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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 €

  • Log Cabins and Outbuildings

    A Guide to Building Homes, Barns, Greenhouses, and More

    by The United States Department of Agriculture ...
    Homesteading is a lifestyle that people around the world gravitate toward—and for good reason. In today’s high-stress world, many people dream of heading off to their own cabin in the woods or to their large rural oasis to escape the anxieties and complexities of daily life, to live in a more natural state. Others have embraced the agricultural lifestyle of farming as a career, serving as ... Read more

    11,45 €

  • Vedic Vastu Shastra

    Gladdoma, #2

    by Raju Xavier ...
    Series Book 2 - Gladdoma
    Discover the timeless wisdom of Vastu Shastra, an ancient Indian art and science of architecture, in this insightful book. Learn how to create harmonious living in tune with nature, your surroundings, and your workspaces that foster growth, prosperity, happiness, and well-being.This book seamlessly blends traditional Vastu principles with modern construction techniques, offering practical guidance ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Omaggio a Marcello Vittorini

    Un archivio per la città

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del convegno “Omaggio a Marcello Vittorini. Un'architettura per la ricostruzione” tenuto a L'Aquila il 25 marzo del 2011. La giornata ha offerto lo spunto per avviare, con studiosi ed esperti, la riflessione complessiva sulla sua opera, in parallelo con un primo riordino dell'archivio. Il volume illustra inoltre, nella sezione Visioni d'Abruzzo, la produzione di ... Read more

    21,99 €

  • Marsica 1915 - L’Aquila 2009

    Un secolo di ricostruzioni

    by Fabrizio Galadini, Claudio Varagnoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Sergio Castenetto, Emanuela Ceccaroni, Clara Cipriani, Alberto Clementi, Raffaele Colapietra, Maurizio D'Antonio0, Ada di Nucci1, Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi2, Aldo Pezzi3, Francesco Porcelli4, Maria Rosaria Potenza5, Fabio Redi6, Natascia Ridolfi7, Lucia Serafini8, Antonio Maria Socciarelli9, Andrea Tertulliani0, Riccardo Trezzi1, Nicola Tullo2, Rosanna Tuteri3, Clara Verazzo4, Alessandra Vittorini5, Cinzia Zotta6 ...
    Collana Antico/Futuro diretta da Claudio Varagnoli Il volume riunisce gli atti del convegno Ricostruzioni: Marsica 1915, L’Aquila 2009, organizzato con il Comune di Pescina (AQ) il 17 gennaio 2015 dall’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia e dall’Università di Chieti-Pescara “G. d’Annunzio”. La manifestazione rientrava nel quadro delle numerose attività che varie istituzioni pubbliche ... Read more

    27,99 €

  • Digital Fabrication in Architecture

    by Nick Dunn ...
    With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modelling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods.The use of CAD technologies in ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • CITA Complex Modelling

    by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen ...
    CITA Complex Modelling investigates the infrastructures of architectural design models. By questioning the tools for integrating information across the expanded digital design chain, the book asks how to support feedback between different scales of design engagement moving from material design, across design, simulation and analysis to specification and fabrication. The book conveys the findings ... Read more

    7,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Concrete

    From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future

    by Mary Soderstrom ...
    A fascinating history of the carbon footprint of our concrete world—from ancient Roman architecture to urban cityscapes—and the trouble it spells for sustainability amidst rapid climate change.For readers of The Sixth Extinction and The Uninhabitable Earth, Concrete explores the history of a material that has been central to architecture and design for thousands of years—and what its future looks ... Read more

    17,06 €

  • Construction Superintendent Operations Manual

    by Sidney M. Levy ...
    Complete Any Construction Job On Time, within Budget, and According to SpecificationsTurn to the updated Second Edition of Construction Superintendent's Operations Manual for step-by-step guidance on managing every aspect of complex construction jobs. From handling construction contracts to managing construction components and technology, this hands-on resource will help you ensure that projects ... Read more

    75,99 €

  • Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures

    by Lindsey Wikstrom ...
    If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed. What role could mass timber, with its potential to replace concrete and steel, have in ensuring the planet’s survival?This book retraces wood’s passage from stewarded seed in the soil of forests, to harvested biomass, to laminated walls in a living room, through to its disassembly, pausing ... Read more

