the practice of everyday life through the medium of film. This novel approach will also appeal to film scholars and film practitioners with an interest in spatial and architectural issues, as well as researchers from ... Read more

    66,96 €

  • Woven Arch Bridge

    Histories of Constructional Thoughts

    by LIU Yan ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a kind of “universal uniqueness,” challenging widespread viewpoints on its origin and genealogy.Taking this argument as its main thread ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Landscapes in the Making

    Edited by Stephen Daniels, Dell Upton ...
    Series Book 46 - Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
    How are landscapes created? Landscapes in the Making goes beyond professional design and planning to examine the social range of knowledge, technique, and imagination in the making and meaning of landscapes—from the work of quarrying and construction to that of cultivation, maintenance, stewardship, salvage, reclamation, ritual, and remembrance. Deploying an array of documentary, visual, and field ... Read more

    59,99 €

  • Experimental Architecture

    Designing the Unknown

    by Rachel Armstrong ...
    In this ground-breaking book, the first to provide an overview of the theory and practice of experimental architecture, Rachel Armstrong explores how interdisciplinary, design-led research practices are beginning to redefine the possibilities of architecture as a profession. Drawing on experts from disciplines as varied as information technology, mathematics, poetry, graphic design, scenography, ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Concrete Design

    Edited by Esra Hasanbas Persellin, Paul McMullin, Jonathan Price ...
    Series series Architect's Guidebooks to Structures
    Concrete Design covers concrete design fundamentals for architects and engineers, such as tension, flexural, shear, and compression elements, anchorage, lateral design, and footings. As part of the Architect’s Guidebooks to Structures Series it provides a comprehensive overview using both imperial and metric units of measurement. Written by experienced professional structural engineers Concrete ... Read more

    47,48 €

  • Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals

    by Nicoletta Setola, Sabrina Borgianni ...
    Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function, public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people’s satisfaction and experience of health care. The book highlights how spatial properties, such as accessibility, visibility, proximity, and intelligibility affect people’s behavior and interactions in hospital public spaces. Based on ... Read more

    73,05 €

  • Textile in Architecture

    From the Middle Ages to Modernism

    Edited by Didem Ekici, Patricia Blessing, Basile Baudez ...
    This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to Palaeolithic times and are still in use today and textile furnishings have long been used ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Future Healthcare Design

    by Sumita Singha ...
    This book describes how architects can design better healthcare buildings for a rapidly changing context and climate. Innovation in the design of healthcare estates is essential to the sustainability of our health services. Design thinking in this field is being influenced by a range of factors, such as economic constraints, an ageing demographic, complex health conditions (co-morbidities), and ... Read more

    57,23 €