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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 €

  • Conservação preventiva de edifícios históricos

    princípios e práticas

    by Carla Maria Teixeira Coelho, Cláudia S. Rodrigues de Carvalho ...
    A obra "Conservação preventiva de edifícios históricos: princípios e práticas" apresenta um panorama do avanço da conservação preventiva no Brasil, mostrando como essa abordagem passou a integrar gradualmente cursos universitários, pesquisas especializadas e políticas públicas de preservação. O livro destaca iniciativas como o Programa de Gestão de Riscos ao Patrimônio Musealizado do Ibram e a ... Read more

    Free

  • Outcast Visionary

    Yurii Pavlovich Spegal'skii and the Reconstruction of Pskov

    by Larry Cothren ...
    Outcast Visionary: Yu. P. Spegal'skii and the Reconstruction of Pskov, is the first comprehensive, critical biography in any language of this outstanding man, a native of one of Russia's oldest and most beautiful cities, Pskov. It is the story of one man's love and passion for Pskov's architectural and cultural heritage and the struggles he endured to try and save that heritage. Spegal'skii (1909 ... Read more

    24,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Glass

    A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

    by Mr Stephen Eskilson ...
    Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era.The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension of glass in modern and contemporary architecture. Showing how the use of glass is driven as much by changing ... Read more

    28,29 €

  • Preservation in Action

    Ten Stories Of Stewardship: Restoration, Rehabilitation, Renovation, Adaptation, and Reuse

    by Anne Crofoot Kuckro ...
    Anne Crofoot Kuckro and Lee Kuckro are recipients of the 2025 Harlan H. Griswold Award for Historic Preservation, from Preservation ConnecticutPreservation in Action is the first publication that tells the compelling story of Old Wethersfield, Connecticut's largest and oldest historic district in its oldest town. Based on original research, with stunning photography and handsome design, through ... Read more

    15,78 €

  • The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling

    by The Roof Tile Association, The National Federation of Roofing Contractors ...
    The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofing construction using clay or concrete tiles. It was written by a team of experts from the Roof Tile Association (RTA) and the National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC), the representative trade associations for pitched roofing. This book is in line with British and ... Read more

    58,61 €

  • Architecture and Choreography

    Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time

    by Beth Weinstein ...
    Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments—unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.Forty case studies spanning four decades give evidence of the range of motivations for embarking on these creative endeavors and diverse conceptual ... Read more

    43,96 €

  • Assembly

    Matter, Lineament, and Aggregated Systems in Architectural Production

    Edited by Gail Peter Borden, Michael Meredith ...
    Part-to-part relationships and the approach to governing their sensibilities is at the root of all architecture. The need for engaging in a dialogue around these systems is essential to contemporary architectural discourse and practice. Assembly builds on and extends the investigations of materials and representation techniques in the editors’ previous books, Matter and Lineament. This book uses a ... Read more

    50,06 €

  • Indiana's Covered Bridges

    Covered Bridges of North America, #3

    by Harold Stiver ...
    Series Book 3 - Covered Bridges of North America
    UPDATED FOR 2024!!Indiana's Covered BridgesA Source book for Travelers, Photographers, ExplorersDescriptions to all of Indiana's 92 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as photosGPS PositionsWritten Driving DirectionsBasic Info for each SiteA Self Guided Tour of all 31 of Parke County BridgesTruss types described and illustratedShort History of Covered Bridges ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • Structure As Architecture

    A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers

    by Andrew Charleson ...
    Structure as Architecture presents a comprehensive analysis of the indispensable role of structure in architecture. An exploration, as well as a celebration, of structure, the book draws on a series of design studies and case study examples to illustrate how structure can be employed to realize a wide range of concepts in contemporary architecture. By examining design principles that relate to ... Read more

    75,71 €

  • Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio

    Edited by William Carpenter, Arief Setiawan, Christopher Welty ...
    This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios.The book presents 17 essays and cases studies from well-known scholars and practitioners, including Kengo Kuma, Joseph Choma, Dan Rockhill, Keith Zawistowski, and Marie Zawistowski, whose theoretical and practical work addresses design build at various levels. Four ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Street-by-Street Retrofit

