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  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

    Free

  • Sustainability in Interior Design

    by Siân Moxon, Sian Moxon ...
    Series series Portfolio Skills
    The environmental impact of interior architecture and design practice is immense. This book highlights the need for designers to adapt the way they work and relearn lessons that have been lost.Contrary to many preconceptions, sustainable design can be sophisticated and stylish. And by its nature, a sustainable approach means considering the whole life cycle of a project and therefore improving the ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Adapt As An Architect

    A Mid-Career Companion

    by Randy Deutsch ...
    Adapt As An Architect: A Mid-Career Companion is the only book that helps design professionals to navigate the vast heart of the architect’s journey. It serves as a roadmap: a career GPS that provides options for architects getting from where they are today to where they really want to be. The focus of this optimistic, engaging book is on continued relevance, professional engagement, perseverance, ... Read more

    40,17 €

  • How to Write a Historic Structure Report

    by David Arbogast ...
    A one-of-a-kind, step-by-step guide to compiling an HSR—a document crucial to every professional working on a historic property.Any architect, engineer, or preservation professional renovating a historic property must be familiar with the historic structure report (HSR)—a document that evaluates all aspects of a property to minimize damage during restoration. The only book of its kind, this ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Social Practices and City Spaces

    Towards a Cooperative and Inclusive Inhabited Space

    Edited by Kyriaki Tsoukala ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the constitutional processes of inhabited space.Throughout this interdisciplinary collection, built space is ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016

    by Sarah Lupton ...
    Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016 is a practical guide to the operation and administration of JCTs IC16 suite of building contracts including both IC and ICD. All of the contracts provisions, procedures and conditions are organised and explained by subject, clearly distinguishing the different obligations due to various parties and the contractual issues arising during the course of ... Read more

    63,32 €

  • Heritage Building Conservation

    Sustainable and Digital Modelling

    Edited by Mohamed Marzouk ...
    This book provides a holistic perspective on the sustainable conservation of heritage buildings through outlining the factors that influence the preservation, operational performance and maintainability of heritage buildings and the application of new methodologies and technologies.Using real cases from Egypt, a country which comprises a vast number of unique heritage structures, each of which is ... Read more

    73,05 €

  • Designed to Perform

    An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes

    by Tom Dollard ...
    How do we ensure sustainable buildings perform as intended? The performance gap between predicted and actual energy use in new homes has been identified as key problem by government and industry experts. This updated edition is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It introduces readers to the concept of the performance gap ... Read more

    38,97 €

  • Construction Cost Estimating

    by Len Holm, John E. Schaufelberger ...
    Construction Cost Estimating equips a new generation of students and early-career professionals with the skills they need to bid successfully on projects. From developing bid strategies to submitting a completed bid, this innovative textbook introduces the fundamentals of construction estimating through a real-life case study that unfolds across its 24 chapters. Exercises at the end of each ... Read more

    87,66 €

  • Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities

    Theories, Methodologies and Cases in Architecture and Urbanism

    by Bertug Ozarisoy, Hasim Altan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book critically examines the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.The aim of this book is to provide scholarly yet accessible graphic novel illustrations to inform narratives of urban manifestos. Through four select case studies from the UK, Cyprus and Germany, the book highlights the paradoxes and contradictions in ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Designing London

    Understanding the Character of the City

    by Ike Ijeh ...
    Urban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort is ever made to define urban character in specific or quantitative terms.In Designing London, architect and critic Ike Ijeh provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of London's urban character. He establisheskey principles by which the ... Read more

    34,59 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bringing Architecture to the Next Level

    by Maria Lorena Lehman ...
    Do your architectural designs foster well-being or discomfort in occupants? Do your designs innovate architecture technology in new ways? And do you make design decisions that pull from the latest scientific findings, including biomimicry design or where design meets neuroscience?As an architect, your design process is vital to the quality and outcome of your built environments. Yet how do you ... Read more

    33,38 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ariadna, arquitecta

    Una introducción a la teoría de la arquitectura

    by Paz Castillo, Silvia Alvite, Carolina Kogan, Mariana Santángelo, Verónica Gilotaux, Mercedes Dello Russo ...
    Series series Cuadernos de Cátedra
    El territorio de la teoría de la arquitectura es extenso y de difícil delimitación. Este libro propone una incursión en este campo de conocimiento para enfocar algunos debates que tuvieron lugar, fundamentalmente, desde comienzos del siglo XX, a partir del impacto de las nuevas tecnologías del acero y del hormigón armado sobre la concepción del espacio arquitectónico. El principal aporte reside en ... Read more

    12,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Period Homes - Styles & Original Features

    An Easy Reference Guide

    by Trevor Yorke ...
    Series series Britain's Architectural History
    Are you ready to step inside the world of period homes? To unlock the secrets of the iconic buildings we see throughout the cities, towns and villages of Britain? Then this is the book for you.Period homes are all around us. Not only are they charming homes for those lucky enough to live in them, but they also give the community in which they're set a distinguished character and a link with the ... Read more