    45,18 €

  • Tensegrity Structures Design Methods

    by Oren Vilnay, Leon Chernin, Margi Vilnay ...
    Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This general introduction presents an original general method for the design of tensegrity structures, the first configurations of which were found by trial and error.The book begins with two-dimensional tensegrity structures, particularly ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

    by Melanie Smith, Christopher Gorse ...
    Series series Routledge Pocket Books
    This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office. It provides clear guidance and fundamental principles in key practice areas such as building pathology, building performance, and building forensics. The book is not overly bound by the regulation and legislation of one region, and the principles can be applied internationally ... Read more

    37,85 €

  • Conservation of Historic Buildings

    by Bernard Feilden ...
    Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume on the subject to be published. This third edition revises and updates a classic book, including ... Read more

    120,90 €

  • Statics and Strength of Materials for Construction, Engineering Technology, and Architecture

    Theory, Analysis, and Application

    by Mohamed Askar, M. Rashad Islam ...
    Statics and Strength of Materials for Construction, Engineering Technology, and Architecture: Theory, Analysis, and Application provides students and industry professionals with the necessary statics and strength of materials background for more innovative approaches to particular fields of engineering technology, construction engineering and management, civil engineering, and architectural ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • Introduction to Estimating, Plan Reading and Construction Techniques

    by Gary Anglin ...
    To understand Construction Estimating one must also understand plan reading and construction techniques. This book is designed to teach the construction student these three core skills in equal measure. Using hundreds of plans, sketches, and photos, the book builds case studies of the major construction divisions including concrete, masonry, carpentry, and more. Over forty cases are divided into ... Read more

    166,09 €

  • Passive House Details

    Solutions for High-Performance Design

    by Donald Corner, Jan Fillinger, Alison Kwok ...
    Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer, moisture ... Read more

    59,83 €

  • Approaching Architecture

    Three Fields, One Discipline

    Edited by Miguel Guitart ...
    The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by ... Read more

    51,28 €

  • Sound Insulation

    by Carl Hopkins ...
    Sound insulation is an important aspect of building performance. This book is a comprehensive guide to sound and vibration theory and its application to the measurement and prediction of sound insulation in buildings. It enables the reader to tackle a wide range of issues relating to sound insulation during the design and construction stages of a building, and to solve problems in existing ... Read more

    134,33 €

  • Elements of Sustainable Architecture

    by Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez, Laura de la Plaza Hidalgo ...
    For sustainable architecture to become a reality, the way we design buildings needs to change. Many architects are concerned that sustainable technologies may interfere with a building’s aesthetic appearance, and so these are often ‘added on’ once the design process is complete.Elements of Sustainable Architecture solves this dilemma by helping students to develop the design skills they need to ... Read more

    57,39 €

  • Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

    by Robert Cody, Angela Amoia ...
    In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations ... Read more

    51,28 €

  • Architectures of Hiding

    Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence

    Edited by Rana Abughannam, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali, Federica Goffi ...
    Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Landscape Detailing Volume 1

    Enclosures

    by Michael Littlewood ...
    Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works. Volume I, Enclosures, covers walls (free-standing, screen and retaining), fences, gates, barriers and bollards. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction and then ... Read more

    74,49 €

  • Tall: the design and construction of high-rise architecture

    Edited by Guy Marriage ...
    This second edition of Tall has been updated with new information about the construction of high-rise architecture. A lot has happened in the world since 2019 – the updates respond to these changes.There has been a strong uptake in the purchase of electric cars and hybrid vehicles, so the book has been strengthened with discussion of car park planning. Site safety, site planning, project planning ... Read more

    48,84 €

  • Mitchell's Structure & Fabric Part 1

    by J S Foster ...
    Series Book 1 - Mitchell's Building Series
    A new edition of the best selling title in the prestigious Mitchell's Building Series. This book is the first of a two volume set which provides a complete and thorough treatment of the principles and techniques used in the design and construction of a building. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to bring it into line with recent changes in British Standards and developments in ... Read more

    101,36 €