    A Future for Architecture

    by Mike McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change. The art of retrofit is posited as a way forward beyond today’s weak pseudo-Modernist architecture – all that is left – the final echo of Modernism’s original utopian impulse.Central to the book is the presentation of ... Read more

    58,61 €

  • The History of Gauged Brickwork

    by Gerard Lynch ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology
    This book takes a look at the history and use of cut, rubbed and gauged brickwork; the use of tools and equipment and the differences between historic and contemporary bricks with a view to inform conservation and restoration decisions. The book uses case studies from England, Ireland and the US to illustrate the use of different materials and techniques on buildings ranging in age. Written by Dr. ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Materials

    by Alan Everett, C. M. H Barritt ...
    Series series Mitchell's Building Series
    A well-known and respected standard reference, this fifth edition provides a thorough treatment of the properties of building materials and their manufacture, both on-site and in the factory. ... Read more

    107,46 €

  • Virtual and Augmented Reality for Architecture and Design

    Edited by Elisângela Vilar, Ernesto Filgueiras, Francisco Rebelo ...
    Virtual Reality (VR) is the paradigm wherein people use a computer to interact with something which is not real but provides a real-life experience. It is one of the most advanced interfaces between users and computers, where people can interact with a virtual model in real-time allowing them to visualize and manipulate representations of the real world. Together with Augmented Reality (AR), which ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • Offsite Architecture

    Constructing the future

    Edited by Ryan E. Smith, John D. Quale ...
    Architects have been intrigued by prefabricated construction since the early twentieth century. Recent advances in design, engineering and manufacturing processes have led to a significant expansion in the use of pre-assembled components, which are fitted to finished structures on site. Collectively, such processes are becoming known as "offsite construction."A ground-breaking text, Offsite ... Read more

    54,95 €

  • Passive House in Different Climates

    The Path to Net Zero

    by Mary James, James Bill ...
    Passive House in Different Climates introduces the seven Passive House principles, to help you create super-insulated, airtight buildings that require minimal energy use to heat, cool, dehumidify, and ventilate, with superior indoor air quality and year-round comfort. Seventeen case studies in four climate zones---marine, cold and very cold, mixed-dry and hot-dry, and mixed-humid and hot-humid-- ... Read more

    86,70 €

  • Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property

    by Adrian Tagg ...
    Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector. The book outlines the processes that the surveyor must go through when performing a TDD inspection and report and, most importantly, covers in detail the typical ... Read more

    76,93 €

  • No Games Chicago

    How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid

    by Tom Tresser ...
    Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a “city-killer” that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties. This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to derail Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer ... Read more

    67,16 €

  • International Trade in Hazardous Wastes

    by D.K. Asante-Duah, I.V. Nagy ...
    This book discusses the need for a regulated and informed forum for international trade in hazardous waste. The authors argue that with careful planning, health and ecological risks can be minimized and net economic benefits realized fairly. ... Read more

    59,83 €

  • Demolishing Whitehall

    Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the Architecture of White Heat

    by Adam Sharr, Stephen Thornton ...
    This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell, Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, for ... Read more

    70,82 €

  • Inclusive Design

    Implementation and Evaluation

    by Jordana L. Maisel, Edward Steinfeld, Megan Basnak, Korydon Smith, M. Beth Tauke ...
    Series series PocketArchitecture
    As part of the PocketArchitecture Series, this volume focuses on inclusive design and its allied fields—ergonomics, accessibility, and participatory design. This book aims for the direct application of inclusive design concepts and technical information into architectural and interior design practices, construction, facilities management, and property development. A central goal is to illustrate ... Read more

    46,40 €

  • Timber Decay in Buildings

    The Conservation Approach to Treatment

    by Brian Ridout ...
    This is the first book to tackle all the issues relating to timber decay. It presents the facts and explores timber decay problems through case studies. These are illustrated with clear self-explanatory photographs for the reader to use as a diagnostic aid. Section 1 discusses timber as a living material, Section 2 deals with decay organisms and their habitat requirements. Section 3 moves on to ... Read more

    241,81 €

  • Architecture and Justice

    Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm

    by Jonathan Simon ...
    Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice, and ... Read more

    75,71 €