    4,02 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feng Shui Modern Bible

    From Clutter to Clarity - Adapting Ancient Wisdom for Harmony and Well-Being in Today's Busy Lives

    by Jiang Hu ...
    Transform your home and life with the timeless wisdom of Feng Shui, adapted for today's fast-paced world. "Feng Shui Modern Bible: From Clutter to Clarity" is your comprehensive guide to creating spaces that resonate with harmony, prosperity, and well-being.Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this book offers a fresh perspective on ancient Feng Shui ... ... Read more

    8,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liège

    Guide d'architecture moderne et contemporaine 1895-2014

    by Cellule Architecture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ...
    Que vous soyez professionnels de l'architecture ou passionnés d'urbanisme et de voyages, partez à la découverte de la Cité ardente !Ce premier guide d’architecture moderne et contemporaine consacré à Liège et à ses environs (arrondissements de Liège, Huy et Waremme), invite à regarder l’architecture autrement au travers d’une sélection de près de quatre cents projets illustrés de plans et situés ... Read more

    34,99 €

  • Bruxelles, Histoire de planifier

    Urbanisme aux 19e et 20e siècles

    by Bruxelles - Urbanisme et Patrimoine ...
    Aboutissement d’une vaste recherche menée par plusieurs spécialistes, ce livre confronte deux visions apparemment antagonistes de l'urbanisme.D’une part la planification territoriale, concept élaboré au début du 20e siècle et qui se voulait scientifique, d’autre part l’art urbain, pratiqué au 19e siècle et empreint d’empirisme. Ceci dans le but de mieux appréhender comment ces visions ont marqué ... Read more

    99,99 €

  • Dahomey’s Royal Architecture

    An Earthen Record of Construction, Subjugation, and Reclamation

    by Lynne Ellsworth Larsen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architectural History
    Dahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey (1892–1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960–present).The Royal Palace of Dahomey covers more than 108 ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • 100 Traumhäuser

    Die schönsten Einfamilienhäuser für jedes Budget und jedes Grundstück

    by Wolfgang Bachmann, Katharina Matzig ...
    Die 100 schönsten Einfamilienhäuser der letzten Jahre versammelt in einem Werk: Ob kleines Haus am Hang oder opulentes Haus mit Pool, ob aus Holz, Beton oder Ziegel – für jeden Geschmack und jede Situation ist das Passende dabei. So unterschiedlich die vorgestellten Häuser sind, so haben sie doch eines gemein: Sie wurden von den besten Architekten entworfen und zeugen von einer herausragenden ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • idea journal: interior technicity: unplugged and/or switched on

    vol. 17 no. 01 2020

    Edited by Julieanna Preston ...
    Series Book 1 - idea journal
    Interior Technicity: Unplugged and/ or Switched On invites reflection on how interiors have always been augmenting entities and how they continue to be so—in other words, extending, facilitating and consolidating bodies within socio-cultural environments. Rather than seeing an interior as an 'inside' in opposition to a world beyond, it asks what modes of 'folding inward' have equipped and enabled ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • American House Styles

    A Concise Guide

    by John Milnes Baker ...
    “An engaging historical account and an attractive, practical resource.” —BooklistColonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Traumbäder

    Individuell & maßgeschneidert

    by Heinz Kaiser ...
    DAS BADEZIMMER IST DER ORT, AN DEM FUNKTIONALITÄT AUF ENTSPANNUNG TRIFFT. Wie dies ideal gelingen kann, zeigt das Buch Traumbäder anhand von ca. 40 realisierter Projekte führender Badplaner und stellt dabei die aktuellen Trends rund ums Bad vor. Sowohl im Neubau als auch bei der Modernisierung gibt es zahllose Möglichkeiten, individuelle Gestaltungsakzente im Bad zu setzen. Ob romantisch, ... Read more

    26,99 €

  • Open Source Architecture

    by Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel ...
    Open Source Architecture is a manifesto for the architecture of tomorrow. It offers a wholly new vision of how architecture can and must adapt to the realities of the 21st century. The authors call for a paradigm shift from the ego-fuelled grand visions of 'starchitects' and their Modernist forebears, to a networked, collaborative, inclusive model that draws inspiration from phenomena such as ... Read more

    21,93 €

  • Vacant Land Regeneration

    Novel Strategies for Maximizing Local Impact

    Edited by Rui Zhu, Galen Newman ...
    Vacant Land Regeneration: Novel Strategies for Maximizing Local Impact provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of vacant land regeneration through the lens of influential research, groundbreaking case studies, and future trends, and equips readers with the knowledge needed to transform vacant spaces into valuable community assets. In a rapidly evolving world, regenerating vacant and ... Read more

    51,13 €